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Professional web dev since 1996.
If "the power to tax is the power to destroy" justifies insulating religion from government financial leverage, then the power to financially deplatform should raise the same concern for speech.
Why? Does the population need movies? Who does this even benefit?
> (2) Domestic spending commitments, and
Never heard of Hollywood accounting? They have mastery of exploiting loopholes.
> (3) Separate cable package negotiations.
What's "cable"? Is that the 1900's alternative to putting up a TV antenna?
Why do they send me ads that seem like I am assigned to random demographics if they know everything about me?
I don't want to spend a lot of time finding, installing, and configuring the right combination of plugins to bring VS Code up to Webstorm level.
Also, I don't trust plugin/extension marketplaces anymore. There is lower exposure in having fewer dependencies.
If what you say turns out to be true, then we have to make a similar decision as the main character makes near the end of that film.
Even the GPL isn't needed anymore when you can trivially reverse engineer nearly anything.
Then the lunatics took over.
You do realize that the East has a different view of intellectual property than the West? And it's not just some arbitrary or capricious choice; it's rooted deep.