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They're nothing like utilities and it makes no sense to treat them that way. Instead the u.s. needs laws that protect user digital rights, and all companies should have to adhere to those laws, not just big ones.
That could have a huge chilling effect on start ups, indi devs, and hobbyists
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#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're nothing like utilities and it makes no sense to treat them that way. Instead the u.s. needs laws that protect user digital rights, and all companies should have to adhere to those laws, not just big ones.
That could have a huge chilling effect on start ups, indi devs, and hobbyists
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I'm not familiar with what army the EU has to enforce that recourse. Ultimately, rights depend on the threat or actual application of force.
Microsoft have to choose whether to operate in the EU. There's been a long struggle between conflicting rules of US unaccountable intelligence access vs. EU privacy law ("safe harbour") that is relevant here. https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2015/10/06/a-messa...
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#125If such use of tech that already exists since decades became spread ALSO the giant will learn to be good citizens not "state-like entity" acting as bully.
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Typical sentence of people that are guilty, just like those who pretend they should be able to hide information outside of the protective gaze of the glorious all-powerful elites who know better than thouh. What are you trying to hide, you seditious terrorist, hmm?
Nice atronym.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/atrox#Latin https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/atrocity
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Quick fact check: According to the UN, there is now a famine in Gaza because of Israel's actions: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/10/is-there-famine-in-... > “Israel’s intentional and targeted starvation campaign against the Palestinian people is a form of genocidal violence and has resulted in famine across all of Gaza,” 10 independent UN experts, including the special rapporteur on the right to food and the s…
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It has R&D centers and local business centers. Skype is not in Israel and there's no reason for a VoIP solution to route through a country local facility. The "complete siege" ended ages ago. Israel provides power, food etc.
Quick fact check: According to the UN, there is now a famine in Gaza because of Israel's actions: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/10/is-there-famine-in-... > “Israel’s intentional and targeted starvation campaign against the Palestinian people is a form of genocidal violence and has resulted in famine across all of Gaza,” 10 independent UN experts, including the special rapporteur on the right to food and the s…
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#129Some people forget that everyone is innocent until proven guilty.
Some people forget that when they signed up to a service, they granted the service provider the right to decide when to cease providing the service, at the service provider's discretion.