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In their world, everyone everywhere is corrupt. This saves them from having to deal with nuance and other such difficult topics

Indeed it would be silly to prosecute the record execs because they found a report called "what are the youths listening to" or even with the video game moral panic of the 90s, going after game companies because they found a report titled "Is Laura Croft setting unrealistic beauty standards for teens" at gamedev companies

> I appreciate 404 media's mission but

Really makes you think: should you really support efforts like this when there are better and more honest groups out there? (Cough EFF *cough)

You're assuming these people know what a lobbyist does beyond the edgey cynical definition they learned about when they were 13.

> poor journalism.

404 media has never been interested in being good journalism, but rather driving signups to to their website by people who don't know what proper journalism looks like

You would have loved XUL

Anything having to do with water

This feels like something Steve Jobs would have slapped someone for allowing to be shipped to production

If you don't trust your operating system, then I guess you can't operate

Isn't putin begging y'all to get in tanks for Ukraine? Just find a like minded group of recruits and turn the tanks around

Yes and we want them to have zero. What do you not understanding about this?

It's crazy how people in this thread wanted to physically cause harm to this city's councilmen when it does seem pretty believable that "nobody at the office knew why they had the land or any stipulations attached to it" when someone takes a second to look into it

@dang what kind of site are you trying to run here?

The state requires things sold to meet a bare minimum of safety. Cars sold require seat belts, movies/games sold require ratings. Devices sold have a meaningful parental controls flow.

> it's not intuitive that allowing malicious-site.com to access your Bluetooth keyboard might give that site access to your stored passwords, give them the ability to hijack your DNS settings, or allow them to encrypt your hard drive and hold it ransom. And if it's not immediately obvious how those things are possible, that only serves to demonstrate how completely non-intuitive the risks are and how intractable trying to explain them in a permission prompt would be.

Which is odd because the very next thing a user will do (Which you've allowed for years) is download and execute a .exe or .dmg/.app from that same malicious-site.com which will do the same thing

You didn't even mention the "infrasound" issue that's been picking up steam lately

> Lazy cynicism is itself a form of corruption of one's own mind

I love this way of thinking. I might use this quote down the road

Let's play this out: how do you determine individual clients? By ip? By seasionid?

But that's not a specification

People on this site don't really think deeply about what they type. They just say whatever is the most cynical in order to farm up votes

> Children will just lie

Not if the parents are setting it up beforehand (like with small children) then their iaccount or Google account will be under parental controls from that point on.

It seems reasonable that if a parent enables their child to visit sites after that, then that's just their prerogative (like giving your kid beer)

I wonder who's in common there?

Not keeping the door open while grabbing luggage is NPC behavior no matter if it's waymo, Uber or a taxi.

The fact he mad this mistake, then went to the news media to broadcast his bad decision making is embarrassing.

I bet he finds himself the victim of bad situations all the time and doesn't know why

I'm pretty sure most people would see Toms point as valid?

If Bob made a huge deal about company's abuse of fluffy animal and never otherwise talked about fluffy animal, that would seen as inauthentic

That was created by AI. Ai is great at playing six degrees of Kevin Bacon

None of this is true. The fact that there are many, many companies out here today that are doing exactly what you are claiming for the non-CA age verification laws (like in TN and TX), yet you went down the conspiracy route for Meta and Google shows how much you are being played like a fiddle.

They can feed you an conspiracy and you'll eat it up because you were primed to have a cognitive bias, and will ignore the actual, real-world harms going on.

Rupert loves people like you

Enjoying a succulent meal, I guess

Nobody needs to be hard on the internet

Just use Tor browser? You can turn the tor part off if you need the speed.

What you want exists, have at it

Sounds like you need a cyberdeck

If they turn off the internet, that gives you more time to meet your neighbors and do "arts and crafts" and read (cook)books. He's getting so old, at some point the horse throws him off