Agreed, thegovernment is in the wrong forforcing the ISP to block access to a web site.However, the IDP blocked access not only to the site it was forced to block, but to two other sites as well. Two wrongs don't make a right, and three wrongs don't either.
I can see some of the major universities complaining about this. After all, it will be very hard for the university's technology transfer office to monetize all these new discoveries if the information is already publicly available.
> Net Neutrality whether good or bad was beyond the scope of the FCC
How is regulating a communications medium somehow beyond the scope of the government department set up specifically to regulate communications systems?
As for Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc they are NOT carriers. They don't connect you to another location, they merely take information you send them, and display it on their website. Any sort of regulation on what they can, cannot, or must include on their site is going to be running face first into the first amendment.
Please define "being an asshole" in words that won't require spending a small fortune on legal fees to have a court decide what does and does not fit your definition.
People are vastly oversimplifying things is they think that the only reason people need the data is to spy on you.
Yes, there are reasons for collecting data that do benefit the consumer. The problem is that so many companies have abused data collection so badly that they have completely poisoned the well. The default assumption of most people is that data collection is done for the benefit of the company, regardless of the cost to the consumer. It's going to be a very, very long time before the corporate culture is trusted enough for this assumption to change.
It's not prices that need to be regulated, but how those prices are advertised. An ad saying the hotel room costs $100 per night should mean your bill in the morning is $100, not $100+$fee+$fee+$fee+$fee.
It's not too simple for them to understand. It's just that it would deny them what they want most, all your data.
Another possibility would be mandating that the data belongs to the owner of the system that collected it, but that would simply result in never being able to buy an autonomous vehicle, only lease one. A possible fix to that would be mandating that data collected during the period of any lease belongs to the lessee, not the owner, and that no contract may require a transfer of that data. It would also be nice if the law mandated that the owner of the data shall be able to access said data without needing outside help, and that the owner of said data may erase any or all data except for possibly a log entry indicating the date and time of the data erasure.
While we're dreaming, why don't we ask for a justice system instead of a legal system, A government that's fair to everyone, not just those in power, and world peace. They're all about equally likely.
So, you think you have nothing to fear? Current facial recognition makes a mistake about once in every ten times it tries to identify a face. How exactly do you plan to prove you're not a wanted felon when A) the DHS drones are told to always trust the computer, and B) those same drobnes will assume that anything you say is a lie.
That doesn't work verry well for me. I happen to share a first and last name with a couple of moderatly famous people. The result is that a Google search for my name pulls up at least ten pages of false leads before you find me.
Between facial recognition and pre-crime prediction based on past history, there would probably be grounds to arrest a large percentage of the United States government.
To Verizon, asking people what they want is akin to stating that the customers know better than Verizon executives about running a telecommunications company. They may have a point there.
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How is regulating a communications medium somehow beyond the scope of the government department set up specifically to regulate communications systems?
As for Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc they are NOT carriers. They don't connect you to another location, they merely take information you send them, and display it on their website. Any sort of regulation on what they can, cannot, or must include on their site is going to be running face first into the first amendment.
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Yes, there are reasons for collecting data that do benefit the consumer. The problem is that so many companies have abused data collection so badly that they have completely poisoned the well. The default assumption of most people is that data collection is done for the benefit of the company, regardless of the cost to the consumer. It's going to be a very, very long time before the corporate culture is trusted enough for this assumption to change.
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Another possibility would be mandating that the data belongs to the owner of the system that collected it, but that would simply result in never being able to buy an autonomous vehicle, only lease one. A possible fix to that would be mandating that data collected during the period of any lease belongs to the lessee, not the owner, and that no contract may require a transfer of that data.
It would also be nice if the law mandated that the owner of the data shall be able to access said data without needing outside help, and that the owner of said data may erase any or all data except for possibly a log entry indicating the date and time of the data erasure.
While we're dreaming, why don't we ask for a justice system instead of a legal system, A government that's fair to everyone, not just those in power, and world peace. They're all about equally likely.
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I can take my own material, clearly marked with a CC license and upload it to a site. How is the site operator supposed to know the difference?
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That sounds about right for the recording industry.
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If the ruling stands, then this song should result in a massive multi-way lawsuit.
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They may have a point there.
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