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There are countless ways you can use traffic discrimination to pad your own pockets without adding any value to the economy.

In the past we've seen ISP's block apps and websites that compete with their own services. For example, Verizon blocked tethering apps and AT&T blocked FaceTime at one point. A slightly different example is the time Comcast imposed a monthly cap on users (250 GB), but then exempted their own streaming media service.

We don't know how it will play out in the future. Most likely ISP's will act slowly at first to avoid excessive backlash. They may try to shake down websites instead of customers directly. For instance, they may take payolla form established players and slow down their competitors. Or they could do the cable TV style bundling thing. I suspect that VOIP, VPN, streaming, bittorent, and cryptocurrencies will suffer first and hardest.

Just FYI... part of that regulation is that they are capped on the max profit they can make. In addition, rate changes must be approved by an elected body (the state's public service commission).

> How do you propose fixing the problem?

Not a complete fix, but a service like snapchat specifically could use AI to block seemingly-nude photos for underage users. Perhaps it could offer parental oversight features too (though this would be hard to implement w/out teens flocking to fake accounts).

The drawback with this approach is that if it becomes mandatory (due to public pressure, legal risk, or legislative risk) it will work work to exclude startups from entering the market.

The law correctly anticipates that teenagers would get it on. It did not anticipate that they would create and exchange explicit images of themselves. In retrospect, that's an obviously bad assumption, but it wasn't so obvious when photography required high cost/skills/turnaround time. It was assumed that photographer/exploiter and subject/victim were different.

Not sure how you fix it (other than to educate youth and setup technical blocks). I suspect in most cases that police, prosecutors, and other adults "apply common sense", but some prosecutors will do anything to get re-elected (a nude selfie doesn't necessarily ruin a teen's life, but a criminal conviction for it surely will).

...at some times of days in the most heavily populated urban centers.

For the rest of the country, Google Maps is generally glowing green.

It's not treason to warn your nation about internal usurpers, and that's what some police were guilty of here. In a democracy, power belongs to the people, and when the government takes that away and operates in excess of their remit, they are the ones who are guilty of treason, not the whistleblower.

For a non-airbnb example of this, look at Ireland: they have minimal regulations/barriers to entry for starting a (real) B&B, and the result is that you can get great accommodations all over this heavily-touristed island for €35-55/night. Truly one of the great deals in European travel.

> I do believe MS has changed.

As a general rule, businesses will play nice when they have to (because of competition, public opinion, or government regulation), and they'll be ruthless where they can get away with it (due to monopoly status, high barriers of entry, poor regulation, etc.).

If you believe anything about a company, believe that. No company is fundamentally good or evil.

Now... corporations do have internal cultural that biases their ethical decision-making (positively or negatively) and various factors (inertia, founder effect) which slow down the rate at which they adapt their ethics to a new set of market/regulatory conditions. So perhaps you can trust/predict a particular company for the short-term.

I for one will be taking this into account should I find myself in the jury box.

The bad thing is, eyewitness testimony is even worse. And police testimony has a bruised record too. Both sides hire experts to say what they want. I guess video footage is the only thing left to provide objective evidence of a crime scene. :\

For Windows, there's Ditto (http://ditto-cp.sourceforge.net/). It's insanely useful for slinging text around, like when you're copy-pasting a ticket number into several different places in-between other bouts of work that need the clipboard. Also useful for saving small URL/code/SQL snippets and retrieving them with a quick incremental search.

How horrible that we live in a world where people can make a living doing stuff like this.

You forget that the empirical evidence is influenced by our cultural norms (such as children not leaving home until 18). If you (further) shelter/protect/structure young twenty-somethings, they'll grow up even slower, and fifty years hence a poster like you will be suggesting we raise the age of adulthood from 25 to 30.

Perhaps we should help kids grow up faster by giving them more experiences and responsibilities.

Saudi Arabia?

Under Enlightenment era philosophy, human rights are innate (or equivalently, granted by God). The state may or may not acknowledge those rights, but they don't create them.

This is literally the first thing you read in the very first founding document of the U.S. (the Declaration of Independence): "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights".