More like he thinks that the only opinions allowed are those that praise his party and its leader, especially while it is in power..
So far, I haven't heard of Brendan Carr or any other Republicans censoring leftists. I'm sure that if Republicans were ever to do that, especially those in government, it would have made front page news. But as for Republican free speech being censored by leftists, well, that's a common occurrence.
$48m sounds like small potatoes compared to the $3.8b total of the deal. It's just a slap on the wrist. Until there's a real price to pay for attempting to consolidate into a monopoly, the monopolistic behavior will continue.
He has resigned. That suggests he is guilty. To hell with him!
Be careful, Senator Stevens from Alaska went through a similar thing in 2008. He was even convicted and lost his Senate seat before evidence of FBI corruption was uncovered and the verdict overturned. All I'm saying is: never trust an FBI agent.
We've seen where this leads in other industries. In some counties, they can't shut off the electricity to non-payers. In Michigan, they can't shut off the water to non-payers. Effectively, the utility becomes socialized. And unless you like the South African electricity model, or the Michigan water model, the quality of a socialized broadband is going to make the current US monopoly ISPs look like heaven.
The power is too tempting for these pro-surveillance Senators. They're okay with having investigators with near unlimited power, as long as the surveillors go after the proper targets. What they forget is that abuses are always going to occur. The only way to push back on this is through the accountability of getting a warrant, not by the whack-a-mole method of punishing the few abusers who get caught.
I remember the NFL getting sued a few years ago by its players, claiming that repeated blows sustained over their career caused some kind of traumatic brain injury. So they came to a one-time settlement payment, and nowadays the players sign a contract acknowledging that playing can cause brain injury. I forsee Facebook copying this model. This is the one-time payout, and in the future, worker employment contracts will warn them that they might get PTSD with no payout.
Back when the FCC's comment period on Net Neutrality got flooded with bogus comments, we rightfully decried the fraud. But now that Ohio's tip line is getting flooded with bogus tips, we're celebrating the flood of fraud tips? I don't get it. Very inconsistent.
Some may shrug this off as being of limited importance because there were only six violations
Others of us may shrug this off as standard operating procedure by the FBI. The FBI can be reasonably assumed to have violated law and internal procedures most of the time. At this point, it would be interesting news to learn that any of America's spy agencies actually DID follow procedure and get a warrant.
This is precisely why I dont buy "always connected" products. If it can't operate without first phoning home to someone else's command and control server, then I don't want it. They can't take my air-gapped devices away from me.
1.) Big pharmaceutical companies love the idea that they can patent a treatment, cure, or vaccine, and then get paid for it. As usual, follow the money. And they don't like competition.
2.) I think a lot of people are upset at the blatantly false numbers out of China, and are now uninterested in providing China with valuable information which China themselves were unwilling to provide. One might hope that next time, China will provide some real numbers so that the rest of the world will be more prepared too. It should be a two way street.
OR they are going to have a 3rd party get the data, and the 2 sell the data to the gov/state/anyone with enough money, and WONT tell how they ID'd you.
Sounds just like radar cameras. 3rd party manufacture, can't inspect the proprietary evidence, and no accountability. History repeating indeed.
And it's certainly easy to go through the composition of the board and find individuals who you disagree with on their views, but, to some extent, it wouldn't be a very good board if anyone agreed with everyone on the board.
But it probably wouldn't be a very good board if you go through the composition of the board and couldn't find ANYONE you agreed with.
While the whole situation is ridiculous, it's at least mildly amusing, considering how frequently clueless Trumpkins insist that Facebook censors "conservative" (by which they mean Trumpian) viewpoints.
One of the major distinctions isn't that big corporate tech companies will ONLY censor pro-Trump messages, it's that big corporate tech companies are considerably BIASED against pro-Trump messages. When a conservative argument gets censored, it's probably for a bogus reason. But if an anti-Trump message gets a slap on the wrist, you know that the Trump hater totally blew it.
I don't have a FB so I dunno, but I am curious. I am guessing there is a Trump account there as well
Although there are Facebook pages in his name, it doesn't appear that he uses it much, and it just puts out things like happy holidays official White House messages. In other words, no real content. The actual content and usage appears to be almost exclusive to twitter.
Yes, apparently someone has, and it happens all the time. Remember. the ones listed here in the recalls were NOT prevented. Moreover, it is my understanding that the FDA isn't actually doing any testing themselves. Pretty much they just leave the actual testing to private industry nowadays.
Or those workplace regulations, have your cheap-skate employer turned on the heat yet?
I'm certainly in favor of safe and proper working conditions. But this, too, did not improve the product.
In general, if you can think of a way that government could create a better product, with better service, greater bandwidth, lower price, ect., then rather than trying to get the government to mandate this better idea, I think that you should try to run a company and put those ideas into place. Or perhaps invest in a startup that adheres to those ideas. If the idea really is so good, then customers will clearly flock to your business.
Unless there isn't a free market because there's a monopoly in place...
Who made such a claim? Regulation is supposed to stop illegal activities and ensure common interfaces...
There are a lot of things that big government regulations promise that they will accomplish, but in reality they don't. And that's the point: the "claim" is an observation that government regulation is rarely a panacea. I'm asking you to be wary of signing a nationwide contract with a provider that won't let you fire them if they do a poor job.
Having big government regulation isn't going to cause the product to improve. Otherwise, systems like Amtrak would be the ultimate mode of transportation here in the U.S. Government regulation isn't going to encourage competition (remember, government regulation locks in incumbent corporations in many industries), nor will it reduce the cronyism or lobbying or campaign contributions.
Although eliminating monopoly power would encourage competition, price wars, and an improvement in service.
A subsidiary of the Corp that they are trying to FIX, Gets the Bid and does nothing, and hands the money to the Org corp..then goes bust/runs away.
I hear that other countries have a solution for this, such as Germany with roadway construction: the contractor puts up a bond. If the job is completed correctly and the road holds up for 30 years as agreed, then the bond pays out. But if it isn't done correctly, then the cost to fix the mistake comes out of the bond. You can run away from the problem, but then you leave your money behind.
If throwing more money at a problem was a viable solution, the United States would lead the world in almost every imaginable way. Unfortunately, spending other people's money is the only thing politicians can agree upon. They don't have the guts to get to the real solution: end the telecom monopolies.
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So far, I haven't heard of Brendan Carr or any other Republicans censoring leftists. I'm sure that if Republicans were ever to do that, especially those in government, it would have made front page news. But as for Republican free speech being censored by leftists, well, that's a common occurrence.
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Small Potatoes
$48m sounds like small potatoes compared to the $3.8b total of the deal. It's just a slap on the wrist. Until there's a real price to pay for attempting to consolidate into a monopoly, the monopolistic behavior will continue.
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Re: Annnnnnd, he's gone!
Be careful, Senator Stevens from Alaska went through a similar thing in 2008. He was even convicted and lost his Senate seat before evidence of FBI corruption was uncovered and the verdict overturned. All I'm saying is: never trust an FBI agent.
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Socialization
We've seen where this leads in other industries. In some counties, they can't shut off the electricity to non-payers. In Michigan, they can't shut off the water to non-payers. Effectively, the utility becomes socialized. And unless you like the South African electricity model, or the Michigan water model, the quality of a socialized broadband is going to make the current US monopoly ISPs look like heaven.
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Too Tempting
The power is too tempting for these pro-surveillance Senators. They're okay with having investigators with near unlimited power, as long as the surveillors go after the proper targets. What they forget is that abuses are always going to occur. The only way to push back on this is through the accountability of getting a warrant, not by the whack-a-mole method of punishing the few abusers who get caught.
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Football Model
I remember the NFL getting sued a few years ago by its players, claiming that repeated blows sustained over their career caused some kind of traumatic brain injury. So they came to a one-time settlement payment, and nowadays the players sign a contract acknowledging that playing can cause brain injury. I forsee Facebook copying this model. This is the one-time payout, and in the future, worker employment contracts will warn them that they might get PTSD with no payout.
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Re: Re: Net Neutrality vs Ohio Portal
Oh, the ends justify the means. I get it now. So as long as we dont like the online form, spamming fraud inputs is okay. Gotcha.
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Net Neutrality vs Ohio Portal
Back when the FCC's comment period on Net Neutrality got flooded with bogus comments, we rightfully decried the fraud. But now that Ohio's tip line is getting flooded with bogus tips, we're celebrating the flood of fraud tips? I don't get it. Very inconsistent.
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Shrug
Others of us may shrug this off as standard operating procedure by the FBI. The FBI can be reasonably assumed to have violated law and internal procedures most of the time. At this point, it would be interesting news to learn that any of America's spy agencies actually DID follow procedure and get a warrant.
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Don't Phone Home
This is precisely why I dont buy "always connected" products. If it can't operate without first phoning home to someone else's command and control server, then I don't want it. They can't take my air-gapped devices away from me.
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Reasons
1.) Big pharmaceutical companies love the idea that they can patent a treatment, cure, or vaccine, and then get paid for it. As usual, follow the money. And they don't like competition.
2.) I think a lot of people are upset at the blatantly false numbers out of China, and are now uninterested in providing China with valuable information which China themselves were unwilling to provide. One might hope that next time, China will provide some real numbers so that the rest of the world will be more prepared too. It should be a two way street.
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Re: Anopther lovly history
Sounds just like radar cameras. 3rd party manufacture, can't inspect the proprietary evidence, and no accountability. History repeating indeed.
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No Confidence
But it probably wouldn't be a very good board if you go through the composition of the board and couldn't find ANYONE you agreed with.
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Can't Appear Too Obvious
One of the major distinctions isn't that big corporate tech companies will ONLY censor pro-Trump messages, it's that big corporate tech companies are considerably BIASED against pro-Trump messages. When a conservative argument gets censored, it's probably for a bogus reason. But if an anti-Trump message gets a slap on the wrist, you know that the Trump hater totally blew it.
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Re:
Although there are Facebook pages in his name, it doesn't appear that he uses it much, and it just puts out things like happy holidays official White House messages. In other words, no real content. The actual content and usage appears to be almost exclusive to twitter.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: No Government Success
https://www.foodsafety.gov/recalls-and-outbreaks
Yes, apparently someone has, and it happens all the time. Remember. the ones listed here in the recalls were NOT prevented. Moreover, it is my understanding that the FDA isn't actually doing any testing themselves. Pretty much they just leave the actual testing to private industry nowadays.
I'm certainly in favor of safe and proper working conditions. But this, too, did not improve the product.
In general, if you can think of a way that government could create a better product, with better service, greater bandwidth, lower price, ect., then rather than trying to get the government to mandate this better idea, I think that you should try to run a company and put those ideas into place. Or perhaps invest in a startup that adheres to those ideas. If the idea really is so good, then customers will clearly flock to your business.
Unless there isn't a free market because there's a monopoly in place...
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Re: Re: No Government Success
There are a lot of things that big government regulations promise that they will accomplish, but in reality they don't. And that's the point: the "claim" is an observation that government regulation is rarely a panacea. I'm asking you to be wary of signing a nationwide contract with a provider that won't let you fire them if they do a poor job.
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No Government Success
Having big government regulation isn't going to cause the product to improve. Otherwise, systems like Amtrak would be the ultimate mode of transportation here in the U.S. Government regulation isn't going to encourage competition (remember, government regulation locks in incumbent corporations in many industries), nor will it reduce the cronyism or lobbying or campaign contributions.
Although eliminating monopoly power would encourage competition, price wars, and an improvement in service.
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Re: The only problem
I hear that other countries have a solution for this, such as Germany with roadway construction: the contractor puts up a bond. If the job is completed correctly and the road holds up for 30 years as agreed, then the bond pays out. But if it isn't done correctly, then the cost to fix the mistake comes out of the bond. You can run away from the problem, but then you leave your money behind.
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Money Flush
If throwing more money at a problem was a viable solution, the United States would lead the world in almost every imaginable way. Unfortunately, spending other people's money is the only thing politicians can agree upon. They don't have the guts to get to the real solution: end the telecom monopolies.
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