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1) free software is viable. The alternatives to practically everything exist technologically. 2) can you provide an example of a 'slippery slope' that did not
by elif 5y ago
1) free software is viable. The alternatives to practically everything exist technologically.
2) can you provide an example of a 'slippery slope' that did not come to fruition? Rhetorical devices and hyperbole are exactly how you make abstract technical concerns feel real to an average 65 year old congressperson
- blitzar 5y ago> can you provide an example of a 'slippery slope' that did not come to fruition Letting a muslim, specifically Barack Obama, become president was the first stop on the slippery slope to Sharia Law in the USA. Many of the congress people you mention were in agreement. Last I checked, some part of the above did not happen.
- good8675309 5y agoPretty sure he's talking about a "'slippery slope' that did not come to fruition" in the context of technology. Not politics. Let's stay on topic here.
- blitzar 5y ago> Rhetorical devices and hyperbole ... feel real to an average 65 year old congressperson Last I checked, congressperson is a person in congress, the profession of which is politics... I felt that covered the rhetoric and hyperbole well but I can take the criticism. What I may have miscalculated is that there will be some who feel that my statment is something that is / has occured and not just rhetoric and hyperbole and then that is a slippery slope I do not want to journey along.
- WarOnPrivacy 5y agoAll this stretching, you must be warmed up by now. As long as we're blending meanings, I offer that you're getting undervotes instead of downvotes.
- blitzar 5y agoAnd a lot of them at that
- UnpossibleJim 5y agoThis is farcical, right?
- nextaccountic 5y agoThe reason this is not really a slippery slope is that Obama isn't Muslim. He's actually a Christian. Since the first part isn't true there is no "slope", so to speak.
- blitzar 5y agoThis guy gets it! Hyperbole is the first ingredient in the recipie, you must stoke fear. I would argue that the CSAM scanning is not 'scanning everything on your phone' and far more limited in scope and capability that the open on device ML photo scanning that has been present and uncontested for many years now. Add in all the indexing that takes place to create the handy search function, now that is scanning your entire device. Faces, places, selfies, beaches, sport, babies, aeroplanes, swimming, documents etc. all categorised neatly, added to the metadata and synced with the server for you. The idea that this has 'opened the door' is as laughable as my example, the garage door got stuck wide open years ago. First the search indexing, then the smart indexing identifying people and places and pets. Funnily enough there were no banners flying, slippery slopes or people smashing their 'iSpy' devices when search became a feature.