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Exactly the latter
As far as I know, there is no evidence that Google tracks or records anything in incognito mode.
I have a bridge to sell you ...
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#722I don't thing it is healthy to have big entities like this control fundamental services like payment processing. How long before the opaque governance of the App Store is applied to their payments offering? How long before activists start making this a new vector for deplatforming? Apple also announced a news offering ( https://www.techradar.com/news/apple-news-plus ) and I think the same concerns apply there.
Sorry to inform you but big entities already control this space and they are doing their best now to destroy cash so that they control 100%.
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I’ve been told political campaigns focused on MC/Visa forced a policy change on Fetlife (specifically which kinks you’re allowed to admit to being into) a few years back. I’m not into the kink which caused it (and I won’t repeat it here) but that left a bad taste in my mouth. IMO, people should be free to discuss what they’re into, even when it’s something much more harmful than the kink involved.
What's fetlife? Seems like a risky google
Why not use an encyclopedia? Wikipedia is safe for work.
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I’ve been told political campaigns focused on MC/Visa forced a policy change on Fetlife (specifically which kinks you’re allowed to admit to being into) a few years back. I’m not into the kink which caused it (and I won’t repeat it here) but that left a bad taste in my mouth. IMO, people should be free to discuss what they’re into, even when it’s something much more harmful than the kink involved.
Stripe de-platformed us because their payment processor (Wells fucking Fargo, paragons of virtue) didn't like what we were selling, which was fantasy adult toys. They tried micromanaging the complaint, asking if we could remove "flesh colored" options, but we weren't going to get dragged down into that. Ridickulous.
Imagine the guidelines they must be following. Somewhere there must be a rule written down that was once debated by a committee of pious folk that literally states that flesh-coloured¹ sex toys are not okay (but purple is fine).
1: So that's what? Anything from deep charcoal black to a subtle off-white?
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No, people are wondering why cryptocurrencies haven't actually solved anything yet.
How so cryptocurrencies haven't solved anything? If someone has done a transaction with cryptocurrencies that brings value to him, isn't that solving something? Your claim is just very probably totally untrue - I think Bitcoin etc have been very useful for some small group of people for quite a long time already. However the adoption just isn't that big. Somehow people seem to think that cryptocurrencies have to repl…
Ok, so what problem has actually been solved?
Cryptocurrencies accomplish nothing that wasn't already possible before, usually faster, cheaper and safer. Just because someone uses an alternative doesn't mean it's solving a problem, and in this case it's just creating more issues.
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Sargon of Akkad told a group of white neo-nazis they were a bunch of "n-words," ironically, in the context of accusing them of having the same poor behavior they attempt to associate with black people. If you're familiar with the entire rest of his body of work, he is a vehement liberal in opposition of any such identity politics. He said this on somebody else's channel, not only off of Patreon, but off of his YouTub…
Deciding 'whether to do business with someone or not' is one of the kinds of freedoms capitalism is supposed to protect. Outside of a standard set of specific reasons for which it is agreed to be illegal to refuse business (race, sex, orientation etc..), no business is supposed to be able to be compelled -by the government- to associate or transact with another. Instead, boycotts are used by the public themselves (ra…
The one big issue you're ignoring here is that the effective monopolization of various industries is opening the door to governmental action without the necessity of law. Consider something like Visa and Mastercard both deciding to block donations to Wikileaks. Was this an organic action or was it the government aiming to attack perceived enemies by exerting their clout behind the scenes? It needn't be some grand or secretive action by the government either. Imagine a single individual, perhaps a senator or an influential former secretary of state, phones up Mastercard's chair and simply tells him they'd be quite grateful if Mastercard would cut transactions to Wikileaks. What are they going to do?
This is the big problem with both the massive scale of certain businesses, their extensive interweaving with government, and of course monopolization.
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I’ve been told political campaigns focused on MC/Visa forced a policy change on Fetlife (specifically which kinks you’re allowed to admit to being into) a few years back. I’m not into the kink which caused it (and I won’t repeat it here) but that left a bad taste in my mouth. IMO, people should be free to discuss what they’re into, even when it’s something much more harmful than the kink involved.
How about if they’re into pedophelia?
I would be surprised if telling people they can’t admit to that changes how many of them there are that.
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SubscribeStar was composed almost entirely of people banned from Patreon for various reasons, including things like dropping n-bombs in videos and blocking search-and-rescue boats from saving migrants in the Mediterranean. It's not surprising that big, mainstream companies don't want to touch that with a ten foot pole. Patreon has also banned various leftist sites for things like doxxing and posting instructions on h…
> Patreon has also banned various leftist sites for things like doxxing and posting instructions on how to commit terrorism, but that doesn't get as much attention for some reason. For left leaning people it takes doxxing and instructions on how to commit acts of mass violence to get banned. For the opposite ends of the political spectrum people have been banned for months-old videos - not even on a channel that the…
> For left leaning people it takes doxxing and instructions on how to commit acts of mass violence to get banned.
It doesnt take that. But the far-left rarely insults people with racial slurs.
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#729I got all excited and then realized that almost none of the new services that were announced will offer me anything as a European. Apple Card most likely won't be coming to Europe any time soon. The streaming service is also not likely to come to Europe as it includes US-only services such as Hulu and Amazon Prime. I am aware that this is a bit of a 1st world problem, but all of these services being US-only can be re…
Americans don't realize how good they have it. A few years ago, I made a list of over 100 things that are available/possible in the US but not in Canada. It almost made me feel like Canada was a third world country. I'm sure I could find it. Here are some examples I can remember: - Amazon Prime - Amazon selection and prices - Amazon Dash - Amazon groceries - Amazon third-party selling - Free shipping in most online s…
Please tell me this is satire...
Google, Amazon, McDonalds, Walmart, AirBNB, cheap meat & eggs (you know why it's cheap, right?)... all topped off with some hands-down-the-pants fawning over elements of US culture and their 'best military' (do you have a 'top 10 best wars ever' too?).
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> but the US legal system doesn't allow the government to compel them to make that kind of change. Source? I’m pretty sure the legal system does allow that.
The legal system lets them say "you already have the information? Great, give it to me". It doesn't let them say "you have to redesign your systems to collect information that you explicitly told your users you aren't collecting". I don't have a direct citation for you, besides having seen this spoken about before, but a simple thought exercise should prove it: If the government could compel that sort of thing, then…
I personally want the law to say that but:
The FBI took a different view in a recent court case referencing the All Writs act of 1789 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_d... but dropped it when they unlocked the device by other means., and the issue hasn't really made it through the court system, so it's unclear what the law requires.
Until a federal case gets to the appeals court level it basically won't establish any binding precedent in other cases under stare decisis.