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by chuckee 5y ago
They are merely harmonizing with UK law: People who repeatedly view terrorist content online will face up to 15 years in prison, the home secretary has told the Conservative Party conference. Amber Rudd set out her intention to change the
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by chuckee 5y ago
Shouldn't some kind of anti-trust agency forbid such mergers, or break them up after the fact? At least in an alternate world where anti-trust law was still enforced.
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by chuckee 5y ago
> don't all big supermarkets do this nowadays? That makes the problem worse, not better.
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by chuckee 5y ago
> No, it hasn't always been pretty. This also applies to Apple's app store/lockdown: https://nypost.com/2021/09/17/apple-google-block-kremlin-cri... https://www.wired.com/sto
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by chuckee 5y ago
I don't know if you're aware, but that law (known as NetzDG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Enforcement_Act ) does a lot more than what you described. It requires social networks to delete "obviou
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by chuckee 5y ago
I've never heard of a company being held liable for releasing even a paid product with defective security, let alone a free one. They're not even held liable for deliberately including spyware [1]! That any lawyer would believe a
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by chuckee 5y ago
As usual, governments and corporations don't just want to censor - they also want to hide that censorship is even taking place. But the article forgot to mention that LinkedIn is wholly owned by Microsoft, so these questions can be aim
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by chuckee 5y ago
> The question is whether regular people really care about privacy more than they do about the price of a phone. And so far it seems that the lower priced phones are winning. To find that out, the privacy intrusions would have to be adve
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by chuckee 5y ago
> It’s common now for liberals to deny the influence and power of social justice politics, for inscrutable reasons The reasons are very scrutable: the most essential part of the narrative is that social justice politics are powerless, op
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by chuckee 5y ago
You missed the most important technical feature: shared chat history.
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by chuckee 5y ago
> Advertising is a different beast altogether. You are correct. Web advertising is long overdue for some trust-busting. But for some reason, antitrust law is rarely enforced.
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by chuckee 5y ago
> These included Jewish and pro-Israel advocates, who asserted that the original draft of the model curriculum was anti-Israel and defined Islamophobia but not antisemitism. > The final version deletes the lessons and references that
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by chuckee 5y ago
> The people of the United Kingdom elected representatives, who through various means constructed the judicial system and entered into agreements with other countries, including the United States, concerning many things, including extrad
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by chuckee 5y ago
> If the country views its laws as right, it seems to me it ought to attempt to see those laws enforced as widely as possible. Suppose I view my diet and exercise regimen as right - should I try to impose (not just suggest) it on others?
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by chuckee 5y ago
While you give an (afaik) accurate retelling of how Assange got in legal trouble, it amounts to little more than "might makes right" (hidden behind a layer of "might makes the laws"). Whereas I believe the GP was making
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by chuckee 5y ago
> You’re just smuggling in your own implicit definition of “legally own”. I suppose before trade secret laws were effectively expanded to items in our own homes, the commonly accepted definition of "own a thing" was "you a
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by chuckee 5y ago
> There is no doubt that he really is guilty of leaking US secrets. Lets say he is. He is not a US citizen, and he didn't do the leaking on US soil - what duty does he have to keep US secrets secret? In fact, without a confidentiali
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by chuckee 5y ago
While I welcome this decision, it is absurd that the law places any limits whatsoever on the act of examining how an artifact you legally own functions. What they like to call "reverse engineering", because describing in plain lan
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by chuckee 5y ago
> 43% of NYC is white, but only 35% of spots taken by white kids. The NYT deftly avoids mentioning this by stating it as > Though about 70 percent of the roughly 1 million public school students in New York are Black and Latino, about
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by chuckee 5y ago
I think this is the correct way of phrasing it. "Suggestions based on X" merely implies that information on X is now sent to an (additional) 3rd party, and doesn't state so explicitly. In fact I would say the lack of explic
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by chuckee 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS#Prognosis : HAART and appropriate prevention of opportunistic infections reduces the death rate by 80%, and raises the life expectancy for a newly diagnosed young adult to 20
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by chuckee 5y ago
Then the solution is to raise the penalty for other diseases similarly severe as HIV, not lower the penalty for HIV. Though I agree with the other comments that the risk of transmission should be taken into account (since medication, if t
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by chuckee 5y ago
Now all they have to do is roll back SB239, which reduced knowingly exposing someone to HIV from a felony to a misdemeanor [1], and their laws might be somewhat sensible in this area. [1] https://www.nbcnews.com/feature&#x2F
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by chuckee 5y ago
> law prohibits companies from requiring employees in California to sign non-disclosure agreements that bar them from speaking about illegal harassment and discrimination. If I understand this correctly, NDAs can still require them to st
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Priceless.
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by chuckee 5y ago
The implication being that because only conservatives complain about it, concentration of power is nothing to worry about? Do only conservatives worry about the consolidation of traditional media [1], too? Or is that something others, besid
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by chuckee 5y ago
> Former ÖVP general-secretary Andreas Hanger lashed out at corruption prosecutors on Tuesday, arguing the agency has been harboring “leftist cells” and is working to support the ÖVP’s political opponents. His accusations were widely pic
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by chuckee 5y ago
Let's not conflate the question about the independence of Poland's constitutional court (on which I would agree with you) with the question of whether international agreements can or should override national constitutions.
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Let me try to put this in terms more familiar to Americans: Could an international agreement that the US ratifies, supersede your constitution? E.g. if NAFTA had a clause curtailing the 1st amendment, would you expect your Supreme Court to
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by chuckee 5y ago
> They can quit whenever they want. At a steep economic cost. Should the EU be using its economic clout to meddle in the internal affairs of member states? > wanting in historical accuracy. I was making a suggestion ("why can&#

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