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by sqdbps 8y ago
The record fines were levied on US firms. Are you suggesting that it's legitimate to fine US companies on antitrust grounds to supplement tax revenue?
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Ask HN: Mods: why am I shadow banned?
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UK Judge Says Accurate Journalism Is an Invasion of Privacy(techdirt.com)
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by sqdbps 8y ago
Don't let anyone tell you that spreading FUD and misinformation doesn't work, Google has every right to do whatever they want with a domain they own but DDG kept pushing the conspiracy theory that it's all about them and it w
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by sqdbps 8y ago
It's hard not to make the connection between this example of a clueless self entitled tantrum and the naked resentment towards a US rival by a euro bigwig complete with the instinct to seek government subsidizes and assistance against
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by sqdbps 8y ago
Right, so Google develops Android at great expense, they release it as an open source project and now they’re supposed to make even less money from it? If you think you see similarities between this fine and the microsoft case you should al
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by sqdbps 8y ago
Tell that to Amazon and their Fire devices and to all the Android forks in China.
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Blaming the Messenger (App): WhatsApp Takes the Blame in India Over Violence(techdirt.com)
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by sqdbps 8y ago
Most likely they just want a federal law to deal with instead of having to make unworkable carve-ups for illinois and texas. This unsurprisingly provided an ideal preamble for the NYT to try and reinforce the unsubstantiated claim that tech
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by sqdbps 8y ago
The EU is targeting US firms as a protectionist measure, you can read transcripts of their politicians' grandstanding and parroting local lobbyist to get the picture, they're not shy about it.
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by sqdbps 8y ago
I really don't understand the self destructive desire to domestically pile on our tech firms while they are being shutout of the Chinese market by the government there which apparently appreciates the importance of these firms so much
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Fake News Is a Meaningless Term, and Our Obsession Over It Harms Actual News(techdirt.com)
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Police admitting that FOSTA/SESTA made it harder to catch pimps and traffickers(techdirt.com)
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Building the world’s highest-resolution telescope(arstechnica.com)
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by sqdbps 8y ago
How is infinite scrolling not just a logical evolution of regular scrolling? and using red for notification indicators isn't just a design convention that was borrowed from the real world? All these outlets reporting on social media&#x
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by sqdbps 8y ago
Who says they don't? they've listed the ways in the linked blogpost: https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/ensuring-... , https://support.google.com/a/answer/7281227
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by sqdbps 8y ago
They don't "divvy up personal emails", you do, by clicking the "allow" button under an explicit permission screen ( https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/ima... ). And you migh
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by sqdbps 8y ago
What's the accusation? that they provide an API?
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by sqdbps 8y ago
The only controversy here is that of shoddy (and malicious) reporting.
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Latest Text of EU Copyright Directive Shows It's Even Worse Than Expected(techdirt.com)
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by sqdbps 8y ago
> 'I’m pretty sure that no one who took a job at Google thought, "I’m going to work for a defense contractor."' This person can't possibly speak for all other employees. There are many people who got interested i
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New Lawsuit Challenges FOSTA – The Federal Law Sparking Website Shutdowns(eff.org)
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by sqdbps 8y ago
How do they define what "selling personal data" means? Does that mean the the law affects equifax and not facebook for example? and what if a company which collects data is sold to another company or its assets were sold during ba
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by sqdbps 8y ago
Idiocy. The motive is to hamstring some of our most innovative companies which by itself is baffling and of course the collateral damage is the extra overhead and lawyers inflicted on all businesses big and small. The desire to imitate the
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by sqdbps 8y ago
I don't care what you're 'leaning' towards or what you can do without, this is about what's good for the nation. This kind of legislation is not pertinent to the average citizen and this whole debate is being conduc
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by sqdbps 8y ago
1. Regardless of politics, legislating for net neutrality and privacy on the state level is just silly. 2. This won’t “reign in” the big firms it’ll shield them from competition. 3. At a time when China is totally protecting their tech firm
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by sqdbps 8y ago
No law breaking is involved here, they have no cause for this inquiry.
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Transforming Standard Video into Slow Motion with AI(news.developer.nvidia.com)
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by sqdbps 8y ago
They are also based on massive political will that distorts the interpretation of the law and economic understanding and turns them into weapons.
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by sqdbps 8y ago
That's a dishonest argument, yeah these laws theoretically apply to everyone but they were designed specifically for and disportionately affect US companies. As for the "gaming the system" argument that doesn't comport w

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