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VWWHFSfQ commented on Rahm Emanuel says U.S. should follow Australia's youth social media ban   politico.com/news/2025/12... · Posted by u/RickJWagner
watwut · 6 days ago
> They would prefer to ban it completely, but that most likely runs afoul of the Constitution. So their next best bet is just to try to limit it to over-18s.

They dont care about constitution. And they are in position to reinterpret it however they want to, regardless of its text and meaning.

VWWHFSfQ · 6 days ago
If that was actually true then states would have banned or blocked already. This is not a new issue and it has been challenged unsuccessfully many times.
VWWHFSfQ commented on Rahm Emanuel says U.S. should follow Australia's youth social media ban   politico.com/news/2025/12... · Posted by u/RickJWagner
everdrive · 6 days ago
It's interesting, because quite a lot of the pornography ID laws are passed by Republicans and popular among Republicans. I don't mean this as a "both sides" sort of argument, but rather that modern tech seems to be unpopular among all constituents, even if different groups have their preferred villain.
VWWHFSfQ · 6 days ago
I feel like those laws are different because they specifically target pornography, which is seen as an evangelical moral sin. They would prefer to ban it completely, but that most likely runs afoul of the Constitution. So their next best bet is just to try to limit it to over-18s.

Obviously the end result is the same, but I think the motivation is different.

VWWHFSfQ commented on Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables   nkinternet.com/2025/12/08... · Posted by u/Bezod
petcat · 6 days ago
Can we back up and just recognize how insane North Korea is? I think that future generations will look back on our history and wonder why nobody ever did anything about the incredible atrocities that took place in that country for decades.
VWWHFSfQ · 6 days ago
It will definitely go down as one of the biggest failures of mankind. Especially since it was so easily preventable if MacArthur was permitted to just take the whole peninsula.
VWWHFSfQ commented on EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance   reclaimthenet.org/eu-coun... · Posted by u/fragebogen
squigz · 17 days ago
I'm very curious what people in this thread think is happening now

Do you think Meta, Google and them are not scanning every bit of data hosted on their servers to ensure they're not hosting things they don't want to?

Do you think they don't cooperate with governments to share those findings?

I don't disagree that this push is silly, ineffective, and bad for democracy. We should fight it and fight for the right to privacy.

However, people are acting like we have privacy right now. What evidence is there for that?

VWWHFSfQ · 17 days ago
This is such a weird sentiment and I see it often when talking about EU politics. Is this just how the European constituency feels? Just like beatdown citizens in a government they have no passion about and no control over?
VWWHFSfQ commented on EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance   reclaimthenet.org/eu-coun... · Posted by u/fragebogen
liminvorous · 17 days ago
I believe 4chan is taking ofcom to court for trying to restrict their first amendment rights rather than blocking the UK, at least I'm still able to access it without a vpn.
VWWHFSfQ · 17 days ago
> restrict their first amendment rights

how is this relevant in the UK

VWWHFSfQ commented on Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving    · Posted by u/prodigycorp
AlotOfReading · 18 days ago
The term "slave" encompasses a lot of wildly different kinds of unfree labor. The racialized system most people think of from transatlantic slavery is a very recent thing.

Nothing resembling that was widespread in precolumbian North America. The earliest similar systems I'm aware of took root in the 17th and 18th centuries, well into the early colonial period.

VWWHFSfQ · 18 days ago
Research what the Iroquois did to the Huron people, what the Apache did to the Pueblos, and what the Aztecs did to everybody.

The continent what a slaughter show for thousands of years.

VWWHFSfQ commented on Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving    · Posted by u/prodigycorp
VWWHFSfQ · 18 days ago
North American natives were exterminating and enslaving each other long before the Europeans got there.

Nobody has anything to be proud of.

VWWHFSfQ commented on APT Rust requirement raises questions   lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
epolanski · 20 days ago
The problem is that rust is being shoved in pointless places with a rewrite-everything-in-rust mentality.

There's lunatics that want to replace basic Unix tools like sudo, etc, that are battle tested since ages which has been a mess of bugs till now.

Instead Rust should find it's niches beyond rewriting what works, but tackling what doesn't.

VWWHFSfQ · 20 days ago
Is the apt package manager a pointless place? It seems like a pretty foundational piece of supply chain software with a large surface area.
VWWHFSfQ commented on France threatens GrapheneOS with arrests / server seizure for refusing backdoors   mamot.fr/@LaQuadrature/11... · Posted by u/nabakin
GeekyBear · 21 days ago
> they could, by eg signing a malicious OS update

They successfully argued in court that being forced to insert code the government wanted would be equivalent to compelled speech, in violation of the first amendment.

As the Feds often do, they dropped the case instead of allowing it to set a precedent they didn't want.

VWWHFSfQ · 21 days ago
> They successfully argued in court that being forced to insert code the government wanted would be equivalent to compelled speech

This isn't true, they never "successfully argued in court". There was never any judgement, and no precedent. They resisted a court order briefly before the FBI withdrew the request after finding another way into the device.

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