ok but what is social media? It’s basically a catch-all term for any website. Governments currently have their sights on the big websites like facebook and instagram, with the goal of annulling freedom of speech as anything you say will be tied to your ID. They target these websites because they are popular enough. If people move to other forms of communications, you can be sure the government will also label them as social media.
Once the law is in place, what stops them from manufacturing consent to present other websites as unhealthy hazards and force them to have mandatory ID as well?
Every website is fair game. Only websites that can escape this that I can think of are the self-hosted ones because they are decentralized and maybe small forums that don’t attract any attention.
It depends on the medium, but for TV shows and movies, the market is a mess. It’s all streaming services, you have to pay multiple vendors to have access to everything etc. I’ve low key stopped watching movies because the whole thing is an expensive mess. It’s no wonder people prefer piracy.
I wonder how difficult it would be for a vendor to be like Steam. Buy a movie once, add it to the library, watch it whenever. Afaik Youtube does that but I haven’t tried it yet and I’m not sure if it’s worth it.