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Surely this just isn't even practical, even if it does pass... if the filter has to be installed on the end user device it will be widely known how to bypass it. Why do people even write these rediculous things (the bills in question).
> Those filters could only be removed if consumers pay a $20 fee. Wait, what? Why should a fee to opt out exist?
They encourage retailers and manufacturers to charge more than the $20 and pocket the difference. They are marketing the bill as pro-business.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/assaul...
> Those filters could only be removed if consumers pay a $20 fee. Wait, what? Why should a fee to opt out exist?
Read their faq... this question and the one after it: http://humantraffickingpreventionact.com/#q2 They encourage retailers and manufacturers to charge more than the $20 and pocket the difference. They are marketing the bill as pro-business.
It's worth notice that many of these same states[1] mentioned in the article lack any interest in enacting an assault weapons ban to protect their citizens from deadly violence. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/assaul...
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Read their faq... this question and the one after it: http://humantraffickingpreventionact.com/#q2 They encourage retailers and manufacturers to charge more than the $20 and pocket the difference. They are marketing the bill as pro-business.
This is mindblowing. "I can't believe" is so watered down it can not express the feeling felt when reading things like this. This past year has been insanity - this is just insanity..
I believe the suitable phrase is now "I can't even."
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Well, sure there are "bad actors". But some of us like to work around that bullshit just for fun, and to share :) And indeed, many of those "bad actors" are actually pretty clueless.
Would you really share if you knew you would get charged as someone who supports human trafficking and faced a decade long prison sentence? Even if you beat the charge, how employable would you be of the first thing people saw when they searched for you is your mugshot as someone arrested for supporting human trafficking?
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Well, sure there are "bad actors". But some of us like to work around that bullshit just for fun, and to share :) And indeed, many of those "bad actors" are actually pretty clueless.
Would you really share if you knew you would get charged as someone who supports human trafficking and faced a decade long prison sentence? Even if you beat the charge, how employable would you be of the first thing people saw when they searched for you is your mugshot as someone arrested for supporting human trafficking?
First, I wouldn't knowingly consult for human traffickers. But I do share online in various forums, some of which are effectively anonymous.
Second, Mirimir is a pseudonym. It's quite well firewalled from my meatspace identity. And it actually plays pretty safe. For anything at all iffy, I use temporary personas, and compartmentalize more thoroughly.
Third, by that standard there'd be no Tor Project, or Freenet Project, and a lot fewer Github sites.