With all of that expenditure, wouldn't it be easier for them to just go along with whatever was being lobbied against? Sure, it may reduce their profits slightly, but so does all that lobbying.
What would be an example of a social media service removing a user's posting (or even account) for bad faith reasons? And why would this not also be protected by the 1st Amendment?
"The company said the commission’s own policies should have excluded the “obsolete” internet plans."
If they excluded all obsolete internet plans, there wouldn't have been enough to write a report about.
"a car Stanley C. Lowicki owned was captured by a traffic camera disobeying a red light" can be (mis)read as saying the camera disobeyed the red light and captured the car.
Even knowing nothing about the previous incident, why didn't someone think, upon "inventing" a wonderful new advertising method, that perhaps the reason it hadn't been done before was because.... it was illegal?
Call this new competitor "Sprint" or "T-Mobile". It'd save so much time and money! Or even better, just forget about merging and splitting again, and call the whole thing off.
The movies and their take on "pirate life" were at least partly based on a cancelled Monkey Island movie, based on the game series, which was inspired by... Disney's ride.
Even the most relevant ad is still an ad.
If it gets past my adblocker, any effect on my likelihood of buying whatever is going to be in the "less likely" direction.
Instead of blocking traffic *to* the court's site, the second image shows blocking of the *ISP's* site *for users from the court*. And I think their "you told us we need to block stuff, so we are now blocking stuff" message is illustrating the problem, rather than really contributing to it.
"was that servers from Super Micro had hidden chips that somehow were then used by Apple and Amazon" This reads like Apple/Amazon were using the hidden chips, rather than the servers, which would be a different story, I feel.
Apart from these customer-unfriendly nickel-and-diming techniques, by not charging $60+ for the base game, they'd increase sales, reduce piracy, increase customer satisfaction, and end up with more profit.
How about they make a deal: That government stops interfering with the normal business of free markets... On the condition that said "free" markets stop interfering with the normal business of government.
A common theme in cyberpunk and other science fiction runs along the lines that huge corporations rule the world, either literally or effectively. Nations ceased to exist, or have become mostly meaningless and powerless. This TPP seems like a step in that direction.
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With all of that expenditure, wouldn't it be easier for them to just go along with whatever was being lobbied against? Sure, it may reduce their profits slightly, but so does all that lobbying.
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What would be an example of a social media service removing a user's posting (or even account) for bad faith reasons? And why would this not also be protected by the 1st Amendment?
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"Avast users have their web activity harvested by the company's browser extensions"
"no privacy scandal here."
Actions speak louder than words.
And with the prevalence of HTTPS these days, this goes far beyond what ISPs could spy on.
Obsolete
"The company said the commission’s own policies should have excluded the “obsolete” internet plans."
If they excluded all obsolete internet plans, there wouldn't have been enough to write a report about.
For an even more "sentient lights/cars" take...
"a car Stanley C. Lowicki owned was captured by a traffic camera disobeying a red light" can be (mis)read as saying the camera disobeyed the red light and captured the car.
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Even knowing nothing about the previous incident, why didn't someone think, upon "inventing" a wonderful new advertising method, that perhaps the reason it hadn't been done before was because.... it was illegal?
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So, "If you don't let us do stuff you don't want, we'll start doing something you really don't want!" ?
Oops
A suggestion
Call this new competitor "Sprint" or "T-Mobile". It'd save so much time and money! Or even better, just forget about merging and splitting again, and call the whole thing off.
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The movies and their take on "pirate life" were at least partly based on a cancelled Monkey Island movie, based on the game series, which was inspired by... Disney's ride.
Typo
"don't add any ammunition to the giant lawsuit against the FTC" I think you mean "FCC" there.
Re: Doesn't matter to me.
Even the most relevant ad is still an ad.
If it gets past my adblocker, any effect on my likelihood of buying whatever is going to be in the "less likely" direction.
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But as it is so vague and meaningless, why not sign it? Because they disagree with some of those measures?
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This reads like Apple/Amazon were using the hidden chips, rather than the servers, which would be a different story, I feel.
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Apart from these customer-unfriendly nickel-and-diming techniques, by not charging $60+ for the base game, they'd increase sales, reduce piracy, increase customer satisfaction, and end up with more profit.
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Maybe not by being so evil, but by also taking the easy way out...
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That government stops interfering with the normal business of free markets... On the condition that said "free" markets stop interfering with the normal business of government.
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This TPP seems like a step in that direction.
Re: Holy 1986, Batman!
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