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team shitstain bans new… home network routers?

I haven’t seen as much coverage as this as I’d’ve expected, but the MAGA FCC dropped a ban on new imported consumer-grade network routers late Monday by adding them as a class of device to the “supply chain risk” list. Maybe Ubiquiti? But they’re mostly business focused, and I can’t find where they’re made anyway.

You know your wifi box? That’s a router. If you have wired networking, you probably know that you have a router already.

I’m pretty sure banning new models of imported consumer-grade routers means banning all new models, since I don’t think anybody produces consumer-grade kit domestically.

Existing already-approved models can still be imported, as well as sold, according to the fact sheet. So it’s not that all routers are going to vanish off shelves tonight. But new models will need special approval.

It’s that feeling when you hope this is just a shakedown for more payoffs, right? When that’s the good option? That’s where we fucking are.

I guess somebody looked around and said “GPUs are impossibly expensive, memory’s impossibly expensive, storage is through the roof – but networking’s still cheap. LET’S FIX THAT”

jesus hopping christ can we have one day not completely trainwrecked by these goddamn clowns

Here, have the FCC statements. Honestly I don’t know what else to add. In any other situation, I’d just say this is some sort of trade bargaining chip, and in this situation I’m just hoping it’s a shakedown. But given that the shitstain’s role model, Vladimir Putin, has been pushing hard against internet functionality in general in Russia, I’m honestly wondering if this is groundwork for some sort of slow-build network communications shutdown.

And if you missed Putin’s actions in Russia – the west is mostly reporting it as actions against individual apps like Telegram, but it’s much more broad than that, and has included anti-Internet propaganda, complete with Sovietesque children’s musical numbers on television, singing about how “we don’t need the Internet.”

Fascist regimes always want control of communications, and, well, MAGA are fascist, so… is this part of that push? I have no way of knowing. But while I’m not saying definitely buy some spare equipment, you could definitely consider buying some spare equipment.

It might come in handy.

and that’s it, i’m out (of twitter)

I’ve made a scene at the party and posted my angry goodbye to Twitter.

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Well, this is it.

I’m done. Most of you aren’t. If you’ve decided to stay, you’ve decided you’re okay with drinking in a Nazi bar, and you’ll stay until you can’t.

You’ve also given Elon’s advertisers the green light. They know they can stay, too. Which is what he wanted.

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I mean, if the owner tweeting Hitler memes while banning lefties and onboarding nazis who call for genocide and mass rape of women doesn’t do it, nothing will. Least of all trifles like worker barracks.

That’s not “fine.” I’m not going to tell you that’s fine, because it’s not.

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If you don’t have some kind of transition plan telling followers, “I’m leaving in N days, go follow me here,” then what you’re doing is telling Elon _this is okay_. Not that you _like_ it, but that… you can live with it.

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And, once again, your queer and Jewish and BIPOC friends have to figure out how to live with _that_.

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You’re not “fighting back.” Sorry. That’s bullshit.

It was viable before, if barely. I stayed this long to use my tiny voice to shove the algorithm around, just that little bit. With mentions, with tags, with lots of @ usage – something very few people actually did.

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But the new owner loves the fash and is weaponising the place, using confidential data, private files, disinformation – and if you think he _won’t_ slam the algorithm around, you’re out of your goddamn mind. Shaping it is not an option when the owner locks in the outcome.

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All you do by staying is tell Elon his plan is working.

You’re telling advertisers they still have your eyes. That you won’t leave. That they can safely advertise next to nazis, because they’re also advertising to you. You’ll still be here.

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You’re saying that you’ll sit at the table with Nazis. On the other side, sure… but at the table. That it’s… acceptable. That it’s _tolerable_ in civil society.

Push comes to shove, you’ll live with it, as long as the food’s good enough. And clearly, it is.

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I’m not surprised. Most of you kept eating those damned chicken sandwiches too. But that doesn’t make it okay.

Your queer and Jewish and BIPOC friends are not okay. We’re really not.

But Elon and his fash friends – _they’re_ okay.

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After all, this is what the fascists want. It’s what the Russians want too – them, and their hate-pushing botnets. In the end, it’s even what Elon wants:

To normalise fascism.

And for you to go along.

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Complaining, maybe. Howling, even. They like that. They like causing pain and generating traffic and this does both, all while normalising fascism.

And it’s working, because you’re staying here, and helping.

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And having made my horrible scene at the party – don’t bother replying. Not here, certainly.

You know where to find me.

I’m out.

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(Once upon a time, I’d’ve said fascist twitter was something Elon would accept, rather than what he wants. But now that he’s taking ban orders from Andy Ngo, I think it’s what he wants.)

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