Technically you can disable automatic updates for it. However at anytime the rights to Nova could be sold to anyone else, and not just a data miner some are talking about, and suddenly the app gets updated but possibly to the wrong direction given its massive install base.
Given the current state of things, they're being more entitled assholes. They're throwing their weight around harder because the powers-that-be and techbros are throwing away what they call DEI policies, and dusting off traditional hierarchies and stereotypes for restoration.
spez uses AI-assisted profiling to have mods determine if a member's content is ideologically-biased and make comments about violence, and usually anyone using violent language even casually is marked for a permaban. So by this rule a lot were permabanned, many of them progressives.
Should be on the decline as spez seeks to kick progressives out of his sandbox, but in my country, more middle- and upper-class young people are going there believing they get better answers, culture, -- and memes -- than they would wading through "slummy" Facebook.
Interpreting that, I betcha he thinks what's going on is sketchy to him, believing there has yet any shred of evidence. I'd still rather like the evidence be made public.
In his essay, Umberto Eco is correct in his assessment that fascists will never be satisfied until they get rid of all of they hate, and achieve their own absolution and realization of their power fantasies, a world shaped by their warped concepts of purity and ego-driven heroism.
Forgot where I read because it's been years ago, but someone said that humans should be blessed being born human and not as sheep, as sheep can be led anywhere without question including for slaughter.
Especially if you're posting what is judged as "violent" content, even casually talking about non-political violence from third-hand, and Reddit will ban such accounts.
For that matter, it was the same problem the US then faced back when it was getting much of their electronics from Japan, as the Soviet threat loomed so large.
I always think about what creates revolutions (and counter-revolutions), and most cases the lack of a single thing usually causes the affected classes to rise up. Something really needs to break the bastards.
Technically you can disable automatic updates for it. However at anytime the rights to Nova could be sold to anyone else, and not just a data miner some are talking about, and suddenly the app gets updated but possibly to the wrong direction given its massive install base.