Doing this is not only moral; it’s virtuous.

Bandcamp.

Additionally additionally, as it says in the article, reddit sells its content to OpenAI, and in order to do that, they need it to be organic. If you feed AI output back info AI, it makes the output worse, not better. So, there’s another financial incentive to ensure that the people talking on reddit are actually human.

I haven’t had any issues with webcams or conference software (Jitsi, Zoom, and Discord).

Where are you getting that statistic from?

People expect the villains to be cool, because that’s how they’re portrayed in movies.

And they all think by having more money and being more popular will fulfill that human need.

If that was all it was, then I’d feel sorry for them. No, they’re trying to fulfill that need by being Great Men of History with Mighty Plans, but their Mighty Plans are all terrible, because they’re horrible people.

The Illuminati were real, too. That doesn’t mean that they’re still around and controlling the world, though.

Yes, I’m sure you’ll be able to convince kids that the new thing is bad because you say so, especially if you compare it to the antiquated mascot of a legacy word processor.

Comparative religions classes have value. It’s important to gain understanding into other people’s beliefs and to be able to compare and contrast them. If you’re only learning about one religion…not so much. Especially if it’s the religion you were brought up in.

Going to church, on the other hand, is no substitute at all. You’re just being indoctrinated, full stop.

Which accessibility standards does Mastodon break?

Your edge case is not indicative of a larger trend.

How is it more harmful?

What’s the story with the Turkish protesters?

To be fair, I think it’s because they equate it with stealing. The propaganda works. Most people think that stealing is wrong, and media corporations have put a lot of money into convincing people that filesharing = stealing. Hell, even people who are okay with filesharing call it “piracy”, because that’s the corporate framing they were brought up with. (Just look at the name of this sub.)

Richard Stallman calls this out in this essay:

The term “piracy” is used by record companies to demonize sharing and cooperation by equating them to kidnaping, murder and theft.

I mean, yes, I enjoy saying “yarr”, and “yo-ho-ho”, and all the rest of it, but I have to admit that’s the result of a successful propaganda campaign. Before people called it “piracy”, they called it “filesharing”. And, of course, that was a problem, because everybody knows that sharing is good and should be encouraged; but piracy is evil and should be stopped.

Believe it or not, I’ve met people like this. I know a guy who was worried about showing a movie to our Meetup group.

Not because he was afraid of getting caught. He thought it might be unethical.

Can proprietary software be justified?

Leave it to cryptos to make simple things stupidly difficult. This whole piece you quoted was hilarious, but this part especially stuck out for me:

The base protocol doesn’t use tokens, which lets people who don’t have interest in cryptocurrency (yet) use it for free

I didn’t see the word “blockchain” anywhere.

Verily?