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by badRNG 6y ago
I am increasingly skeptical that "voting with your pocketbook" is anything more than an expression of one's moral values (though there is certainly value in that.) Choosing not to do business with the Carnegie Steel of online
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My concerns are largely over the precedent that might allow banning end-to-end encrypted apps over "national security," but there is an argument to be made on 1st Amendment grounds. There are two 1A considerations here: whether an
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by badRNG 6y ago
>No it's not. China has banned most Western apps in the interests of national security. Chinese law doesn't carry a legal precedence in the US court system. My concerns regarding free speech and the precedence for banning end-t
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by badRNG 6y ago
Yes, and the concerns about 1st Amendment precedence weren't referring to China either. I imagine China disallows end-to-end encrypted messaging apps as well, which is largely the basis of my concern.
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by badRNG 6y ago
Regardless of what you think about TikTok, the banning of an app in the interest of "national security" is largely unprecedented. The jump from banning Huawei from building critical public infrastructure to banning an app that has
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by badRNG 6y ago
It is telling that their homepage has a video titled "How is GetEmails Legal?" https://youtu.be/45DoQR66TfQ For those skeptical of the efficacy of GDPR or similar legislation, it is keeping these sorts of seedy ta
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Get your site visitors' email, fullname, home address, and accounts with GetMail(getemails.com)
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I think we'll need to agree to disagree about the government's organization then. A newspaper is a far more cohesive organization that exists to a single end and has a largely uniform consistency, regardless of the beliefs of indi
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by badRNG 6y ago
Thanks for the recommendation, interesting read. I suppose how one lands on this topic is based on how much continuity one believes there is in a "government." If a government is simply a large institution or cluster of institutio
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by badRNG 6y ago
Considering both the wealth and caliber of engineering talent at Google, for this feature that has been at the center of attention for both regulators and the public to be as user hostile as it is, it certainly can lead a reasonable person
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by badRNG 6y ago
I feel that arguments along the lines of "why should we have governments protect consumers on 'x' if they willingly do 'y'" aren't really helpful, and feel akin to whataboutism. For example, yes, I expect
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by badRNG 6y ago
USPS does not have that leverage, they are obligated to provide last mile support at a loss if necessary.
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by badRNG 6y ago
I think this post should be tagged NSFW in some way.
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Probably worth adding to the PiHole
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I'm sure someone like me always has the same "hot take" in every thread regarding this, but I honestly still love reading physical books. After spending a day weary of interacting with screens all day, there is something nice
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by badRNG 6y ago
There has always seemed to be an antagonistic relationship between police unions and trade unions. Police unions are often disallowed membership in so-called "big tent" unions due to their perceived past and alleged ongoing role i
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Activists find camera inside box on power pole near union organizer’s home(fox13memphis.com)
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235M Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Users Exposed in Data Leak(forbes.com)
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LA settles Weather Channel lawsuit, allows selling location data to advertisers(theverge.com)
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by badRNG 6y ago
It does seem like it would be stronger if it simply stated that all employees must be equal owners.
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Where I work, anything that is outside of the standard library and some certain security-approved dependencies requires a miserable approval process where an authorization package has to be submitted to security who will require upgrades an
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by badRNG 6y ago
I addressed this in the third sentence of my comment: > However the fact that these other bigger issues exist doesn't mean we shouldn't care about or take action on the lesser. If one brings up how we should address issue &#x27
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by badRNG 6y ago
Monopolization of any industry isn't high up there on the priority list of issues we should address by far . Climate change, election interference, and COVID-19 are far more pressing issues than monopolization. However the fact that t
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by badRNG 6y ago
> What do you do when FAANGs become larger than some countries? This seems to be a bigger issue than tech companies. The tendency towards monopoly is a problem that every industry faces, where many international trusts hold more power th
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by badRNG 6y ago
> 2) It was a warning shot from some Western agency meaning "tighten up your security". That's an interesting theory that'd certainly make for a powerful message. Has anything like that been done before or is there an
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by badRNG 6y ago
> God is not the only possible foundation of ethics, and not the most sound at that. Absent God (or some sort of other mind-body dualism that's largely suspect otherwise), I don't see how ethics can approach anything that resem
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by badRNG 6y ago
> without resorting to weird solutions with raspis dangling temp wires into the freezer ... Well, I had a solution up till that line. There's gotta be an elegant way to set something like that up on top of the fridge out of sight wi
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by badRNG 6y ago
"Let's move funds from police departments to public health infrastructure, and additionally, use remaining funding on accountability mechanisms" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue at a protest.
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The ban of an app like TikTok is absolutely unprecedented and is very atypical. This isn't par-for-the-course behavior by the US government, and the outcome of this ban will set a precedent for other apps the US bans on "national
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by badRNG 6y ago
Has Bytedance been implicated in IP theft?

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