"Can you explain the basis of what you think is “unconstitutional”, or are you just throwing that around for fun?"
Lack of due process anyone?
"To be clear, when you say “many years”, how many? 5-10-50-100-all of them?"
Hmmm, this is kind of hard to pinpoint. I mean, you have stuff like the All Writs Act before 1800 but you also have a lot of post-WWII absurdities. If I had to elect one point where surveillance went haywire would be after WWII with the Cold War. Pretty nasty things were done for national security after that. And certainly 9/11 increased things tenfold.
"Do we tell you what you should be demanding?"
Don't go down that slope, it's slippery. You have a pretty nasty history of imposing what you want on other countries. My country has its own share of problems and the people here should be demanding a lot of things that they aren't as well. But we are talking about the US. I'm not demanding anything but I think Americans should be up in arms (figuratively speaking or maybe not I don't know) against the erosion of their civil liberties and general rights. If you are American and you think it's all right then my condolences. But I've gone to the streets to protest for less than what's happening there.
1- The deployment that was often sponsored with tax breaks and other govt incentives with promises of better coverage you mean? The funding that came REGARDLESS of whatever regulations were in place you mean?
2- Oh, silly me, the monopoly can do worse. Hence the need for regulations.
"Have you ever tried to put yourself into the place of an investor in (1)? Imagine it was your money, which would you do? I’ll answer for you - you would do everything legally possible to preserve your investment and reap as many rewards as possible."
I don't need to get billions of added profits if I'm already sitting on billions of profit. I'd certainly offer better service. Then again I'd probably not open up the company for stocks so my company would grow more slowly. But immediate profits wouldn't blind it to long-term benefits.
"xpecting a moral response to a business question?"
While I agree with the overall idea, it's kinda hard to achieve such world when multiple companies are building profiles on you regardless of if you want to use their services or not. And frankly, even if all companies offer transparency and opt-ins/outs of their collection and data share my head hurts just thinking how many logins I'd need to create to save such options.
Sure some of the 'solutions' proposed or implemented miss the point but really, it's a mess that will be hard to fix without some overreach. I'd start requiring 3rd-party trackers to be disabled by default unless the user explicitly allows, same domain tracking of brwosing habits allowed by default with options to disable would be a nice start. Some pages are so riddled with trackers and advertisement that if you don't use adblockers they become resource hogs. Currently ArsTechnica is one of the worst offenders, TD has fixed it but it was pretty bad a while back as well.
"Thanks to Section 230, you can't trust internet advertising, so don't buy anything you see advertised. If that ever catches on Section 230 is history."
It must be sad to be you. Read about Backpage, it should be enlightening.
This watchlist thing is a complete shitshow. And I'd say an unconstitutional one. Then again, we are asking for respect towards laws and human rights from a govt that couldn't care less for many years now. The current state of affairs isn't responsibility from Trump alone. Neither Obama. Americans should be demanding this respect on the streets and the ballots.
" claiming it would somehow "impede cable operators’ ability to invest in and deploy broadband infrastructure, to the detriment of consumers and their communities"
Two things about this comment that is used to exhaustion by the telcos: 1- Given the multitude of things that have already happened that got the exact same claim from you morons for years, decades, what miracle made you actually deploy broadband infrastructure then? 2- Detriment of users and communities? Can it get worse than it already is?
I don't think announcing you will take matters to the court to protect your rights is threatening.
I think Thiel saying he'd use his resources to bankrupt journalists and outfits could fit that definition but announcing you will fight for your rights a threat?
"Revenue decline in recent years “has adversely affected morale in the DWI Seizure Unit.”"
Have I seriously read that?
I think any and all income obtained via fines, seized property and the likes should go to the Federal coffers to be distributed along with all the rest of the income. I mean, who in their goddamn sanity would have predicted that leaving this money locally would serve as incentive to more property seizing/applying more fines? (do I need to add the /s?)
"The defendant requests compensation for the attorneys’ fees and costs to the tune of $62,818.35, providing a detailed accounting of the costs it made."
I'm disappointed. The MAFIAA would sue for hudreds of gazillions of dollars. And they'd probably include the office printers as defendants.
""minority" from your original quote replaced here because women are, of course, not a minority"
Just a bit of a side note, when you talk about minority in terms of discrimination and equality you don't talk about the overall number of individuals in such position but rather the fact that that segment, however big it is, does not receive equal treatment. Women are a minority segment in our current patriarchal society. In Brazil black people and their half-breed with white people (is that the right word to define it in English?) are more than half of the population but they suffer from multiple injustices so they are a minority group. It's about representation and equality.
Just my 2 cents. I'm not criticizing your comment, just focusing this specific issue of definitions.
Re: @ "no desire for short term revenue that fucks over our community"
"B) You're admitting that your "business model" just doesn't work for, you know, BUSINESS."
It has been failing for what, 15, 20 years? Help me here Mike, how long has your way of doing business been failing?
"C) In my opinion, the advertising-supported model, no matter how bombarding, won't, either. The internets may be fundamentally unworkable, even worse than broadcast because so many in the market. Key point, easily observable, is that any big content requires practically captive consumers and concentration (like camp, indeed). "
Since you are helping me here Mike, how long has hte internet been failing again?
"D) I was just now wondering, while waiting for yet another enrapturing rehashed attack on Ajit Pai, why you don't -- as ever, not even giving you hint of idea when you treat me so bad!"
Er, sorry Mike, could you please tell us how the algorithm that forces people to read your site work? Could you add an exception to this guy? He seems exhausted.
"E) And that treatment of me and other dissent, the censoring, I mean "hiding" to use your euphemism, is NOT helping you. -- So keep it up!"
And yet here you are, getting an answer after getting your obnoxious bullshit hidden by all the flagging from the community. Your brain works in mysterious ways.
The best advertisement experience I've had so far without any interaction was Troy Hunt's blog. He sets up a bar telling who is sponsoring the blog at the time that's loaded from the same address and adds a post when changing sponsorship. Clean and respectful.
TD is ok as well and giving the opportunity for visitors to turn off ads without any restriction is pretty bold, awesome and demonstrates a lot of care. I despise advertisements with all I have and that's why I've been supporting TD with the insider thing whenever I can because you guys offer a service I truly like and use daily. And you have an awesome community around here.
"Pai's providing everybody with a stellar example of what ethical leadership doesn't look like, in case you needed yet another demonstration in 2018. "
Business as usual in this administration. He looks tame when compared with Cheeto.
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Re: Ajit Pai has been bought by GOOGLE, largest lobbyist in DC.
Indeed, I gave you my funny vote!
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Re: Re:
Lack of due process anyone?
"To be clear, when you say “many years”, how many? 5-10-50-100-all of them?"
Hmmm, this is kind of hard to pinpoint. I mean, you have stuff like the All Writs Act before 1800 but you also have a lot of post-WWII absurdities. If I had to elect one point where surveillance went haywire would be after WWII with the Cold War. Pretty nasty things were done for national security after that. And certainly 9/11 increased things tenfold.
"Do we tell you what you should be demanding?"
Don't go down that slope, it's slippery. You have a pretty nasty history of imposing what you want on other countries. My country has its own share of problems and the people here should be demanding a lot of things that they aren't as well. But we are talking about the US. I'm not demanding anything but I think Americans should be up in arms (figuratively speaking or maybe not I don't know) against the erosion of their civil liberties and general rights. If you are American and you think it's all right then my condolences. But I've gone to the streets to protest for less than what's happening there.
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Re: Re:
2- Oh, silly me, the monopoly can do worse. Hence the need for regulations.
"Have you ever tried to put yourself into the place of an investor in (1)? Imagine it was your money, which would you do? I’ll answer for you - you would do everything legally possible to preserve your investment and reap as many rewards as possible."
I don't need to get billions of added profits if I'm already sitting on billions of profit. I'd certainly offer better service. Then again I'd probably not open up the company for stocks so my company would grow more slowly. But immediate profits wouldn't blind it to long-term benefits.
"xpecting a moral response to a business question?"
Nope. Which is why business must be regulated.
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Sure some of the 'solutions' proposed or implemented miss the point but really, it's a mess that will be hard to fix without some overreach. I'd start requiring 3rd-party trackers to be disabled by default unless the user explicitly allows, same domain tracking of brwosing habits allowed by default with options to disable would be a nice start. Some pages are so riddled with trackers and advertisement that if you don't use adblockers they become resource hogs. Currently ArsTechnica is one of the worst offenders, TD has fixed it but it was pretty bad a while back as well.
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Re:
It must be sad to be you. Read about Backpage, it should be enlightening.
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Two things about this comment that is used to exhaustion by the telcos:
1- Given the multitude of things that have already happened that got the exact same claim from you morons for years, decades, what miracle made you actually deploy broadband infrastructure then?
2- Detriment of users and communities? Can it get worse than it already is?
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Re:
I think Thiel saying he'd use his resources to bankrupt journalists and outfits could fit that definition but announcing you will fight for your rights a threat?
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Have I seriously read that?
I think any and all income obtained via fines, seized property and the likes should go to the Federal coffers to be distributed along with all the rest of the income. I mean, who in their goddamn sanity would have predicted that leaving this money locally would serve as incentive to more property seizing/applying more fines? (do I need to add the /s?)
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Re: "Would you look at that, seems I need to leave RIGHT NOW."
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I'm disappointed. The MAFIAA would sue for hudreds of gazillions of dollars. And they'd probably include the office printers as defendants.
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Re: Re:
Just a bit of a side note, when you talk about minority in terms of discrimination and equality you don't talk about the overall number of individuals in such position but rather the fact that that segment, however big it is, does not receive equal treatment. Women are a minority segment in our current patriarchal society. In Brazil black people and their half-breed with white people (is that the right word to define it in English?) are more than half of the population but they suffer from multiple injustices so they are a minority group. It's about representation and equality.
Just my 2 cents. I'm not criticizing your comment, just focusing this specific issue of definitions.
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Re: So what you're saying is...
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Re: @ "no desire for short term revenue that fucks over our community"
It has been failing for what, 15, 20 years? Help me here Mike, how long has your way of doing business been failing?
"C) In my opinion, the advertising-supported model, no matter how bombarding, won't, either. The internets may be fundamentally unworkable, even worse than broadcast because so many in the market. Key point, easily observable, is that any big content requires practically captive consumers and concentration (like camp, indeed). "
Since you are helping me here Mike, how long has hte internet been failing again?
"D) I was just now wondering, while waiting for yet another enrapturing rehashed attack on Ajit Pai, why you don't -- as ever, not even giving you hint of idea when you treat me so bad!"
Er, sorry Mike, could you please tell us how the algorithm that forces people to read your site work? Could you add an exception to this guy? He seems exhausted.
"E) And that treatment of me and other dissent, the censoring, I mean "hiding" to use your euphemism, is NOT helping you. -- So keep it up!"
And yet here you are, getting an answer after getting your obnoxious bullshit hidden by all the flagging from the community. Your brain works in mysterious ways.
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TD is ok as well and giving the opportunity for visitors to turn off ads without any restriction is pretty bold, awesome and demonstrates a lot of care. I despise advertisements with all I have and that's why I've been supporting TD with the insider thing whenever I can because you guys offer a service I truly like and use daily. And you have an awesome community around here.
So yeah, thanks and keep up the good work!
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Business as usual in this administration. He looks tame when compared with Cheeto.
Can I give my insightful vote for Wyden?
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North Korea approves it!
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