Comment They watched Continuum (Score 1) 98
and instead of seeing how the slippery slope of power led to the corruption of the individuals they thought to themselves, "I want to get me some of that".
Can I be the one who decides who is undesirable and gets silenced?
No, that's Anakin Skywalker's job.
So to protect against silencing, you're going to silence?
Well, if one bully can silence 100 shrinking violets, by removing the bully, twitter will get less silence as the shrinking violets have conversations about how important everyones feelings are on whatever subject matter is worth tweeting about.
If your goal was to get as many eyeballs looking at ads on your platform, wouldn't you trade one bully for 100 shrinking violets?
Is handing out torches to angry villagers. Going to be interesting to see how they square this.
Shouldn't that be everybody's business model, supplying a need for the largest market? Do you think there are more angry villagers, or more victims being lynched?
Do you think that no science was used in the European countries who all banned GMOs?
Yes, those bans came from fear mongering.
your irrational fear is nothing but illiteracy and ignorance
I think I have an irrational fear of sentences with no capitol letters in them. It makes me feel that the person authoring them is illiterate and ignorant.
Things DO NOT need to be connected to the internet.
I wonder if that will become the definition of a 'thing' in a generation.
Thing: An item which is connected to the internet.
This is a little bit different than Internet Exploder, which MS was forcing people to keep installed when using the OS. But one could just as easily type www.yahoo.com into the URL, or even www.bing.com into the URL.
But could just as easily launch Netscape from their desktop as they could IE from their desktop.
You couldn't buy a computer (and still can't) without Windows.
But with a computer you could always buy the parts and build your own. Slashdot will regularly feature posts from companies selling non-Windows computers. Just because IE is installed doesn't force you to use it.
A couple of months after Danielle and Alexander Meitiv were found responsible for “unsubstantiated neglect” for letting Rafi, 10, and Dvora, 6, walk home from a park close to where they live in downtown Silver Spring, they gave the children permission to do it again. Responding to a call from a citizen, police collected the children and took them to CPS in Montgomery where, 5 1/2 anxious hours later, they were reunited with their parents.
Manages to insert the government even more in the internet.
Given that we all first started receiving the internet over telephone lines which were subject to Title II, how does saying "Even though you're no longer connecting via a telephone line, you still have to follow Title II" insert even more government to the internet. It's keeping the same amount of government in our internet.
Why have innovation and free markets when we can have government regulations?
If you've ever read 'On the Wealth of Nations' (the book that kind of defined free markets), you'll notice how most of the book is laying out the required government regulations needed to create a free market. The two aren't mutually exclusive. A free market depends upon government regulations which prevent incumbent players from destroying the free market.
Of course there are government regulations which also cripple free markets, but don't kid yourself into thinking that the lack of government regulations are a free market. They're not.
IF You want to fix the "Comcast vs Netflix" problem, fix the last mile problem first. IF consumers actually had a choice in providers, beyond Cable vs others, you'd see better customer service.
That would be ideal, but given the reality on the ground, that's not going to happen. The FCC can fix Comcast vs Everyone via Title II, it can't fix every municipal ordinance all across the country.
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn
