No choice? What about Lyft and other app controlled taxi firms? Ideally a driver ought to be able to have multiple phones with the different apps on, thus accepting ride offers from whoever is the best option at the time.
It's a god damned piece of colored cloth. People who claim it means something more than that are either mindlessly parroting other, louder people, or they have an agenda of their own. The idea of outlawing a piece of colored cloth is about as logical as outlawing a plant.
If you don't think a flag means more than a piece of cloth, you don't understand flags. Dead US Soldiers don't get their coffins draped with a piece of polkadot material.
Right. It's not going anywhere for a while. And there's nothing that the open source community can do to change that. Because the FOSS community can only do what they always do: copy, whilst leaving out important bits and making the rest more complicated.
In this case, the vary fact of anonymity destroys the very purpose of a FB type social network. It's all about mirroring real life social networks on the computer, thus making communication with people you know easier. No one wants a FB with anonymous people. The anonymous communication function is filled by forums like this one.
You know that the most efficient way of telling everyone you know is on Facebook, right? You could do it in 5 minutes, then not have to worry about it again.
And about hiding the protestors away so they aren't seen by people deemed important by the state, and so there are no photo opportunities for the press containing both the protestors, and those they are protesting to or about.
Quite amusing when you consider how Americans like to lecture the world about free speech.
Of course my porch was skipped. I have a couple very large dogs and signs saying "trespassers will be violated" and "hidden fence, dogs run loose on property".
It's not social networks you have a problem with, it's being social.
Because Facebook has a lot more to gain from them being there under their stage names than not being there.
Besides celebrities are there with Pages in their stage names. The account used to set the page up is probably under the real name of the person they hired to do their social media.
That would let a competitor in for all the kids or adults that either can't, don't want to or can't be bothered to fulfil those requirements. And require extra staff for the ID checking.
Right. And real identities are what brought the people to Facebook in the first place. First as students in selected colleges. People replicated their real live social networks on Facebook. It gave them the ability to communicate with all their friends and acquaintances at once. Previous to that the only way was with mass emails, and that sucked.
After colleges it spread out through workplaces and other real life groups. People joining largely because they began to realise that their friends were communicating on their, and they were getting left out of the loop.
Advertisers love it. But so do people, otherwise it wouldn't be one of the biggest sites on the internet.
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You don't have to work for Uber to support app-controlled taxis.
No choice? What about Lyft and other app controlled taxi firms? Ideally a driver ought to be able to have multiple phones with the different apps on, thus accepting ride offers from whoever is the best option at the time.
True. But we're more likely to refer to the ground control staff as men with table-tennis bats.
Requiring a modified version is not banning the game.
And finding a substitute for an emblem isn't a problem, it's been done many times for the nazi swastica.
I'm not finding a lot of support for Apple's position at the moment.
This is slashdot. If Apple gave everyone in the would an ice-cream, people here would find some reason to hate them for it.
Only if they were cooperating rather than competing, Which is certainly not the case with Google and Apple.
It's a god damned piece of colored cloth. People who claim it means something more than that are either mindlessly parroting other, louder people, or they have an agenda of their own. The idea of outlawing a piece of colored cloth is about as logical as outlawing a plant.
If you don't think a flag means more than a piece of cloth, you don't understand flags. Dead US Soldiers don't get their coffins draped with a piece of polkadot material.
I can't think of any negative to Google not listing stormfront. They already exclude child-porn so it's a reasonable step.
You know, I don't recall any racist leanings in the Dukes of Hazard
Oh really. So what were the names of the black characters?
The nazi flag isn't allowed in Germany.
The Nazi flag incorporated the swastika, but is specifically black in a white disk on a red background.
Likewise this isn't about balling crosses or stars, but the particular arrangement and colors of the confederate flag.
A game would just have the confederate flag as a graphic asset. Replace the asset and you'd be good to go. That isn't banning the game.
At least I can still get a copy of Axis and Allies from the Play Store though, so Nazis are still cool apparently.
I don't know the game, but does it feature a swastika? A google search suggested not. If it does feature a swastika it would be illegal in Germany.
So the parallel is there. It's not about mention of racists per say, but about a particular flag of a defeated racist state.
Given that Android is >50% of the mobile market, any anti-trust action wouldn't be towards Apple.
Why?
And are you also fighting to regain flags for Rhodesia, Apartheid era South Africa, and the Swastika?
Today is your lucky day. Demonstrate any of these things under laboratory conditions with JREF, and you'll win yourself $1 million.
If you don't do that then shut the fuck up.
How do you know?
It does have that. But people are still better behaved on those when posting under their real name.
It's all down to the Greater Internet Dickwad Theory.
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Right. It's not going anywhere for a while. And there's nothing that the open source community can do to change that. Because the FOSS community can only do what they always do: copy, whilst leaving out important bits and making the rest more complicated.
In this case, the vary fact of anonymity destroys the very purpose of a FB type social network. It's all about mirroring real life social networks on the computer, thus making communication with people you know easier. No one wants a FB with anonymous people. The anonymous communication function is filled by forums like this one.
You know that the most efficient way of telling everyone you know is on Facebook, right? You could do it in 5 minutes, then not have to worry about it again.
And about hiding the protestors away so they aren't seen by people deemed important by the state, and so there are no photo opportunities for the press containing both the protestors, and those they are protesting to or about.
Quite amusing when you consider how Americans like to lecture the world about free speech.
Of course my porch was skipped. I have a couple very large dogs and signs saying "trespassers will be violated" and "hidden fence, dogs run loose on property".
It's not social networks you have a problem with, it's being social.
Because Facebook has a lot more to gain from them being there under their stage names than not being there.
Besides celebrities are there with Pages in their stage names. The account used to set the page up is probably under the real name of the person they hired to do their social media.
That would let a competitor in for all the kids or adults that either can't, don't want to or can't be bothered to fulfil those requirements. And require extra staff for the ID checking.
Right. And real identities are what brought the people to Facebook in the first place. First as students in selected colleges. People replicated their real live social networks on Facebook. It gave them the ability to communicate with all their friends and acquaintances at once. Previous to that the only way was with mass emails, and that sucked.
After colleges it spread out through workplaces and other real life groups. People joining largely because they began to realise that their friends were communicating on their, and they were getting left out of the loop.
Advertisers love it. But so do people, otherwise it wouldn't be one of the biggest sites on the internet.