Selling a device that ensures that the government can’t violate the 4th amendment on you without you knowing about it, should not be illegal.

The feds are starting to sound a lot like China about now.

When will they propose something akin to the great firewall for content filtering and not just snooping?

“Still, there is definitely a need for tech companies to act with a greater sense of urgency—an hour on the internet can be like a lifetime—and it’s better to have a proposed time limit than simply wait for companies to react to public pressure.”

There’s no ethical consumption under capitalism

“you just need to pick up the damn phone. I understand that a lot of people have anxiety around doing so”

I fucking hate the term “late stage capitalism”. Such arrogance to assume you can predict the course of history, to assume that capitalism has reached a late stage, and we’re on the cusp of some other system. Jameson and Marx can both go stuff their bullshit theories where they’ll never see the light of day again.

Restaurant owners are big boys and girls who are free to decide if UberEats and Seamless make sense for them. I will continue to use those services and not feel even slightly guilty about it.

If a place offers delivery, and you still choose Seamless, you’re not only costing the restaurant, but (most likely) yourself with all of those delivery fees.

I think there’s a more salient point, which is that the government may have a right to access things as part of evidence collection, but it does not have a right to understand what those things are. That’s what detective work is — making sense out of data.

Free market works. We don’t have anything close to free market and never did in healthcare

That’s too bad. Streaming is a system that they agreed to and it’s totally ethical. Giving artists more money doesn’t make it “more ethical.” That seems to be a constant dispute I have with people.

This is one of those ‘you guys ruined it for yourselves’ things. If you didn’t shit all over my storefront after waking up I wouldn’t need (or want) the strips.

Interestingly enough, the warm embrace of capitalism is in the process of saving my life. My kidneys will fail in the next 10 years. They are starting trials on synthetic kidneys very soon.

If only the reactionaries weren’t always standing in the way. /s

Yes it does. How many drugs are developed by other countries? Serious question... 95% of drug innovation comes from the United States because they can set prices high enough to make R&D worthwhile. I don’t know what planet you’re on, but to think that the free market doesn’t create tremendous medical advances is…

Free markets have done more for health and welfare of people than any system ever invented. To be clear, planned markets result in shit like Soviet Russia, Communist China, Socialist Venezuela, or Cuba. That isn’t/wasn’t particularly useful for the health and welfare of the citizens who reside in these countries.

“(see the economic “successes” of communism, socialism, or Nazism)“

And I’d disagree with all of you because the free market has shown historically as the best way to bring people out of poverty and interestingly enough, the best way to develop medicine. It would be an obvious lack of compassion to try and control the market, especially given that every controlled market fails (see…

This doesn’t necessarily appear to be an unethical move to me. They clearly have a finite amount of R&D funds available to them.

Between Baen Books and the self publishing model that amazon has mastered I've had the opportunity to read hundreds (thousands?) of fantastic and massively discounted books (many in the 99 cent range...or even free) over the last decade or so. Countess brand new authors (many who've become wildly successful) who…

A company has the right to decide what to stock in its stores, does it not?