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> Ad blockers today also try to fool the site and work around anti-adblock, which I think isn't fair to the sites. You're right, it's not fair, but there is no fair in war, and mak…

> Why? Why can't we ask whether "privacy" is so precious that we should preserve it at any cost? I would suggest opening up one of the many books that deal with the history of vari…

China is a genocidal state, and the supposedly hundreds of millions of supporters of that state policy in China are also genocidal by definition. I see no reason not to disrespect …

Congratulations to the EU commission and the EU parliament on achieving the exact opposite of what they wanted to do despite being told this would happen and despite it actually al…

Common Lisp code tends to be very stable long term. Occasionally people dig out some old code from the 60s or from really old books and papers and it will just run on modern system…

> we should make sure that non-smokers do not take up vaping How about we let adults do as they please instead. The most anybody should ever do about vaping is warn people that may…

> Individual liberties cannot be realized without sanctions and foreign policy. What kind of jingo non-sense is that? We now have over a century of data on how effective US foreign…

The holocaust was in many ways enabled by mass surveillance. How about we start there. It was done mostly manually, but even something as trivial as census data from an occupied co…

"Our service is where we make sure only good guys are, our competition is only used by literal child eating nazis" No cartel in mankinds history has enjoyed this type of competitiv…

Your phone doesn't just contain private data about you, it contains private data about people you know. Selling them out like this is a scumbag thing to do, not to mention it's pro…

I know multiple minimum wage workers who nonetheless spend a significant portion of their income on tobacco products, all of them taxed at enormous percentages. Taxation is literal…

No matter how dangerous free speech may be in your mind, censorship is 1000x more dangerous. I see evidence of this all around me as the remnants of an inhumane regime still stand …

> still don't really see anything wrong with supporting the government or military As a non-American(but citizen of an allied nation), the fact that the US is currently involved in…

I'm not saying that it is inherently evil, I'm saying that you as a member of the public must assume that it at least has that potential at all times for it to function as intended…

The whole concept of liberalism is based on the assumption that governments are extremely dangerous and potentially evil and in need of constant control by both the public and it's…

The reason Europe doesn't have as many startups as the US is because nobody in their right mind would fund things like Juicero here, not because the bureaucracy. The "splash the sp…

You need a military in order to prevent other people from bombing your country. You absolutely do not need to bomb other people, and if fact if your goal is to not get bombed, not …

Still, using ip addresses to try to determine where a request is originating from is not a good idea. I'm also not intending to bypass a block, I just happen to be in a network rig…

I'm in the EU, but since I'm looking at it from a work computer, and I guess our network exits in the US, I can see the article, so they are in breach of GDPR even with their stupi…

You do know there is an enormous difference between paying for a subscription and letting your gym MITM you/pick your pockets for info, etc, right? For example your gym might have …

If they renamed themselves to Adbook and explicitly claimed their service is to offer targeted ads instead of being a social network, they might have a case, unfortunately their se…

With that money you can bribe every cop my country 100 times over. I wouldn't worry about it :p

> But what if an online service's business model relies on processing profile data for purposes such as targeting ads to be viable, and regulators decide that a subject's right to …

Similar laws have been on the books in most if not all EU countries for literally decades. How Americans can be blind sighted by the way things have been for years is absolutely be…