Now do the % of the time news content misrepresents the subject matter it is reporting on.
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caesil commented on 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/donpott
I wouldn't be so sure it's an ideological stand.
4chan got hacked a while back because they were running a totally outdated software stack. It's been pretty much abandoned by its owner hiromoot.
If they aren't going to update the site for basic maintainance, they definitely aren't going to implement all this chat control/ age verification bullcrap.
I suppose a resistance to change is good when your competitors are burying their own graves.
I wonder what they're going to do when the states mandating age verification for pornographic content start coming for them.
Very similar to these dystopian foreign laws. But because they're US states 4chan will not be able to use the "we only recognize US law" defense.
Cloudflare is an enemy of the open and freely accessible web.
caesil commented on Large ancient Hawaiian petroglyphs uncovered by waves on Oahu sfgate.com/hawaii/article... · Posted by u/c420
caesil commented on US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/gausswho
caesil commented on US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/gausswho
What consumer does this serve at all? What citizen does this serve at all?
This only serves to allow firms to erect effort barriers to keep rent seeking fro their customers. The "gotcha" that the Khan FTC didn't "follow the rules making process" is parallel construction.
If you actually bother to click through and read the article, you'd find the court expressed sympathies with the intent of the rule, but the FTC "is required to conduct a preliminary regulatory analysis when a rule has an estimated annual economic effect of $100 million or more", and they did not do that.
The blame here belongs to the FTC for its rushed and sloppy process that put the rule on shaky ground legally.
It’s amazing how twisted the term “anti-competitive” has become. Where anti-competitive companies push for anti-competitive regulations under the false pretense of preventing anti-competitiveness.
Google is being competitive.
YC is being anti-competitive.
Because they suck at competing against Google and they want to get unfair, unethical advantage themselves.
Imagine spending years and billions building something and then I show up and say “hey man that’s not fair, give me a slice of that thing for free. Oh and also I’m probably going to sell it back to you someday for a lot of money”.
And before someone tells me “that’s the law”, I don’t care. If that’s the law then it should be changed. Laws have been written (and lobbied) for all sorts of reasons and surprisingly not all of them are fair and ethical.
It’s amazing how twisted the term “anti-competitive” has become. Where anti-competitive companies push for anti-competitive regulations under the false pretense of preventing anti-competitiveness.
Standard Oil is being competitive.
The U.S. oil refining and distribution industry is being anti-competitive.
Because they suck at competing against Standard Oil and they want to get unfair, unethical advantage themselves.
Imagine spending years and billions building something and then I show up and say “hey man that’s not fair, give me a slice of that thing”.
And before someone tells me “that’s the Sherman Act”, I don’t care. If that’s the law then it should be changed. Laws have been written (and lobbied) for all sorts of reasons and surprisingly not all of them are fair and ethical.
(I hope this illustrates how easy it is to make this exact argument about literally any monopoly.)
caesil commented on The <select> element can now be customized with CSS developer.chrome.com/blog... · Posted by u/tosh
That's fair, but I assume that is the initial implementation. Surely, over time, browser vendors will want to make the full spectrum of select functionality available consistently.
I don't think browsers will ever let web code affect things outside the viewport because scammers would cook up some truly zany things with that power.
caesil commented on NLRB acting general counsel rescinds non-compete labor policy natlawreview.com/article/... · Posted by u/moonka
Does this matter? Corporations are on notice that this pendulum may swing the other way in four years (and remains permanently stuck the other way in certain states). They might just decide to steer clear of this minefield.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44XYQepBF7g
The patent expiry sealed the deal.