OK, now give them a fine that will actually hurt.
this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2024
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And jail the people responsible. And not just some middle-management corporate patsy. Investigate that shit starting at the top of the flagpole.
Where do you think you are? The E.U.?
Lol at this guy thinking his rights matter
Come on now, that’s going to completely wipe out the loose change from their couches.
Republicans of course voted against any fines at all:
Now with a 3-2 democratic majority on fcc a lot is getting done. One of Biden's nominees was stonewalled by the senate for years (ISPs launched a huge smear campaign against her, even the daily mail of all things went after her). Biden had to relent and finally nominated someone else who got approved late 2023, finally breaking the 2-2 deadlock that Republicans were using to block everything like this including net neutrality.
Yeah this is a blip on the balance sheet, nothing more
That fine is a zero short, should see a reimbursement to each affected customer on the scale of 10k/person.
The government just tryna get it's money back from buying the data from them first.
lol this is the first thought that crossed my mind
I was in the miraikan museum in Tokyo once where they had a whole exposition on tracking masses in order to optimize traffic flow (pedestrian, car and public transit). A big part of the 3xpo was the privacy first approach. They u derstood that in order to get I to the real traffic patterns they would have to record vast amounts of sensitive data and went through great lengths to protect privacy.
I wish this was more common.
That software is really handy, but that name is really awful. Every time I hear it, I think of neutering.
I think that's the point and the inspiration for the name.
I swear, in general, open source software is absolutely fantastic. But open source developers have no concept of naming things in general and or user design in general. They make great software, but choose absolutely horrid names and or user interfaces.
I think it’s funny. They’re neutering the ads and tracking
They only changed a letter, and are essentially just shortening Not.
Nitter = Not Twitter Neuters = Not Reuters
I know what it means. It's still a terrible name.
choose absolutely horrid names and or user interfaces
Get a free tool.
Bitch incessantly about said free tool.
News flash, the tool wasn't made for you.
This was literally my first time ever using it. As I said, it's a great tool. I'm not criticizing the work at all.
Nueters
Oh no
how do you pronounce this? Noiters? Nooters?
Edit: it’s very nice, neat idea
Great job FCC. You did nothing. Congratulations. They are just going to do it again.