“Look, I dunno about geopolitics and just where is the “European Union” on a map anyway? I looked, and it doesn’t say that anywhere, so it’s clearly made up. Just tell me who the most treasonous corrupt cunt in European politics is, and he’ll have my support. It worked great as a criteria here, so I see no reason why it wouldn’t work abroad. Bonus points if he rapes kids too.”
Guilty as charged. What of it?
The ideal relationship for Palantir to have with the healthcare system of the UK is the same goldfish have with mountaineering. Coincidentally, this would also be the ideal relationship for Peter Thiel to have with planet Earth.
That’s why a said static webhost, i.e. paying for the ability to serve files, not run scripts or manage the webserver configuration. Sure, the hosting provider could be made responsible for the implementation, but now they have been encumbered with the burden and liability of policing which hosted sites needs this bullshit enabled and which are just a blog about making strawberry preserves or something.
Point is, it’s complete and utter twattery of the highest order. Never mind enforcement, I don’t even see how it would be reliably or consistently implemented.
And all that is in any case absolutely futile, because there’s still the matter of people being perfectly able of obtaining those self-same ISO’s from any number of other sources that are even more difficult to police, like the ones I originally mentioned, and about a thousand more where they came from.
Well, good for them. I’m not Australian, get to vote for Australian lawmakers or host websites in Australia.
Is Australia going to pay every single website admin for the burden of implementing this wonderful magical logic to detect a given source IP(v4) belongs to a VPN provider? What about IPv6?
If I host a simple static website on a static webhost in Denmark say, and provide some otherwise perfectly legal OS ISO’s for download, how would I implement any logic at all? Why the fuck should I be subject to Australian laws?
The cookie acceptance of the GPDR was already bad enough and ruined so much of the Internet with no appreciative improvement of the privacy of visitors. If every Tom, Dick and Harry are going to place spurious demands on every website, it’ll do nothing except raise enormous barriers to entry and ensure that only huge players with the capacity to comply with demands from legislators all over the world will even be able to “legally” run websites at all. And then we can’t have an Internet or FOSS for that matter.
Maybe legislators should stop writing half-baked laws the consequences of which they apparently cannot comprehend.
That may be the best way to deal with the potential legal liabilities introduced by this unmitigated abject idiocy.
Good thing everybody can still torrent whatever they want from where ever they want. Or use IPFS. Or IRC DCC. Or Usenet. Or just a VPN.
Like everywhere else then.
That’s it. Capitalism has gone too far!
But of course Trump and his Merry Men knew better than the unmatched intelligence and military apparatus they have around to call upon.
Sucks teeth. I suppose that would be a rather tall order without tool assistance. On a completely unrelated note, I just had the oddest flash of somebody having welded a golden(ish) bull to the front of a surplus APC ramming the resultant amalgamation into the nearest stock exchange and / or AI data center. No idea why.
Ingenious approach to solving problems! From now on, whenever there’s a bug in my code, I’ll just delete it. Can’t have bugs if you haven’t got any code. Taps head.
No, I don’t think I will.
Of course you did. Or else.
Drink a verification can to continue, consumer-slave.
They put 41 people - who didn’t have anything to do with it - in the dirt and injured another 40 just to dig back up the bone remnants of one long-dead guy. And they didn’t even manage that much in the end, apparently. That’s just… so beyond the pale and the boundaries of all reason and decency.
At least that way I’d get to enjoy it while dying from my aneurysm.
What. The. Fuck?
What’s going to be their next trick? Launching a service that’ll watch the latest Netflix series for me and give me a summary when it’s done?
It’s Oracle: It’s not like they deliver value either way.
Did anybody ever actually take that metaphor literally?
Oh, for fucks sake…