spark947

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[–] spark947@lemm.ee 66 points 2 years ago (20 children)

Silly. Why can't we just regulated the sale of ammunition and gunpowder?

[–] spark947@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (13 children)

You have to be pretty naive about how Israeli govt. Leadership tables these kind of things, which you could be forgiven for if you don't follow these things. But most American Jews, myself included, know how messed up Likud's approach to this kind of stuff is.

[–] spark947@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (15 children)

But this is that justification in that context. "Oh, they are using the civillian population as human shields. Looks like we are going to have to kill everyone." Like 2 million stand between the IDF and the hostages. So silly. I would hope the IDF leadership is a little more disciplined than that logic.

[–] spark947@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Well yeah. But those clients could ultimately just say they are firefox if Mozilla is open enough, which they tend to be. It ends when Google decides that stuff like YouTube should only work on chrome. That would be bad, and I think regulators would treat it as bad, especially the EU.

Just to be clear, I don't think forcing this standard down everyone's throats for naked commercial reasons is a good idea either.

[–] spark947@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] spark947@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Really, a condition should be that republicans should publicly admit that it was politically motivated bs.

[–] spark947@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The age of stenography has begun!

[–] spark947@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (22 children)

Are you seriously trying to argue that hamas is hiding behind 2 million civilians in Gaza, and that there were now thousands of valid military targets? Natalie Bennet couldn't even answer a simple question a BBC interviewer posed to him about their consideration of the lives of innocent babies. Couldn't even answer a simple question. This man is supposed to be one of the leaders of the nation.

[–] spark947@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Its not a gray area. Killing civilians is wrong. It does nothing to counter hamas. It is not productive towards rescuing the hostages. Its not a well thought out or considered strategy that follow even the logic of war. It is just a cruel and broken reaction to terrorism. One atrocity in return the other. The point if government and leadership is to not behave like this. Jews whose famiues bear the the scars of the holocaust, myself included, know this better than anyone.

[–] spark947@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It can be very similar to the TLS scheme we use today, where certificates are signed by regulated CA's. The only difference is that currently there is no regulation to ensure that Google will build chrimium to trust other authorities for browser integrity other than itself. That is definitely a major concern. Fortunately, I don't think that it is long term viable. First, Microsoft, Mozilla and Apple would be extremely unhappy with this scheme. That's right off the bat. So there will definitely be resistance on that front because eventually it would do something like break youtube compatibility with Firefox.

Now, I do think that it is plausible that these organizations could come to a agreement that is still ultimately bad for web browsers. There fore, this should be considered by government regulators as something to pay attention to. I'm not too pessimistic about them doing this. There us political will to preserve the open internet, especially in the EU. It looks like the US is also set to re-adopt net neutrality rules. So, im just not as pessimistic about it.

The only issue is that in the short-term, alot of these services that are free are going to degrade. This is what we are seeing with youtube. That is too bad, but I am hopeful and optimistic that it will lead to a more open internet. The fact that we are having this conversation on a decentralized social network is a positive sign.

[–] spark947@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago
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