Microsoft To Ban ‘Offensive Language’ & Monitor Your Private Account

Opinion: IF, Microsoft had kept their proverbial head & mind geared to sharpening the O/S performance, end user production & security only and also even tap third party or freelancers (I seen and still use amazing freelance screens aids from 98!) they would be drooled over and I guarantee would be a million times over, more acceptable and respectable.

However their breaking thru to tap into user's EVERYTHING is the end goal and obviously far more profitable so far.

Their intention to REGULATE AGGRESSIVELY their LICENSED PRODUCTS in this manner and by already using TELEMETRY in my opinion is a monumental step backwards for them BUT since they seem to have the corner on the business and it's been long standing now, apparently this is how things devolve when there is little competition to challenge them. Linux I know, but distro city seems will always be just an alternative measure. Maybe Google will rub up on the O/S business someday to rattle their cage but Google is what everyone already knows so until time a new player makes their way on the scene....

How did they think people would feel about this?

 

I think society has been hacked and that the hackers have exploited a fundamental flaw in the human condition which is called learning by reinforced repetition, the basic way in which the brain learns by repeated experiences.
The flaw in that is, the only way the brain experiences anything is by what it receives via its sensors, so it doesnt tend to differentiate between what was actually experienced first hand and what was relayed to it by other people, either way, the same sensors pass the info to the brain.
So if you experience fire yourself repeatedly and each time you feel it makes you get hot, the brain believes fire is hot.
Likewise if the tv says this is good and that is bad, repeatedly, the brain's natural response is to believe it.
Some of us have developed a mental firewall that prevents the brain doing that with third party info without first reasoning, questioning and examining the source to look for motives for trying to deceive, while also looking for alternative opinions to compare for credibility, evidence etc but apparently we who do that are the minority so if you consider sanity is defined as conforming to the majority norm, we are the insane ones, because the norm is to believe repeated lies without question, which of course only encourages the liars (mind hackers) to do it more, so yeah, very frustrating.

Edit: Something else too, once the "malware" has been installed it is very difficult to remove, my observations are, when you argue their assertions are innacurate they will first, defend them, then when you present clear evidence that they are wrong, you can see their brain appear to almost lock up, as if once it has been programmed it has a self defense mechanism designed to protect what it has "believed" to where they will literally refuse to review the evidence to the contrary or discuss it any further.

 

A common occurrence I've noticed with acquaintances, friends & others I see only 1 or 2 times a month.

I tell them these things. Some seem concerned, saddened or outraged. The next time I see them they've forgotten all about the knowledge I gave them. Not oh yeah I remember now. But like erased from their minds like in The Manchurian Candidate movie. And these aren't low functioning people.

 

Yea, it's a pretty fruitless to try to explain these things to non-technical people.
Most people are only interested of getting their daily dopamine from watching cat videos or hanging on social media.
Best you can do is try to cover your own (and your family members & friends, if they allow) ***** and hope for best.

 

The problem is, this is not just limited to technology, it is at every level.

 

You are right.

Heh...this reminds me how my old philosophy teacher used to say that man is ultimately a "hedonistic pig"

 

Are any of the big porn sites located in the U.S.--or are they mostly overseas like the big warez or illegal streaming sites?

 

Greenwald speaks to the common man very well. See the following:

https://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matters

 

EFF Launches Lawsuit To Stop FOSTA/SESTA
June 29, 2018
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/2...ff-launches-lawsuit-to-stop-fosta-sesta.shtml

 

I doubt any of this will stop sex trafficking if that really is even their intention. They will just use different technology, offshore websites, the darkweb etc.

 

Exposing the Secret Office 365 Forensics Tool

 

I already suspect everything produced by Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple and other companies with direct ties to law enforcement agencies have the most egregious privacy-invasive tech built into all of their products.

 

I think that goes for practically every company and organisation that produces technology or software for the public domain.

 

Plaintiffs Continue Effort to Overturn FOSTA, One of the Broadest Internet Censorship Laws
September 17, 2020
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/...n-fosta-one-broadest-internet-censorship-laws

 

Microsoft may be the most privacy invasive company on the planet since Windows 10 came out. Even when you tweak the privacy settings, Microsoft changes them back to whatever they want. Microsoft has a ridiculous number of applications and services collecting data from their users. I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 40+ apps and services that i'm aware of that are either collecting or attempting to collect data from my machine. It makes firewall management a pain in the ......! I would never use Windows out of principal alone, if I didn't have to. I miss the days of Windows 7, which from appearance, seemed to have reasonable privacy.