“ownership” in digital capitalism is an illusion, you don’t own games, just conditional access controlled by corporations. If publishers can disable or delete them, private power overrides users and turns culture into disposable licensed content instead of a shared commons
1.3 MILLION PEOPLE ASKED THE EU TO STOP COMPANIES FROM DELETING GAMES THEY PAID FOR.
THE ANSWER WAS NO.
The "Stop Killing Games" initiative wanted one thing: when publishers pull the plug, don't let them remotely destroy copies people already bought.
The European Commission's official response:
- It will not require publishers to keep games playable - says forcing them would go too far
- Reason given: publishers' copyright and IP rights come first. Your purchase comes second.
- The solution: a voluntary code of conduct, developed together with the same industry that kills games
- Plus an awareness campaign reminding you of the consumer rights you supposedly already have
1.3 million signatures. Years of work. Multiple hearings.
And the part that says everything: according to the campaign, Ubisoft got a seat at a closed-door meeting with the Commission before the decision. The 1.3 million people who signed did not.
Publishers can still brick your purchase whenever they feel like it.
If buying still isn't owning, then at least now it's official.
@Bombard_The_HQ@gusselsprouts Your 5 remaining one-party soc dem states don’t count. Coerced party membership with little decision-making power isn’t grassroots organising. Most contemporary labour, climate, feminist and anti-colonial struggles are led/ organised by lib soc, anarchist and autonomous networks.
👀 "El anarquismo que me interesa es una práctica exigente de libertad, responsabilidad y organización, no una filosofía con superioridad moral encerrada en su gueto sin capacidad transformadora."
If you can understand that there were stratifications within the system of slavery that did not fundamentally undermine the social relation of slavery that every layer existed on, I don't see why it's so hard to understand that for the working class.
@Mia1447613 Men fear being seen as feminine because patriarchy doesn’t just separate masculinity and femininity; no, it ranks them. Femininity is devalued, so men are taught that vulnerability, care and emotional openness threaten their status. Misogyny and homophobia police the boundaries.
No nos conocemos, pero nos necesitamos para construir el mundo nuevo que llevamos en nuestros corazones.
🌐 Afíliate y milita en el sindicato, la solidaridad es nuestra fuerza
https://t.co/7b9RI0TqjX
#Sindicato#Sindicatu#Anarcosindicalismo#CNTAIT#AIT#IWA
Everybody please listen to Freedom’s weekly Anarchist News Review that’s streamed live on YouTube for over an hour :
https://t.co/Y1buKZ4F8z
Oldest surviving anarchist publication founded by Kropotkin in 1886 they have great articles, interviews etc
https://t.co/bv0oLv83bd
Yep,the vanguard model ALWAYS bred cults. 1921 Lenin banned internal factions, criminalizing dissent. 1929 Stalin purged the CPUSA’s democratically elected leader over a policy disagreement .70s Trotskyist parties like Gerry Healy's systematically abused members and covered it up
The reason why parties like the PSL and DSA seem like garbage while parties of the past seemed to have integrity and vision is because you were falsely informed about the parties of the past. Cult dynamics have always been at the root of aspiring vanguard parties.
@Ericohaslimes I do love Peter’s work and as an also STEM kinda guy his scientific work is really interesting and inspiring and I really like mutual aid a factor of evolution and how he defended the theory of evolution and science from social Darwinism
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