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After it took over and solidified itself as the world leader at it of course there was no need to steal IP anymore, most of it is registered there already and to the benefit of the…

I assume most americans today are already under the impression their government spies on them and facebook/google will gladly give anything that is asked for, how does the chinese …

As popular as the platform is with the younger demographic and the voting preferences of said younger demographic it's political malpractice for democrats to not try to at least sa…

Maybe the US and its proxies should lead by example before trying to convince anyone else, given they are the ones who dropped far more bombs than all of those combined.

I find it hard to see a way to run a targeted ad social media company at all if you have to make sure children aren't harmed by your product.

> A fair amount of “this is fine, governments enforce IP laws and that’s a public good” vibes in here, which is all a very reasonable perspective. I'd say it would be a a reasonabl…

He didn't move to new zealand from the US so I struggle to see how that is relevant, it's not HK or Germany looking to extradite him.

Is that going to be a trial by the laws of the land he resides in and not to a foreign country that the defendant is not a citizen nor a resident nor operates out of and that refus…

The comment he's responding to speculates that he is being paid by russia to post on twitter, as if people couldn't come to their own conclusions based on their own views and their…

The sanctions in Venezuela are/were very different from the ones in Cuba, there is a prohibition of trade from any US company and its subsidiaries with Cuba with the exception of f…

What historical precedent? Just in the last 3 decades you had afghanistan, iraq, libya and (ongoing) syria in the middle east alone showing how horrific the consequences of this ty…

These aren't really consequences for being a bad actor on the global stage, these are consequences for being deemed a threat to the interests of the military superpowers and their …

The flipside of that is companies not bothering to remove it and ceasing the payments to denuvo effectively making the game not exist anymore until someone is able to crack it, and…

> How is supporting the military of your adversary not treason? For a given meaning of adversary it is, for others it isn't, clearly the line in the sand at least for the US is whe…

And so is emacs, but nobody has an issue calling it a text editor.

probably linking to this: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/obamas-ope...

It appears this is the source of the complaint adding context to what is being discussed by the EFF, no reason it should be dead.

Not going to go all doom and gloom but resident evil was a(completely unnecessary, in my opinion) remaster of a game from the ps2 era, and I'd wager the vast majority of people tha…

given that rumble was ordered to remove what I can only assume is rt and decided to just stop serving the country instead, It's certainly banned at the very least in France itself.…

They didn't lend him money, they kept the stake they had before he bought twitter, both the Qatari and the saudi. Also I'm not sure why they would want it gone after the arab sprin…

We may not like the "future", but old software using 20x more resources than usual has been the future for a while, just look at electron apps the growing trend of home computers b…

One would hope all of the achievements period were rejected and this ridiculous idea of adding a gamerscore to a version control system wouldn't go past a round of laughter at the …

Most discord communities that are big enough to get indexed were supposed to be forums anyway, or part of one.

it's a fair criticism when you limit it to the users being affected, when you start talking about the owners(the current shareholders!) willingly eschewing fiduciary duty and damag…

its not the only way to ensure a community survives, forums have existed before reddit and will exist later. You even have examples of communities that left, created their own vers…