You can always set up your own vpn in some hosting service so for the really determined it's a lost battle. The problem will be when they ban encryption. And you bet they will at some point.
Disney does produce good content here and there but they managed to earn my disdain because of their past copyright shenanigans. And there was plenty of warning so they could change their game to suit their customers. Can't say I'm sorry.
So somebody earned 335k and a lot of voyeurism fetishes were satisfied amirite?
And the conclusion is that law enforcement is working and drugs aren't a problem anymore because even though millions of communications were intercepted none of them were drug related.
In another pressing issue your grandma had problems cancelling her Comcast subscription Mike. - anonymous cop
This CCTV and facial recognition madness is not exclusive to China. They are just the issue taken to the extreme as you'd expect from them.
Sadly, the ones pushing for those systems will be affected by them even if unconsciously. We've had enough studies to show how humans change their behaviors when they believe they are being surveilled all the time and how bad it is psychologically.
If they had to compete with many other ISPs these forced arbitration clauses would be meaningless simply because the ISPs that provided bad customer service or product and made use of these instruments would quickly get the result of their bad reputations into their pockets. So while the tool is bad enough it all goes back to the lack of competition.
Separate the providers from the infra-structure while regulating this system properly and you'll see how fast things will normalize. Look at the electric sector and other utilities if you are the average anti-regulation dummy.
It's incredibly how cops these days can't stop digging. It was bad enough that the cop shoot the guy in front of her daughter for NOTHING but instead of going the "sorry, we got it wrong and we are ashamed" route they doubled down on bad by trying to protect the cop and then trying to smear the victims. No seriously, you deserve standing ovation for the outstanding crap you have become law enforcement.
And it occurred me as I hit the submit button that they are principled. They support whatever is good for them. In the past it was free speech for musicians and now that they are established it is censorship. So who would tell, they are principled, it's just that their principles are plain old greed.
It's like white supremacists shaming the rest of us for advocating racial equality. Don't you think they already do it? How much reach does it have? Sure there will be times where the predominant prejudice will have more voice but by not meddling with free speech you'll let opposing forces slowly reach people instead of having the prevalent mindset crush what it disagrees with.
The proper path of action would be to let all speech flow and have law enforcement and the platform work together to get the ones who actually committed crimes? You know, apply the law.
As for others, shame them, mock them for their hate speech, for their racism, make them feel very ashamed and out of place but heck leave the platforms alone.
We need some really decentralized platform that nobody can moderate. Sure there will be hideous stuff in there but we need to learn how to live with such things and GO AFTER THE ONES PRODUCING IT either via what the law says or by flooding them with positive speech.
"It would be nice to be able to resell my unused bandwidth, or at least join a pool of other users to equalize usage so no one would ever gets hit by a surcharge."
Isn't it easier to ditch data caps so you can use the whole capacity of the pipe you hired (ie: your speed) to the fullest if you so desire?
Everybody is paying for an allocated speed (or pipe capacity) and the ISPs are denying such use as the customer sees fit.
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And the conclusion is that law enforcement is working and drugs aren't a problem anymore because even though millions of communications were intercepted none of them were drug related.
In another pressing issue your grandma had problems cancelling her Comcast subscription Mike. - anonymous cop
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Despite the trolling up there, this generates a lot of goodwill AND sales. Not now maybe but in the future? Sure.
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Sadly, the ones pushing for those systems will be affected by them even if unconsciously. We've had enough studies to show how humans change their behaviors when they believe they are being surveilled all the time and how bad it is psychologically.
Brave new world eh?
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Separate the providers from the infra-structure while regulating this system properly and you'll see how fast things will normalize. Look at the electric sector and other utilities if you are the average anti-regulation dummy.
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Do we really need to ask given their recent history?
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Principled and RIAA in the same sentence is what we call a paradox.
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As for others, shame them, mock them for their hate speech, for their racism, make them feel very ashamed and out of place but heck leave the platforms alone.
We need some really decentralized platform that nobody can moderate. Sure there will be hideous stuff in there but we need to learn how to live with such things and GO AFTER THE ONES PRODUCING IT either via what the law says or by flooding them with positive speech.
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Isn't it easier to ditch data caps so you can use the whole capacity of the pipe you hired (ie: your speed) to the fullest if you so desire?
Everybody is paying for an allocated speed (or pipe capacity) and the ISPs are denying such use as the customer sees fit.
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