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I could see some of the forced incubator states trying to do this with abortion and birth control stuff.

A fucking DNS resolver. And just blocking it in Germany isn't enough because VPNs exist.

Holy fucking hell what an insane judicial overreach.

There is no possible basis in law for copyright infringement.

Copyright infringement isn't "you can do these things with copyrighted materials and everything else is banned". It's "these specific things (redistributing substantial portions of published works) are disallowed, unless you meet exceptions, and anything not explicitly disallowed is legal".

You are unconditionally allowed to learn from copyrighted works. There is no legal basis for preventing it. There is no possible basis in copyright law preventing it. It would take new legislation restricting doing so, and it would be impossible to apply to any training that happened before this new crime against humanity of a law was written.

No, it doesn't. Learning from copyrighted material is black and white fair use.

The fact that the AI isn't intelligent doesn't matter. It's protected.

Payment processors have a functional monopoly and should not be permitted to refuse or otherwise be punitive to any category of purchase.

It's not that their brain explodes or anything.

But focus and attention span are skills that need to be practiced to be developed. If you never get that practice, the scope of problems you're able to solve shrinks substantially, because a lot of big problems need sustained attention to make a real dent in. Coming in from a lateral angle with ideas from other areas are great, and a lot of problems are solved that way, but you need to be immersed in the problem space at some point before you get that stroke of insight.

You need to be able to sustain attention, though, and that takes practice.

You don't have a legal right to demand it.

But the platform can just give it to you as they see fit.

The core limitation is that the problem is dramatically more complex than it was when Google started. The number of sites were smaller, there was much less dynamic content, and there wasn't a sizable portion of the internet committed to an adversarial relationship with search engines forcing everyone else to go to the same extremes just to play catchup.

What this means is that you're looking for answers in a much larger search space, and the indicators you used to use are much less reliable. You have more resources to try to balance that out, but there's so much straight trash to weed through that it's pretty difficult to do.

Are you sure they didn't give warning? I completely stopped visiting the site when they announced they were taking my app away, but I could have sworn I've seen mentions that they were building new chat/messages and that old ones would be gone for a while now. Well before any of the current API stuff.

I have no issue with it being in a locker. I have an issue with it being in a classroom.

Let's be real for a minute. Most employers can't realistically ban adults from having personal cell phones on them, so it's just a tolerated intrusion, but the vast majority of adults can't be trusted to use their phones responsibly when they should be being productive. Kids are much worse, and they also desperately need the enforced long focus sessions without the distraction of cell phones in order to have their brains develop properly. As vulnerable as adults are to the extremely powerful habit-forming nature of modern technology, kids are even more exposed, because their brains are more adaptable and because they don't have the same body of work to fall back on.

The school has an obligation to educate students to the best of their ability.

Allowing any student to have a phone for any reason is an abdication of that responsibility.

Kids have no need for any of those. There is an adult in charge who is responsible for emergency situations.

Yes, it absolutely should be unconditionally banned in the classroom, with substantial disciplinary action for the first offense. No, the example they gave is not even sort of a justification. Anything that results in the student leaving early goes through the office, and nothing that doesn't result in them leaving early can possibly require them to have a phone during the day.

No, a phone is absolutely not a tool in the classroom. It is a massive distraction. The idea of using the absolutely disgusting shitshow that is modern LLM tech in an educational setting is even more disgusting and anti-learning. Students that need accommodations should be getting actual accommodations, not a cheap facsimile that make it impossible for a class to function because of the massive distraction.

You should absolutely not be permitted to have a phone on your person in a classroom setting before college, let alone to interact with it.