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I listened to his many pontifications about net-neutrality at that time.

His concern was not the theory and practice of "net-neutrality".

It was that "net-neutrality" was being used by various industry lobbyists and politicians at that time to justify the creation of a definition of "lawful traffic". By their definition, only "lawful traffic" would be subject to neutrality. Traffic that was not deemed "lawful traffic" would not be treated the same and could be shaped and blocked.

It was at the time that Pirate Bay was under constant legal attack (2015) and BitTorrent was the "unlawful traffic".

In the minutes after you comment, it has been ninja edited to change "humans" to "people".

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Detention_and_dep...

The oddness of the original...was it was possibly pasted from an LLM response?

The robots would have had access to the source code and also the hardware manufacturing systems used to create the kill switch. One unverified silicon wafer == Game over

It's not as simple as cases where both data and logic are local to the gui.

In this identified case, the gui has to react/behave correctly according to the results/errors of asynchronous remote logic over a spotty network.

I have comment threads in my country's subreddit from that week, where someone wrote that their partner was returning from a business trip to Italy. Someone wrote, "consider quarantining for a couple of weeks just in case".

The replies in that thread were along the lines of "Pffff...If everyone did that the Earth would stand still, idiot!"

Did you question those people what their lifestyle is like. Does it correlate to why their headphones broke so easily?

I use them in the office and on flights only. The only thing I did was replace the foam cups in 2019 due to [expected] wear. No problems with them at all ever. I've had mine since 2016.

Same story for a colleague I've known for 8 years.