Is this post trying to insinuate that car-roads are more worthwhile than railroads? Or canals for that matter? Because they aren’t. You backed the wrong boom. Sticking with rail would’ve been better in the long run.

How do you tie the URL bar size to the sidebar size?

Most of them can’t even save a word document as a PDF.

What does it matter what real people can or can’t do? The article and topic is about police abusing innocent people by spying on them. The fact that they aren’t able to do the things you’re justifying them getting accused of only makes it worse, to the degree it’s relevant at all.

As for the first bit? No idea, I’m not from London. But 700,000 requests potentially represent 700,000 complaints from people about alleged criminal activity.

The total number of offences in London for 2024 was 951803. Do you find it reasonable if 70% of those have an anonymous online component to them that is still clearly linked to the same crime?

But I can tell you now, no cop in the land has the time or inclination to start searching for this stuff unless its a crime thats been reported to them.

What about the 106 times they did it to “specifically identify journalists’ sources”? Did someone make a report for each of the 93527 LycaMobile users, which the article pretty convincingly suggests were targeted because they’re largely migrant workers?

Even if it was all legitimate, why does police need the power to search people’s communication without evidence? Why don’t they need warrants for communications data? Why don’t “intelligence and security spies” need warrants for communications content? Why are they allowed to do cavity searches for communication equipment without evidence of a crime?

if you become a victim how would you feel if the police simply responded “yeah we don’t know whos doing it and we aren’t gonna bother trying to find out, good luck”?

You’re loading the question with the assumption that no investigation can be done without reading the communications of 700000 Londoners, and that the rights of innocents should be at my discretion if I’ve been victimised in any way.

Okay great. Does London have 700000 cyber-criminals?

They can seize the device (forensically linked earlier)

Except you can just change your IP and MAC, so now anything the police wants to see is linked to whatever crime gives them the most leeway.

For the record, Gabe already has six yachts. More than anyone on earth*. Including the world’s largest yacht*.

(* Roman Abramovich has owned 8 different yachts, but not at the same time).
(* The Abu Dhabi royal family owns a bigger yacht, if we include state-assets then technically it is #2).

The man was a professional torturer and professional terrorist. He said he took those jobs because they aligned with his passions for torture and terrorism. You can be pragmatic without becoming a cartoon that will advocate for literal satans. There are levels.

Still 5.2 million too many. Though the UK is probably one of the more Israel-friendly countries after Germany, so maybe they’re hurting worse everywhere else.

It was. I’ve known about this for weeks, so any anglophone journalist probably has as well. They don’t want to report on it.

It’s not like Chinese capitalists don’t hold any power in China. Capitalists and non-capitalist bourgeois hold their wealth in USD. (And the working class also have a lot invested into their savings, though in RMB). So it’s unpopular to do anything to drastically affect their savings. But on top of that, China and Chinese businesses obviously trade currency with the outside as a matter of operation. What are the effects on that trade if the world’s wealthiest country suddenly completely recontextualised the value of it’s currency?

(I liked the meme by the way).

How many protestors did cops in Hong Kong kill? Correct me if I’m wrong, but I feel like your phrasing is intentionally designed to imply a number greater than zero.

(The) argument that (children can’t buy internet) (…) is also bullshit

You can’t just say it’s bullshit and not provide a counter argument. Are you insinuating that children will use their parent’s internet? Fine, but how does that change for VPNs? They can’t buy a VPN subscription either, so they would have to use their parent’s VPN accounts, and then the age verification has been bypassed anyway.

Which forward steps are you referring to in this context? Starting with a head start (compared to the USA’s Internet laws) doesn’t count as moving forward.

None of these are good counter-examples. They gave him a “Jew-nose” when he doesn’t have one. These other ones are either inspired by the person’s real nose or other types of unflattering noses with different implications. Perhaps the best defense using this evidence is that they didn’t give Zelenskyy a Jew-nose despite him being Jewish, if it’s one of the publications from the collage above.

Making a joke or completely missing the point of the post?

Free speech (…) isn’t supposed to (…) guarantee the opportunity to (speak) on other people’s private platforms.

That defense works if PieFed is advertised as Remu’s private fiefdom. It’s a space for all the Remu fans to hang out and say things Remu wants to hear.

Do you feel that is how PieFed is advertised?

So ignoring the censorship aspect entirely: Admins are asked if they wish to block right wing domains, and then if they say yes, the software blocks (some right wing domains and) left wing investigative journalism sites like The Gray Zone. Russian news sites like RT, Sputnik and TASS, Harry Potter related sites, all of Telegram, vk.com (Russian-language social media site), Video hosts like Peertube and Rumble.

Is the whole reason you made this list so you could sneak in some personal vendettas? Also pretty suspicious that the BBC isn’t on there. Or CNN. Or WaPo. Or Ynet. Or Mako. Or Times of Israel. Or DW. Given the era we live in, and their complicity in genocide, surely that’d be a higher priority than almost any other website if you’re aiming to block harmful news sites with right wing editorial lines.

Steam is bad for developers and publishers, but it’s good for each individual developer and publisher. If the game didn’t release on Steam, it would have fewer sales. Someone with more power or a coordinate boycott could encourage change, but right now asking a developer to stand up for themselves is asking them to be mowed down.

Why is that mitigated by using a desktop app? If anything you’re more likely to leave apps running in the background than you are browser tabs.

Why can’t it just be a website? Is it because the desktop version plans to mine my computer?

You should though…