<story><title>The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet</title><url>https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1779920066840055847</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>someguydave</author><text>Who dies for want of basic medicines?</text></item><item><author>anlsh</author><text>A ridiculous fairy tale. Dictatorships need hardly interfere with the &amp;quot;stability&amp;quot; of a society which launches a bloody and monumentally expensive temper tantrum in response to 9&amp;#x2F;11 but allows thousands more to die each year for want of basic medicines</text></item><item><author>questinthrow</author><text>Its inevitable because of the power dynamics between democracies and totalitarian regimes. Democracies thought that with the internet they would topple totalitarianism because of free flow of information. They forgot that totalitarian regimes can just imprison and shoot all who have access to and propagate the information. Now the wheel has turned and the same regimes are weaponizing AI and shill farms to create enough propaganda to destabilize a democracy for the price of a few dollars. We&amp;#x27;re all headed towards a global race to the bottom because of it, the dream of the early internet has been crushed because of human evil.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acaloiar</author><text>The uninsured. The underinsured. People on the &amp;quot;wrong&amp;quot; insurance plan. People without the budget slack for $100s or $1000s per month for the medication they need. Poor people who don&amp;#x27;t bother going to the doctor to get needed prescriptions because they can&amp;#x27;t afford the initial visit. Rich people whose doctors fail to mention the drug that costs $250k because no past patients cleared for it could afford it. People going to the doctor who gets financial kickbacks from the inferior drug&amp;#x27;s drugmaker. People prescribed drugs that kill them.&lt;p&gt;If your question was actually serious, this is a non-exhaustive list.</text></comment>
<story><title>The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet</title><url>https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1779920066840055847</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>someguydave</author><text>Who dies for want of basic medicines?</text></item><item><author>anlsh</author><text>A ridiculous fairy tale. Dictatorships need hardly interfere with the &amp;quot;stability&amp;quot; of a society which launches a bloody and monumentally expensive temper tantrum in response to 9&amp;#x2F;11 but allows thousands more to die each year for want of basic medicines</text></item><item><author>questinthrow</author><text>Its inevitable because of the power dynamics between democracies and totalitarian regimes. Democracies thought that with the internet they would topple totalitarianism because of free flow of information. They forgot that totalitarian regimes can just imprison and shoot all who have access to and propagate the information. Now the wheel has turned and the same regimes are weaponizing AI and shill farms to create enough propaganda to destabilize a democracy for the price of a few dollars. We&amp;#x27;re all headed towards a global race to the bottom because of it, the dream of the early internet has been crushed because of human evil.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Intermernet</author><text>That whole EpiPen debacle springs to mind... I&amp;#x27;m sure if you looked into it you&amp;#x27;d find other examples of basic medicines being unavailable to large sectors of the population purely due to the cost.</text></comment>