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I thought The Guardian was against fascism, yet here they are pushing for corporations to act like the police. Or even more like the police, beyond keeping IP logs, message histori…

> It's also sad that pretty much any sort of defense is illegal in Toronto Could you elaborate on this?

Does it in fact "rely" on it, or does that merely expand its scope? Even if its claims of what is "derivative" were diminished to exclude linking/API calls, the GPL would survive, …

Being mad about this is like being mad the thief who stole your belongings then pawned them. The crime was spying on you in the first place. Automakers should not have any data, to…

Yes it is a broad thing, and yes government and private censorship are not the same, but they are both censorship, at least according to the wikipedia and ACLU definitions [1,2]. A…

Thank you for the clarification. > our censorship (if we're really going to call it that) With the possible exception of spam filtering, yes, we should call it that. I'm sure I wou…

Title is misleading - users can pick additional filters, but can't opt out of any of Bluesky's own censorship without going to a third-party server entirely.

Charge $100 more for a ticket to get a slightly better sandwich, then claim the consumer chose the worse sandwich.

People are perhaps not so enthusiastic about giving away their countries just so multinational companies with no loyalty to them don't leave. On the other hand, China, Japan, Taiwa…

You can also create violent and copyrighted images in MS Paint. Why should our tools police us? And what is the alternative - teach AI to perform a fair-use test on any output that…

> Will you move your whole social life with you A small price compared to dying in war. I'm not saying it's the right choice, but if you have no attachment to your country and peop…

Point taken. But what about in Germany over Canada? Or Italy? Or Spain, or Australia, or the US, or New Zealand, or UK, or Iceland, or Taiwan, or Japan or... there are lots of most…

> cultivating the mentality that lying in the trenches for your country/culture/values might be necessary. That would mean cultivating the mentality that a country is more than jus…

> There's other ways to find websites, like HN and word-of-mouth; The problem is that, to get traffic to your site (i.e. have your speech heard), it doesn't help if you use these o…

The mistake is they got caught. It will be more subtle next time.

Easy way to bypass the 4th amendment - force private business to pre-emptively surveil everyone.

> hilarious because unlike the social media case, I dont think these faux pauxs have important real world consequences Which is exactly why people mock this being referred to as "s…

I have an idea - why doesn't Nevada install a bug on every minor's device, achieving the same effect, without Facebook's cooperation? I know why! Because then the surveillance, pri…

Putting aside how easy it is to compensate for this (e.g. report gunshots per area under surveillance), I'm curious how much crime estimates based on ShotSpotter or general policin…

> The way C handles pointers, for example, was a brilliant innovation; How were pointers handled before?

Hilariously, legally, software seems to be unpatentable in both the US [1] and EU [2]. Yet those laws are routinely ignored, and we continue to be plagued by software patents. [1] …

Let me describe exactly how you are defending them then, if you really think you aren't: "this same expectation in the Apple ecosystem is why I've received single digit spam from t…

Sounds like anti-competitive fraud, or at the very minimum, false advertising.

> Freedom to root/jailbreak one's phone You don't actually have that freedom - the DMCAs anti-circumvention provision robbed you of the right to unlock your own property. You are m…

But that's because they're doing business with banks that want to remain friendly with the US, not because they're doing business specifically in US dollars. If they got paid in Tu…