Maybe that $1.2 billion should be distributed to the people who died due to lack of availability of a treatment due to artificially inflated prices so that the executives can enjoy their evil laughter as they sail overhead in their flying yachts.
if Facebook wants to really help the poor, it would provide subsidized access to the real Internet
But Facebook is trying to help* the poor.
* Helping them to see ads. Helping the poor and probably easily manipulated, to be manipulated by ads to fuel the profits of a big foreign corporation.
Zuckerberg's idea that a little freedom is better than none should be taken like this:
Our Dear Leader says that a little freedom is better than no freedom. You're still free to breathe, but that freedom is at The Dear Leader's pleasure.
How about real freedom? You can connect to anywhere. Use encryption. Maybe the only limitation, quite reasonably, is bandwidth and/or a usage cap. Reasonable considering it is given free of cost.
If it is annoying ads you want people to see, then you could have a mechanism whereby people must agree to watch ads in order to earn 'credits' to 'pay' for the 'free' service.
Ah, that's what you're trying to do. But you can't inject ads into encrypted connections. And you don't want people seeing competing ad networks.
The pure greed motive of your 'free' gift becomes clear.
How about being transparent and honest enough to plainly admit what this really is?
"Naturally, we have communicated with our customers whose data could have been stolen, and described them a situation. We put in place all the necessary remedial measures and continue to work on mechanism of data encryption," she added.
But then they said information had been WAY TOO exaggerated.
"However, the scope and format of the aforesaid information is way too exaggerated."
I'm sure the people at mSpy would have preferred a normal amount of exaggeration.
Their marketing communications is as competent as their IT department's lack of encryption in the database.
Someone out there will probably invent a new game whose goal to see how many common every day utility items can be made to seem suspicious to police such that those items must be blown up without compensation to their owners.
In the linked BBC article, I got a laugh from the picture of the boy with the phone, his look of shock and eyes about to pop out of his head.
Boys are naturally curious about sex. But parents who would use a stalking app such as mSpy should patiently sit down with their son and explain to him how women's private parts are lined with razor sharp teeth capable of biting off a child's hand.
Impersonating actual user accounts would seem to be sufficient cause for a permanent ban. This crosses way beyond the line of expressing an opinion. Just because nobody wants to hear ridiculous spews that have been repeatedly rebutted doesn't mean you can resort to any kind of obnoxious means to keep trying to put them in people's face.
I don't buy the cultural differences excuse for the EU's behavior regarding Google and other American companies.
If there were such a cultural difference in how EU citizens viewed an index, a database of links, they could create their own. The citizens could use one of the alternatives. The market would favor someone who 'tuned the facts' to match the EU's expectations, if that were possible.
I think the word 'jealousy' is not quite the correct word. I think it is more an envy of Google's power rather than Google's success. The fact that Google can and has effectively told various news dinosaurs to shove off. Google has given them their wish by cutting them off, and they they cry Waaaaaaah! (sniff) Waaaaaaaaaaaah!
I think this and similar past events is what they are upset about.
Leave whistleblowers alone. Reform the system's abuses.
If the NSA had only been tracking terrorists we wouldn't even be having this conversation.
See: TED How the NSA betrayed the world's trust — time to act at: 4:30 also see at: 12:40 (or at 12:00 for better context) "I don't think they're looking for terrorists in Parliament." (see at: 6:00 if you believe in encryption golden keys)
COX would cut off repeat infringers if ordered by a court to do so.
A court would order COX to cut off service to a repeat infringer if a copyright owner sued the infringer in court and proved that * they were in the right venue * that the plaintiff actually owned a work under copyright * that the copyright was infringed * that the defendant was the infringer * defendant's arguments can be successfully rebutted
Rightscorp, BMG and Round Hill Music simply don't want to go through due process.
Why should COX arbitrarily cut off service of one of its customers on the say so of a source that is clearly untrustworthy?
Guilty as accused, with no due process! Off with their heads!
What does it mean to “remove something from Google”?
Google simply indexes the world’s information. Therefore, Infringex can not just call Google and ask them to remove it because the item/information needs to be removed at the “publishing level” or at the origination point. The way that we and others in this industry accomplish removing items from Google search results is by having the objectionable web content removed at the origination point. After the item is deleted or removed by the publisher Google will stop indexing the information within about 30 days, and it will be DELETED and gone from Google and all other search engines forever!
Wow. Infringex has a better understanding of how the internet works than either the MPAA or RIAA -- the clown pair which seems to think that removing something from Google has removed it from the intarwebtubes.
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Helping the poor
* Helping them to see ads. Helping the poor and probably easily manipulated, to be manipulated by ads to fuel the profits of a big foreign corporation.
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A little freedom, and a 'free' gift
Our Dear Leader says that a little freedom is better than no freedom. You're still free to breathe, but that freedom is at The Dear Leader's pleasure.
How about real freedom? You can connect to anywhere. Use encryption. Maybe the only limitation, quite reasonably, is bandwidth and/or a usage cap. Reasonable considering it is given free of cost.
If it is annoying ads you want people to see, then you could have a mechanism whereby people must agree to watch ads in order to earn 'credits' to 'pay' for the 'free' service.
Ah, that's what you're trying to do. But you can't inject ads into encrypted connections. And you don't want people seeing competing ad networks.
The pure greed motive of your 'free' gift becomes clear.
How about being transparent and honest enough to plainly admit what this really is?
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Google Free Zone
Does it mean:
1. A zone where there is no Google?
2. A zone where Google gives you something for free?
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Re: Irony?
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Re: This isn't for protecting peasants
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Re: Uncommonly honest
Their marketing communications is as competent as their IT department's lack of encryption in the database.
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Re: Ok, seriously, what the hell?
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Terrorists hiding under every bush
Pressure cookers. Rice cookers. Propane tanks.
Someone out there will probably invent a new game whose goal to see how many common every day utility items can be made to seem suspicious to police such that those items must be blown up without compensation to their owners.
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Making children safe
Boys are naturally curious about sex. But parents who would use a stalking app such as mSpy should patiently sit down with their son and explain to him how women's private parts are lined with razor sharp teeth capable of biting off a child's hand.
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Estimated commercial achievements?
Wishful thinking? Dreams of riches? Cooked books?
Please explain.
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Re: I'm not so sure
If there were such a cultural difference in how EU citizens viewed an index, a database of links, they could create their own. The citizens could use one of the alternatives. The market would favor someone who 'tuned the facts' to match the EU's expectations, if that were possible.
I think the word 'jealousy' is not quite the correct word. I think it is more an envy of Google's power rather than Google's success. The fact that Google can and has effectively told various news dinosaurs to shove off. Google has given them their wish by cutting them off, and they they cry Waaaaaaah! (sniff) Waaaaaaaaaaaah!
I think this and similar past events is what they are upset about.
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Are they looking for terrorists in Congress?
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Re: Dear Ms. Feinstein (and Mr. McConnell)
If the NSA had only been tracking terrorists we wouldn't even be having this conversation.
See: TED How the NSA betrayed the world's trust — time to act
at: 4:30
also see at: 12:40 (or at 12:00 for better context) "I don't think they're looking for terrorists in Parliament."
(see at: 6:00 if you believe in encryption golden keys)
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COX would cut off repeat infringers
A court would order COX to cut off service to a repeat infringer if a copyright owner sued the infringer in court and proved that
* they were in the right venue
* that the plaintiff actually owned a work under copyright
* that the copyright was infringed
* that the defendant was the infringer
* defendant's arguments can be successfully rebutted
Rightscorp, BMG and Round Hill Music simply don't want to go through due process.
Why should COX arbitrarily cut off service of one of its customers on the say so of a source that is clearly untrustworthy?
Guilty as accused, with no due process! Off with their heads!
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The Infringex Effect
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Would this save the RIAA and MPAA money?
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