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Comment In Trump's America (Score 1) 183

by tdpaperst on Monday April 09, 2018 @11:35AM (#56406431) Attached to: FDA Worried Drug Was Risky; Now Reports of Deaths Spark Concern

'In Trump's America, you don't get healthcare, healthcare gets you!'

Comment Re:No different from China (Score 1) 262

by tdpaperst on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @01:45PM (#53433989) Attached to: YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft Will Create 'Hash' Database To Remove Extremist Content

Tell me how this is any different than what China does, then. You might as well have a Ministry of Truth.

I'll be glad to tell you the difference. In China, the censorship is from the government; this article is referring to private businesses. Clear enough?

It's still chilling and pervasive censorship!? You can call the oppressors what you will, they are still oppressors of human freedom. Who has more real power in the world: companies, governments... people? Will you actually be allowed to see this message? Think for yourself

Submission + - Small Businesses Sue Credit Card Giants For Forcing Them To Adopt Chip Readers (computerworld.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @04:54PM

An anonymous reader writes: A federal judge has ruled it is plausible that four national credit-card companies improperly conspired “in lockstep” to set a deadline of Oct. 1, 2015 for requiring retailers to upgrade their technology to accept embedded chip cards for credit and debit card purchases. In an order issued Friday (Case number C 16-01150 WHA), U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup agreed with two small Florida businesses — B & R Supermarket and Grove Liquors — which brought the lawsuit in March. Alsup’s ruling also allows the antitrust case against Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover Financial Services to move forward in federal court for the Northern District of California. The two retailers are seeking to create a class-action case involving millions of small retailers who have been required under the Oct. 1, 2015 deadline to assume liability for fraudulent card charges if they haven’t upgraded to the more-secure chip card technology instead of magnetic-stripe cards. The retailers believe there was industry conspiracy over creation of the deadline that violates fair trade practices. In the same ruling, the judge allowed two other retailers — Los Angeles-based gourmet food chain Monsieur Marcel and New York-based grocery story chain Fine Fare — to intervene in the case. Lawyers for the retailers have said a class-action lawsuit could include 8 million U.S. small businesses. They would seek repayment of the cost of upgrading to chip card readers and related software, estimated at $6 billion. However, the National Retail Federation has recently estimated the total cost of the conversion in the U.S. at up to $35 billion.

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