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Comment Re:Technopeasants Won't Care What it Sends to Goog (Score 1) 46

I'm sure there are many reasons people pay for MS Office when Google Docs is free.

Personally, I wanted a real-time cloud backup system, so I chose OneDrive, which costs about the same as other cloud backup systems

But you said "People will always choose the free versions".

Comment Re:Not a sure thing. (Score 1) 177

Just as you do not care about harms to children

There you go assuming my opinion again. I actually do care about harm to children, which is why I don't like bullshit that makes you feel better but does nothing to stop harm to children.

The internet is more closely aligned to the road, and web sites are the stores. Anyone can walk along the road, but to enter some stores, proof age is required.

Okay, let's go with that.
If you go into a store that requires proof of age, purchase a porn mag, and put it on the road outside the store, or at the playground, or at the community center... a child can look at it. The porn mag is not going to ask for any proof of age before it opens. It is still only the purchasing that is behind an age check. Checking ID at the door simply moves the point of that age check.
Buying a gun is behind an age check in the US too, by the way. Heck possessing is too in most states (minors are only supposed to use them in certain situations and/or with supervision). The age checks clearly aren't doing shit.
Porn is available in civilized countries too. Laws about internet porn are very new - civilized countries had internet porn without age verification laws for decades. And the USA was fucked up long before the internet came along. (And actually, violent crime has been steady going down in the US since the world wide web came along. That's an observed correlation, I'm not suggesting any causation.) So porn ain't the problem and even if it was forcing 4chan to do age checks wouldn't do shit about it.

If stores dont want to obey OUR laws, then lock their doors against us

Sorry, the US has anti-discrimination laws, so a store that locked out foreigners would be breaking OUR laws. You'll just have to not go in.

Web sites that have no "adult" content, eg most stores,

Hold on now. Most stores in the US do have "adult content" (alcohol, cigarettes, lottery tickets, etc. And some things that don't require age verification but that I would consider adult content, but I won't get into that). The only time age verification is needed at the door is when a store has exclusively adult content. So, by the logic of web sites are the stores, 4chan wouldn't even be one that has to ID at the door. They would, again, only have to ID when someone purchases something.
And if you don't plan on going into any place nor buying anything that requires age verification, you can leave your ID at home and you can still walk on the road. Heck you're not even required to get an ID, actually.

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