DirtyPolecat
DirtyPolecat t1_iyb0805 wrote
Reply to comment by Glad-Driver-24 in Social media firms face big UK fines if they fail to stop sexist and racist content by diacewrb
Because the EU is a 700 million person market, and no big company wants to forever sully their potential profit on those people by getting on the EU's bad side. JimbobJamesNews.com however, isn't going to give a shit, and nobody in the US is going after them. The big ones aren't doing it because they're forced to. They're doing it because money.
DirtyPolecat t1_iyaza6t wrote
Reply to comment by Glad-Driver-24 in Social media firms face big UK fines if they fail to stop sexist and racist content by diacewrb
If I had the time, I can log onto a European VPN right now and probably find you hundreds of websites hosted inside the US not complying with GDPR but yet are still accessible from inside the EU and give you log files and screenshots and everything. There's way more out there than the big corporate sites that will bend over backwards for any country's laws.
DirtyPolecat t1_iyayhuy wrote
Reply to comment by Glad-Driver-24 in Social media firms face big UK fines if they fail to stop sexist and racist content by diacewrb
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. My government isn't going to do shit if users from the EU see any of my ads and I happen to profit off them. That's how a sovereign country works.
DirtyPolecat t1_iyaxzsh wrote
Reply to comment by Glad-Driver-24 in Social media firms face big UK fines if they fail to stop sexist and racist content by diacewrb
Fined by who, exactly? Is an EU/UK official going to fly over to the US, find the offending website operator, and fine them? Good luck with that.
DirtyPolecat t1_iyawelj wrote
Reply to comment by Glad-Driver-24 in Social media firms face big UK fines if they fail to stop sexist and racist content by diacewrb
Because CNN also operates in the EU. They have offices all over the world. That person's point remains. If I create a website in the US, and keep all my servers in the US, but don't block Europe and its users from accessing it, I am NOT subject to EU law. I am subject to US law, where my actual infrastructure is. There's millions of websites I can access from here that weren't intended to be viewed by my region but because of the open nature of the Internet, I can still see them.
Edit: Not sure how old you are but in the early 2000s this is how the famous filesharing website Pirate Bay was able to keep evading being taken down by moving their servers from country to country every time they encountered trouble with the local authorities. Foreign countries weren't able to do shit about it, but their users were still able to access it. That's how the Internet has always worked since its inception. The region blocking thing and serving different data to users of different countries is a relatively new thing. It's carving up the Internet into little bubbles and enclaves and defeating the whole purpose of it.
DirtyPolecat t1_iya6yub wrote
Reply to comment by spoollyger in Military Sim Developer Tired of Its Game Being Used to Fake War Footage by Sorin61
Unless someone's some sort of feral forest wolf-child or Amish, I refuse to believe there's anybody left in the western world over the age of 12 who has never seen video game graphics even in a commercial or something. These things have been with us for 50 years now.
DirtyPolecat t1_iy92k6m wrote
Reply to comment by BlazingJava in Google and YouTube are investing to fight misinformation by Wagamaga
>or Biden sons behaviour or his laptop
I don't get what people want to see out of this. How does Biden's son getting caught doing hookers and blow have anything to do with Joe Biden? I'd say the same thing for one of Trump's family.
Ever thought that maybe people just don't give a shit? No censoring neccessary.
DirtyPolecat t1_iy91p9d wrote
Reply to Orion flies far beyond the Moon, returns an instantly iconic photo — "It’s really hard to articulate what the feeling is." by marketrent
I kinda wanna see a video of it zooming above the surface at a few hundred feet altitude at orbital speed. But this isn't KSP where I'd do stuff like that...
DirtyPolecat t1_ixrgy63 wrote
Reply to comment by C0SMIC_WARRIOR in Murdered by Laser-Brain-Delusion
> why the fxxx do people glorify harming people just for clout
To even begin to understand what circumstances in someone's life would drive someone to eventually do that is not something our society is ready to confront and proactively do something about. We punish after the fact. We aren't set up to prevent it from happening in the first place.
Someone who is secure, fed, medically cared for, and housed adequately has no reason to join a gang or murder anybody.
DirtyPolecat t1_ixpbgsc wrote
Reply to comment by bordercolliesforlife in Ford recalls 634,000 vehicles worldwide over fire risks by Brook030
Ford is an American brand. We don't say "rubbish".
The correct term is "Found On Road Dead" or "Fix Or Repair Daily".
DirtyPolecat t1_ixm4o00 wrote
Reply to comment by Complete-Ad9574 in whoever left a bunch of nails in the alley behind the 2700 block of N Calvert, your mom’s a ho by cricketxbones
Shit falls off the shelves all the time driving on these Bmore streets. Sorry. I do my best to pick up after myself.
DirtyPolecat t1_iwvjl4m wrote
Reply to comment by n3w4cc01_1nt in The Only Way the U.S. Can Win the Tech War with China by Vailhem
Every piece of tech is the result of copying other schematics. Nobody is going to invent a switchmode power supply or bandpass filter or oscillator every time they design a new product. There are basic circuit building blocks that get used again and again and again.
DirtyPolecat t1_iwcng8b wrote
Reply to comment by taketheleap22 in Making Baltimore look good on the Internet by perceptron-addict
Brooklyn/Cherry Hill is brutal.
DirtyPolecat t1_iwc40bd wrote
Reply to comment by perceptron-addict in Making Baltimore look good on the Internet by perceptron-addict
Within the first year of moving here I had tools stolen out of my truck, my car's hood stomped flat, and someone murdered in the back alley behind my house.
Reeeeally depends on where in the city you live. I'm sorry, I'm not seeing this "awesome" Baltimore from where I'm at.
I'm only here because I'm also a poor man, and housing is cheap.
DirtyPolecat t1_iu8vth1 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Why’d you gotta do him dirty like that in front of the whole neighborhood? by Dylan552
It's a fake, shallow, ignorant world full of meaningless bullshit that doesn't matter. Did I describe your feelings accurately? Because I've been feeling like that for a while.
DirtyPolecat t1_iu44n4s wrote
Reply to comment by GhostalMedia in Google Stadia is dead and Nvidia GeForce Now gets a price cut – what’s going on? by Hyperion1144
Yes, just wait for some new tech to somehow exceed the speed of light..
DirtyPolecat t1_itl0xnd wrote
Reply to comment by Spiritual-Hedgehog-7 in They removed the charging outlets at Penn Station and replaced them with this garbage. by umbligado
They day they start bottling and selling oxygen because they've made the air so completely unbreathable without catching 50 different cancers is the day you start defending bottled oxygen.
DirtyPolecat t1_isvots8 wrote
Reply to Reddit Democracy by bearjew64
Knock down the trash incinerator giving me and my family cancer. The fumes are always wafting over Cherry Hill/Brooklyn.
Edit: seriously, who's idea was it to put that motherfucker smack dab in the middle of the city? When I used to play Simcity I put that shit faaaarrr away from anybody if I had to use one.
DirtyPolecat t1_iyethpk wrote
Reply to comment by Mysterious_Table19 in Baltimore police make arrests after ride-share passengers robbed by locker1313
Anonymous account not tied to any bank account. On a burner phone. All you gotta do is find someone willing to sell you cryptocurrency with the payment app funds, then find a crypto exchange and cash out.