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Exactly. Voice of the people if very faint, sound of lobby banknotes makes lawmakers listen.

Governments can make effective laws, you know. There are tools that can solve this. Parental controls, separation of peer-to-peer communications from algorithmic feeds. The lawmakers are old, tech-illiterate people. You can tell them that a private Minecraft server is illegal and they will believe it.

This is a very strange read. If that was posted on a random blog, I would have dismissed it. I didn’t know that that cell (anti tech bro, anti big tech, pro age verification laws) in the alignment chart is populated by actual people. And by intelligent people even.

Also the fact they call it “age verification” when they clearly build an identity verification and we just accept their language is crazy.

I don’t even know which party he champions. There is no pro-privacy party in America. That quote can come from either side of the establishment. Both increased surveillance.

The laws they pass do nothing to stop the criminals. Do you think an “age verification” law can stop any criminals?

Wild that we already see “Kessler syndrome is a hoax” takes. I guess that should have been expected.

Career flexibility like Do Not Compete agreements?

And it’s not just them, many businesses force you to call to unsubscribe, this should be illegal. I managed to unsubscribe via their chatbot. Maybe because I’m in California where it’s actually illegal.

NYT makes more money from their games than actual news, right? Newspapers are dead and there is nothing to replace them. There is no loner money in informing the masses, only is disinformation. The people who can make money from the news and data buy surveillance data that is far more accurate than the government publishes and trade on it. You can’t have anything resembling a liberal democracy when the monetary insensitive are aligned like this and there is no pushback.

The governments are the ones who needs the most. They want to know who all the potential and current dissidents are.

How is this not grounds to be sued into oblivion by Google and Meta? They clearly violate ToS for profit. This is something I expect to find on a dark web forum where 0days are traded, not in public.

Any properly supported third-party keyboards? Swiftkey was bought by Microsoft and lost my vote. Gboard stopped updating.

US Government literally forced the sale. If the 1st amendment by bypassed by forced sales of the media that does not follow the party line, then what’s the point?

Crypto facilitates bypassing financial regulations, drug trade, evading taxes, extorting ransoms, breaking sanctions and so on. I’m not at all surprised it’s popular. I’m surprised that even relatively sane US admin did not crush it.

Why won’t luddites open their own factories, amirite? They would if they had money.

Not just goods, US tech sector will be taxed and tariffed into non-existence.

Lawsuits take time, the authoritarian takeover of the government is completed in days.

There will be no new elections. At best we’ll have a Russia-style farce.

That’s the point.

Monolith patented their nemesis system, so it went nowhere. The thought that we were one personal stance away from the whole FPS genre not existing is pretty chilling.

Uber even had a whole program to thwart law enforcement attempts to investigate them called “greyball”. They knew what they are doing. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-...

I’m pretty sure an assassination marketplace would not fly under the same legal pretense. The platform won’t do the killing, right?

If hotel or taxi lobby was more powerful or caught the threat early on AirBnB and Uber would have been destroyed.

I did not say those were even good laws. Many people go to jail for breaking bad laws though.

And the government can establish monopolies on many things, my private nuclear weapons startup did not get much traction either.

“Is it legal?” should be a question adventurous libertarian should ask himself. Something being illegal never stopped hackers, being it exploiting vulnerabilities for profit or not complying with outdated regulation. That is just good strategy. I don’t expect libertarians to ask a question “is it ethical” the more anarchist wing of the hacker community might ask themselves.

Uber and AirBnb are essentially illegal taxi and illegal hotel services. Remember taxi medallions? Remember zoning laws? Being illegal is not a showstopper for a startup because they are under a radar, being illegal is not a problem for a large business because they have enough power to not get prosecuted.

But does it have enough suffering embedded to be a worthy engagement gift?

Not yet, not even diamond phone screens are here. And tax evasion has not killed the nation-states yet.

Kind of true, but those are bad examples. Wait, is Taj Mahal a monument, not a palace? Also Mount Rushmore relies on knowing the faces on it, otherwise one might assume it’s some local car dealers. Arc de Triumph is actually abstract, how would you know its purpose if you don’t know the context?

So driving with a phone in your hand is as safe as keeping your hands on the wheel and eyes on the road? Got it. No mention of talking to passengers in the car, I wonder why that was not tested, that would be a distraction as well.

Maybe they can relapse a map pack like id did for Quake and Quake II, that would be a way to get in the news again.