wewbull

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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That counter is ticking along pretty quick.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 0 points 1 week ago

Paedophiles are no more prevalent now than they were. The fear of paedophiles is through the roof though.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

Most child abusers I know of are white.

I think you have blinkers on. There's a lot of baggage around this in lots of cultures.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 15 points 1 week ago

All it takes is one kid to work it out and it'll be common knowledge in that school within a week.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 73 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (14 children)

It's less of a left - right thing (that's mainly economics). It paternalism Vs liberty thing. Labour have always had a very strong "we must protect the populace" theme to their policies. Conservatives have it too, but they want to do it in a different way.

Sadly it's a really difficult thing to stand against. Who wants to be labelled the person enabling paedophiles, when all you want is the right to private communication.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm not allowed to see that. I live in the UK.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 11 points 1 week ago

Potentially industry ending. If this court case goes against anthropic WSJ, Disney, etc are getting the green light to take the AI companies apart in their cases.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The 2008 banking crisis was different IMHO. A banking collapse would have bankrupted millions of people in the UK. They then imposed rules requiring the banks to restructure to make sure customer banking is isolated from investment banking. The intent being to try to make sure they can be allowed to fail next time.

What Reeves is trying to stop happening now is exactly what those regulations were designed to allow happen. Financial institutions feel the consequences of their own actions.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

More capacity to process rape kits is something I can get behind. More evidence is good. It would stop people clamouring for convictions based on accusations alone.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

I see. EVs have much more incentive to minimise inefficiencies. Yes.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 8 points 1 week ago

They don't, but they think they do.

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