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by autoexec 2mo ago
Forcing people to scan a QR code to get a price and pay is a great way to charge people different prices based on whatever data you have on them. Everybody is just taking photos never knowing what the last person to take a photo was asked t
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by autoexec 2mo ago
Exactly. Although even if you can avoid the words they don't understand or were told to be frightened of you'd still have the problem of getting them to vote, even for policies they think would be good for them.
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by autoexec 2mo ago
Universal healthcare would cut down on the paperwork needed and provide opportunities to simplify it
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If it's going to cost us tax dollars I'd rather see our own government doing the work of preservation and making those works accessible to the public.
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by autoexec 2mo ago
> This is how you get vigilante justice. It is only held back by people believing that the state will treat them fairly in a court. That's the threat at least, but do the majority actually feel that way today? Given how frequently o
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by autoexec 2mo ago
> I'm of the opinion that, if your solution requires perpetual majority control of legislative, executive, and judicial branches, your solution is in fact a campaign slogan. At this point it says more about the state of our democrac
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by autoexec 2mo ago
The money doesn't vanish. It stays in the hands of people. People who would spend it on other things, feeding it into the wider economy instead of the pockets of a small number of corporations. There's zero reason to think this wo
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by autoexec 2mo ago
> . Half the point of school is finding out your weaknesses and learning to overcome them Learning to use a computer as a means to overcome a disability that makes handwriting painful or difficult or illegible sounds like it'd quali
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by autoexec 2mo ago
Incorporation was a special privilege the government granted, not a right, so anyone who wanted to form a corporation had to convince the government to pass a law just for them allowing them to do it. Saying "I want to make as much mon
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by autoexec 2mo ago
In fairness that was a survey you agreed to take. You don't usually get to dictate the format or the questions.
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by autoexec 2mo ago
They (and anyone else) can access that information if they know/guess/brute force the pin. It can also be accessed it by pulling it out of SGX either through the use of an exploit (There are many many documented examples of succes
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by autoexec 2mo ago
> Nobody is talking about cops or flock cameras taking upskirt photos. Just as we have the ability to pass laws prohibiting that specific harmful use of cameras while in public spaces, we have the ability to do something about the harmfu
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by autoexec 2mo ago
> People either have privacy in public or they do not Thankfully, the law isn't as overly simplistic and black and white as that. It'd be very stupid if it were. We have the ability maintain a general principal like "there
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by autoexec 2mo ago
The number of cameras matters much less than what those cameras are being used for. If police body cam footage was being indiscriminately scanned for any and all license plate data and all of that data was being fed into a national database
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by autoexec 2mo ago
Spying on the American public shouldn't be cheap or efficient. We shouldn't abandon our freedom to make the fearful feel better.
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by autoexec 2mo ago
I'll give them credit for doing a much better job than the US does. I still think they could go a lot farther. There was tons of praise for GDPR as having actual teeth, but there are still companies who are getting fined again and agai
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by autoexec 2mo ago
No, the reason that law-abiding citizens should be more concerned about corporate surveillance than they are government surveillance is that those corporations sell all your data to the government so that the government can get around the n
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by autoexec 2mo ago
You wouldn't have to prove that you were or weren't targeting children. You'd just have to operate a social media platform and allow infinite scrolling. The law would define a social media platform. Maybe something like: The
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by autoexec 2mo ago
You missed the "or has a tendency to incite" part. It's important because incentive doesn't promise a change in action. People can do things even when they have have no incentive to do it. Sometimes people will even do t
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by autoexec 2mo ago
> Someone may have a desire or intention to lose weight. But unless they lose the weight they lack incentive. Here are just some of the incentives overweight people have to lose weight: They'll look better, to themselves and others.
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by autoexec 2mo ago
When corporations knowingly kill people it isn't careless. What they do is entirely calculated. For example, it wasn't carelessness that caused the Philip Morris executives to hire a bunch of scientists who were then ordered to fa
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by autoexec 2mo ago
What I'd recommend is research on specific behaviors taken by social media companies to determine which are shown to cause harms. Some of that is already done by the companies themselves. If, for example, infinite scrolling is seen as
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by autoexec 2mo ago
That's not true. Incentives aren't the whole cause of behavior and they aren't the solution to changing it either. That's the same simplistic and flawed mentality that pushes for harsher punishments to deter crime when t
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by autoexec 2mo ago
> OK, but (as I have asked many times before) what is your alternative, beter proposal? How about laws that prevent social media websites from pushing harmful content users didn't ask for? How about forcing them to abandon the pract
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by autoexec 2mo ago
That's not really true though is it. The Sackler family caused over 500,000 deaths. Nestlé has killed millions of babies. DuPont and 3M poisoned every living creature on Earth. Nobody spent even one day in prison for any of it. Corpora
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by autoexec 2mo ago
> Used to push surveillance meanwhile actual harm against children goes ignored. Worse, these laws will actually create new harms to children who will be forced to give their identity to websites and identity services that will exploit t
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by autoexec 2mo ago
Are aggrieved reactionary parents demanding that they should have to scan their face to look at websites? It seems to me like they just want social media companies to be forced to change their harmful and predatory practices and that instea
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by autoexec 2mo ago
Supposedly the incentive already exists because parents want their children saved from the harms of facebook and social media. The story is that parents are clamoring for the government to do something about it. I don't think parents
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Plenty of people want to address those problems, but politicians don't since they get bribed not to.
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by autoexec 2mo ago
You can disable the pin but disabling the pin does not remove the data they already collected and stored in the cloud. If you decide to never create a pin in the first place, a pin is generated for you and your data is still uploaded and st

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