Sadly, as a lifelong capitol L Liberal American Citizen, I trust neither the government of the U.S. or ANY (worldwide) private industry actually capable of implementing contract tracing to ACTUALLY allow itself be subject to rigorous oversight and laws preventing the abuse of contact tracing.
We can't even get police departments to condemn the officers that crack 80 year old mens skulls for no reason at all, nor the ones that walk past the victim like nothing happened without public outcry.
And far too often, we cant get them to decry it even in the face of massive public outcry, they just lie in the face of existing video evidence and say the man tripped.
Is it possible to get some international body to do contract tracing and not share the information with the US government or US law enforcement?
Because seriously, anything that involves the US government or US law enforcement is going to end up being a bloodbath.
The proof is their "handling" of all of the peacful protests against police violence eventually ending up with the police USING violence proves that the only tool the authorities care to even try to use is violence.
Cops kneel with anti-violence protesters at noon and then kettle them at 8pm to prevent them from lawfully dissipating before curfew at 9pm.
The problem here is that the spray painted orange idiot has no clue whatsoever of what he is doing, let alone what section 230 means.
Anything that prevents him from getting his way is bad, anything that contradicts his lies is "fake news" and anyone that questions his totally moronic and constantly changing narrative is a bad person/reporter.
If all of that is not clue enough that he needs to be removed from office ASAP, and by voting if nothing sooner, then you need help as much as he does.
>One of the core problems here is that Wall Street isn't satisfied with ISPs simply doing a good job and making a reasonable profit. The relentless, myopic need for quarterly improvements has companies like AT&T and Verizon
It's not just AT&T and Verizon, all companies are suffering from stockholders demands for stock prices to rise every single quarter. The perfect example of the tail wagging the dog has caused nearly immeasurable damage to US manufacturing and workers.
First you cheapen the product to raise profits and stock price, then you have to drop the price of the goods, then you have to stop providing health insurance, raises, retirement packages, Once you have squeezed all you can out of the workforce, you outsource to a country with cheaper labor rates, after THAT quarter, you start selling off assets until there is nothing left.
So many companies have gone down that drain. And yet privately held corporations like Koch industries are wildly profitable and extending their reach into new markets every day.
Your honor I suggest we proceed straight to dickscovery, I would like to submit as evidence 15 pictures of the plaintiffs penis from my sources, anonymised for their pleasure but with date and time stamps intact.
A simple subpoena to his (3rd party, no expectation of privacy) phone provider will confirm his sending these pictures at the dates and times indicated.
Is it any wonder that millions distrust the Microsoft store embedded in windows 10?
ProTip for Microsoft; When you are trying to get people to trust you with thier digital lives, it helps a great deal if you do not RIP THEM OFF at every opportunity.
Who though it was a good idea for the OPM's security clearance database to be accessible from the entire, world wide internet and has that person been fired yet??
Even MORE to the point, what other databases and control systems are internet connected that plainly should not be?
Well Senator Feinstein, if it's NOT surveillance then you won't mind making all YOUR metadata freely available to the public will you?
As I am certain that you know that metadata collection is entirely as bad as surveillance I am certain that you will not take this step, proving that you are lying.
Please, Let me fix that headine for you...
"Texas Pols PRETENDING TO BE Shocked To Learn Their Bill Let Gas Companies Off The Hook For Climate Change Preparedness"
They were WELL paid to both create that loophole and feign that "surprise".
The answer has already been found.
The last time this happened google just stopped linking to the companies.
This SHOULD be the standard response.
Sadly,
Sadly, as a lifelong capitol L Liberal American Citizen, I trust neither the government of the U.S. or ANY (worldwide) private industry actually capable of implementing contract tracing to ACTUALLY allow itself be subject to rigorous oversight and laws preventing the abuse of contact tracing.
We can't even get police departments to condemn the officers that crack 80 year old mens skulls for no reason at all, nor the ones that walk past the victim like nothing happened without public outcry.
And far too often, we cant get them to decry it even in the face of massive public outcry, they just lie in the face of existing video evidence and say the man tripped.
Is it possible to get some international body to do contract tracing and not share the information with the US government or US law enforcement?
Because seriously, anything that involves the US government or US law enforcement is going to end up being a bloodbath.
The proof is their "handling" of all of the peacful protests against police violence eventually ending up with the police USING violence proves that the only tool the authorities care to even try to use is violence.
Cops kneel with anti-violence protesters at noon and then kettle them at 8pm to prevent them from lawfully dissipating before curfew at 9pm.
When does this stop being acceptable?
The problem here is that the spray paint orange idiot..
The problem here is that the spray painted orange idiot has no clue whatsoever of what he is doing, let alone what section 230 means.
Anything that prevents him from getting his way is bad, anything that contradicts his lies is "fake news" and anyone that questions his totally moronic and constantly changing narrative is a bad person/reporter.
If all of that is not clue enough that he needs to be removed from office ASAP, and by voting if nothing sooner, then you need help as much as he does.
The core problem affects all publicly traded companies
>One of the core problems here is that Wall Street isn't satisfied with ISPs simply doing a good job and making a reasonable profit. The relentless, myopic need for quarterly improvements has companies like AT&T and Verizon
It's not just AT&T and Verizon, all companies are suffering from stockholders demands for stock prices to rise every single quarter.
The perfect example of the tail wagging the dog has caused nearly immeasurable damage to US manufacturing and workers.
First you cheapen the product to raise profits and stock price, then you have to drop the price of the goods, then you have to stop providing health insurance, raises, retirement packages, Once you have squeezed all you can out of the workforce, you outsource to a country with cheaper labor rates, after THAT quarter, you start selling off assets until there is nothing left.
So many companies have gone down that drain. And yet privately held corporations like Koch industries are wildly profitable and extending their reach into new markets every day.
Corporate Sovereignty
There's a construct that needs to be killed with prejudice.
Nothing good can come from allowing a corporation to sue/challenge a sovereign government's policies and laws because it might cost them money.
What SHOULD happen...
Your honor I suggest we proceed straight to dickscovery, I would like to submit as evidence 15 pictures of the plaintiffs penis from my sources, anonymised for their pleasure but with date and time stamps intact.
A simple subpoena to his (3rd party, no expectation of privacy) phone provider will confirm his sending these pictures at the dates and times indicated.
What a surprise.
Is it any wonder that millions distrust the Microsoft store embedded in windows 10?
ProTip for Microsoft;
When you are trying to get people to trust you with thier digital lives, it helps a great deal if you do not RIP THEM OFF at every opportunity.
86%!? Wow, that's great the only problem is...
Why was the database connected to the internet in the first place?
Even MORE to the point, what other databases and control systems are internet connected that plainly should not be?
They/You are missing part of the headline...
With their advertisers.
I am aghast.
Does the US government not have an IT department?
Re: science fiction
Ok, if it's not surveillance then
As I am certain that you know that metadata collection is entirely as bad as surveillance I am certain that you will not take this step, proving that you are lying.
Re: You got to be kidding
There goes any credibility you had.
Try actually knowing what you are talking about one in a while.
Or to put it another way,
Those who can, Do.
Those who can't, Sue.
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