Correct, but I'm also under no obligation to provide you with a platform for your speech. All I mustn't do is keep you from finding one where you can hold it.
Your right to speak does not entail my support or even my facilitation of said right. I am under no obligation to support you or provide any means for you to broadcast your speech.
We aren't even talking about you not being able to use the internet to broadcast your speech, all this is is a translation service between IP and DNS that is rejecting its assistance in the Nazi-Group's attempt to voice their opinion.
Not to mention that the only entity that has to honor freedom of speech is the government. I can, at any time I like, disallow you to speak AT ALL on my property. And that includes my "virtual property".
Make a counter offer. Offer to hire some bum off the street that neither you nor she knows but who claims you can trust him to act as your butler. You and your wife would surrender all keys to him, and he'd sit all day by the door and only open it if someone knows the secret knock. He'll also sit there all night and open the door for anyone who knows the secret knock. Of course only you and your wife, and kids, would know the secret knock, unless someone clever comes along and somehow finds out how to fake the secret knock. Or maybe the butler isn't that honest and has "friends" that he'll let in regardless.
And if (or more likely, when) she asks if you're insane, ask her why she wants to buy a system that does just that.
That says more about the quality of the lock than the honesty of the vendor.
Depending on the lock, I can open it in a few seconds, too, with a set of picks. And no, I am not a vendor of locks. I'm just someone who picks them for fun.
Even if that is true, the average maker of old fashion locks does not know which of his locks is used in what door. This vendor very obviously must know just that.
[...]causing the devices to lose connectivity to the vendor's servers[...]
So, lemme get this straight: These things, that lock my home doors, have a connection to their vendor, reacting to this vendor's command to unlock or lock my home. Did I get that right?
What sane person would WANT that in the first place???
Nope. Self-described white hat. But while we're at quotes from that particular Batman movie, there is one quote from Ledger's Joker that I do subscribe to.
I don't feel denigrated by being likened to a small child. Small children are at least curious and eager to learn (at least before this gets driven out of them when they get confronted by the school system).
Most adults are lazy fucks that couldn't be bothered to learn something if their life depended on it.
I asked a friend of mine who happens to be a proctologist whether it's true that they have a box where they collect the items they pull out of people's rectums. His answer?
"A box? We have a locker. And we empty it out twice a year"
Mind you, this is a small hospital he's working at... People. Please. Be sensible when you shove stuff up your rear. Make sure it has a handle, and make sure that handle can't break off.
If you sent me here from 1997 I'd probably be more shocked that Trump is president, that we consider it normal to get cavity searches when we have the audacity to travel by plane, that we simply accept what Windows 10 is doing to your privacy, that we got more webpages but the only thing this accomplished was a worse noise-to-info ratio....
And most of all that/. still has trouble with non-latin characters.
When it is impossible to state your position without fearing repercussions, it is impossible to have a reasonable dialogue about it. What we have here is the equivalent to the situation that you had in medieval witch hunts and the red scare of the McCarthy era. A group that is in power issues the official doctrine. Whether this is "The church is always right", "We must defend against the Soviet threat" or "Equality uber alles". Anyone disagreeing with this doctrine is labeled a witch, a commie or a misogynist. And we all know that witches, commies and misogynists are bad people, so it's absolutely all right to burn them, blacklist them and fire them.
Discussing something first and foremost demands that you may have a diverging opinion without instantly getting a negatively loaded label and being punished for voicing it. There cannot be a discussion in such a climate.
Quite frankly, there were only two ways this town hall meeting could have ended. With a load of engineers sitting in silence and quiet dissent that's tangible to anyone watching or an actual display of open dissent and "rebellion".
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And the difference being..?
Before you answer, ponder for a moment the various media that clog our airwaves and waste paper every day.
Correct, but I'm also under no obligation to provide you with a platform for your speech. All I mustn't do is keep you from finding one where you can hold it.
Your right to speak does not entail my support or even my facilitation of said right. I am under no obligation to support you or provide any means for you to broadcast your speech.
We aren't even talking about you not being able to use the internet to broadcast your speech, all this is is a translation service between IP and DNS that is rejecting its assistance in the Nazi-Group's attempt to voice their opinion.
Not to mention that the only entity that has to honor freedom of speech is the government. I can, at any time I like, disallow you to speak AT ALL on my property. And that includes my "virtual property".
Make a counter offer. Offer to hire some bum off the street that neither you nor she knows but who claims you can trust him to act as your butler. You and your wife would surrender all keys to him, and he'd sit all day by the door and only open it if someone knows the secret knock. He'll also sit there all night and open the door for anyone who knows the secret knock. Of course only you and your wife, and kids, would know the secret knock, unless someone clever comes along and somehow finds out how to fake the secret knock. Or maybe the butler isn't that honest and has "friends" that he'll let in regardless.
And if (or more likely, when) she asks if you're insane, ask her why she wants to buy a system that does just that.
Intelligently Designed Internet Of Things Systems, made for their acronym.
That says more about the quality of the lock than the honesty of the vendor.
Depending on the lock, I can open it in a few seconds, too, with a set of picks. And no, I am not a vendor of locks. I'm just someone who picks them for fun.
Even if that is true, the average maker of old fashion locks does not know which of his locks is used in what door. This vendor very obviously must know just that.
Can I hear that again?
[...]causing the devices to lose connectivity to the vendor's servers[...]
So, lemme get this straight: These things, that lock my home doors, have a connection to their vendor, reacting to this vendor's command to unlock or lock my home. Did I get that right?
What sane person would WANT that in the first place???
Umm... yes. Exactly. That's pretty much the point.
"Did you need my help to make this mess? No? Then I guess you won't need it to clean it up, will you?"
Nope. Self-described white hat. But while we're at quotes from that particular Batman movie, there is one quote from Ledger's Joker that I do subscribe to.
I don't feel denigrated by being likened to a small child. Small children are at least curious and eager to learn (at least before this gets driven out of them when they get confronted by the school system).
Most adults are lazy fucks that couldn't be bothered to learn something if their life depended on it.
Hey, I'm a white hat at day, but I'm not adverse to the idea of watching the world burn.
There are things you pay me for. But there's also stuff I do for fun. Sometimes they overlap.
In a totalitarian state, the ones that make the rules can also say what they want, where do you see any kind of difference?
I've seen battery operated lollipop spinners so you don't have to turn the lolly in your mouth yourself, ya know?
THAT is the epitome of lazy!
I asked a friend of mine who happens to be a proctologist whether it's true that they have a box where they collect the items they pull out of people's rectums. His answer?
"A box? We have a locker. And we empty it out twice a year"
Mind you, this is a small hospital he's working at... People. Please. Be sensible when you shove stuff up your rear. Make sure it has a handle, and make sure that handle can't break off.
If you sent me here from 1997 I'd probably be more shocked that Trump is president, that we consider it normal to get cavity searches when we have the audacity to travel by plane, that we simply accept what Windows 10 is doing to your privacy, that we got more webpages but the only thing this accomplished was a worse noise-to-info ratio....
And most of all that /. still has trouble with non-latin characters.
You forgot the most important lesson. There is no spoon.
It is.
When it is impossible to state your position without fearing repercussions, it is impossible to have a reasonable dialogue about it. What we have here is the equivalent to the situation that you had in medieval witch hunts and the red scare of the McCarthy era. A group that is in power issues the official doctrine. Whether this is "The church is always right", "We must defend against the Soviet threat" or "Equality uber alles". Anyone disagreeing with this doctrine is labeled a witch, a commie or a misogynist. And we all know that witches, commies and misogynists are bad people, so it's absolutely all right to burn them, blacklist them and fire them.
Discussing something first and foremost demands that you may have a diverging opinion without instantly getting a negatively loaded label and being punished for voicing it. There cannot be a discussion in such a climate.
London bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down...
All three laws are in full effect pretty much throughout society.
It's more a mushroom farm like a Soviet party school. Keep them in the dark and feed them shit, and should a bright head show itself, cut it off.
Quite frankly, there were only two ways this town hall meeting could have ended. With a load of engineers sitting in silence and quiet dissent that's tangible to anyone watching or an actual display of open dissent and "rebellion".
Neither is in Google's interest.
You're acting like he's Martin Luther nailing the thesis to the church door.
Well, in a way... Back then, Luther also only wanted to engage in a dialogue and not topple the church...
So, essentially, you're allowed your own opinion if you are rich enough to not need a job.