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That's far better than going "HOLY SHIT THE WING IS FALLING OFF!". In an emergency you need to be calm but decisive, and not spread panic.

I think this all comes down to how you separate the medium of communication and the content. Nobody cares that you can send encrypted emails between people on any server in the world. Or place encrypted files on any number on free cloud storage solutions. End to end encrypted communication between anonymous parties is fairly easily achieved if you just think about it a little. We don't hold those systems liable for the content they transmit unknowingly, either legally or in public opinion.

Why is it different for chat services? Have we just become conditioned because Facebook, Twitter, etc decided they needed to police their networks?

DNS is an operating system level service. Your computer is screwed, not the browser.

Chrome might be fixing it up by using Google DNS behind your back.

Encrypting files that can only be unencrypted by one other person is still a thing. Sure it's not quite as convenient as it happening automatically in your chat app. However, anyone who thinks weakening e2ee in chat apps actually stops illegal actions occuring needs to think a bit more carefully.

Once upon a time, in the early internet, invoking Hitler in an argument was always hyperbole and a sign you'd run out of arguments.

Those days are behind us.

Missing the obvious.... Trump, The Brexit cronies, any number of populist movements in Europe.

Why do you pick out Canada and Britain?

If you see memes & misinfo trend about immigration, Ukraine, drugs, vaccines, climate change, abortion, gas & oil, politics, NATO, EVs, MAGA, Palestine / Israel, dissidents etc. then invariably there is a bad actor driving that crap.

The thing is, there's a lot of stuff in those topics you list that we need to have social discourse about and there are legitimate differences of opinion on. I don't think you can write everyone that is against what somebody/government deems as "approved fact" as a bad actor. I'm sure I would disagree with you on a number of those topics and would argue them in good faith. This is what makes it all so hard.

I don't say Apple manufactures the iPhone. I say Apple designs it & sells it, and in relaxed language I might say "makes it", but "manufacture" is not relaxed language to me. I'm not even sure I'd say Foxcon manufactures it. They are one of the manufacturing partners, but so are TSMC and others.

Oh yes, that 1% water vapour (on average) that you want 2/3rds of.

Gimme a break. I don't think your machine producing hydrogen "straight out of the atmosphere" is going to be fueling many cars.

A lot of things these days might benefit from a 12vDC rail everywhere, but that's terrible for power transmission. Low volts, high current, fat cables. Not going to work.

High voltage DC isn't much use to anyone. You'll still need switching power supplies everywhere to step it down. Also, connecting it to a human can be really bad.

Yes high voltage AC is a bit of a pain, but not sure anything else is better.