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@lain
somewhat a legitimate concern tho

at least on the side of streaming stuff, and artificial restrictions of thought policing that hinder the creation of optimal video codecs and the use of more bandwidth-optimal strategies for the transfer of those data, further inflating what is already, by more than an order of magnitude (quoted in 2015, and definitely more now), the largest piece of the internet's everything

and the way these artificial restrictions necessitate the manufacture of millions of otherwise useless devices, the sole purpose (for existing as distinct entities rather than as software on existing devices) of which is to enforce thought policing, thus needlessly consuming rare earths etc (and encouraging human rights abuses to boost production rates, though that's a side issue) and producing mountains of difficult to process garbage

and the way the "binge-watching" culture itself is a phenomenon directly created by this thought policing, which allows certain monopolising entities to have direct control over our modern mythological figures (spider-man *is* today's achilles, ironman today's odysseus and so on), effectively enslaving the minds / creative interests of the generations who grew up constantly hearing about, reading about, discussing, and watching cartoons and playing with action figures about these characters, these monopolising entities being the sole arbiters of how these modern mythological figures are portrayed, allowing them then to, in absence of any competition, maximise their cost-benefit ratio by churning out as much garbage as they can forever and there will always be people who pay them for it, as they've already invested their lives and childhoods in these characters and cannot give them up, and by producing this mountain of garbage have thus helped into existence a breed of "media consumer" who is disaffected but has nowhere to turn, and so watches endlessly and without thinking, as there's nothing left in what is watched to think about, driving the rate of "consumption" to ever greater heights and consuming unnecessarily, and significantly, more of the earth's resources in doing so (massive chilled datacentres for cdns are not "environmentally light-weight")

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