Ronno

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When will governments and the EU learn that weakening or eliminating e2e would be a higher security threat than being able to monitor communication. Don’t these suits know that it could also affect them negatively and open the door (pun intended) for criminals to target them?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, but wat less. Most people don’t travel outside of the EU often

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

For countries needing a passport, this might work, but in the EU? This won't make much difference.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

GDPR is no joke, they can (and should) get serious fines for this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Sure they are for now, but I doubt there reason changes will attract additional revenue. They had a golden position in which people simply paid the subscription, because the service was convenient and cheap. Now they make it way less convenient and more expensive, I doubt people want that. I sure don’t, so I’m out

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (8 children)

If any company knows how to fast track their way into bankruptcy, it would be Netflix. Kudo's for them to try and improve their previous track record!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Ah the infamous wizardry of the backdoor in encryption discussion.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, not fond of this situation either. Would love to have the same rule of capping the number of years someone could be in office. Additionally, I would also love to see a cap on the age someone could become (minister) president, something like max 10 years above nation average. I don't think someone at 80 could create the required policies, since that person will not have to live under them, nor will that person be connected to the average person in terms of values.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah agreed. Last elections I wasn't really sure what to vote on anymore, the political landscape is becoming to extreme for my taste. There are virtually no center parties anymore, especially when you exclude the religious related parties. With the recent election and the debates, the media is also trying to create a left versus right, which is a very strange thing to do in our system.

In the end, it would be nice to just have a government that cares about its people and future, they have made way too many mistakes over the past decade, mistakes that were avoidable if only they had listened. Cases in point: reversing the student grant system, pushing important government tasks to local governments (while reducing their budget) and the whole childcare debacle. Literally for all of these f*ups, the government was warned by experts...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Agreed, yet it does seem to be a more logical explanation then the "official" narrative.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (25 children)

Watching from a far (The Netherlands), it always amazed me how the political scale in the US is described. Even the democrats in the US feel more to the right, then positioned in the US. Some people go as far to call democrats communist, but I don't think these people know what communist really is, in the same way that Americans don't seem to know what (neo)liberal actually is. It is both entertaining and concerning to watch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Profit doesn't say much though. Take for example Amazon, one of the largest companies, but they don't make that much profit on paper. It's all accounting. But like someone else mentioned, they are tainting our water supply and ruining the climate. Why would we pay the price for that (in money or in health)? I live close to a river in which I don't dare to swim anymore, due to these companies (not only 3M). The guideline by the local authorities is: sure it is safe to swim there, as long as you don't (accidentally) drink the water.

You want to know the real kicker? 3M requested a new permit to dump in the river, and they might just get.

In the end it is simple, you create a product, you have waste. The company is responsible to process the waste in an environmental conscience way. Dumping it in a river is not environmental conscience. I don't care if they put it in storage bins and store it under ground like with nuclear, as long is that shit doesn't make it into nature and especially our water supply.

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