Not victim blaming, I just think people should think through their actions and possible consequences.
If you take pictures of yourself naked you should realize that at some point they may become embarrassing.
If that bothers you then don't take them.
If that doesn't bother you then as I said, "Otherwise you should remember that at some point you were willing and possibly proud to show yourself to the camera"
I see a large part of this as a situation where the people involved were fine as long as life was lollipops and unicorns but now that there is a big fat turd in the punchbowl everyone is a victim.
I don't like revenge porn sites and think they should die in a fire.
However, free speech is free speech, whether one likes the speech or not.
Google is slowly killing itself by becoming more than just a search engine(I realize Google has other products but this policy refers to the search engine).
A search engine searches and the popularity of the results and the engine itself is a result of it finding what people are looking for. As they keep removing results(and I agree this may well start a bad precedent down a long steep slope) they make the engine less effective.
Some of us have already discovered this and started using alternatives, others will too.
Additionally, I realize that for those affected, revenge porn is painful but it has long been said, that if you don't want naked pictures of yourself on the internet, then don't take naked pictures of yourself. If you didn't take them then existing laws are in place to prosecute those who did. Otherwise you should remember that at some point you were willing and possibly proud to show yourself to the camera.
I had similar issues, I now use a mouse and keyboard that have rechargeable batteries, and they charge through a micro usb so my phone charger works on them. Normally I can plug them in when I'm away but if I get caught in the middle of something then it becomes a corded device.
I am terrified they will remove the secrecy, if they do that it will be news for a day an then the country will go back to DTWS. Then officials will legitimately be able to say ¿What outrage?
"I wonder how long before we'd lose software patents?"
It wouldn't happen. The current system is built to handle this, they just make people re-apply an indeterminate amount of times until they rubber stamp it.
Then if there are multiple patents that appear similar, let the courts sort it out, everyone wins system functions as expected.
What needs to happen is for the public to finally decide to point the gun back at the maximalists and say either roll all IP law back to where it was originally or we will abolish it completely.
The funny thing is, as much as the maximalists hate and fear that decision, I'm pretty sure that they are going to keep pushing so hard that when the public finally does rise up, the roll back option will be off the table.
When the US has the power to have the private planes of leaders of countries searched in a third country, what do you think the punishment for crossing them on Cuba is?
When the bully tells you that you can't play with the kid with glasses you don't play with the kid with glasses.
While I am loathe to suggest more government involvement, perhaps the solution lies with the FTC.
If I go to the store and by something "by the pound" or purchase gasoline "by the gallon" the vendor is required to use a state certified device to measure with and there is a sticker on the device to tell all customers when it was last certified.
If an ISP wishes to bill "by the __________" then require them to have certified meters in place that the consumer can clearly see were tested and certified.
I suspect they would give up on this practice pretty quickly. Of course what they replace it with could be worse.
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Until all seized assets are routed back to the public and out of their hands, this will continue.
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Sadly, you are an outlier in modern society.
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If you take pictures of yourself naked you should realize that at some point they may become embarrassing.
If that bothers you then don't take them.
If that doesn't bother you then as I said, "Otherwise you should remember that at some point you were willing and possibly proud to show yourself to the camera"
I see a large part of this as a situation where the people involved were fine as long as life was lollipops and unicorns but now that there is a big fat turd in the punchbowl everyone is a victim.
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Sorry but no.
However, free speech is free speech, whether one likes the speech or not.
Google is slowly killing itself by becoming more than just a search engine(I realize Google has other products but this policy refers to the search engine).
A search engine searches and the popularity of the results and the engine itself is a result of it finding what people are looking for. As they keep removing results(and I agree this may well start a bad precedent down a long steep slope) they make the engine less effective.
Some of us have already discovered this and started using alternatives, others will too.
Additionally, I realize that for those affected, revenge porn is painful but it has long been said, that if you don't want naked pictures of yourself on the internet, then don't take naked pictures of yourself. If you didn't take them then existing laws are in place to prosecute those who did. Otherwise you should remember that at some point you were willing and possibly proud to show yourself to the camera.
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This is often leveraged to sign up multiple times for things because it allows you to get all the confirmation emails in the same inbox.
Last time I checked (not recent) you could no longer sign up for an address with the dots in it.
I suspect their system didn't equate your vintage email with the dots, to the current best practice version without them.
Good luck getting through to Google for any type of CS issue.
I would try to get the other person to sign up for a different account as you are getting his emails but he isn't getting yours.
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Their best recruiting tool is the nonsense that so called free governments are doing to their own citizens.
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Granting patents on vegetables may well prove to be just that.
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It wouldn't happen. The current system is built to handle this, they just make people re-apply an indeterminate amount of times until they rubber stamp it.
Then if there are multiple patents that appear similar, let the courts sort it out, everyone wins system functions as expected.
What needs to happen is for the public to finally decide to point the gun back at the maximalists and say either roll all IP law back to where it was originally or we will abolish it completely.
The funny thing is, as much as the maximalists hate and fear that decision, I'm pretty sure that they are going to keep pushing so hard that when the public finally does rise up, the roll back option will be off the table.
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When the bully tells you that you can't play with the kid with glasses you don't play with the kid with glasses.
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Maybe the FTC?
If I go to the store and by something "by the pound" or purchase gasoline "by the gallon" the vendor is required to use a state certified device to measure with and there is a sticker on the device to tell all customers when it was last certified.
If an ISP wishes to bill "by the __________" then require them to have certified meters in place that the consumer can clearly see were tested and certified.
I suspect they would give up on this practice pretty quickly.
Of course what they replace it with could be worse.
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