The reason it isn't are rules and regulations so deep and restrictive that you'd have a hard time changing even a small detail or sometimes even fixing essentials. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, I think it's worth it - but I doubt the US would get even 10% into it before "socialism" is called.

Look at the comparison seriously, because it's not even close in terms of scale and gravity, but the parallels are uncomfortable when it comes to direction. (openly criticising either would pretty much get you killed for sure at the time)

The real question is about the price the rest of the world puts on it before it is too late and whether that price will be dear enough in Trump's selfish calculus.

Trump does not care - the question is whether he thinks enough Americans will care, and how many need to care to stop him from doing it. Going by the past few years, I think most Americans will be fine little nazis and salute their Führer and the rest will be self-serving enough to shut up or flee.

This feels like some alternate universe computer graphic where Sierra continued making point-and-click adventures into the early 2000s. (that's a good thing, in case you're wondering :))

I mean... I was alive and a tech nerd for all of it, but no. It was never the "industry standard" unless maybe in some niche where they were briefly, like maybe digital audio and early video processing. On the whole, the Zip disk goes into the same bin as OS/2, the Cuecat, and the Apple Newton.

Saucy pictures of consenting adults would be considered "x-rated". Child porn is abusive and illegal almost everywhere.

Nobody is doing either - the only thing anyone or any group is using tools and resources for at scale is to improve their own position, other people's lives do not enter into the equation. Which is still a problem, of course. Externalising cost is a winning evolutionary strategy we can't shake.

I love how, no matter what technology we have available, the greatest trick is still what our brain does, connecting all the shots into a narrative of what just happened. Good stuff, thanks for sharing.

It shouldn't surprise you. What is the business model? Other than selling your information to allow organisations to target you with ads and propaganda and maximising your engagement to increase that revenue, how is a platform like Facebook supposed to turn a profit? Would you pay to be on it?

Now, now, let's not get overly ambitious here. 🚲

Our preferences set us apart, by remembering the preferences of the deceased we remember what about them we will miss and what we may have had in common. We connect on preferences before deeper connections.

Why aim so low? I bet you could be a rocket scientist if you launched a satellite into low earth orbit and knew a bunch more math.

The disrespect to this guy's family and friends in constantly dragging his corpse and remembrance around. Seems about right.

People call it creepy, dystopian, etc. But the key thing is that it's not grandma. Life ends, and if we could stop or reverse that, we'd have to think really hard if we should. But this is something else altogether - a poor proxy.