> Ad-hominems

The title already gives it away, calling it a “moral panic”. Casting your opponents as some sort of brain-damaged cranks is such a tired trope.

This is highly welcome. MS practically forces you to use something like this. It's like an ad blocker.

> concrete actions

They did go on a firing spree.

I honestly can’t tell if you’re serious.

It's very close to the truth in any case. Poor service providers can take comfort in the fact that there's usually no considerably better provider that people could switch to. The race to the bottom is at peak speed.

Yes. Clear exception to Betteridge's law of headlines.

What a shame, they cooked up all their marketing lies in vain.

Leopold II had millions and millions murdered in the Congo to make himself rich with rubber, but he wasted it all and in the end the Belgian people had to bail him out. No fortune to get from him.

I thought it was something about personal hygiene.

Ah damn, i was too edgy when writing the title i guess

Or maybe it’s just what it looks like: A good old boys network of incompetent inbreds whose only qualification is that their parents could buy them memberships in the right clubs.

> The software industry has shifted its entire value proposition from “we make tools that help you make or save money” to using political clout and the dollar hegemony to capture, control, and loot entire sectors of the various economies of the world.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147793