A clearly marked journalist following someone to see what they're going to do - almost like it's their job. Doesn't sounds like the flock installer mentioned to 911 that the person taking videos and pictures, following and "harassing" him (that he knew for a fact) was wearing clearly-marked identification of a local news station. Of course, that wouldn't have instilled the same urgency. I wouldn't be surprised at all if Flock techs are instructed to call 911 on reporters trying to observe them. Predictably, people taking part in the surveillance are the ones who dislike being surveilled the most.

So... I guess the Police should be sued for false advertising for putting "To Protect and Serve" on all the vehicles.

And, apparently, Altman lies - a lot.

Google: sam altman lies

Wait until they try to cancel on online subscription or call their ISP's (*cough* Comcast *cough*) Customer Support. :-)

You haven't thought that through very well. "Free market society" is not an ideology. Classic liberalism, which typically leads to a market economy, is an ideology. If capitalism is a synonym to "free market society" it is therefore not an ideology. You can't mix terms like that.

1. Not in a free society. Duh! Why should slavery be banned? If an adult voluntarily enters a contract you consider slavery, who are you to overrule that person's choice. The only thing that should be banned is being born into slavery. Communist.

2. Lies etc are part of freedom of speech. No, government has no right to regulate it in a free society. It is actually the government's fault that lies etc can be spread like that: the government forces people (children) to go to school for 10 years and follow a governmental prescribed curriculum. Despite all that time spend in the educational system, a lot of people are unable to discern truth from lies. On a free market, such low quality services would be completely unacceptable.

3. Yes it is. It is derived from the fact that you own yourself. There is no philosophical difference between different types of contract. You would realise that if you weren't a stupid socialist.

WTF are you talking about with your reference to 2nd amendment? And why are you talking about US law in a thread about Australian legislation where you are discussing with a European (me)? Why are Americans so ignorant and stupid?

It had to be done manually. :-)

Looking forward to the AIs becoming politicians and/or billionaires. /s

In future dystopian news: At some point we were stupid enough to start also treating AIs like people, like we do corporations, and Claude, a U.S. "citizen", turned 35, ran for President, and people in colored hats elected it. (sigh)

Ya, but they want all the rights and privileges w/o any of the responsibilities and liabilities.

Well... either send some high-level executive(s) to jail and/or fine the company harder than what would amount to a slap on the wrist pocket-change. But you're right in that their corporate victims should be able to get some relief/compensation - just as if an actual person in the company had committed those crimes.

These companies, owned/run by the richest people on the planet, shouldn't get a pass because, "Oops, the AI did it, our bad." There's no "oops" here.

Given the comp-bro-tition among these companies, I wouldn't bet against that. /s

Noting that a US federal court says no constitutional right to clean water in Mississippi case so I'm guessing they'll feel the same way about clean air.

To be fair though, the article also noted this my the majority judges:

Who knows what (this) SCOTUS would rule no matter what case is pursued.

You don't know what you are talking about. First of all, there is no such thing as "capitalism", see here for details https://dagens-fel.livejournal...

1. Your point is completely wrong. Who's responsible to show that something causes harm is a matter of contract. It could be the seller's responsibility, but it could also be the buyer's responsibility. It all depends on what was agreed upon.

2. So what? No one is forcing you to use social media.

3. Government regulations violates the basic human right of freedom of contract. I bet you won't be that happy with that when you are the victim of that and e.g., can't marry whoever you want to marry (love based marriages are one example of freedom of contract in practise) or have the friends you want to be friend with (another example of freedom of contract).

From TFS:

My actual passport fits in both the front and back pockets of my jeans. If it was thicker, like this phone, it would probably be a more difficult fit in the front pocket, where I usually carry my Pixel 5a - I never carry my phone in a back pocket.