It's almost as if most of the people on either side of this political horse race are determining which news orgs to support based on whose side the revelations help.
Yeah, it does almost seem like that, doesn't it?
That's... bad.
No, it depends. Is this leak embarrassing the Republicans or the Democrats? It's bad if it's one of them all right, but if it's the other one, it's nothing more than the bastards deserve!
They would only count as a Faraday cage if the aluminum foil extends from the top of the head to the neck, the neck is then cut through, and the foil closed completely around the entire head and inflated into a spherical shape.
...making him a dubious selection for the job. [...] ...he's going to have to recuse himself from a long list of decisions at the FTC, which also doesn't make him a particularly compelling hire.
What rock did you say you spend your time under? The way Washington works these days, zero experience in representing the citizenry is the only qualification for the job, and conflict of interest (or outright bribe-taking) is just (non-)regulation as usual.
My cynical interpretation of this solicitation is that ICE is looking for software that will dig and dig and dig until it finds something that can be used to exclude any particular visitor. Excuse me, every particular visitor.
You are so wrong. 5G is better in every way, because it has 5 G's instead of 4 G's. That's like a 500% improvement right there. Of course it takes 5G to support all those new fangled IOT apps, because we won't let them be built on 4G, because 4G won't support them and 5G will! 5G is like magic, it solves every problem you have, and some you don't. Support 5G now, my bonus depends on it.
So, I'm still wondering why all of the supporters of SESTA/FOSTA seem to have disappeared off the face of the earth in the last couple months as all of this has happened.
Well, duh! Mission accomplished. Appropriate sex worker sin penalties (death, disease, abuse) have been restored. Onward, onward, to punish other sins.
If it starts to look like FOSTA/SESTA might be repealed then the supporters will reappear like magic.
You're right, that last comment was a little over the top, even though it was insightful. Specifically with respect to the bit about "chopping hands": there is no way the copyright enforcers would chop hands off, because they would quickly find that people without hands can't pay extortionate fees.
Re: "They're government agents, of course they're always right."
Not only legal and perfectly acceptable, but it wouldn't surprise me if the judge rules that the failure to file the appropriate documents/follow procedure is also harmless and the government gets to keep the money.
I got your point, and worthy point it is. The only thing is, how do we overcome the obligation that a company has to a nation like, say, China? Because China would certainly say that Google, for example, is obliged to follow its laws. And taking Google again, it is obliged by US law to seek profit for its stockholders, but it's no obligation to enforce US constitutional rights in China.
It's not exactly fair for all of these different obligations to be laid upon a company, and then expect the company to step up and be the big one in the room.
I'm sure they would. Out of curiosity, how comprehensive are we talking about here? 7 million people? 7 billion? 7 trillion? And then there's the question of impartiality: would you be willing to accept a team of scientists not employed by the drug companies as judges? Or would we need to come up with a team of anti-vaxxers to rubber stamp your preferred conclusion?
The corporations aren't "privacy bashing" per se, they are "for profit." If a country says, "If you want to do business here you will do censorship," then the corporation does censorship.
"We" (some of us) have the unreasonable expectation that corporations will forgo business in order to try to force good policy on other nations. They can't. They have a fiduciary duty to their stockholders to do whatever is in the best interest of profit.
This article, and the previous article about Google, are misdirected. In all probability, one or more nations said, "Stop doing this or we will block you," which would mean the end of business, the end of profit. (One of the countries did block one of the major companies, temporarily.)
But, even if these actions by Google and Amazon are unilateral, they were still inevitable; and laying blame on the corporations for a national policy that is bad is idiotic.
Oh, sure, it's probably legal. But when it starts getting used a lot, the law will be changed to ensure that police can identify which individual is using which proxy car when.
Just like the "law" was changed to ensure that every person who owns a website is positively identified, even if the public listing is still anonymous.
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Paranoid? Paranoid??!
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Yeah, it does almost seem like that, doesn't it?
No, it depends. Is this leak embarrassing the Republicans or the Democrats? It's bad if it's one of them all right, but if it's the other one, it's nothing more than the bastards deserve!
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Re: Today's Big Lie
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On the post: No, The FTC Is Not Going To Do A Good Job Policing Net Neutrality
What rock did you say you spend your time under? The way Washington works these days, zero experience in representing the citizenry is the only qualification for the job, and conflict of interest (or outright bribe-taking) is just (non-)regulation as usual.
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Introductory price
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On the post: ICE Drops Extreme Vetting Software Plan After Discovering No One Could Possibly Deliver What It Wants
More isolationism
My cynical interpretation of this solicitation is that ICE is looking for software that will dig and dig and dig until it finds something that can be used to exclude any particular visitor. Excuse me, every particular visitor.
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Heard that one before
On the post: Police Realizing That SESTA/FOSTA Made Their Jobs Harder; Sex Traffickers Realizing It's Made Their Job Easier
Mission accomplished
Well, duh! Mission accomplished. Appropriate sex worker sin penalties (death, disease, abuse) have been restored. Onward, onward, to punish other sins.
If it starts to look like FOSTA/SESTA might be repealed then the supporters will reappear like magic.
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Re: "They're government agents, of course they're always right."
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It's not exactly fair for all of these different obligations to be laid upon a company, and then expect the company to step up and be the big one in the room.
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"We" (some of us) have the unreasonable expectation that corporations will forgo business in order to try to force good policy on other nations. They can't. They have a fiduciary duty to their stockholders to do whatever is in the best interest of profit.
This article, and the previous article about Google, are misdirected. In all probability, one or more nations said, "Stop doing this or we will block you," which would mean the end of business, the end of profit. (One of the countries did block one of the major companies, temporarily.)
But, even if these actions by Google and Amazon are unilateral, they were still inevitable; and laying blame on the corporations for a national policy that is bad is idiotic.
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Re: New Hate Speech Law Outlaws Criticism of the Israeli Occupation
The referenced fact sheet: https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/fs/2010/122352.htm
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Re: car registration-by-proxy service?
Just like the "law" was changed to ensure that every person who owns a website is positively identified, even if the public listing is still anonymous.
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