I've never thought of it this way, but yes, being self-owned and having a logistics solution that is resistant to outside influence is definitely freeing, and marvelously so.
I just wish this could scale down to individuals, i.e. my freedom of speech could have far less restrictions on it with respect to workplace.
I was with you until you decided to pull out the "serve" argument.
Police officers serve the public good, not people. This is why a police officer is justified in punching you in the face if you order him or her to get you a glass of water. They aren't those kinds of servants.
Given the appointment of an obvious Verizon puppet to the head of the FCC, and given the real lack of interest by the current executive office of the US to protect ordinary citizens, what realistic choices do we have?
The author states: "That leaves us with two choices: improving market competition to increase organic pressure until Verizon behaves, or leaning on some fairly basic regulatory oversight to ensure consumer privacy is protected by some basic rules of the road."
Putting aside the fallacy of two choices, what are the realistic chances of improving organic market conditions? Zero, I'll just skip to the answer.
What are the chances of any basic regulatory oversight during the next three years? Zero.
So, unless someone can show another way to break this, I don't see any way to stop them. Writing letters to the FCC means nothing -- they don't have to listen, and from what I can see, no one can compel them to work for our interests.
So someone please explain how to force the FCC to protect us... because if we're forced to fight state-by-state against VZ, were going to lose.
It's simply put, and impossible to achieve in America now, but you need to regulate business. All business. Everywhere. Even if it's the lightest possible regulation like registering and paying taxes, regulate. There is no such thing as free capitalism here, and there's even less support for that than regulation.
In this specific example, the first and best step would be to separate carriers from content. ABSOLUTELY. Oh, you maintain the wires? You can't offer media. At all. And not holding companies either, we find that out and you're fined $50k a day for each violation.
You'd get your net neutrality for sure. There's plenty of good money -- not great, but good money -- in being in infrastructure. It requires capital to invest, but you have a captive audience of sorts. But if your only interest is maintaining the wires, you can't get involved in the fuckery of limiting TV channels, Internet sites, and so forth.
Your warrant forces you to deal with the situation; you're not entitled to some benefits if you have this open issue.
It's legal, and it's proper.
As for the argument about putting deputies at risk for rescuing people with warrants... let's have some statistics on that risk, otherwise your thought experiment is a bag of hot air.
What if the FCC doesn't listen? Is there an actual negative outcome possible for the FCC chair and FCC itself? I don't see one, not with this administration.
Prove it or STFU. PTSD is a real thing, police brutality is a real thing, but each is individual, not systemic. And no, police brutality is not systemic, despite what the anti-cop authors say.
Your reputation will eventually weight your determination of an article as "fake/not fake"over time, and as you become a trusted moderator, you'll be invested in the ethics of the role.
It's not perfect, but it keeps FB from having to build teams to act as arbiters for this.
Scraping for profit is not the same as scraping for freedom.
LinkedIn users really, really don't like to have their information harvested and used to become the targets of spam campaigns and unsolicited contact. And yet, you've managed to equate this with people pulling taxpayer-funded academic papers out from behind paywalls.
Save your outrage for a better target. I'm actually pretty glad LinkedIn is going after these bottom-feeders.
Once you go on-premises at a LEC, they care. Poles? Nope. Best thing a municipality can do is exercise eminent domain and own the poles. You can sub the maintenance of the poles out to a bidder, which is like NOTHING, then lease attachment to the utilities.
I wonder how much they pay in taxes for those poles...
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Gatekeeping, this is really interesting.
I just wish this could scale down to individuals, i.e. my freedom of speech could have far less restrictions on it with respect to workplace.
-C
On the post: Deputy Shoots Family's Terrier; Complains About Cost Of The Bullet
Re: Attitudes incompatible with good policing
Police officers serve the public good, not people. This is why a police officer is justified in punching you in the face if you order him or her to get you a glass of water. They aren't those kinds of servants.
-C
On the post: Verizon Lobbies FCC To Block States From Protecting Broadband Privacy, Net Neutrality
Serious question inside.
The author states: "That leaves us with two choices: improving market competition to increase organic pressure until Verizon behaves, or leaning on some fairly basic regulatory oversight to ensure consumer privacy is protected by some basic rules of the road."
Putting aside the fallacy of two choices, what are the realistic chances of improving organic market conditions? Zero, I'll just skip to the answer.
What are the chances of any basic regulatory oversight during the next three years? Zero.
So, unless someone can show another way to break this, I don't see any way to stop them. Writing letters to the FCC means nothing -- they don't have to listen, and from what I can see, no one can compel them to work for our interests.
So someone please explain how to force the FCC to protect us... because if we're forced to fight state-by-state against VZ, were going to lose.
-C
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You need to regulate businesses.
In this specific example, the first and best step would be to separate carriers from content. ABSOLUTELY. Oh, you maintain the wires? You can't offer media. At all. And not holding companies either, we find that out and you're fined $50k a day for each violation.
You'd get your net neutrality for sure. There's plenty of good money -- not great, but good money -- in being in infrastructure. It requires capital to invest, but you have a captive audience of sorts. But if your only interest is maintaining the wires, you can't get involved in the fuckery of limiting TV channels, Internet sites, and so forth.
Oh yeah.
-C
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CompSci? Ehhh, not so much
-C
On the post: Florida Sheriff Plans To Use Hurricane Irma To Bump Up Arrest Numbers, Fill His Jail
Consequences of your warrant
It's legal, and it's proper.
As for the argument about putting deputies at risk for rescuing people with warrants... let's have some statistics on that risk, otherwise your thought experiment is a bag of hot air.
-C
On the post: Docs Show Police Also Sought (And Obtained) Phone Records For Police Shooting Victim's Girlfriend
Amazing
Clearly it was justified. Your opinion isn't greater than the findings of a jury in the trial. Too bad for you and your agenda!
-C
On the post: Three Thoughts On EU's $2.7 Billion Antitrust Google Fine
And what if Google doesn't pay?
If Google tells Canada to go jump off a cliff, what is Canada going to do to enforce its ruling? What *can* they do?
I don't understand the implications if Google simply decided to defy them.
On the post: This Machine Kills Accountability: The Ongoing Persecution Of Good Cops
Ah, this explains you, Tim.
That, right there, is why you're a bad author, and unqualified to talk about the subject. You clearly don't know any.
-C
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Re: Re: Ouch
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Or what?
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Tolerant?
-C
On the post: Cop Objects To Editorial About Community Policing, Sets Fire To 20-Year Career In Response
Re: Re: Cop probably suffering from PTSD
On the post: Facebook Announces Its Pilot Plans To 'Deal' With Fake News -- Not With Censorship, But With More Info
Wikipedia or Slashdot models
It's not perfect, but it keeps FB from having to build teams to act as arbiters for this.
-C
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Hmm.
-C
On the post: New York City Threatens To Sue Verizon For Failure To Meet Fiber Deployment Promises
Eminent domain
Then cancel the contract and open it up to Google. Watch how fast Verizon rolls trucks.
-C
On the post: Disappointing: LinkedIn Abusing CFAA & DMCA To Sue Scraping Bots
Scraping for profit is not the same as scraping for freedom.
Save your outrage for a better target. I'm actually pretty glad LinkedIn is going after these bottom-feeders.
-C
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Unions? No.
I wonder how much they pay in taxes for those poles...
-C
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At least?
The fact is that Kerry is more of an Earnhardt than Teresa. Period.
-C
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Re: Simple Question
Because really, I'd love to read it.
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