Ok I'll bite. I had almost half a grand sunk into Warframe and then had my account locked. When I finally got a response from them about it, it was in the form of an incredibly rude email accusing me of stealing their premium currency. They will unlock my account for $275.
I have never stolen a premium currency. Or even a sub-prime currency. I generally earn currencies, in fact.
So yeah, Warframe stole my money and then accused me of theft.
This could have been a massively useful tool for rescue services.
Privacy isn't a concern for me when I'd willingly and openly share information, and I'd certainly be doing that if I could fucking trust the police.
Policing is getting way too complicated and nuanced to just keep going with the armed goon approach.
What specifically is the harm to others in arguing the point? Fear it will catch on and everyone will want to run around offing everyone they see?
Why else would you be doing that?
If Amazon were entering contracts with sellers requiring them to raise the price on Walmart (instead of lowering them on Amazon), then you'd have a situation like Apple was doing with ebook sellers and worthy of FTC investigation. But as long as sellers are free to raise prices on the rival site OR lower the price on Amazon to match, there's no problem.
Were you arguing against Amazon falling afoul of antitrust laws? This seems like it would run afoul of antitrust laws.
The underlying problem is that too many programmers are willing to copy and paste code rather than think through what they need to code.
The underlying problem is that we're asked to reinvent tiny wheels all day long, solving trivial problems that have been solved before by people more interested in the specific problem.
We shouldn't be asking why people are copying bad code, we should be asking why they need to.
The moon is made of green cheese. -- John Heywood