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> It is obvious that we need better legislation to deal with all the new possibilities that technologies have opened. How about applying common sense?
by de6u99er 5y ago
> It is obvious that we need better legislation to deal with all the new possibilities that technologies have opened.
How about applying common sense?
- oigursh 5y agoCommon sense is not so common.
- belter 5y ago“Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.” ― René Descartes, Discourse on Method
- bostik 5y agoCommon sense is the set of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. - Albert Einstein [0] 0: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/04/29/common-sense/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/04/29/common-sense/ yes, this CAN be attributed to him
- askmike 5y agoI think covid has shown that when the world is faced with a pandemic, not everyone agrees on what's common sense is in terms of how to respond as a society/government.
- sokoloff 5y agoThe difficulty of taking a government-sponsored and government-accessible substantial privacy risk (at a minimum) is something that some will find utterly unacceptable and others will think might be concerning or unacceptable in general but is righteously justified in this specific situation. The first group’s common sense says “don’t install”; the second group’s common sense says “install via subterfuge if necessary”.
- themusicgod1 5y agoOr how about people just use GNU instead of GAFAM crapware? Turn "silently installing things in the background" off by default and maintain user control over all their hardware. It's not like Richard Stallman hasn't been warning of this sort of thing happening for decades - the GNU project exists for a reason, and we should use their code for general purpose computing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25402024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25402024