Comment Re: Only a matter of time... (Score 1) 277
says the homophobe.
The principle of "innocent until proven guilty" means that there should be quite a few dangerous people out there
This is a bit of a false dichotomy. Democratic law enforcement does not hinder the overall quality of law enforcement. Just look at the US, where over the last 30 years, all liberal protections of law have been more or less whittled away to optional, has done little to keep criminals off the streets. Guilty until proven innocent prevents false convictions, which actually helps keeping dangerous people off the streets, because a false conviction closes the case and lets a guilty man walk free(in addition to incarcerating an innocent one).
Even if it did work like this, its a small price to pay to keep institutionalized abusive behavior from happening, if the price is only a handful of petty crimes. Or think about it this way. The police shoot and kill more people every year that all spree shooters did between 1985 and 2015. Most of the really bad abuse behavior done in the USA is done by policians, cops, corporations and their representatives, and other authority figures.
The wierd way that people complain about the state not protcecting them at the same time as trying to talk away all regulation power from the state shows some kind of really strong mental dissonance.
I think the wierd way you confuse "unlimited police powers", with "unlimited police abilities", as if people complaining about police abuse don't want the police to do their legtimate jobs. So your point is a strawman.
1. Jurisdiction. You're suing an American company in America for what happened in another country. If this law suit was in India, against Uber's Indian subsidiary I'd be more sympathetic
2. India has problems with rape, that at least what I get from reading American news, is even worse than American rape culture. It would be entirely out of line for an American company to try and effect change in India. India has to address rape culture on its own.
3. What exactly do you want them to do. Background checks against rapists are fairly sketchy because rape is undereported and convictions hard. i.e. most rapists don't get convicted.
India has a notable rape problem as a whole(so does the US to a degree), and there is no unilateral action that you can demand of Uber that will fix that.
The larger crime is the amount of time they spent raking some nerds over the coals, and completely missed the handful of domestic assault cases in the news involving NFL players and the rape case against Bill Cosby, and subsequent rape apologism. Roman Polanski(movie producer who admitted to raping a 13 year old girl, and fled the country), is now trying to get back in, and I've heard so called "feminists" apologize for all of the above.
But no, one nerd says something remotely misogynist, and its a "war on women".
Modern feminism is nothing more than Public Relations, Media Department, to keep consumers consumers, and attack anyone who questions the status quo.
socialist movements were mainly formed by people working in factories and coal mines.
you are being whole decietful on ideaology.
When you feel the need to risk your life to get out of this country you can talk about how the U.S. is just as bad
No sir, you are talking about an unrelated issue. People are not comming over here on rafts because the government is regulating the internet.
I am strictly talking about information systems networks. There is no country on earth where such a network exists that does not abide by rules set forth by the government, and the operators of such network do not cooperate at the highest of levels with that government. This has nothing to do with communism. I am simply stipulating that you measure all with the same stick. Nothing more.
utilities will upgrade as often as it is pushed on the ballot. the US trails far behind the world as far as bandwith goes.
Things like Google Fiber(which are still mostly run by municipalities) are an order of 10 times faster than commericial offerings, and most commericial offerings refuse to even try and catch up, but instead attack Google, and various municipalities for competing with them.
There never was a free market for utilities, and its somewhat impossible for a private company to own the infrastructure to really do so.(running a physical line through a whole patchwork of private properties). It also makes competition hard, because every company needs its own infrastructure.
Also, many places cable companies have next to zero competition, and have been extremely notorious at anti-competative practices. A "Free Market" monopoly has no benefit over a government run monopoly, anywhere. The slightest bit of democracy, gives citizens at least some recourse.
Eletricity generation after de-regulation has shown no viable market, as its near impossible to even gather basic information on competative prices.
But we can get to the pre-broadband era of internet, where there was a viable market for dial-up services. This worked extremelly well, customers had real choice, and competition drove both quality and price to a point which was very much acceptable for consumers. However, this market scenario relyed on the extremely regulated public switched phone network, which had extremely strong rules on network neutrality in place to let this happen.
Truely Free markets do not exist except when a there is a strong foundation of "The Commons", allowing equal access to the market.
Technology companies that want to sell equipment to Chinese banks will have to submit to extensive audits, turn over source code, and build âoeback doorsâ into their hardware and software, according to a copy of the rules obtained by foreign companies already doing billions of dollar worth of business in the country.
Sounds like the US Government's policy, and I'm not even joking.
"free market" capitalism never existed except for brief 10 year peroids in history, where the eventual monopolies that form cement their rule, ending competition in exchange for stability.
public utility broadband would be like google fiber, 1 GB/s to the home for about what you pay for fiber, with little ifs ands or buts.
Before you say anything about the government restricting or controlling it, the snowden leaks have shown that "private" ownership of utilities is fairly useless to prevent government spying, as the government just goes behind their back(using spycraft, which corporations can do little to counter), and most of the companies simply co-operated with the government one way or another.
check the date: Sun Mar 31 17:22:15
yeah, just a few hours shy of April 1.
To do nothing is to be nothing.
