Hoarding zero-day exploits and asking for backdoors for "lawful interception" is ALSO undermining the security of the country and all the infrastructure and inhabitants. But still secret services and police forces do it.
The trouble is, as we're seeing right now, is that rampaging capitalism tends to destroy free markets. By either cornering them, or by influencing lawmakers (or in this case, the government in the form of the FCC chairman) to keep out or destroy competition.
So basically, a free market is not something that just magically happens. It's something that needs curation.
And the move to gut "net neutrality" is of course and anti-free-market one; there are some telcos that will profit, and all the content-providers and the public will loose.
> You're all fighting a losing battle against life's winners,
I now. As a member of the public, with no strong lobby, I'm a constant victim of even more and newer prohibitions robbing my liberties, enacted by lawmakers to ensure their sponsors and lobbyist their rents.
*I suggest not. I think Apple simply needs to state that since you're accessing regionally licensed content, that if you leave the region, you won't have access to the content until you return to the region.*
No, they simply must allow you to access the content you have "bought" is accessible to you no matter where in the world you are.
Similarly, since the GDPR, I am encountering more and more sites that maintain a complete block of visitors from the EU
Actually, make this Europe. The GDPR is not valid in Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and most of the Balkans; but those idiots just blocked all the IP ranges that were distributed by RIPE.
"Freedom Fries"? These things that come from the country formerly known as Belgium?
Where they are called "pomme frite" or "patate frit", by the way. And that's what most people in Europe call them. Except the British, they call them "chips" (note: not "french chips").
Nope. It's being upset that your blueray-player can't play the latest bluerays, because they've changed the video codec and the manufacturer of your blueray player didn't produce the necessary firmware-upgrade for your player.
Contrast this to the situation with true open-source Linux distributions, that run on ANY PC that was manufactured in the last 20 years (some exceptions may apply: only a few distributions are still available for 32bit systems. But these ALSO feature the newest software).
In my opinion the manufacturers of the phones are to blame. They should support the newest Android on their phones for 10 years at least. Why the manufacturers? Because they are the ones that modify the basic Android to the point you have to have a special Android-distribution for their specific phone.
*So, you support net neutrality because a private company shouldn’t be able to throttle internet traffic. But a private company should be allowed to throttle ideas of certain groups they don't like. *
You're confusing **access to the internet** with **people running their own services**.
That's been going on for decades. According to the USPTO, "algorithm" in a patent is something totally different than what it means in mathematics or computer science; and thus patentable. It's Indiana Pi-legislation all over.
If anyone could complain about a (rightwing) conspiracy against himself, it's of course Bill Clinton. He was impeached because, ultimately, of lying about a blowjob. The question is who would start an investigation about a blowjob in the first place? Yep, puritan pukes.
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Hoarding zero-day exploits and asking for backdoors for "lawful interception" is ALSO undermining the security of the country and all the infrastructure and inhabitants. But still secret services and police forces do it.
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Parent problem
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capitalism is not sustainable
So basically, a free market is not something that just magically happens. It's something that needs curation.
And the move to gut "net neutrality" is of course and anti-free-market one; there are some telcos that will profit, and all the content-providers and the public will loose.
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I now. As a member of the public, with no strong lobby, I'm a constant victim of even more and newer prohibitions robbing my liberties, enacted by lawmakers to ensure their sponsors and lobbyist their rents.
Liberty always looses against greed.
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Re: region licenses
No, they simply must allow you to access the content you have "bought" is accessible to you no matter where in the world you are.
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Similarly, since the GDPR, I am encountering more and more sites that maintain a complete block of visitors from the EU Actually, make this Europe. The GDPR is not valid in Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and most of the Balkans; but those idiots just blocked all the IP ranges that were distributed by RIPE.
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Where they are called "pomme frite" or "patate frit", by the way. And that's what most people in Europe call them. Except the British, they call them "chips" (note: not "french chips").
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I expect the phone manufacturers to support modern operating systems on their old phones.
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After-market distribution
Even LineageOS only supports a small subset of rather contemporary phones.
There are separate forks of LineageOS to support older phones:
https://legacyxperia.github.io/
https://www.unlegacy-android.org/projects/unlegacy-android/wik i
Contrast this to the situation with true open-source Linux distributions, that run on ANY PC that was manufactured in the last 20 years (some exceptions may apply: only a few distributions are still available for 32bit systems. But these ALSO feature the newest software).
In my opinion the manufacturers of the phones are to blame. They should support the newest Android on their phones for 10 years at least. Why the manufacturers? Because they are the ones that modify the basic Android to the point you have to have a special Android-distribution for their specific phone.
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Re: Expanding the mandate much?
There, I corrected it. Because not all the world features these puritan pukes fucking with free speech.
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Re: Net neutrality hypocracy
You're confusing **access to the internet** with **people running their own services**.
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It exists. It's called "your own server".
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You think that's liberal? It's not, it's actually an appeal to authority.
> #metoo is a great example of censorship against conservatives
It's not that either. Its catering to one's own peer-group, it's victim-olympics. It's telling your own people how badly suppressed you are.
Besides, what you are doing here, by complaining how conservatives are censored IS EXACTLY THE SAME. Victim-olympics.
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