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> And we'll be monitoring the Politicians and Police with this too right? And what will you do when you find corruption among them? Even when symmetric, surveillance benefits those…

But ultimately the government decides who is in charge of the BBC, with only minor indirection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Board

> I see that dangers of the CCP taking over high tech industries Then you see more than our wise economists, whose theory predicts, by way of simplified models and comparative adva…

Closely related, it seems the knee-on-neck restraint is taught to US police (including specifically Minnesotan police) and practiced by Israel [1,2]. Or rather, it is documented th…

Don't confuse downplaying significance , with downplaying novelty . As if big tech has been our friend up until now.

I'm getting tired of this charade that this is the first time the big tech dragnet is being used to harm those caught in it. They've been handing data over to foreign and domestic …

> I think ~90% of ivy league schools have a Jewish Dean You think ? Who the deans are is public information - why not test your hypothesis and check? Edit: Instead of sarcastically…

7 years old, citing an even older study, but this bears repeating, as this is not a new phenomenon, only more visible now (and therefore, I would argue, much less insidious): The a…

> If it detects that the driver is speeding it can perform one of four actions: send out a visual or acoustic warning (like a warning message in the instrument cluster or a chime),…

Is the "content" described as "Movie Title" or "License to view Movie Title for a limited time arbitrarily determined by us"?

That's too bad for Ticketmaster because the large print calls them a "purchase". How are consumers supposed to know which parts of their business communications are lies and which …

> Facebook has hidden much of Instagram's content behind logins, so that makes most of it "not public". 1) It was public when the content was posted by its authors. Facebook locked…

Fun fact: The movie industry was established in Hollywood to evade patent fees, thanks to the distance from the east coast, and the local court's aversion to enforcing patents. htt…

> Ehr, yes? Shouldn’t we decide to avoid bad companies? What I clearly meant was if that should be the only defense we have against such companies. Or should we also have things li…

> my sly critics avoided any direct response to what I’d written. They wouldn’t even quote what I said. In fact, they scrupulously avoided quoting my article. Instead they distorte…

> Can us common people get to decide what the common good is, or is that exclusively your choice? This legislation is the result of democratic process - i.e. decided by the "common…

> “for my own good” No, for the common good. We are all harmed when Apple or Google can decide which businesses will succeed or fail, which apps get censored and which are allowed.…

All these abuses have a single cause - users not in control of their computers. It's no coincidence that vim's start screen isn't being monetized this way.

> you can suffer from bad model predictions This is the worst anti-surveillance argument. The last thing I want is to be accurately predicted. As far as I'm concerned, once the mod…

It's not a bandaid. It's retreat, and the battle line will follow you.

Or maybe I don't want my kid's chat and gameplay analyzed and sold by Microsoft, to be used against them in the future.

What good are rising house prices unless you sell your house, and don't buy a new one? Presumably the vast majority of those older home owning voters still need their sole house to…

> There have been 135 teachers convicted of sexual misconduct [..] More than 18,000 people have died from gun violence. To date. [..] you might say that few of those were directly …