Its more that the smartest crooks are busy running our society and a justice system that actually tries to enact justice would get in the way of that.

Shout out to the neoliberal dipshits who thought we needed another right-of-center incrementalist to beat Trump.

That one really fucking worked out…

Unix Surrealist Tech Mage Webcomics are not supposed to be a documentary lol.

I think that’s hardly an immediate worry, though. Various services already scan for illegal content or suspicious activity. It wouldn’t take much to get ISPs to snitch on their customers.

Stop using proprietary platforms and services, start bouncing your traffic off of foreign VPNs.

The internet was literally built to tear down borders, not help enforce them. Technologists will find a way around the red tape set up by bitter old men in suits.

And has anyone who’s actually written any of those laws used a computer for more than basic day-to-day office/home tasks?

I’d love to see how they plan on enforcing that. What are they gonna do, send in a fucking swat team to take anything that doesn’t have hardware level DRM?

I can’t imagine we’ll get to a world where the only chips that don’t have shit like that are horribly obsolete. Though I could totally see one in which all high-end chipsets do unfortunately.

This is why I hope RISC-V takes off. The more we can free our hardware/software the better.

It can’t. Simply put. I mean it’s not even a question of whether we should, its you’re fucking not going to.

I have a raid array in my basement containing literally terabytes of illegally pirated media. Most people have at least consumed one or two pirated pieces of media.

How’s the enforcement for those illegal files going?

The only way to really do that would be to essentially make it impossible to have easy, private, secure, and anonymous access to the internet and freedom respecting computing.

Those things are, as far as I’m concerned, inalienable human rights.

If that’s your goal please never touch any regulation involving the internet ever.

What an awful and terrifying thought.

At least it would be if internet regulation was practically enforceable for anyone other than commercial businesses operating out in the open.

That just sounds like an advertisement for the armed gay agenda…

Yeah that doesn’t mean they’re not fucking cops, and thinking “they don’t raid innocent peoples houses” is pretty fucked imo. Regardless of what’s going on with this lady.

Not only are they human, they’re cops of course they fuck up.

Yes please tell me more about how cops never get anything wrong…

Yeah lotta homegrown bedroom hackers will outdo any churned out bootcamp programmers, and absolutely compete with college graduates. Though for everyone of those there’s 100 claiming to be one.

No ones will to pay for good programmers and if they are they’re not willing to give them the resources or time.

Copyright Infringement. Interesting that one of the few forms of it that’s actually a criminal offense instead of a civil liability, is also one of the few forms practiced by normal people.

This is especially heinous in cases where no one makes money. You shouldn’t be treated like a fucking criminal for sharing art or information (unless it’s nuclear launch codes, CSAM, or some other obscenely illegal/immoral shit.)

Because at its base form that’s all “piracy” is. An attempt to turn sharing into a bad word.

To add on to this, it wouldn’t be nearly as violent a trade as it is if we had some sane drug laws.

I’m not saying we should just sell crack at Walmart. However, if you give already existing addicts a prescription to a clean, state provided supply they’ll have no reason to go to dealers.

The illicit drug trade will fucking collapse. There’s no way you can sustain that business without addicts.

Damn, looks like I’ll have to find somewhere else to print out random paperwork.

Neat, how about actually making some sweeping regulations tackling corporate EULA-washed malware?

Why do companies get to keep injecting spyware and even rootkits into their OS/software without ever explaining the consequences in a way a lay person can understand?

Used to be when companies did that they got punished. Anyone remember that Sony BMG case with rootkit enabled DRM, or BonziBuddy who’s EULA allowed developers to sell your information to advertisers?

Remember the fucking stink people threw over them? Remember the fucking lawsuits? This shit is just a normal Tuesday for MFAANG. Shit even fucking video games are pushing rootkits down your throat these days. They need to be spanked BAD.

HELL YEAH BROTHER!

ITS FULL OF JUICY, MANLY GUNS!

ANY HANDSOME GUY WITH A NICE SET OF GUNS GETS A SPOT ON MY PAGE.

The fact that you’re tying an unrelated position made in bad faith to a legitimate conversation about corporate malware and free software. That is what pisses me off. That is what this is about. That’s what this entire fucking thing is about.

I mean if you had at least talked about red flag laws, or limiting credit card-based purchases of weapons for buyers under 30 we could talk. Even then its unrelated and completely derails the conversation, but its at least an interesting talking point.

Its not about my beliefs about gun control. Its the fact you don’t fucking read what your responding to. Why should any one give a shit about what you post when you refuse to read anything other than what you’ve written yourself?

Fuck off with the bad faith arguments, half-baked replies, and strawman bullshit.

Not sure what in your broken fucking head makes you think I’m a conservative, or why it makes sense to compare me to them. You deserve a medal for reading comprehension.

Go back to eating crayons.

You’re probably politically closer to them than I am, you pseudo-conservative, milquetoast, incrementalist , neo-liberal fuck.

Where do you think you are?

I like how you both completely ignored my points and went off on an unrelated tangent again. What makes you think I give a shit what some fuckin tools made the state gun?

if anything, I find it to be a tasteless display of reactionary bullshit. Adults acting as children. Basically in the same ballpark as putting warning labels on guns/manuals that read: “Warning: Potential School Shooter”

Neither your nor they have presented an actual solution to an issue. You’re just suggesting unrelated, reactionary bullshit meant to push buttons.

Its not that I’m pro-gun, or anti-gun. Its that you don’t have any meaningful suggestions, and you have no idea how to present a solution. You don’t even seem to be able to accurately identify other peoples political beliefs or the ideas they’re trying to express.