Historical reasons. Manufacturers could book a sale when they shiped a car to a dealership. Want to keep your dealership franchise? You'll accept X cars per month. You figure out how to sell them. So now manufacturers have stable 'sales' figures to make investors happy.
After some time, laws were passed against these abuses. But the same laws protected dealership franchises, so they persist.
Right. But being non-lethal, there is less to discourage cops from using this technology against the "$15 per hour now" marches instead of potentially violent confrontations.
Police are there to protect the public order, not your civil rights. And public order is often defined by the upper classes as not wanting to see a bunch of dirty hippies marching with signs.
So you wouldn't mind if videos of your own kids * being raped were being passed around?
What does tht have to do with mapping every device on the Internet?
First of all, kiddie porn isn't an NSA, GCHQ problem. That's for the FBI, local law enforcement and their foreign equivalents to pursue. NSA and GCHQ are primarily involved with monitoring their respective internal populations for the purpose of political control and suppressing dissent. Unfortunately they seem to be co-opting local law enforcement into supporting their mission rather than pursuing criminal activity, including kiddie porn.
The TOR protocol was developed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory to protect secure government online communications. So when a Comcast rep contacts you, ask him what business they have intercepting secure communications channels. And then ask him for his name and current location and request that he remain there until FBI agents can respons to his location. Then hang up.
This.
Plus I don't need some crooks (Congress, competitors with deep pockets) looking over my shoulder and front-running any of my venture capital deals.
You think Snowden was a unique case? Not by a long shot. The only difference between him and many other people scraping up NSA data is that he released it to the public instead of handing it to some buddies in exchange for Hookers 'n Blow.
Still gotta work on that drool from the corner of the mouth.
I don't see any freedoms being preserved here.
Sure, there are lots of nasty people like pedos online. And I support law enforcement in their reasonable efforts to remove them. But aside from soothing my conscience, whether some people are downloading kiddie porn or not doesn't affect me.
Probably using something like supercookies.
The USPTO has experienced all three problems, and financial investors in lots of different tech companies have paid dearly.
That's the principle behind government: They play with other people's money, other people's intellectual property, other people's freedoms. So when they f*ck up, other people suffer.
It's called sovereign immunity.
signed,
R2D2
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