You won't get a vaccine from bill, but i bet way over 90% are using windows, and a few people are using apple (just as bad)
Did anyone care about the erosion of liberties before? was anyone concerned about the patriot act? would anyone speak out against the god emperor in his desire to destroy encryption? that might after all protect predators
'nothing to hide, nothing to fear'
or have you forgotten that we were and would be again a totally marginalized and silenced group, after trump. do you not believe a counterstroke will come?
it is total cognitive dissonance where i see everyone defending absolute unchecked capitalism and at the same time decrying their liberties being infringed by private actors. it is after all an monopoly that led to microsoft being the albatross it is today.
people that would disband the postal service, which is constitutionally mandated (and the transported contents therein protected by adhering to the bill of rights) in favor of private companies, that have no such restrictions.
people don't understand the problem or the solutions. facebook, twitter, et al, are bad actors acting in bad faith. open source software and the ability to hold important impossible to censor discourse are vital in preserving the american way as was envisioned by the founders of this great nation.
you cannot pick and choose which liberties are paramount. either they are, or they are not.
linus torvalds is an unsung hero, who couldn't give a fig for capitalism and was entirely motivated by other benevolent desires. without linux the entire world would probably be operating windows and the internet would not have grown a tenth the speed at which it did, because everything important is an open source initiative.
right now you enjoy the freedom with little to no consequence of broadcasting your dissent from bill's proprietary operating system, on a still open internet, and you totally take this for granted.
i'm willing to bet most of the people here were totally against the tenets of net neutrality and couldn't see the forest for the trees just because they couldn't bring themselves to agree with a policy espoused by the previous president.
there needs to be government agencies that operate independent of politics with the sole directive of protecting god given liberties.
largely democrats allowed the monopolization of ATT in the 20th century, and later on, republicans for cable companies and cell providers. none of this is good.
protections, and resistance to the capitalist model in things like computer science, are what allows you to operate with choice on the internet, and how you have the freedom to install an open source operating system that you yourself control on your computer, when bill gates almost ensured that no modern computer had that capability with uefi.
as for service providers, capitalism can't just come save the day as the concentration for data distribution increases in the hands of just a few companies who are also sponsoring legislation. the infrastructure in place controlled by a few entities has been a steady expansion of the last 20+ years. its practically a miracle tmobile broke the model of cell providers being able to charge increasing costs per unit of data. don't count on that again. don't count on anything.
capitalism can't be counted on to protect liberties and the internet when people given a free choice will always continuously sponsor companies like microsoft, facebook, apple, GOOGLE, and amazon, but also providers like att verizon and time warner/comcast.
as for encryption, donald trump has a terrible poor record. people should care and shouldn't become the opposite facing mirror image of the leftists with TDS. he won't be around forever, and you can't count that the next president and government will always act in good faith, and you certainly can't count on corporations either, so protections need to be established and revered.
You won't get a vaccine from bill, but i bet way over 90% are using windows, and a few people are using apple (just as bad) Did anyone care about the erosion of liberties before? was anyone concerned about the patriot act? would anyone speak out against the god emperor in his desire to destroy encryption? that might after all protect predators
'nothing to hide, nothing to fear' or have you forgotten that we were and would be again a totally marginalized and silenced group, after trump. do you not believe a counterstroke will come?
it is total cognitive dissonance where i see everyone defending absolute unchecked capitalism and at the same time decrying their liberties being infringed by private actors. it is after all an monopoly that led to microsoft being the albatross it is today.
people that would disband the postal service, which is constitutionally mandated (and the transported contents therein protected by adhering to the bill of rights) in favor of private companies, that have no such restrictions.
people don't understand the problem or the solutions. facebook, twitter, et al, are bad actors acting in bad faith. open source software and the ability to hold important impossible to censor discourse are vital in preserving the american way as was envisioned by the founders of this great nation. you cannot pick and choose which liberties are paramount. either they are, or they are not.
linus torvalds is an unsung hero, who couldn't give a fig for capitalism and was entirely motivated by other benevolent desires. without linux the entire world would probably be operating windows and the internet would not have grown a tenth the speed at which it did, because everything important is an open source initiative.
right now you enjoy the freedom with little to no consequence of broadcasting your dissent from bill's proprietary operating system, on a still open internet, and you totally take this for granted. i'm willing to bet most of the people here were totally against the tenets of net neutrality and couldn't see the forest for the trees just because they couldn't bring themselves to agree with a policy espoused by the previous president.
there needs to be government agencies that operate independent of politics with the sole directive of protecting god given liberties. largely democrats allowed the monopolization of ATT in the 20th century, and later on, republicans for cable companies and cell providers. none of this is good.
protections, and resistance to the capitalist model in things like computer science, are what allows you to operate with choice on the internet, and how you have the freedom to install an open source operating system that you yourself control on your computer, when bill gates almost ensured that no modern computer had that capability with uefi. as for service providers, capitalism can't just come save the day as the concentration for data distribution increases in the hands of just a few companies who are also sponsoring legislation. the infrastructure in place controlled by a few entities has been a steady expansion of the last 20+ years. its practically a miracle tmobile broke the model of cell providers being able to charge increasing costs per unit of data. don't count on that again. don't count on anything.
capitalism can't be counted on to protect liberties and the internet when people given a free choice will always continuously sponsor companies like microsoft, facebook, apple, GOOGLE, and amazon, but also providers like att verizon and time warner/comcast.
as for encryption, donald trump has a terrible poor record. people should care and shouldn't become the opposite facing mirror image of the leftists with TDS. he won't be around forever, and you can't count that the next president and government will always act in good faith, and you certainly can't count on corporations either, so protections need to be established and revered.