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When I signed up for internet, I asked the representative for unlimited data because I was aware of this option. The representative flat out denied that it existed and refused to even tell me the price for such a thing.

Here in the US, my Comcast internet connection comes with a 1TB (up and down combined, i think) per month cap. If you go over they give you a warning the first few times, then charge some outrageous amount per gigabyte that you go over. If you ask them how much for an uncapped connection, they will lie to you and claim that option does not exist. Only after blowing the cap a few times will they admit that they will remove the cap for an _additional_ $50/mo.

This is the only ISP that services my house in a residential area of Seattle.

and then what, run the spyware on my main phone, so it can have all of my data and my friends data?

Why would someone buy a whole new phone just to use a shitty advertising network they explicitly did not want to use?

Both the "Prev" and "Next" buttons seem to show the next page

Perhaps you haven't been paying attention recently to how things go in the US. If there is any kind of regulation, it will be loophole-ridden and only implemented after consulting with the absolute worst offenders to make sure it won't impact their bottom line too much.

Law enforcement's use of this style of abusive technology will never be curtailed or in any way reigned in, but seeing as American law enforcement has never abused their power in the past, I'm sure that will continue to not be an issue.

>It pushes added responsibility on the upvoters to think before they upvote, but perhaps that is a fair request to make of forum participants.

That's nice in theory, but there's no clear guidelines for what you're not allowed to upvote, and there's no transparency on anything, just user reports.

For example, this post[0] from someone who claims to have received a warning from the reddit admins for upvoting a post titled "Reminder that the police steam more money each year than burglars. Totaly normal country", linking to a screenshot of an article about law enforcement seizing $181,000 from someone. In the comments, OP posted a screenshot[1] of the message they claim was sent to them, which states "abusive content is not acceptable on Reddit, nor is engaging with it".

This content doesn't seem abusive to me, it seems like a totally standard reddit post. There is _far_ more abusive content on the front page regularly. How would I have known not to upvote that?

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ChapoTrapHouse/comments/f9idzr/just...

[1]https://i.imgur.com/XCfErPv.png

> they have no plans on changing that

I think you might be wrong on that, based some of the code changes made to Signal over the last few months. They are internally moving to have users be identified by a UUID and phone number. I suspect they will eliminate the requirement for phone number identifiers when they introduce other identifier options.

Most people aren't 'happy' to commute 1.5 hours each way, but will 'put up with it be afford food'

From the article:

>Apple said it could prohibit employees from bringing any bags or personal Apple devices into its stores altogether but gave them that benefit. The California Supreme Court said a ban on any personal items would be “draconian.”

Is there some law against them collecting your information from your friends without your consent? I'm not a lawyer, just an observer of how these sort of things regularly go, and I'm going to guess that what they did here was 100% legal.

Obviously this is morally abhorrent, but in the US the laws are written to protect large corporations like Twitter, not their victims.

Unlikely to succeed. This sort of invasive, drag-net data collection without user knowledge or consent is considered standard practice.

All twitter users "agreed" to it when they created their account (via the legal fiction that humans read and agree to terms of service)

The post's title includes an emoji and doesn't make sense without it. I tried using that but HN stripped out the emoji, so I wrote my own title that doesn't need an emoji

>The owner of this website (www.lowtechmagazine.com) has banned your IP address ([redacted])

Anyone else seeing this? Looks like they allow me to access it via https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is..., but if they actually banned my IP specifically I don't really want to violate their wishes, I just wonder why I'm banned :/

Could you please elaborate on why those groups aren't "anti-gay"? I've never heard of "Fellowship of Christian Athletes", but the Salvation Army is absolute anti-gay.

those are called .us locality domains.

ci.<locality name>.<state>.us is assigned to the city, there are several other similarly non-obvious assignments, anyone is permitted to register one.

I found this page that talks about it more: http://telecafe.org/smw/.US_Locality_Domains

You issued a charge back with your credit card company for that, right?

To be clear, "keep politics out of the workplace" is another way of saying "I'm okay with the status quo, and if you don't like it I don't want to hear about it at work".

As I understand it, there is no way to validate caller ID when it comes from another carrier. They're testing STIR/SHAKEN which supposedly fixed this, although I'm unclear on how long that will really take to roll out and actually be turned. I'm also unsure how well it will actually work, I haven't looked at how it will be implemented.

If https doe not mitigate MITM attacks, what is the purpose of it?

But its obviously a lot more likely to be around long term if they don't blow all their cash in a short term attempt at grabbing a few more users and hope to get more later.

> Certain keywords in searches would prompt email notifications too.

That is so unbelievably disgusting. This kind of abusive invasion of privacy should be a crime.

That'd probably be ideal but in reality most people don't do that.

Why would it need a visible UI component? Just put it in a cron job

sure, but they have to have the hardware for that ready to go, and they have to get people deploy each site and prevent it from being vandalized or disabled

Deploying and maintaining radio jamming devices is _way_ more difficult and expensive than telling an ISP to shut down service.

CloudFlare isn't in the business of enforcing laws, they enforce whatever arbitrary decision they make.

Alternatively, don't buy samsung TVs on principal.

That's never stopped them before

There doesn't seem to be a lot of specifics here. Does this mean I can send anyone a text that has some magical character in it to trigger this S@T Browser to execute arbitrary AT commands? Or is this some kind of special SMS like a type-0 SMS or something?