This gives rise to some genuinely bizarre consensus hallucinations, in which we pretend that the reality decreed by policy matches up with *actual* reality. Take "streaming." There is no such thing as "streaming." A "stream" is just "a download that is transmitted to an application that doesn't have a 'Save As...' button":
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/01/fulu/#i-am-altering-the-deal
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Cory Doctorow
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