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by jevoten 3y ago
I thought The Guardian was against fascism, yet here they are pushing for corporations to act like the police. Or even more like the police, beyond keeping IP logs, message histories, transaction histories, and employing 15,000 workers
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by jevoten 3y ago
> It's also sad that pretty much any sort of defense is illegal in Toronto Could you elaborate on this?
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by jevoten 3y ago
Does it in fact "rely" on it, or does that merely expand its scope? Even if its claims of what is "derivative" were diminished to exclude linking/API calls, the GPL would survive, albeit as slightly less viral.
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by jevoten 3y ago
Being mad about this is like being mad the thief who stole your belongings then pawned them. The crime was spying on you in the first place. Automakers should not have any data, to share or sell or give to law enforcement with a subpoena.
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by jevoten 3y ago
Yes it is a broad thing, and yes government and private censorship are not the same, but they are both censorship, at least according to the wikipedia and ACLU definitions [1,2]. And given the volume of posts censored and users banned by so
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by jevoten 3y ago
Thank you for the clarification. > our censorship (if we're really going to call it that) With the possible exception of spam filtering, yes, we should call it that. I'm sure I would agree with many of those censorship decisi
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by jevoten 3y ago
Title is misleading - users can pick additional filters, but can't opt out of any of Bluesky's own censorship without going to a third-party server entirely.
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by jevoten 3y ago
Charge $100 more for a ticket to get a slightly better sandwich, then claim the consumer chose the worse sandwich.
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by jevoten 3y ago
People are perhaps not so enthusiastic about giving away their countries just so multinational companies with no loyalty to them don't leave. On the other hand, China, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea all manage to have highly-successful
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by jevoten 3y ago
You can also create violent and copyrighted images in MS Paint. Why should our tools police us? And what is the alternative - teach AI to perform a fair-use test on any output that touches copyrighted material?
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by jevoten 3y ago
> Will you move your whole social life with you A small price compared to dying in war. I'm not saying it's the right choice, but if you have no attachment to your country and people beyond it being a comfortable place to live,
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by jevoten 3y ago
Point taken. But what about in Germany over Canada? Or Italy? Or Spain, or Australia, or the US, or New Zealand, or UK, or Iceland, or Taiwan, or Japan or... there are lots of mostly free countries (so long as you don't engage in the g
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by jevoten 3y ago
> cultivating the mentality that lying in the trenches for your country/culture/values might be necessary. That would mean cultivating the mentality that a country is more than just an economic platform, because that's not
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by jevoten 3y ago
> There's other ways to find websites, like HN and word-of-mouth; The problem is that, to get traffic to your site (i.e. have your speech heard), it doesn't help if you use these other ways to find websites. You need others
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by jevoten 3y ago
The mistake is they got caught. It will be more subtle next time.
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by jevoten 3y ago
Easy way to bypass the 4th amendment - force private business to pre-emptively surveil everyone.
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by jevoten 3y ago
> hilarious because unlike the social media case, I dont think these faux pauxs have important real world consequences Which is exactly why people mock this being referred to as "safety". Keep in mind the group mocking this PR
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by jevoten 3y ago
I have an idea - why doesn't Nevada install a bug on every minor's device, achieving the same effect, without Facebook's cooperation? I know why! Because then the surveillance, privacy infringement, and gross overreach are ob
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by jevoten 3y ago
Putting aside how easy it is to compensate for this (e.g. report gunshots per area under surveillance), I'm curious how much crime estimates based on ShotSpotter or general policing differ from the frequency with which dead bodies are
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by jevoten 3y ago
> The way C handles pointers, for example, was a brilliant innovation; How were pointers handled before?
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by jevoten 3y ago
Hilariously, legally, software seems to be unpatentable in both the US [1] and EU [2]. Yet those laws are routinely ignored, and we continue to be plagued by software patents. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_
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by jevoten 3y ago
Let me describe exactly how you are defending them then, if you really think you aren't: "this same expectation in the Apple ecosystem is why I've received single digit spam from their messaging services" implies it can
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by jevoten 3y ago
Sounds like anti-competitive fraud, or at the very minimum, false advertising.
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by jevoten 3y ago
> Freedom to root/jailbreak one's phone You don't actually have that freedom - the DMCAs anti-circumvention provision robbed you of the right to unlock your own property. You are merely permitted by the manufacturer to roo
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by jevoten 3y ago
But that's because they're doing business with banks that want to remain friendly with the US, not because they're doing business specifically in US dollars. If they got paid in Turkish liras, but through a bank under US infl
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by jevoten 3y ago
How is "Because the NSO group handles dollars" related to "the court could order any assets the US can get their hands on seized"? Presumably, if they were getting paid in bars of gold, the US could seize those too, if
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by jevoten 3y ago
> Is the alternative "as a company, we don't care what happens to you" any better? I said "OSHA-like" - if the OSHA approach has not resulted in disregard of safety, why would it result in the disregard of discri
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by jevoten 3y ago
> [Tesla] failed to protect [Black workers] from racism Ironic that the police can't be sued for failing to protect people, but companies can. This legal quagmire of having to take ill-defined "reasonable" steps to preempt
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by jevoten 3y ago
> Though they were relatively small in number that day, they’re part of a nationwide movement to eliminate voting technology and instead hand count every ballot — an option election administrators say is simply not feasible. The election
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by jevoten 3y ago
> the Justice Department had prohibited Apple and Google from discussing the technique. A blatant 1st amendment violation.

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