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failuser

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    Comment #48960873

    Exactly. Voice of the people if very faint, sound of lobby banknotes makes lawmakers listen.

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    Comment #48960859

    Governments can make effective laws, you know. There are tools that can solve this. Parental controls, separation of peer-to-peer communications from algorithmic feeds. The lawmake…

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    Comment #48960790

    This is a very strange read. If that was posted on a random blog, I would have dismissed it. I didn’t know that that cell (anti tech bro, anti big tech, pro age verification laws) …

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    Comment #48960749

    I don’t even know which party he champions. There is no pro-privacy party in America. That quote can come from either side of the establishment. Both increased surveillance.

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    Comment #48960723

    The laws they pass do nothing to stop the criminals. Do you think an “age verification” law can stop any criminals?

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    Comment #48726417

    Wild that we already see “Kessler syndrome is a hoax” takes. I guess that should have been expected.

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    Comment #48676381

    Career flexibility like Do Not Compete agreements?

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    Comment #48402373

    And it’s not just them, many businesses force you to call to unsubscribe, this should be illegal. I managed to unsubscribe via their chatbot. Maybe because I’m in California where …

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    Comment #48402332

    NYT makes more money from their games than actual news, right? Newspapers are dead and there is nothing to replace them. There is no loner money in informing the masses, only is di…

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    Comment #48069747

    The governments are the ones who needs the most. They want to know who all the potential and current dissidents are.

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    Comment #48069694

    How is this not grounds to be sued into oblivion by Google and Meta? They clearly violate ToS for profit. This is something I expect to find on a dark web forum where 0days are tra…

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    Comment #47007563

    Any properly supported third-party keyboards? Swiftkey was bought by Microsoft and lost my vote. Gboard stopped updating.

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    Comment #46828816

    US Government literally forced the sale. If the 1st amendment by bypassed by forced sales of the media that does not follow the party line, then what’s the point?

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    Comment #45434301

    Crypto facilitates bypassing financial regulations, drug trade, evading taxes, extorting ransoms, breaking sanctions and so on. I’m not at all surprised it’s popular. I’m surprised…

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    Comment #43627591

    Why won’t luddites open their own factories, amirite? They would if they had money.

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    Comment #43570704

    Not just goods, US tech sector will be taxed and tariffed into non-existence.

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    Comment #42932834

    Lawsuits take time, the authoritarian takeover of the government is completed in days.

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    Comment #42932809

    There will be no new elections. At best we’ll have a Russia-style farce.

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    Comment #42812917

    That’s the point.

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    Comment #41589715

    Monolith patented their nemesis system, so it went nowhere. The thought that we were one personal stance away from the whole FPS genre not existing is pretty chilling.

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    Comment #41525281

    Uber even had a whole program to thwart law enforcement attempts to investigate them called “greyball”. They knew what they are doing. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology…

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    Comment #41525125

    I’m pretty sure an assassination marketplace would not fly under the same legal pretense. The platform won’t do the killing, right? If hotel or taxi lobby was more powerful or caug…

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    Comment #41525047

    I did not say those were even good laws. Many people go to jail for breaking bad laws though. And the government can establish monopolies on many things, my private nuclear weapons…

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    Comment #41524625

    “Is it legal?” should be a question adventurous libertarian should ask himself. Something being illegal never stopped hackers, being it exploiting vulnerabilities for profit or not…

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    Comment #41511875

    Uber and AirBnb are essentially illegal taxi and illegal hotel services. Remember taxi medallions? Remember zoning laws? Being illegal is not a showstopper for a startup because th…