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WailersOnTheMoon t1_j6jvydk wrote

Reply to comment by SuperSecretAgentMan in Facebook secretly killed users batteries, worker claims in lawsuit by tyteen4a03

This is incredibly obnoxious. I’m still on Facebook because we don’t live near our families and our kids’ schools and teams use it to communicate, and any time I’m on Facebook it shuts down Spotify, which wouldn’t be as terrible if any notifications I received after that point weren’t deafeningly loud.

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Hookstomped t1_j6juj93 wrote

Reply to comment by Unfadable1 in FCC Threatens to Disconnect Twilio for Illegal Robocalls by BasedSweet

Listen Telephony isn’t new, offering it to the world through an open API with free credits to enable developers causes this problem within the ecosystem. Twilio is an abstraction layer on top of actual telecom infrastructure. There are 100’s of companies that operate in this space with far less TCPA complaints/violations.

To your misguided and uniformed metaphor, this is more similar to putting a sign up in your front yard that you’re not home and leaving the back door to your house open, and then wondering why dirty mike and the boys turned it into a fuck shack.

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Nerdenator t1_j6ju9xy wrote

Reply to TikTok CEO to testify before U.S. Congress over security concerns by liquid_deflation

Better idea:

Force ByteDance to take on an American partner in operating TikTok in the US. All data must be handled on servers hosted by this partner purely in the United States, for a "nominal" fee. ByteDance must open up its source code to inspection by this partner and any US government agency that wants to see it, at will, no questions asked. The US government may halt the use of their service at any time for any reason, with or without an appeals process. Ideally, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and EU take up the same regime.

This is basically the bar set by the CCP for Westerners to operate within PRC; turnabout is fair play.

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618smartguy t1_j6ju9t0 wrote

Reply to comment by Velgus in FCC Threatens to Disconnect Twilio for Illegal Robocalls by BasedSweet

>They seem to think that Twilio exclusively works with/for these spam robocall farms - your prohibition analogy is a good one.

What's giving you this impression? I have no problem thinking a business should be shut down if they are massively profiting off unethical behavior, regardless of what else they are doing. Who cares if they are doing good too? Seems to me like their good deeds are actually bad deeds if ultimately they are allowed to continue operating based on the argument you are presenting.

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Nerdenator t1_j6jt56b wrote

Reply to Banning TikTok Won’t Do Much Good by Witty-Village-2503

I think it'd just be fair play.

Most Western countries have to give a ton of local control over to Chinese companies (read: the CCP) in order to access the Chinese market. Those that don't play ball or threaten the iron-fisted political status quo, don't get to make money in China.

When the Chinese start having to do the same thing to get into the West, they might realize how abusive this practice is.

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steviaplath153 OP t1_j6jsjvb wrote

Reply to comment by perspicat8 in OpenAI executives say releasing ChatGPT for public use was a last resort after running into multiple hurdles — and they're shocked by its popularity by steviaplath153

The ones who pressed a button, using the knowledge of others that they copy and pasted, letting machine learning algorithms train themselves on our data, are genius inventors that should reap the rewards of everyone's work/data? Nope. Try again.

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