It is also particularly valuable for games that offer a unique, but not universally enjoyable, experience - like Rust. For these games there is a huge amount of risk for an informed player going in because they know it is quirky and potentially unfriendly and that is part of the appeal for some players but many players won't risk spending $15 for something with high odds that they won't enjoy. If they can try the acclaimed but unusual game without risk the ones that DO enjoy it will stay while the rest will churn and the developer has a significant net increase in sales.
The thing is you could put this sort of expectation on a cafe too. Make them responsible for stopping unacceptable conversations and fine them millions of Euro's if they fail to do so. Sure it would be extremely expensive, intrusive, and still ultimately ineffective (just like it will for the internet) but you could insist on it all the same. Somehow people think that when you add the words 'on the internet' magic nerd fairies will swoop in and somehow all the problems that would exist if you applied the exact same rules to meatspace (subjectivity, multiple languages, volume of conversations, privacy violations) vanish like digital mirages.
Applying rules that would be wildly impractical and ineffective in physical spaces to the internet will result in them still being wildly impractical and ineffective the vast majority of the time. If the government wanted to take on the role of policing comments then they could be held responsible for the massively expensive boondoggle it would turn into and get kicked out of office but by shifting the burden on to the websites there will never being any motivation to acknowledge the failure or rectify the mistake.
I couldn't decided between the 'Lol' button or the 'Flag trolling' button. The sad part is that this deranged little man probably believes his own bovine fecal matter.
For all intents and purposes, at the moment, Google _is_ the internet for the North America, Europe, and a good chunk of the rest of the world because they are so much superior to all the alternatives that there is no competition. There is a reason that no one bothers to sue Bing or Yahoo to delist anything since at the moment, no one is seeing the unwanted thing through them as they are sub-par services with practically no user base. If this trend continues of courts picking away at Google's ability to accurately return search results we may see other services rise in prominence since only by searching multiple services are we likely to get honest, un-censored results.
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If I recall correctly Compuserve was also showing TV ads in the year prior to Shiva's work that specifically mentioned that they offered EMail so it isn't unreasonable to think he might have seen those.
I have to admit I'm now kind of curious what 'lesbian separatists' would be.
Are they radical lesbians that want to form their own xenophobic nation? Or perhaps radical fundamentalists seeking to round up all the lesbians to keep them in camps so they don't 'taint' the rest of the population?
It is the kind of crazy shit that someone just spouts off without thinking what the words they are smashing together mean that just makes me want to know more.
It is worth noting that many crime statistics are inaccurate and racist because the cops are racist. It has been proven repeatedly that drug use rates between white and black populations is nearly identical but blacks are investigated, arrested, and charged vastly more often because cops assume blacks are dealing/doing drugs and occasionally find them when searching and don't let them off with a scold for having a baggy of weed like they do white people.
If the method of data collection is unreliable then the data it produces is worse than useless it is actually misleading.
It seems to me that decriminalizing and regulating sex work like any other industry with health risks would be the best first step in fighting trafficking. It would allow those sex workers who voluntarily chose the job to be easy to identify and no longer need the protections offered by criminal elements (since they would have the protections of the police) which should drive a cost differential (in cash and risk) between legal and trafficked prostitution driving more work into the legal sector and reducing the number of targets the police need to investigate.
We would be able to get along just fine now if 'progressive' Britain and US hadn't overthrown Iran and turned it into a theocratic state. Back in the mid 1900's Iran was an extremely progressive democratic state with freedom of religion and gender equality on par with or better than many European nations that are now considered exemplary members of EU and NATO for rights. But the democratically elected government decided to stop letting Britain rob them with contracts signed at gunpoint and so the firm believers in democracy and self determination funded a revolution and installed a theocratic dictatorship in its place, but the important thing was that that dictatorship let them keep taking its oil without payment. And since then nothing bad has happened as a result of Iran being a theocratic dictatorship instead of the democratic beacon in the region so it all worked out in the end.
The problem is that the current white descendants of those abusers still receive the massive benefits that abuse generated. At the same time we refuse to offer restitution or take any action to improve life for the descendants of those displaced native tribes or slaves that have been systematically discriminated against to deny them opportunity. We may not have committed the original sin but we keep on perpetuating a whole damn lot of sin in order to deny that we are complicit in and benefit from that sin.
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Islam is just as compatible with free speech and thought as Christianity. The reason that we don't have progressive Islamic nations with 'western' style values is that we (progressive westerners) keep overthrowing the middle eastern governments who are supporters of democracy and freedom of speech and religion (see Iran) because they insist that the rights and needs of their citizens should override the desires and profits of foreign countries. Instead we (glorious freedom loving westerners that we are) instate dictators who are willing to work with us (while secretly working to stab us in the back) as long as they can have the power and personally enrich themselves. Those dictators, when not religious zealots themselves, must control the (more impoverished) populace and turn to the religious zealots who maintain social order through fear and faith. And that brings us to the current clusterfuck in the middle east.
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Islam is just as compatible with free speech and thought as Christianity. The reason that we don't have progressive Islamic nations with 'western' style values is that we (progressive westerners) keep overthrowing the middle eastern governments who are supporters of democracy and freedom of speech and religion (see Iran) because they insist that the rights and needs of their citizens should override the desires and profits of foreign countries. Instead we (glorious freedom loving westerners that we are) instate dictators who are willing to work with us (while secretly working to stab us in the back) as long as they can have the power and personally enrich themselves. Those dictators, when not religious zealots themselves, must control the (more impoverished) populace and turn to the religious zealots who maintain social order through fear and faith. And that brings us to the current clusterfuck in the middle east.
Christianity as it has existed for the vast majority of its history and the direct predecessor to the Christianity of the present is the one that executed people rather than what you cite as the 'real' Christianity which hasn't existed for 1700 years. Beyond that, your history is so bad as to be laughable because whether or not the church opposed blasphemy executions 1700 years ago they gleefully endorsed them, and holy wars, over the next millennia and a half. Christianity has a long bloody history that has been largely halted in the last two centuries thanks to the rise of the secular state and democracies. When Islamic nations become democratic and then secular we should expect to see their equally bloody history slide to a halt as well.
The key is that it makes the complainant responsible for the legal fees so that it doesn't cost $10,000 and letting them disrupt your organization during discovery before you get to the slam dunk dismissal.
I'm not sure that this would have gotten knocked down by an anti-SLAPP law.
There seems to be adequate claims regarding the vote rigging and 3 broken laws that it could succeed on its merits. That should have been sufficient to get it past the basic preliminary evaluation even in a state that had an anti-SLAPP law on the books. The fact that it failed to prove defamation doesn't necessarily mean that it would have been shot down without going to court with SLAPP protection.
Also problematic is that many plans have a maximum number of voicemails that they will store at a time. Without paying extra I'm limited to 25 which is fine for me since I only get a couple a month anyways and clear them out within a day or two but if advertisers can clog my inbox up with their unwanted garbage I'm going to be at my cap almost 100% of the time and never able to receive actual messages.
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Applying rules that would be wildly impractical and ineffective in physical spaces to the internet will result in them still being wildly impractical and ineffective the vast majority of the time. If the government wanted to take on the role of policing comments then they could be held responsible for the massively expensive boondoggle it would turn into and get kicked out of office but by shifting the burden on to the websites there will never being any motivation to acknowledge the failure or rectify the mistake.
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Are they radical lesbians that want to form their own xenophobic nation? Or perhaps radical fundamentalists seeking to round up all the lesbians to keep them in camps so they don't 'taint' the rest of the population?
It is the kind of crazy shit that someone just spouts off without thinking what the words they are smashing together mean that just makes me want to know more.
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If the method of data collection is unreliable then the data it produces is worse than useless it is actually misleading.
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Christianity as it has existed for the vast majority of its history and the direct predecessor to the Christianity of the present is the one that executed people rather than what you cite as the 'real' Christianity which hasn't existed for 1700 years. Beyond that, your history is so bad as to be laughable because whether or not the church opposed blasphemy executions 1700 years ago they gleefully endorsed them, and holy wars, over the next millennia and a half. Christianity has a long bloody history that has been largely halted in the last two centuries thanks to the rise of the secular state and democracies. When Islamic nations become democratic and then secular we should expect to see their equally bloody history slide to a halt as well.
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There seems to be adequate claims regarding the vote rigging and 3 broken laws that it could succeed on its merits. That should have been sufficient to get it past the basic preliminary evaluation even in a state that had an anti-SLAPP law on the books. The fact that it failed to prove defamation doesn't necessarily mean that it would have been shot down without going to court with SLAPP protection.
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The mind boggles.
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