And FISA was only about surveilling non-US persons.
No. With a court order, FISA always allowed surveillance of "agents of foreign powers", even if they were US citizens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveilla....
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IfOnlyYouKnew commented on We have 4 days to contest KYC being required by internet services federalregister.gov/docum... · Posted by u/chadsix
This is about foreign customers only, so as an attempt to abolish the constitution, it is severely flawed in respecting it enough to keep its distance.
I can't think of any US service I am using that doesn't already require KYC? None of the large providers will let you get far without a credit card, as far as I remember?
Since the discussion here will consider itself mostly with upright revolutionaries being disenfranchised by such insult to their liberties, it is worth noting that when the revolutionaries are foreigners, the US often doesn't have the same incentive to disenfranchise them as it might have for domestic troublemakers.
In fact the US has quite a track record of granting rights to foreigners in excess of what they find at home, and even when it concerns allies: request by European courts and law enforcement are regularly rejected based on US norms when, for example, someone hosts their hat speech blog with an US-only provider.
Provides the prerequisites for an authoritarian regime when they inevitable coopt the internet
Well some authoritarian regime would otherwise just do it whenever it got started, and it would require maybe a week?
IfOnlyYouKnew commented on Package management on macOS with Nix-Darwin davi.sh/blog/2024/01/nix-... · Posted by u/photonbucket
I have all the love and appreciation in the world for enjoying a weekend spent in configuration files. But I feel the need to state the obvious:
This is a long blog post ending with a preview to "future installments of the guide" to use nix, while almost everything that you need to know with homebrew is `brew install/update/upgrade/uninstall`, and I have rarely run into any trouble with brew, and none at all in recent memory.
IfOnlyYouKnew commented on Facebook tracking is illegal in Europe tutanota.com/blog/posts/f... · Posted by u/starsep
>This is civil law, not criminal. Presumption of innocence doesn’t apply.
If the court is so sure that the plaintiff will prevail, why even have a trial? The answer is that until the court rules, barring 100% certainty of the plaintiff prevailing, you have to wait for the court's deliberation or you have only oppression and no justice at all. Both sides must have a chance to make their case.
In civil law, the roles of plaintiff and defendant are largely interchangeable. If you order food and don't like it, the restaurant might sue you for payment. Or you need to sue the restaurant if you already paid. It's rather arbitrary, being only based on the order of the exchange of food and money.
In any case, take it up the law, because it is as I said: the burden of proof is different, its "preponderance of the evidence", i. e. 50%.
IfOnlyYouKnew commented on Facebook tracking is illegal in Europe tutanota.com/blog/posts/f... · Posted by u/starsep
> The EU decision will not have direct consequences for users, unfortunately, as it can be appealed to. Such an appeal would lead to a lengthy judicial process.
So companies can flout the law for years, making massive profits, and continue to do so for as long as they can string along an appeal process? Seems like a pretty nice loophole.
They do risk mounting fines by continuing the practice.
IfOnlyYouKnew commented on Facebook tracking is illegal in Europe tutanota.com/blog/posts/f... · Posted by u/starsep
Not doing so would allow mere allegations to put your business on hold until the entire court process, all the way to the highest court, if applicable, is complete. It's not a loophole. It's a fundamental tenant of innocent until proven guilty.
This is civil law, not criminal. Presumption of innocence doesn’t apply.
IfOnlyYouKnew commented on Volatile pay for gig workers linked to health problems apa.org/news/press/releas... · Posted by u/hhs
Nobody's forcing anybody to deliver your teriyaki. You're paying a premium so you don't have to leave the house. Someone's freely choosing to earn some money to provide your premium service. They've decided that delivering your thing is better for them than not delivering your thing.
The overthinking involved in this stuff is bizarre.
“They’ve decided that picking the cotton is better than refusing to do so”.
Edit, because people share a characteristic with heavy metals: the point is that a “choice” made under economic duress is not made freely. Slavery is an extreme example used to make the point more obvious. The threat of violence used to compel people to work the fields is obviously worse than, but not necessarily qualitatively different from, the threat of abject poverty if one refuses to take low-paying insecure jobs.
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