philippejara

After it took over and solidified itself as the world leader at it of course there was no need to steal IP anymore, most of it is registered there already and to the benefit of their nation. I'm sure people a hundred years from now will be having similar conversations if china or someone else takes the us's place and naturally starts caring about IP(and the runner ups stop caring).

I assume most americans today are already under the impression their government spies on them and facebook/google will gladly give anything that is asked for, how does the chinese spying on them make any difference for the average citizen? If I was a regular american and had to choose I'd take the foreign spy 10/10 times. What will the chinese do to the regular american citizen compared to what his own contry could do with this information?

If you're diaspora and other smaller interest groups for sure, but the general citizen probably wouldn't care at an individual level. I'd argue that the NSA revelations and how everything just got worse and worse since then killed any chance of the public caring about this kind of stuff.

As popular as the platform is with the younger demographic and the voting preferences of said younger demographic it's political malpractice for democrats to not try to at least salvage some face in this whole ordeal, whether you think the blame is misplaced or not.

Maybe the US and its proxies should lead by example before trying to convince anyone else, given they are the ones who dropped far more bombs than all of those combined.

I find it hard to see a way to run a targeted ad social media company at all if you have to make sure children aren't harmed by your product.

> A fair amount of “this is fine, governments enforce IP laws and that’s a public good” vibes in here, which is all a very reasonable perspective.

I'd say it would be a a reasonable perspective if his case was being tried where the offences actually took place and/or where he was a citizen of and not a country who refuses to give the same rights to non-citizens being tried there compared to citizens[1] and wasn't even where the offense took place. This is absolutely chilling for anyone who isn't an US citizen honestly.

[1]:https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c511y42z1p7o

He didn't move to new zealand from the US so I struggle to see how that is relevant, it's not HK or Germany looking to extradite him.

Is that going to be a trial by the laws of the land he resides in and not to a foreign country that the defendant is not a citizen nor a resident nor operates out of and that refuses to guarantee the same protections under the law to a non-citizen compared to a citizen[1]?

This same foreign country who passed laws for invading the hague if they came under trial for crimes in the ICC.

[1]: See assange's bid for first amendment's guarantees when the same foreign country was trying to extradite and "trial" him

The comment he's responding to speculates that he is being paid by russia to post on twitter, as if people couldn't come to their own conclusions based on their own views and their own biases, which are very very strong against the US if you're Kim Dotcom with good reason.

The sanctions in Venezuela are/were very different from the ones in Cuba, there is a prohibition of trade from any US company and its subsidiaries with Cuba with the exception of food, not some specific sectors aimed at supposedly weakening the government.

With that being said it could also be incompetence and/or corruption, but ignoring the embargo completely is just working to weaken your argument.

What historical precedent? Just in the last 3 decades you had afghanistan, iraq, libya and (ongoing) syria in the middle east alone showing how horrific the consequences of this type of meddling are.

These aren't really consequences for being a bad actor on the global stage, these are consequences for being deemed a threat to the interests of the military superpowers and their close allies, this is a very important distinction.

The interests might at times be veiled under a discourse of "rights" or "democracy" or whatever and at times this discourse might even be valid, however the underlying reasoning for it rarely lies there as the kings and his friends are free to do whatever they please.

The flipside of that is companies not bothering to remove it and ceasing the payments to denuvo effectively making the game not exist anymore until someone is able to crack it, and very few people seem to be able to do so. Not that much of a stretch when you look at the amount of abandonware we have.

> How is supporting the military of your adversary not treason?

For a given meaning of adversary it is, for others it isn't, clearly the line in the sand at least for the US is when they are at war, arguably when a trade ban happens if we want to be a bit more relaxed with definitions. If you do disagree and believe the line in the sand encompasses china the real worry should not be a "measly" 3 billion from random VCs but the 1 trillion dollars of the US national debt china holds.

> You don’t ship fentanyl and other synthetic drugs to a country you are friends with.

You ship them to where people are buying them, unless you're saying it's a government operation and not a case of lax export regulations, which I'd be very surprised if it was the case, at least directly.

And so is emacs, but nobody has an issue calling it a text editor.

probably linking to this: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/obamas-ope...

It appears this is the source of the complaint adding context to what is being discussed by the EFF, no reason it should be dead.

Not going to go all doom and gloom but resident evil was a(completely unnecessary, in my opinion) remaster of a game from the ps2 era, and I'd wager the vast majority of people that play AAA games don't really play fighting games.

I do think the AAA market is recovering a little however in the last few years, pretty much exclusively thanks to japan.

given that rumble was ordered to remove what I can only assume is rt and decided to just stop serving the country instead, It's certainly banned at the very least in France itself.

https://archive.is/Ryv67

They didn't lend him money, they kept the stake they had before he bought twitter, both the Qatari and the saudi. Also I'm not sure why they would want it gone after the arab spring, given how the Persians only benefited from it and Qatar was pretty much a state instigator of it in other countries.

We may not like the "future", but old software using 20x more resources than usual has been the future for a while, just look at electron apps the growing trend of home computers becoming thin clients over webapps and cloud computing. I despise this trend as much as the anyone else, but I can't see how it isn't the future we are heading towards.

One would hope all of the achievements period were rejected and this ridiculous idea of adding a gamerscore to a version control system wouldn't go past a round of laughter at the ones responsible, sadly it did go past.

Most discord communities that are big enough to get indexed were supposed to be forums anyway, or part of one.

it's a fair criticism when you limit it to the users being affected, when you start talking about the owners(the current shareholders!) willingly eschewing fiduciary duty and damaging shareholders as if the owners were trying to hurt themselves it loses all meaning.

its not the only way to ensure a community survives, forums have existed before reddit and will exist later. You even have examples of communities that left, created their own version of reddit and seem to be doing fine.

> Reddit leadership has already proven they only wish to harm both shareholders and the community at large under the guise of "increasing shareholder value" and shove their fiduciary duty under the bus.

reddit isn't a public company, so unless the current owners who are the ones putting all this in motion are looking into self-flagellation they haven't proven a thing. The reality is that reddit is huge, and most users couldn't care less about all this drama.

Given his objective at the time was Ecuador, which lies across the sea from Russia, I find it very hard to believe he'd be crossing borders without taking at the very least a plane. And about seeking asylum, you are correct that a passport doesn't stop you from getting asylum, but when the official plane of a head of state is denied entry to the airspace of several European countries due to US suspicion that maybe snowden is on board[0], things become more complicated.

Trying to get himself smuggled out of russia is not realistic, and honestly kind of pointless at this point.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident

I don't think an experiment with a single post on a single topic with accounts on vastly different scales can tell you either of those things.

There are a few holes glaring holes in this methodology but just one is that she has 8.7k followers in Mastodon since joining in late 2022, while she has 241k followers on twitter since 2009. It's not surprising that the users that followed her in the last 5 months are more engaged than the ones that followed her in the previous 14 years. Are the people that just aren't interested in her content or that just stopped using twitter after a 14 year span necessarily grifters/leeches/spammers?

I don't know about 1 but simply due to scale 2 is probably true, however this experiment isn't saying much.

from your own article:

"If a senior official in another country or with an airline orders it, a country could overlook the withdrawn passport, the official said."

so what do you propose is to be done? you simply stop people from buying tesla stock so that the price doesn't go up and he doesn't get as much money? Seriously i'm really struggling to understand what you are proposing here.

PayPal isn't sanctioning any state, they do not have the power to do that. The comment I'm responding to is talking about sanctions.