1. wide embargos rarely hurt the regime, just the people.
2. We actively trade with worse. We have "most favored nation" status with China as far as trade, and guess where most of your clothes, electronics are made, in terrible conditions mind you. That gasoline in your car most likely comes from Saudi Arabia, and we are openly allies with other Gulf Arab states. There never was an ounce of "human rights" in the embargo, and its fairly obvious to anyone who's taken more than a glancing look.
3. Castro's regime while not great, is in no way the giant carciture its made out to be. If you tally things like deaths, torture, and mass incarceration of political victims, as far as dictatorships go, its really not that bad, once you compare for scale, especially among many US allies. Even among communist regimes it certainly does not rank with the USSR, Khmer Rouge, and Mao's China.
the problem with a CPU-Unique key, is that the same software needs to work with every device. The only crypto on the chip is AES, which is a symetric block cipher. symetric ciphers use a single shared key among recipiants.
to have a unique key on every chip, you'd need asymetric crypto, something perhaps like secureboot or TLS that works with certificate chains, that allows for crypographicly verified by unique certificates that contain keys.
That does not exist on die. They'd have to load that into cache, and then encrypt the rest of memory and decrypt when the bump to cache, which is already decreased by the size of the program in cache.
there are computers everywhere in the world actually. Even North Korea has them, and North Korea is far more sheltered than Cuba. The only nation that embargos Cuba is the US.
There was some article from 10 years ago about them rolling their own gentoo distribution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you want the Linux eco-system to be accepted start by getting rid of Stallman
cold day in hell. To be honest, while I would like linux to be accepted. I'm not getting rid of Stallman, because if we start getting rid of people like him, the GNU/Linux community will just become more like the people we joined this community to get away from.
More imporant than getting everyone to use Linux, is getting everyone to change how they view the world. Stallman is a smart man, hes actually well spoken, and he digs in and sticks by his ethics, instead of taking a half-assed sleazy way out. He inspires confedence as a voice I can trust to be consistant and ethical, even when no one else is, and doesn't bow to pressure, or sell out core principles.
If we want to be more like everyone else, and start rejecting people for being ugly, and start accepting people who will sell us a bill of goods, and then find someway to fuck us over first possible chance, its not worth the added user base.
Also, Free software survives on community effort. Bringing in a bunch of hipsters, will simply bring in hoardes of people who do not contribute, but make demands, sometimes unreasonable, and might try and cause divisions, making work harder. Again, you'll talk about kicking contributers out, to make room for non-contributors.
write some damned drivers, make an easy to use system that doesn't require 5 hours of Googling on how to get a laptop soundcard to work.
OK, now you're trolling, linux has had better driver availability than basicly anyone else for the last 5 years. Your simply repeating problems people had pre-kernel 3, which are virtually unheard of.
I started running Linux because all my drivers just worked, as opposed to running XP at the time, where finding the right drivers was a fucking pain. Also, installing extra drivers on Ubuntu is easy, installing them on windows is hard, and installing them on Macs doesn't happen, at all.
Oh yeah, and all the codecs "just worked" too, I just clicked a box saying I didn't give fuck all about licensing. Now try doing that in windows, or even mac.
Or mabey that Ubuntu was the first desktop that had an App store on the desktop, even before apple. Oh, and it worked.
Or try installing windows on box vs mint/ubuntu/trisquel. Tell me what is easier.
Its possible, but entirely unlikely. There is going to be a massive performance hit.
What they can do is encrypt RAM with the key directly in the CPU, something modern computer support.(See unmerged TRESSOR patches). They can then decrypt the data with hardware instructions(AES-NI), as they move main memory to the cache, either on die, on the motherboard which cannot be easily removed.(not within the timespan for coldboot attacks).
harder to break does not mean unbreakable as well. If the operating system is rooted, it migh be very well easy enough to get the key from the CPU(AES is symetric, and no CPUs have HW implementations of asymetric ciphers.). If the key is burned when the CPU is made, it would be an industry-wide key. All it would take is one leak, one time, and everyone can now decrypt memory.
How do we know someone affilaited with Trend Micro didn't Do what amounted to digital grafiti?
No diffrent than some jackass teenager spray painting "Allahu Ackbar" on the bathroom shitter, and then watching dumb fucking cops get scared about terrists.
it only works that way sometimes. Manufactures probably push "smart" TVs because an onboard SoC probably adds an existing $10-20 to a $3000 TV, while opening on massive new revenue channels via mining your data.
Also be very careful when the incentive to act unethically is high.
no, but we can guess, because we can take a pretty well educated guess at the computers and computer networks they will be running, because primative forms exist today
No computer part is simply made in a vacuum, from operating systems, to CPUs, to HDs. all components have slowly evolved over time.
It is very much unlikely that any radical leap in technology is going to power the first self driving cars. Its simply putting together what we have today. Its very likely self-driving cars will be mostly technology we are already familiar with, such as back up cameras, bumper sensors, and of course very familiar either ARM or x86 intel chips with your pick of QNX, GNU or Android Linux, or MS Windows. Those are the only four operating systems up to the task, and perhaps FreeBSD out of the blue if someone wants to put a lot of time getting it into shape. The "Self Driving" will all be in software. It will most likely be the same computer that for a dollar more contains wifi and bluetooth, and a penny USB controller for syncing your infotainment on your smart phone.
Of course they could segergate it, but that would cost money, another computer, as opposed to bolting on $10 of hardware. It will be web 2.0 ready to post on your facebook to make your friends jealous, and it will have a name to make you identify with it. Something again, a week of programming by the non-rate in the office while the real hackers did the self-driving part. Its also the part that gets the virus,
Then we have the culture of ethics which ships insecure software. This culture has been noted for over 20 years in history, and what would need to be a complete reversal of culture is not in the works. Very unlikely.
When we get most of the computer community to agree to not co-operate with mass survailence.
When we stand out and identify what indivudals and groups do, and do our damnest to avoid them(boycot).
When we create an alternative society to Marketing-based culture, where people can't be told what to do by some snazzy PR firm with money to spam your facebook feed.
When they are so scared about implementing anything in mass because they know at least one nerd in the shop will have the good concise to expose the plot.
Its when we the people say we will not let greed get the way of our ethics, and we stop believing that we have right to dissent instead of just being another monkey at a terminal, today's cog in the machine.
Take a look to your left and right, we are the solution.
"The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."
-- President Obama, addressing the United Nations General Assembly
Says the man who's responsible for drone bombing pakistan, and funding insurgencies that lead to the rise of extremists and more death. Tell me, how many people have Charlie Hedbo killed?
people only say this, when you personally don't want to face the fact the problem is close to you, or you otherwise hold them in high regard.
Because no one has trouble locking up people for 30 plus years for non-violent crimes in this country. When it was "hackers", and the tech industry, no one had a problem lumping us all in one group and blaming us.
tracy lords comes to mind, she started doing porn around age 15 by forging documents and left porn slightly after age 18 making most of her work illegal
to be honest, you have a point. As a free speech activist, you either have sacred cows or you don't. While I certain stand with Charlie Hedbo in their right to ruthlessly attack Islam, and every other religon, idea, country, etc... BUT
I think its outrageous that we honor them by implementing this wonton censorship. This is the sort of thing they litterally died for. That said, its not freedom of speech. Now lets look a the two organizations. One is a government cracking down on dissent, and the other is a filthy magazine known for taking pot shots at everyone. I think the two statements are not incompatible
And you are a perfect example of what is wrong with gun culture.
I think you're a perfect example of what is wrong with politics today. Everyone who doesn't toe your exact line is now some "fringe wierdo", who is either inline for some unwarrented abuse from mental health services, departmant of homeland security, ATF, or one of those other many organizations which gives us the highest incarceration rate on the planet, by a fair margin.
Here is a page of people getting their sex drive mixed up with their pieces. I didn't post this, this was people showing where their interests lie.
I think thats you getting your misplaced puritanical impotence mixed up with the gun rights argument. Both cases you see other people having fun, and you get all mad.
edit: again, you can try and pretend you're not in the anti-gun crowd, but you're far too obvious, and everyone knows it.
This call for vigilantism looks seriously dubious to me . ..
something seems a little off about it indeed. That said, if I do happen to come accross a sadomastichtic ring of pedophiles I'll be sure to say something, you know, just in case.
Only if you are seriously stretching the definition of "terrorist" to mean "any politically motivated crime"
How many people did Jeremy Hammond kill? How many maimed and injured? What he did was the digital equvilant of and egging, some spray paint and perhaps a brick or two through the window of the CIA headquaters.
Politically motivated crime yes, but is it terrorism? no.
The definition of "terrorism" is not "otherwise crime committed with the motivation of opposing the system. The word for that is most likely "insurgent".
if you feel comfortable doing so, start agitating, or pass on so we can turn a passive sentiment into a more active movement. fire up photoshop/gimp, create memes, and do activism so more people think like us, and articulate reasons.
rememer, solidarity. It starts you and me, as in all movements and then it grows.
To be pendactic, Shay's Rebellion. But your point does stand. Revolutions only work generally when a good chunk of the population accepts the revolutionaries as more legitimate as the government. All points of lack of military prowess aside, I don't see any of us getting that any time soon. Also, cost of failure, and likely of failure is extreme. We'll all be hunted men for the rest of our lives if we are lucky. Its insane enough to even suggest that the people arguing for armed rebellion at this point are most likely agent provucauters trying to get us to say and do dumb stuff so they can arrest us all, and reframe the question away from their own actions.
I'll update my idea. Its not simply "don't work for the government", as I am not calling for a boycott on people working on health services, NOAA, simply a boycott on doing IT/Programming/any tech work for Law Enforcement, Intellegence, Defense, Corrections, as well as all private contractors and private companies that are dependant on above to function such as private prisons, and contractors.. If they feel they are so much smarter than us they need do devious stuff for our own good, they can fix their own computers. They need us, plain and simple. They don't have the expertise. Some yuppie with a $500 suit, no matter if he's the smartest suit in the world still isn't a hacker. They know this. Its obvious when General Alexander went to DEFCON. Its obvious there is a pretty big culture gap, and they have a hard time recruiting talent, because most brazen assumptions about how to find it are not just slightly off, but blatantly wrong.
To work, we only need a slim amount of people to be active in the movement, perhaps %10, vocally agitating ideaology. The rest who are not confident enough to share their views simply need to just look for a job elsewhere, and if they have a job with said agencies, politely accept work elsewhere, and then leave, and discuss their views in private, but encouraged to talk about their politics if they feel comfortable. Even people in the military can do things like request change of MOS, or simply decide to not renew their contracts. If you program Free Software Open Source, you can simply choose not to contribute to projects sponsored by the military, or fork them and not-contribute back upstream.
Its a reasonable plan of action, because it won't take much to make change. There is very little to loose, and only the agitators have any real risk, but the risk is slight. We can also form channels of communication, form communities based on solitarity and just talk. Big key here is solidarity.
the cost of failure is almost none. Start this you and me, just pass it on. I am not asking you to shoot anyone, rob anyone, plant any bombs, launder money, and I won't. I simply ask for solitarity.
This is extortion at its finest. This reminds me of politics, where companies threaten to regulate industries to shake them down for donations, and then back off. Or thinktanks do the same Its agains christianity/islam/women/blacks/gays to do X, so donate and we'll tell you how to deal with this, while changing nothing.
fortunately its GPL, so put a fork in it, and be done.
basicly the definition of terrorism as defined by the government is nothing more than "dissent", which is the real crime, and acts of actual violence against persons and destruction of property are merely secondary offenses to the main crime of dissent.
Tell yourself again, we live in a free country.
Also, ten years for at worst is some jackass stunt. Gets put in solidarity for being a communist. Related is that as soon as a similar man, weev gets let of prison, he goes full on NatSoc, after charges are mysteriously dropped, and going out to get a nazi tattoo.
Does this smell like the government propping up fascism, or does it smell like the government propping up fascism?
which you most likely are, but you're going to say you're in favor of "reasonable legislation", which if you knew anything about guns, doesn't seem reasonable. In fact most of you are so damn see through its hillarious, and you're not fooling anyone.
So quit your assumption that anyone who says something against your precious NRA is anti gun.
"Anti-Gun" would be kind, assuming you held these views consistantly, you're litterally supporting police state antics right here in the USA.
Makes you look and sound like an ammosexual.
Sexual? What do you have against sex? Do you think the gun owners are in leauge with the homosexuals, perhaps other paraphiliacs and sex fetishists? I think it seems to me the problem is more with you're own sexually derived insecurities than with anyone else.
the problem with anti-gun crowd logic is that anti-gun logic only applies to guns and gun control as an issue. The same logic will not be tollerated anywhere else.
Example: What-if, instead of a gun show, it was some other event that government didn't like. Gay pride/homosexaul rights, Convention for the Islamic faith, meeting of political activists(far ranging groups from socialists, US "Libertarians", enviromental rights, and various smattering of non-mainstream groups accross the entire political spectrum), pornography convention, or even good old convention on whistleblowing, or a hacker convention.
We'd all be screaming bloody murder and you wouldn't be saying anything.
Another example is when the anti-gun crowd doxxed gun owners, and claimed "freedom of speech", but no one said shit about "cyber-bullying", except when the gun crowd turned the tables, and posted the exact same personal information about the doxxers, they screamed bloody murder.
but thats the paranoid world of the anti-gun nuts.
Maybe Uber simply put in the terms and conditions that US laws applies, place of jurisdiction is US
which may or may not be valid in a foreign country. But think about how orwiellian that is if using a product of a local company that is a subsidiary of a gloabl corporation is beholden to the rules of the parent company's home nation.
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1. wide embargos rarely hurt the regime, just the people.
2. We actively trade with worse. We have "most favored nation" status with China as far as trade, and guess where most of your clothes, electronics are made, in terrible conditions mind you. That gasoline in your car most likely comes from Saudi Arabia, and we are openly allies with other Gulf Arab states. There never was an ounce of "human rights" in the embargo, and its fairly obvious to anyone who's taken more than a glancing look.
3. Castro's regime while not great, is in no way the giant carciture its made out to be. If you tally things like deaths, torture, and mass incarceration of political victims, as far as dictatorships go, its really not that bad, once you compare for scale, especially among many US allies. Even among communist regimes it certainly does not rank with the USSR, Khmer Rouge, and Mao's China.
to have a unique key on every chip, you'd need asymetric crypto, something perhaps like secureboot or TLS that works with certificate chains, that allows for crypographicly verified by unique certificates that contain keys.
That does not exist on die. They'd have to load that into cache, and then encrypt the rest of memory and decrypt when the bump to cache, which is already decreased by the size of the program in cache.
Again, its possible, but highly unlikely.
there are computers everywhere in the world actually. Even North Korea has them, and North Korea is far more sheltered than Cuba. The only nation that embargos Cuba is the US. There was some article from 10 years ago about them rolling their own gentoo distribution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you want the Linux eco-system to be accepted start by getting rid of Stallman
cold day in hell. To be honest, while I would like linux to be accepted. I'm not getting rid of Stallman, because if we start getting rid of people like him, the GNU/Linux community will just become more like the people we joined this community to get away from.
More imporant than getting everyone to use Linux, is getting everyone to change how they view the world. Stallman is a smart man, hes actually well spoken, and he digs in and sticks by his ethics, instead of taking a half-assed sleazy way out. He inspires confedence as a voice I can trust to be consistant and ethical, even when no one else is, and doesn't bow to pressure, or sell out core principles.
If we want to be more like everyone else, and start rejecting people for being ugly, and start accepting people who will sell us a bill of goods, and then find someway to fuck us over first possible chance, its not worth the added user base.
Also, Free software survives on community effort. Bringing in a bunch of hipsters, will simply bring in hoardes of people who do not contribute, but make demands, sometimes unreasonable, and might try and cause divisions, making work harder. Again, you'll talk about kicking contributers out, to make room for non-contributors.
write some damned drivers, make an easy to use system that doesn't require 5 hours of Googling on how to get a laptop soundcard to work.
OK, now you're trolling, linux has had better driver availability than basicly anyone else for the last 5 years. Your simply repeating problems people had pre-kernel 3, which are virtually unheard of.
I started running Linux because all my drivers just worked, as opposed to running XP at the time, where finding the right drivers was a fucking pain. Also, installing extra drivers on Ubuntu is easy, installing them on windows is hard, and installing them on Macs doesn't happen, at all.
Oh yeah, and all the codecs "just worked" too, I just clicked a box saying I didn't give fuck all about licensing. Now try doing that in windows, or even mac.
Or mabey that Ubuntu was the first desktop that had an App store on the desktop, even before apple. Oh, and it worked.
Or try installing windows on box vs mint/ubuntu/trisquel. Tell me what is easier.
Are your initials ESR?
Its possible, but entirely unlikely. There is going to be a massive performance hit. What they can do is encrypt RAM with the key directly in the CPU, something modern computer support.(See unmerged TRESSOR patches). They can then decrypt the data with hardware instructions(AES-NI), as they move main memory to the cache, either on die, on the motherboard which cannot be easily removed.(not within the timespan for coldboot attacks). harder to break does not mean unbreakable as well. If the operating system is rooted, it migh be very well easy enough to get the key from the CPU(AES is symetric, and no CPUs have HW implementations of asymetric ciphers.). If the key is burned when the CPU is made, it would be an industry-wide key. All it would take is one leak, one time, and everyone can now decrypt memory.
How do we know someone affilaited with Trend Micro didn't Do what amounted to digital grafiti? No diffrent than some jackass teenager spray painting "Allahu Ackbar" on the bathroom shitter, and then watching dumb fucking cops get scared about terrists.
it only works that way sometimes. Manufactures probably push "smart" TVs because an onboard SoC probably adds an existing $10-20 to a $3000 TV, while opening on massive new revenue channels via mining your data. Also be very careful when the incentive to act unethically is high.
No computer part is simply made in a vacuum, from operating systems, to CPUs, to HDs. all components have slowly evolved over time.
It is very much unlikely that any radical leap in technology is going to power the first self driving cars. Its simply putting together what we have today. Its very likely self-driving cars will be mostly technology we are already familiar with, such as back up cameras, bumper sensors, and of course very familiar either ARM or x86 intel chips with your pick of QNX, GNU or Android Linux, or MS Windows. Those are the only four operating systems up to the task, and perhaps FreeBSD out of the blue if someone wants to put a lot of time getting it into shape. The "Self Driving" will all be in software. It will most likely be the same computer that for a dollar more contains wifi and bluetooth, and a penny USB controller for syncing your infotainment on your smart phone.
Of course they could segergate it, but that would cost money, another computer, as opposed to bolting on $10 of hardware. It will be web 2.0 ready to post on your facebook to make your friends jealous, and it will have a name to make you identify with it. Something again, a week of programming by the non-rate in the office while the real hackers did the self-driving part. Its also the part that gets the virus,
Then we have the culture of ethics which ships insecure software. This culture has been noted for over 20 years in history, and what would need to be a complete reversal of culture is not in the works. Very unlikely.
When we get most of the computer community to agree to not co-operate with mass survailence.
When we stand out and identify what indivudals and groups do, and do our damnest to avoid them(boycot).
When we create an alternative society to Marketing-based culture, where people can't be told what to do by some snazzy PR firm with money to spam your facebook feed.
When they are so scared about implementing anything in mass because they know at least one nerd in the shop will have the good concise to expose the plot.
Its when we the people say we will not let greed get the way of our ethics, and we stop believing that we have right to dissent instead of just being another monkey at a terminal, today's cog in the machine.
Take a look to your left and right, we are the solution.
Welcome to the next generation of theft, rape, murder, and kidnapping done by cyber assaliants hijacking self-driving cars.
There is free speech and there is mocking speech.
one and the same
"The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam." -- President Obama, addressing the United Nations General Assembly
Says the man who's responsible for drone bombing pakistan, and funding insurgencies that lead to the rise of extremists and more death. Tell me, how many people have Charlie Hedbo killed?
people only say this, when you personally don't want to face the fact the problem is close to you, or you otherwise hold them in high regard.
Because no one has trouble locking up people for 30 plus years for non-violent crimes in this country. When it was "hackers", and the tech industry, no one had a problem lumping us all in one group and blaming us.
No, we need systematic education reform.
tracy lords comes to mind, she started doing porn around age 15 by forging documents and left porn slightly after age 18 making most of her work illegal
terror already includes bitcoin, political activism, free software users, etc....
I think its outrageous that we honor them by implementing this wonton censorship. This is the sort of thing they litterally died for. That said, its not freedom of speech. Now lets look a the two organizations. One is a government cracking down on dissent, and the other is a filthy magazine known for taking pot shots at everyone. I think the two statements are not incompatible
I am Charlie
I am not the French Government
And you are a perfect example of what is wrong with gun culture.
I think you're a perfect example of what is wrong with politics today. Everyone who doesn't toe your exact line is now some "fringe wierdo", who is either inline for some unwarrented abuse from mental health services, departmant of homeland security, ATF, or one of those other many organizations which gives us the highest incarceration rate on the planet, by a fair margin.
Here is a page of people getting their sex drive mixed up with their pieces. I didn't post this, this was people showing where their interests lie.
I think thats you getting your misplaced puritanical impotence mixed up with the gun rights argument. Both cases you see other people having fun, and you get all mad.
edit: again, you can try and pretend you're not in the anti-gun crowd, but you're far too obvious, and everyone knows it.
This call for vigilantism looks seriously dubious to me . . .
something seems a little off about it indeed. That said, if I do happen to come accross a sadomastichtic ring of pedophiles I'll be sure to say something, you know, just in case.
How many people did Jeremy Hammond kill? How many maimed and injured? What he did was the digital equvilant of and egging, some spray paint and perhaps a brick or two through the window of the CIA headquaters.
Politically motivated crime yes, but is it terrorism? no.
The definition of "terrorism" is not "otherwise crime committed with the motivation of opposing the system. The word for that is most likely "insurgent".
rememer, solidarity. It starts you and me, as in all movements and then it grows.
I'll update my idea. Its not simply "don't work for the government", as I am not calling for a boycott on people working on health services, NOAA, simply a boycott on doing IT/Programming/any tech work for Law Enforcement, Intellegence, Defense, Corrections, as well as all private contractors and private companies that are dependant on above to function such as private prisons, and contractors.. If they feel they are so much smarter than us they need do devious stuff for our own good, they can fix their own computers. They need us, plain and simple. They don't have the expertise. Some yuppie with a $500 suit, no matter if he's the smartest suit in the world still isn't a hacker. They know this. Its obvious when General Alexander went to DEFCON. Its obvious there is a pretty big culture gap, and they have a hard time recruiting talent, because most brazen assumptions about how to find it are not just slightly off, but blatantly wrong.
To work, we only need a slim amount of people to be active in the movement, perhaps %10, vocally agitating ideaology. The rest who are not confident enough to share their views simply need to just look for a job elsewhere, and if they have a job with said agencies, politely accept work elsewhere, and then leave, and discuss their views in private, but encouraged to talk about their politics if they feel comfortable. Even people in the military can do things like request change of MOS, or simply decide to not renew their contracts. If you program Free Software Open Source, you can simply choose not to contribute to projects sponsored by the military, or fork them and not-contribute back upstream.
Its a reasonable plan of action, because it won't take much to make change. There is very little to loose, and only the agitators have any real risk, but the risk is slight. We can also form channels of communication, form communities based on solitarity and just talk. Big key here is solidarity.
the cost of failure is almost none. Start this you and me, just pass it on. I am not asking you to shoot anyone, rob anyone, plant any bombs, launder money, and I won't. I simply ask for solitarity.
fortunately its GPL, so put a fork in it, and be done.
Tell yourself again, we live in a free country.
Also, ten years for at worst is some jackass stunt. Gets put in solidarity for being a communist. Related is that as soon as a similar man, weev gets let of prison, he goes full on NatSoc, after charges are mysteriously dropped, and going out to get a nazi tattoo.
Does this smell like the government propping up fascism, or does it smell like the government propping up fascism?
You make the mistake of assuming I am anti-gun.
which you most likely are, but you're going to say you're in favor of "reasonable legislation", which if you knew anything about guns, doesn't seem reasonable. In fact most of you are so damn see through its hillarious, and you're not fooling anyone.
So quit your assumption that anyone who says something against your precious NRA is anti gun.
"Anti-Gun" would be kind, assuming you held these views consistantly, you're litterally supporting police state antics right here in the USA.
Makes you look and sound like an ammosexual.
Sexual? What do you have against sex? Do you think the gun owners are in leauge with the homosexuals, perhaps other paraphiliacs and sex fetishists? I think it seems to me the problem is more with you're own sexually derived insecurities than with anyone else.
Example: What-if, instead of a gun show, it was some other event that government didn't like. Gay pride/homosexaul rights, Convention for the Islamic faith, meeting of political activists(far ranging groups from socialists, US "Libertarians", enviromental rights, and various smattering of non-mainstream groups accross the entire political spectrum), pornography convention, or even good old convention on whistleblowing, or a hacker convention.
We'd all be screaming bloody murder and you wouldn't be saying anything.
Another example is when the anti-gun crowd doxxed gun owners, and claimed "freedom of speech", but no one said shit about "cyber-bullying", except when the gun crowd turned the tables, and posted the exact same personal information about the doxxers, they screamed bloody murder.
but thats the paranoid world of the anti-gun nuts.
Maybe Uber simply put in the terms and conditions that US laws applies, place of jurisdiction is US
which may or may not be valid in a foreign country. But think about how orwiellian that is if using a product of a local company that is a subsidiary of a gloabl corporation is beholden to the rules of the parent company's home nation.
thats even more scary than rape culture.