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• On the post: Bad Ideas: Raising The Arbitrary Age Of Internet Service 'Consent' To 16

  

  guy ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2020 @ 07:37pm

  Re:

  It's not like there isn't a lengthy public process during which people can warn them about any consequences the legislators didn't forsee.

• On the post: When We Fail To Understand Privacy As A Set Of Trade-Offs, Everyone's 'Solutions' Are Unhelpful

  

  guy ( profile ), 25 Dec, 2019 @ 05:52pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: The lawmakers should look in a mirror

  Federal law invariably trumps State law under the Supremacy Clause, but the Federal government is constrained in what sorts of laws it can pass, with most of them relying on some extension of the power to regulate interstate commerce. This includes regulating emissions standards under the Clean Air Act, but California has been granted a waiver allowing them to set stricter standards.

• On the post: Herrick V. Grindr – The Section 230 Case That's Not What You've Heard

  

  guy ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2019 @ 10:53am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Also all the lawyer review sites he is threatening other commentors with.

• On the post: Filters Suck Out Loud: Tumblr's Porn Filters Flag Tumblr's Examples Of Allowed Content

  

  guy ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2018 @ 09:28am

  Re: Frankly...

  Apparently the App Store required the game Six Ages to avoid direct references to the use of drugs in shaman rituals.
  
  It did not require censorship of the Raven rituals in which you kidnap a charioteer and torture them to death over several hours.

• On the post: The Next Level Of Tech Activism: Google Employees Walk Out, Demand Changes From Management

  

  guy ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2018 @ 07:55am

  Re: "The Next Level Of Tech Activism:"

  Yes, but tech unions are uncommon.

• On the post: The Next Level Of Tech Activism: Google Employees Walk Out, Demand Changes From Management

  

  guy ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2018 @ 07:54am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Chief Morale Officer???

  If no one took risks in the aerospace industry there wouldn't be one.

• On the post: The Next Level Of Tech Activism: Google Employees Walk Out, Demand Changes From Management

  

  guy ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2018 @ 07:51am

  Re: Re: Re: And tomorrow's headline...

  Odds are very good it would only happen once because those positions would go unfilled.

• On the post: The Next Level Of Tech Activism: Google Employees Walk Out, Demand Changes From Management

  

  guy ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2018 @ 07:50am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: And tomorrow's headline...

  Yeah it turns out that when you make an example of employees that just tells everyone they need to find new jobs.

• On the post: As Everyone Knows, In The Age Of The Internet, Privacy Is Dead — Which Is Awkward If You Are A Russian Spy

  

  guy ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2018 @ 01:34pm

  Does... does the GRU not know how to put fake addresses into a database?