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Just say the whole internet is not for kids without adult supervision and leave it at that. It doesn't even matter if you can get something that technically works. Half the "age ap…

How about just "Don't allow advertising period"?

Why is doing a task with a machine suddenly objectionable when the same task performed by humans is perfectly fine?

Unless the purpose and value of the video is solely distribution of the copyrighted music it should be protected fair use. If copyright holders don't like it they are free to not l…

That is really good point. The court is basically giving them permission to do this, by asking them to not have net neutrality.

Their curation blows. The whole premise of having a canonical answer to a question is dumb. Most programming languages and libraries are always in flux. The whole nature of many qu…

They can't fine starlink if they have no presence in their country. They already did those other things and people are still using starlink systems in their countries. There is no …

Starlink can see the packet traffic. They ought be able to analyze which dishes are on each side of the conflict. Even if it isn't perfectly accurate, a rough blacklist would help …

I am not belittling them. Just recognizing the fact they have no power to enforce anything on starlink. It's not about what they "deserve". It is about what is physically possible.…

What is an African country going to do about enforcing anything to do with starlink other than confiscate hardware within their borders? Whine to the UN that someone is competing w…

You must have read a different article, because "starlink doesn't like it" is the only justification or explanation the article offers for their stance. And that is neither a valid…

Then it is up to the local government to confiscate their starlink hardware. There is no reason for starlink to respect every single legal jurisdiction's rules. They only need to d…

Why do they give a damn if people are subscribing in the US and using their product in Africa? If anything they should be using their position to obliterate the whole idea of regio…

Why do you think the consent of someone relaying information matters in the slightest when it comes to what people do with that information?

You can also reduce your attack surface (dependencies).

I would say that is unfair because their actual platform is deliberately sabotaging any kind of functional governance and refusing to change any government policy that is clearly b…

Is it mostly spam that makes you think moderation is necessary or is it something else? I ask because I have some ideas about how to implement a moderation-less reddit-alike. (I th…

In order for there to be a victim, the deep fake needs to be distributed and passed off as real. Creation alone harms exactly nobody.

Ineffective and barely enforced.

To clarify, I am only talking about direct financial benefit (capitalist ownership). But it has to be backdated to the owners at the time range when wrongdoing occurred. That way y…

The people benefiting from any behavior ranging from deceptive to criminal should be at least partially held liable (at minimum to not receive any profit whatsoever from those misd…

These fines should just be paid by shareholders (backdated to whoever profited from their misdeeds)

It is trivial for a wealthy person to be treated like everyone else. They just have to ditch their money. Unless they want do that, they can endure extensive scrutiny.

I am not aware of any laws in the US about selling books that are only text (no pictures) to minors. The only "banned books" lists apply to school libraries/librarians. I cannot po…

There is no requirement to make money to have a successful open source project. That being said. Monetizing open source is fine so long as people are up front about from the beginn…