I no longer stream music. I prefer to buy second-hand CDs, then rip them to a lossless format and store the music on my home server.
Follow the money here... Someone has bought the CD and paid the producer. Then that person has sold his CD to me, no money goes to the producer in that transaction. Now I own the CD, but only use it one time to copy the contents into a format that will not wear out or scratch. Then I enjoy the content as much as I want.
The original producer only gets paid once.
Sometimes its more like asking the FedEx driver to carry a festering pile of excrement. When does the delivery driver finally say enough?
I mostly agree that infrastructure companies should not be in the business of content moderation. However, like most of these issues, things are not black-and-white but lie within a broad spectrum. Somewhere at the ends of that spectrum, refusal of service should be a viable option.
Population China 1400 million, population US 327 million.
Blocking Huawei in the US might look like a good move in the short term. A better move might be for companies like Cisco to try to be actually competitive in the global market.
Years ago, I was doing some db work for a state public housing department in Australia. This involved identifying housing that required maintenance or refurbishing (anything from new kitchen to painting walls) and assigning that work to an approved contractor.
One problem I remember was that the department rental agent would not let us go into certain houses. The reason was that they knew those were used by drug dealers and they were scared to go in there.
Being a naive IT guy and not well versed in the public sector, I suggested telling the police. Oh no, I was told, we have strict privacy guidelines so we cannot do that.
The privacy concerns were so onerous that I could not even obtain the tenants' names so that my we could send a personalised letter telling them that we were to do maintenance on the property. And that was sharing information within the same govt department.
Now I don't know what the situation is in Ireland, but certainly in Australia govt departments have privacy guidelines that preclude sharing information.
However, I would not be surprised if things are different for information gathered on the internet, because it's on a computer.
I see a few commenter here making the assumption that US breathalyser practice applies in Australia. But that is not how breath testing works here. In Oz the police set up a breath testing station, usually on an access road that is difficult to avoid, and then stop and test most cars that drive by. It is not necessary to see erratic behaviour. On busy roads some cars will be waved through at random so that traffic does not build up too much. We call this random breath testing.
The reasons that cops here would fake breath tests are either that they get tired and want to go home (unlikely since they work set hours) or that there's not enough traffic on the night to meet quotas.
Assume for a moment that industry lobbyists are right, and that NN leads to lower investment by ISPs. Why is this a valid argument to remove NN?
EPA pollution rules clearly lead to less investment by auto companies, yet we still have the rules. FDA rules lead to less investment by drug companies, it would obviously be much easier to bring new drugs to the market without all that onerous testing. Building regs probably help to make sure that buildings don't fall down, but they undoubtedly led to higher building costs and lower investment in the industry.
Rules and regulations are not there to boost investment.
Interesting Analogy
I no longer stream music. I prefer to buy second-hand CDs, then rip them to a lossless format and store the music on my home server. Follow the money here... Someone has bought the CD and paid the producer. Then that person has sold his CD to me, no money goes to the producer in that transaction. Now I own the CD, but only use it one time to copy the contents into a format that will not wear out or scratch. Then I enjoy the content as much as I want. The original producer only gets paid once.
Apt analogy?
Asking "the pilot to repair the plane"...
Sometimes its more like asking the FedEx driver to carry a festering pile of excrement. When does the delivery driver finally say enough?
I mostly agree that infrastructure companies should not be in the business of content moderation. However, like most of these issues, things are not black-and-white but lie within a broad spectrum. Somewhere at the ends of that spectrum, refusal of service should be a viable option.
Tangentially
Don't know if it's worth noting at this stage, but Trump has also repeatedly played down the severity of covid-19 using twitter.
Were it not for section 230, I imagine that someone would be holding twitter responsible for 370,000 deaths in the USA.
conflicting positions?
FBI - we can't tell you if we look at social media or not
FBI - please give us a magic password that will let us look at ALL electronic communications
Let's see where this goes
I look forward to Naruto registering his moves...
Could backfire on Cisco
Population China 1400 million, population US 327 million.
Blocking Huawei in the US might look like a good move in the short term. A better move might be for companies like Cisco to try to be actually competitive in the global market.
On YouTube...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEjvCRPrCo
What is a used BMW worth?
In the UK a couple of thousand pounds may be a fair price.
https://www.carsite.co.uk/used-car/bmw/option/pma/4000/pmi/2000
But, yes bad council.
Brilliant idea
But why stop so far down the stack?
Ban .mp4
Then .avi
Then...
No piracy!
Let's get this straight
If I put a document in a safe, and Wray suspects me of a crime, he wants to get a warrant for the safe company - not me?
Different if done on a computer?
Years ago, I was doing some db work for a state public housing department in Australia. This involved identifying housing that required maintenance or refurbishing (anything from new kitchen to painting walls) and assigning that work to an approved contractor.
One problem I remember was that the department rental agent would not let us go into certain houses. The reason was that they knew those were used by drug dealers and they were scared to go in there.
Being a naive IT guy and not well versed in the public sector, I suggested telling the police. Oh no, I was told, we have strict privacy guidelines so we cannot do that.
The privacy concerns were so onerous that I could not even obtain the tenants' names so that my we could send a personalised letter telling them that we were to do maintenance on the property. And that was sharing information within the same govt department.
Now I don't know what the situation is in Ireland, but certainly in Australia govt departments have privacy guidelines that preclude sharing information.
However, I would not be surprised if things are different for information gathered on the internet, because it's on a computer.
How breath testing is conducted
I see a few commenter here making the assumption that US breathalyser practice applies in Australia. But that is not how breath testing works here. In Oz the police set up a breath testing station, usually on an access road that is difficult to avoid, and then stop and test most cars that drive by. It is not necessary to see erratic behaviour. On busy roads some cars will be waved through at random so that traffic does not build up too much. We call this random breath testing.
The reasons that cops here would fake breath tests are either that they get tired and want to go home (unlikely since they work set hours) or that there's not enough traffic on the night to meet quotas.
Single cause
Naah you got it all wrong,
The one single cause of school shootings in the US is religious fundamentalism.
It is the mindset that this engenders that leads to the violent disregard for the lives of others.
Look at other countries where fundamental religion prevails, all violent.
It is time to call for banning of several religious groups in the US, not sensible gun control.
/shitstirring
Re: Obviously the response to this is to hack the phones
Perhaps set up a kickstarter campaign to fund some Russian hackers to record his conversations and post them publicly?
Re: Well, it's the plain ordinary bullets of brute force censorship,
Just a heads up, walking is best done in private.
Progress
I remember the days when Excel was sold with a big paper manual that taught you how to do all this stuff.
What happened to the "guy sitting on their bed who weighs 400 pounds."
Why is "investment" even an argument?
Assume for a moment that industry lobbyists are right, and that NN leads to lower investment by ISPs. Why is this a valid argument to remove NN?
EPA pollution rules clearly lead to less investment by auto companies, yet we still have the rules. FDA rules lead to less investment by drug companies, it would obviously be much easier to bring new drugs to the market without all that onerous testing. Building regs probably help to make sure that buildings don't fall down, but they undoubtedly led to higher building costs and lower investment in the industry.
Rules and regulations are not there to boost investment.
We're here already
Looking at some of the comments here, Re:Scam is already targeting this site...
What would happen if someone shot a police dog because they felt threatened?