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fuscy commented on EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expression and competition eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01... · Posted by u/manigandham

kowdermeister · 7 years ago

I want to open a i-shirt store and I'm in the EU. None of these will prevent me.

Edit: typo... t-shirt

fuscy · 7 years ago

I have no idea what i-shirt is but it's likely that if an user uses copyrighted material for his i-shirt, you'll have to pay because it's your platform. Bonus points for not using a censorship filter in trying to do this.

fuscy commented on Article 13 is almost finished and will change the internet as we know it juliareda.eu/2019/01/arti... · Posted by u/philipps

tomp · 7 years ago

Isn't that just straight abuse of the law? AFAIK GDPR only protects your personal information, it can't be used to request someone else's personal information (if anything, you could argue that GDPR prevents you from giving out another person's info).

fuscy · 7 years ago

This isn't the police or the parliament asking for the information. It's the regulatory body that does inspections to companies to see if they respect GDPR.

So the pretext they're using is that they want to see the information to make sure that the news organisation is not selling it or mishandling it to other third parties. In the process, they'll be able to get the information and maybe it will go to the people involved in the corruption charges (which is the head of one part of the Parliament).

fuscy commented on Article 13 is almost finished and will change the internet as we know it juliareda.eu/2019/01/arti... · Posted by u/philipps

drewbuschhorn · 7 years ago

I feel like we had this exact same argument over GDPR, but no horror stories have descended about Mom and Pop operations run out of business but the evil Brusselcrats.

fuscy · 7 years ago

This is not related to business but there's a horror story with Romania (it's in the EU) asking a news organization to provide informants information related to some corruption leaks.

The information is requested by the national GDPR enforcer so it bypasses the prevention written in the GDPR about news leaks.

Now there's a trial going around with this which blocked any further spread of that information until it's solved. It can be easily seen how the GDPR can be weaponized.

fuscy commented on Facebook accused of striking 'secret deals over user data' bbc.com/news/technology-4... · Posted by u/arduinomancer

mellow-lake-day · 7 years ago

Being 19 isn't a free pass to do anything. At 19 you are old enough to vote, drive, serve in the army, etc — and old enough to understand that words have consequences and that calling people "dumb fucks" when they give you their SSN is pretty cruel.

I'm not much older than 19 now, maybe you can use this conversation for your purpose.

fuscy · 7 years ago

The idea is not to hold people to their actions for all time. Even people who have been in jail are considered reformed. It's like someone holding you to your words when you were 4 and said you wanted to be an astronaut (maybe).

fuscy commented on Facebook accused of striking 'secret deals over user data' bbc.com/news/technology-4... · Posted by u/arduinomancer

ilovecaching · 7 years ago

> https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/05/seized-cache-of-facebook-d...

"The documents were obtained by a legal discovery process by a startup that’s suing the social network in a California court in a case related to Facebook changing data access permissions back in 2014/15.

The court had sealed the documents but the DCMS committee used rarely deployed parliamentary powers to obtain them from the Six4Three founder, during a business trip to London."

Um, what? This is bullshit. I'm much more concerned about the misuse of government power to seize documents in court cases outside of the country of jurisdiction than I am of Facebook.

Whether or not these acts of populism are genuine, governments that abuse their power are just as bad as companies that skirt the law.

fuscy · 7 years ago

Well I'd be worried if there's the power with no oversight to request anything from personal nudes to the Coca Cola recipe and Area 51 secrets and then have no repercussions if made public.

fuscy commented on Facebook accused of striking 'secret deals over user data' bbc.com/news/technology-4... · Posted by u/arduinomancer

fuscy · 7 years ago

TL;DR required. I didn't quite get it from the article. Is Facebook accused of doing something illegal under the laws at the time of the action?

If I were to sue them for anything, do I have any grounds?

fuscy commented on Beijing to Judge Every Resident Based on Behavior by End of 2020 bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/lunchbreak

fuscy · 7 years ago

China doesn’t have a good track record of policies: the pest control, the one child. One could also argue that their economy is also showing a crisis in the future.

This system if it is unstable and has side effects will probably screw up two generations at least.

The main issue I see is that people with low scores can “infect” other people’s scores. Considering this like a viral phenomenon the score will be impacted starting with family, friends, colleagues, strangers. I can’t see a solution except going the old route of “killing the nine family relations”.

I can see some kind of ghetto of low social score people doing barter and what not.

There are some contradictions like donating blood giving good score but what if for someone with a low score. There goes empathy if punished.

Or some exploits like colluding and creating cartels of increasing social score artificially.

fuscy commented on Prosecutors Have Prepared Indictment of Julian Assange, a Filing Reveals nytimes.com/2018/11/16/us... · Posted by u/jbegley

fuscy · 7 years ago

The message being sent seems to be that shining light on government things, a hero makes not.

I'm not going to compare Assange with Superman, but remember that Superman was Clark Kent and he would have also shown the world if someone did nasty things while publicly wearing a halo of virtue (government).

fuscy commented on Crazy Work Hours and Lots of Cameras: a group from Silicon Valley visits China nytimes.com/2018/11/05/bu... · Posted by u/awad

toastking · 7 years ago

I think one thing that seems to be missed here is none of the products they showed were that original. It's not like WeChat was some amazing new idea. It was chat. Their only real advantage is a captive market.

fuscy · 7 years ago

Besides chat, WeChat allows a lot of stuff from hailing cabs, ordering food, doing payments, the sky is the limit because businesses can integrate with it.

On the other hand, I look at all Western social apps and cringe: Facebook made a big deal from launching their instant games for messenger, Twitch from allowing some extra monetization options, YouTube actually reducing opportunities for people to make money.

Look at China with their WeChat, Weibo, bilibili, QQ and many more..

I wish I could open Facebook, start doing a live and people can send me money (red packets, rockets, cute cats, auspicious objects etc.) for doing it, right there.

Meanwhile there's the EU where if you receive 5E, you have the IRS from 28 countries breathing down your neck, asking for their cut, fining you, smacking a GDPR notice because why not and passing legislation to "enable" competitive startups similar to the US (/semi-sarcastic).

fuscy commented on Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study phys.org/news/2018-10-mar... · Posted by u/daegloe

lmm · 7 years ago

I can't see any path to colonising the galaxy that doesn't start with colonising the solar system. It's always going to be a long term project, there are always going to be things on earth that look like more immediate priorities, but I want humanity to spread among the stars, and if we don't start now then when?

fuscy · 7 years ago

Humans are terribly designed for space exploration: die quickly, require sustenance, can't handle high G forces, can't handle radiation.

I always believed that if humanity is to colonize something, it would be through robots that do all the exploring and mining for us.