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- Comment on UK | Labour 'doesn't understand the internet', tech giant 4chan’s lawyer tells LBC 18 hours ago:
I still like what they did last year: techdirt.com/…/when-trolls-take-on-tyrants-4chan-…
Delaware was a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain until the Assembly of the Lower Counties of Pennsylvania that declared itself independent of British authority on June 15, 1776, thereby creating the state of Delaware. Delaware subsequently was the first state to ratify the Declaration of Independence, the instrument which created the United States of America, on July 4, 1776. Under the terms of the 1783 Treaty of Paris, the Kingdom of Great Britain officially acknowledged the United States as a sovereign and independent nation.
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- Comment on Canada proposes teen social media ban - with workaround for tech firms 1 week ago:
Earlier in the week, Miller said passing a law that addresses online harms was a priority for the Canadian government because “kids are dying”.
This is approximately the opposite of true: speaking from my own experiences having once been a minor, the Internet was pretty much the only thing that gave me some sanity and will to live. If early-to-mid teen me had had only my family and classmates and no online social contacts, I’d have had almost nothing. That’s what you want to take away from current minors… >:(
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- Stop Killing Games Gets Its First American Legislative Effort Out Of Committee in Californiawww.techdirt.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to gaming@lemmy.zip | 2 comments
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- Comment on Stanford study finds school phone bans may trigger “withdrawal symptoms” in students 5 weeks ago:
Researchers believe that the students, especially younger ones, may have turned to more disruptive behavior when they no longer had access to their phones.
Yeah, no shit? Phones tend to serve as a distraction that kills boredom; disruptive behavior is frequently (maybe usually) the result of boredom.
“One conjecture is that this resembles, to some degree, withdrawal symptoms,” he said. “Students are unhappy and disruptive the moment their phones are taken away.”
They’re understandably bored and then, understandably, try to kill their boredom in other, more disruptive ways. I for one very much prefer students being on their phones (or other devices) to beating each other up, damaging property, or psychologically insulting each other out of boredom! No idea what about this is supposed to resemble withdrawal symptoms.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
The main question I have is this: is it going to be replaced by something better (such as federated services)?
Or will this just mean the Internet as a whole will lose lots of users? That, I think, wouldn’t be desirable. Whatever one may think of Meta, they’ve definitely done a lot to popularize the Internet as a mainstream technology, which by itself is a good thing, though if they use Meta platforms, it ought to be only the first step.
- Comment on Concerns Mount That EU Will Demand Age Verification for VPNs 5 weeks ago:
I’ve never bought VPN access, so am not sure; but don’t you need to have a bank account or even credit card to pay for VPNs anyway? How many very young people are even capable of paying for VPN access?
- Comment on Concerns Mount That EU Will Demand Age Verification for VPNs 5 weeks ago:
Does it really seem to you like the forces of freedom are winning? Not to me. :(
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- Comment on Colorado Age Attestation bill gets amendments to have open source excluded 1 month ago:
No, why would that be different? (…is what I in any case would argue if I were the lawyer for a distributor of operating systems, which I am not)
- Comment on Colorado Age Attestation bill gets amendments to have open source excluded 1 month ago:
Free speech is the right to distribute any kind of information, including software code in either source or compiled form.
That’s what the legal analysis should be anyway. Whether it will be…
- Comment on Colorado Age Attestation bill gets amendments to have open source excluded 1 month ago:
Certainly an improvement.
Courts should still find it unconstitutional because software is free speech. I am all for advancing open source and giving people good reasons to switch to it, but not by setting precedents that governments have any business deciding what features software is allowed or required to have.
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- Comment on YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts 2 months ago:
Absurd that we need YouTube for that. In an ideal world, YouTube would be a backend service with an open API which there would be dozens of different apps for, with different features, including maybe this one… but I suppose you can’t make money with an ideal world…
- Comment on US operating system age verification bill "Parents Decide Act" gets published 2 months ago:
those who voted for it
nobody did yet, it has only been introduced; lots of bills get introduced all the time and end up not being passed
- Comment on US operating system age verification bill "Parents Decide Act" gets published 2 months ago:
The bill H. R. 8250 actually seems somewhat reasonable, especially compared to some other state-specific bills that we’ve seen.
No.
Software code is free speech and the government should not be able to regulate what the people do in software code in such a way.
- Comment on Websites that hijack your back button must stop by June 15 or face Google's wrath 2 months ago:
Wdym “suddenly”? Checking my user profile on hexbear it appears that my posts to lemmy.zip communities have been federating there for a long time. Your instance doesn’t seem to defederate them, don’t know if it ever did; mine certainly doesn’t and I don’t remember a time when it ever did.
- Comment on Websites that hijack your back button must stop by June 15 or face Google's wrath 2 months ago:
Thanks for the tip, currently I usually get what I want from DDG and Google (almost never use any others), but if I ever become dissatisfied I might try it.
- 438 Experts Said Age Verification Is Dangerous. Legislators Are Moving Forward With It Anyway.www.techdirt.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Comment on Websites that hijack your back button must stop by June 15 or face Google's wrath 2 months ago:
Why is this anti-feature there on first place?
I thought it was there because otherwise, single page applications (e.g. Angular) wouldn’t have a functioning back button? Am I misunderstanding this?
- Comment on Websites that hijack your back button must stop by June 15 or face Google's wrath 2 months ago:
The least tech-savvy people don’t use Windows, but Android or iOS, where Bing isn’t the default search engine. (Slightly more tech-savvy ones may also use Chrome on Windows.)
As a tech-savvy person I still use Google a lot because DDG just doesn’t give equally good results much of the time. There are many web pages that are indexed by Google, but not DDG.
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- The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Are Built On A Scientific Premise That Experts Keep Telling Us Is Wrongwww.techdirt.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 3 comments
- Comment on Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million 2 months ago:
I still wonder why video is about the only thing for which a restricted format is still the “industry standard”?
We nowadays take photos in JPEG or WebP format, draw raster images in PNG or WebP format, vector graphics in SVG format, our documents are PDF or OOXML or ODF or HTML, all of which are (at least technically) open standards. Video is the only thing that still mostly runs on formats with restrictive patents.
- Comment on Esperanto Nederland rifuzas militan uzon de Esperanto 2 months ago:
La artikolo estis publikigita jam en marto, do mi ne pensas, ke temas pri aprila ŝerco? Ĉu ja?
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