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Oh funny. Just ten days ago someone asked here in the comments about DDG: > Why, on any planet, would law enforcement issue a warrant to get user data from a company that doesn't have any user data?
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It's equally true if you s/Communist regimes/Church/g.
True, if you're into medieval history. I don't think the Church has any hope to regain the power they once had. These days my biggest fears are communist regimes (like China) and Islam spreading in Europe (we already have some courts partially applying Sharia laws in the UK).
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Matrix system sucks because the servers are branded with domain names and the server operators have total ownership of your account. In a network like Status or Session, you don’t need to know and don’t care who runs the node you happen to be using at a given moment.
what do you mean by ownership of account. You can migrate to other servers if you want? Or does that mean you lose your user ID which is tied to a provider/domain? Isn't registering an account necessary to avoid impersonating? how does Status ensure a stable user ID?
Everyone gets a random super long number for an ID. Your friends can assign your name when they add you as a contact (just like phone numbers). And then you can also get a globally recognizable name like ENS domains if you want to pay a little. It’s like a vanity plate on a car.
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Yes, and in the secon post I was talking about both legal and illegal, and both of them destroy the labour market for the locals.... and in both cases, opponents to imigration (legal economic or illegal) are branded as nazis.
Is it all opponents of immigration that are branded Nazis, or is it just those that regard foreigners as sub-human and refer to their countries as shitholes?
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I fully believe that by the end of the decade it will be illegal in some Western countries to go online with a device that doesn't provide a measured boot attestation that it is running a government-approved operating system.
I'm not sure why I was downvoted, but I believe this too. Same goes for music and video - we won't be legally allowed to hear and watch non-DRM-playable devices as the speakers and displays will be rented not owned by corporations. We have almost arrived at the Rental Economy, where we dont own anything and are at the behest of corporations. It's modern serfdom
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what do you mean by ownership of account. You can migrate to other servers if you want? Or does that mean you lose your user ID which is tied to a provider/domain? Isn't registering an account necessary to avoid impersonating? how does Status ensure a stable user ID?
It’s actually quite brilliant on Status. Everyone gets a random super long number for an ID. Your friends can assign your name when they add you as a contact (just like phone numbers). And then you can also get a globally recognizable name like ENS domains if you want to pay a little. It’s like a vanity plate on a car.
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Counter their arguments better so they don’t.
The core problem here is that our technology for discourse is basically twitter and "voting with likes". The algorithms are optimized for attention and likes, so the mob wins - not the best argument. IF we fixed THAT problem (with new technology, an early one is https://www.kialo.com/tour , but it's not good enough), we can have what you want. Right now, we're effectively the same tech level as the 1900s (perhaps in…
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Depends if you're in BC or not! haha
You would think so, but see my comment above
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I made that point to say that drugs and prostitution definitely have victims and are not victimless. I could bring up STDs, robberies and killings due to drugs as well, its possible to fight trafficking without criminalizing it, but its not likely to happen nor would a moving target of decriminmalizing actions they do be a realistic goal.
I understood your point full well, and it is both wrong and immoral. Prostitution does not have victims. Forcing someone into prostitution has a victim - the unwilling prostitute. This is a crime committed by the trafficker against the prostitute, not a crime committed by the prostitute against the client (or even vice versa). Again, take the example I gave of slavery. The analogous argument to yours is to claim that…
Concentration of money will cause unscrupulous people to gather.
Realistically, legalization doesn’t end these issues.