You mean to tell me someone did something as punk as beheading the virgin Mary and I can’t even celebrate it because it was some traditionalist asshole trying to prove a dumb point?

Fuckin’ LAAAAAME!

For sure. If you’re buying psychedelics from someone, especially someone you know, they’re probably using the drugs as much as you are.

Which is more than can be said about a gas station which is just as well regulated by the state.

And like that I’m singing skates and rays to the tune of boats and hoes.

Relative to what America considers conservative.

Spineless fucking pseudo-conservative.

Its more that the smartest crooks are busy running our society and a justice system that actually tries to enact justice would get in the way of that.

Shout out to the neoliberal dipshits who thought we needed another right-of-center incrementalist to beat Trump.

That one really fucking worked out…

Unix Surrealist Tech Mage Webcomics are not supposed to be a documentary lol.

I think that’s hardly an immediate worry, though. Various services already scan for illegal content or suspicious activity. It wouldn’t take much to get ISPs to snitch on their customers.

Stop using proprietary platforms and services, start bouncing your traffic off of foreign VPNs.

The internet was literally built to tear down borders, not help enforce them. Technologists will find a way around the red tape set up by bitter old men in suits.

And has anyone who’s actually written any of those laws used a computer for more than basic day-to-day office/home tasks?

I’d love to see how they plan on enforcing that. What are they gonna do, send in a fucking swat team to take anything that doesn’t have hardware level DRM?

I can’t imagine we’ll get to a world where the only chips that don’t have shit like that are horribly obsolete. Though I could totally see one in which all high-end chipsets do unfortunately.

This is why I hope RISC-V takes off. The more we can free our hardware/software the better.

It can’t. Simply put. I mean it’s not even a question of whether we should, its you’re fucking not going to.

I have a raid array in my basement containing literally terabytes of illegally pirated media. Most people have at least consumed one or two pirated pieces of media.

How’s the enforcement for those illegal files going?

The only way to really do that would be to essentially make it impossible to have easy, private, secure, and anonymous access to the internet and freedom respecting computing.

Those things are, as far as I’m concerned, inalienable human rights.

If that’s your goal please never touch any regulation involving the internet ever.

What an awful and terrifying thought.

At least it would be if internet regulation was practically enforceable for anyone other than commercial businesses operating out in the open.

That just sounds like an advertisement for the armed gay agenda…

Yeah that doesn’t mean they’re not fucking cops, and thinking “they don’t raid innocent peoples houses” is pretty fucked imo. Regardless of what’s going on with this lady.

Not only are they human, they’re cops of course they fuck up.

Yes please tell me more about how cops never get anything wrong…

Copyright Infringement. Interesting that one of the few forms of it that’s actually a criminal offense instead of a civil liability, is also one of the few forms practiced by normal people.

This is especially heinous in cases where no one makes money. You shouldn’t be treated like a fucking criminal for sharing art or information (unless it’s nuclear launch codes, CSAM, or some other obscenely illegal/immoral shit.)

Because at its base form that’s all “piracy” is. An attempt to turn sharing into a bad word.

To add on to this, it wouldn’t be nearly as violent a trade as it is if we had some sane drug laws.

I’m not saying we should just sell crack at Walmart. However, if you give already existing addicts a prescription to a clean, state provided supply they’ll have no reason to go to dealers.

The illicit drug trade will fucking collapse. There’s no way you can sustain that business without addicts.

Damn, looks like I’ll have to find somewhere else to print out random paperwork.

Shit like that is how you got here in the first place. To make computers easy enough to be fool proof is to make them nearly useless and requires someone to administer the system (even if that someone is the genius bar at apple.)

The issue isn’t access, its literacy. This shit was acceptable 20-30 years ago. But we’re at the point where everyone who’s at working age has spent most of if not all of their adult life at a time where basic computer use was considered a standard skillset.

Now that mobile OS’s have been the norm for a decade or so, we have comp sci students who can’t even navigate a fucking file explorer despite growing up on the internet.

Hand-holding design is a positive-feedback loop.

That being said you should probably disable, or at least severely limit their use for standard users in a corporate environment via group policy.

Neat, how about actually making some sweeping regulations tackling corporate EULA-washed malware?

Why do companies get to keep injecting spyware and even rootkits into their OS/software without ever explaining the consequences in a way a lay person can understand?

Used to be when companies did that they got punished. Anyone remember that Sony BMG case with rootkit enabled DRM, or BonziBuddy who’s EULA allowed developers to sell your information to advertisers?

Remember the fucking stink people threw over them? Remember the fucking lawsuits? This shit is just a normal Tuesday for MFAANG. Shit even fucking video games are pushing rootkits down your throat these days. They need to be spanked BAD.