The government, on the other hand, will face no charges and nobody is gonna be punished for grossly mishandling documents and leaving them open to the public before review.
Good thing there are checks and balances that prevent further damage. The prick (Trump) acts as if he is the almighty king who should have all his wishes granted and have everybody boy before him. It's a very sad time for the US.
Usage caps, crappy service and other abuses will slowly drive the deployment of workarounds such as municipal broadband. They may enjoy some time of dominance and profits through this behavior but it will come back to bite them. Of course there's the fact that the US will have to live with last century broadband a while longer so the faster Americans wake up and start bashing them and voting their puppets out the faster they will get better stuff. One has to wonder how much is enough to fire up people. I'd guess we need much more abuses.
So now we place both censorship and the ability to choose who are the chosen that get the benefit of a new start at the hands of the gods. I mean, judges. Because it would never be abused, of course.
It would be good to have plenty of alternatives if everybody had equal access to everything and the quality of service determined winners and losers. I'm off to get some unicorn hair and fairy powder to make my potion.
Here, have this list of legal alternatives. The ones that aren't ridiculously overpriced by themselves are bundled with services such as cable TV. The ones that are cheaper (but not necessarily reasonably priced) and not bundled require installation of borderline malware things on your computer and selling your soul to Lucifer and making love with a polar bear. Or they are blocked in your region.
"But there's a contingent of ***cocksure, hardline free marketeer types*** who believe government can absolutely never accomplish anything good, making the idea that better broadband needs to be a combined effort between private industry and government a tough pill to swallow. "
Seems some of this contingent landed in TD. Considering how they tend to ignore facts that go counter to their beliefs, they exist everywhere, not only in the broadband issues and their loudness (if not numbers) is increasing, we can expect some years of stagnation and regress in many areas.
Someone does something awful in a small village that gets public, said person gets his/her punishment and lives on normally. After a few decades that knowledge is still held by part of the people but immigrants and some kids don't know what happened. They then ask the older ones about that first someone and are told the story about the awful thing that person did so the knowledge keeps being relived somehow.
The question: how is this different from searching for a name on the internet? Are we going to hit people on the head to make them forget some stupid things someone did just because it might soil their reputation?
There right to be forgotten laws are trying to solve a more fundamental social/human issue. We tend not to believe people can change and redeem themselves. We tend to attach guilt for life and punish them for life. See how people who spent some time in jail simply can't get decent jobs after they are reinserted into social life. People make mistakes and get punished for them. We should only punish them again if they make other mistakes. Maybe then you won't need to erase your past but keep it there as a reminder of how you improved.
Regulation and democracy are not mutually exclusive. It's actually the opposite. We democratically elect people to represent us into regulating aspects of collective life.
And your comment on monopolies is pretty naive, almost toddler-like. Monopoly is the natural course of capitalism as the game with the same name tries to show but there are areas like some infra-structure (which includes telecommunications) that are natural monopolies due to the extremely high entry barrier (high capital expenditures to build the network). That's where some regulations to prevent abusive behavior that rises from monopolies are imposed by said representatives to the best interests of the citizenry.
But you have been told it already and like a petulant child you keep sticking your fingers in your years and yelling "LALALA CAN'T HEAR YOU FROM THE TOP OF MY MARVELOUS KNOWLEDGE!".
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Yeah, great way to stop piracy.
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*As sad as it may sound, I think deaths are worth less than money lost nowadays.
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It would be good security hygiene to build different networks but it shouldn't be critical.
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Just smile and sue... Erm, wave.
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It's that "feel good" moment every psychopath has and promptly forgets about it.
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Ouch.
The worst enemy of any artistic event would be irrelevance. Cannes has chosen to follow the path towards irrelevance.
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Seems some of this contingent landed in TD. Considering how they tend to ignore facts that go counter to their beliefs, they exist everywhere, not only in the broadband issues and their loudness (if not numbers) is increasing, we can expect some years of stagnation and regress in many areas.
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Someone does something awful in a small village that gets public, said person gets his/her punishment and lives on normally. After a few decades that knowledge is still held by part of the people but immigrants and some kids don't know what happened. They then ask the older ones about that first someone and are told the story about the awful thing that person did so the knowledge keeps being relived somehow.
The question: how is this different from searching for a name on the internet? Are we going to hit people on the head to make them forget some stupid things someone did just because it might soil their reputation?
There right to be forgotten laws are trying to solve a more fundamental social/human issue. We tend not to believe people can change and redeem themselves. We tend to attach guilt for life and punish them for life. See how people who spent some time in jail simply can't get decent jobs after they are reinserted into social life. People make mistakes and get punished for them. We should only punish them again if they make other mistakes. Maybe then you won't need to erase your past but keep it there as a reminder of how you improved.
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And your comment on monopolies is pretty naive, almost toddler-like. Monopoly is the natural course of capitalism as the game with the same name tries to show but there are areas like some infra-structure (which includes telecommunications) that are natural monopolies due to the extremely high entry barrier (high capital expenditures to build the network). That's where some regulations to prevent abusive behavior that rises from monopolies are imposed by said representatives to the best interests of the citizenry.
But you have been told it already and like a petulant child you keep sticking your fingers in your years and yelling "LALALA CAN'T HEAR YOU FROM THE TOP OF MY MARVELOUS KNOWLEDGE!".
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