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Your iPhone is product - what if Apple decided you shouldn't be able to view adult material on it? Or what if Gmail decided you shouldn't be allowed to use certain harsh language in emails you send?

Where do you dry the line personally? I find the idea of corporations and SV tech bros trying to define my values repulsive.

In a competitive environment I could simply choose another service provider - but most of these tech giants are monopolists of one variety or another.




Pretty sure that’s exactly what Steve Jobs decided [0] :-)

[0] https://www.wired.com/2010/04/steve-jobs-porn/


Then don't use ChatGPT. There are hundreds of other models and ways for you to use an LLM without OpenAI's injected prompt.

> I find the idea of corporations and SV tech bros trying to define my values repulsive.

They're not. They're reflecting _their_ values in their product. You're not entitled to use their product with _your_ values.


I find the Declaration of Human Rights is always a great starting point. Society is slowly forcing corporations in that direction.


Esteban Trabajos really said that the consumer doesn’t know what it wants, the consumer must be shown the jesus phone and realize it wanted that phone all along. And if copy paste wasn’t possible on the iPhone 2G or apps couldn’t run in background that’s because ol’Stephen Works didn’t want it just yet. One day somebody will unlock the VisionPro HubPr0n and then and only then will VP become the de facto standard AR/VR headset approved by the pr0n industry, as Steven Efforts intended.




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