HP detonates its timebomb: printers stop accepting third party ink en masse

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@Purplecat

Ironically, “They’re going to take away your personal property. You won’t be able to own things.” always used to be an argument that would get deployed against Socialism. Now it’s the modul operandi of capitalism.

That general observation has been made by @doctorow before:

@doctorow

The project of starving, stripping and dismantling all common goods in the USA is an ideological project that is the endgame of a movement that hit its stride in the Reagan years. Its irrational phobia of state spending – however necessary and beneficial – is a mirror image of the Soviet terror of the free-market. Without the Soviet Union, America has become its warped-mirror twin, a land where standing in endless lines is the norm, where all the stores sell the same things.