The USA has freedom of speech, the freedom to publish and freedom for the press.
Who gets to set out a "plan for a democracy"?
A faith group? Communist? Th EU? A think tank? NGO? A political party? A brand with a product to sell?
Thats why freedom of speech is so great. Lots of ideas, cartoons, memes, art to think about without needing to consult a "plan for a democracy" for approval.
With freedom of speech no need to wait for "someone always has to decide" to publish, print, link, to comment.
The UK existed long before a France and Germany planned an "EU".
Lots of art, trade, science, culture spread around the world from the UK well before the EU:)
Re "There is no perfect solution"
Thats why the USA has that great system of allowing publication, comments and freedom of speech.
Who gets to say what is "correctly and prominently attributed" to what standard?
A think tank? NGO? NATO? Germany? China? A person with ideas about a code of conduct? A faith group?
Everyone will have ideas for what is an approved "publication" once any censorship is allowed.
Freedom of speech lets everyone have the ability to publish and enjoy other peoples ideas, cartoons, memes, art, music, culture, faith.
No need to wait for a cult, NATO, NGO, think tank, university, expert, Communist party, gov, mil, brand, bank, CC company, publisher to approve:)
Banks and CC brands make it trendy and low cost at first to get consumers spreading the good news about the "free" cashless services offered.
Then the banks and CC brands up the fees and costs on every movement of money once a nation is captive on their "cashless" services.
Wage goes in? Thats a new cost.
Shopping? Thats going to be an account cost.
Buy a political book? Thats a review of the account and loss of an account due to a new CoC?
What could any US brand offer nations globally then?
Hosting in the USA under a US brand has to offer something over services offered in a Germany, France, Japan...
Price, crypto, more CPU power, code support, support staff, tax, freedom, peering, bandwidth?
Re "customers want a data center that's relatively close rather than halfway around the world"
Governments start using laws, censorship and tax to make much better US products and services less attractive?
Protectionism using laws, censorship, tax and demands for police/mil access?
People voting all over the USA and UK got the results they wanted.
Messages and memes are part of the freedom the USA protects for people to share cartoons, art, culture and funny memes.
Freedom of speech. Freedom after speech.
Should a NGO, brand, gov, think tank, academic get to stop funny art? Stop a fun cartoon? Stop a funny meme?
Should Germany get to ban history, art and cartoons?
Should Spain get to block comments?
Should China get to say what Taiwan can publish?
Who gets to say what is going to "enhance democracy"? A think tank? An expert? A political group? NATO? an EU bureaucrat, someone from a university? The person who sets a code of conduct for their brand?
Someone from Germany? France? Spain? A cult? A religious group? Communist China?
Why should the internet now get a political test for art and what is funny?
How about users who are paying for their ISP get to use the internet to search for, share and LOL at things they want to:)
Its their internet to enjoy as they are paying for the internet.
Its their cartoons, memes, art to publish and share. Its their time to search for anything they want. Their links and comments to publish and share.
Their ideas to enjoy with others on any topic they want.
Thats what US freedoms protect from censorship.
The freedom of the press. The freedom to publish. The freedom to read and comment on what is interesting. What is funny. What is creative.
To stay free after publishing. Not needing a governments permission to comment, to publish. To be a journalist and publish any story.
Not to risk the tools of publication after publication in the USA.
Political parties who can't win elections due to their own low quality candidates.
NGO's with a political view to spread looking for funding.
NATO looking for funding.
Clandestine services looking for larger budgets.
Energy interests looking to block the flow of lower cost energy from Russia.
People selling security products and services.
Groups pushing for censorship and control over the internet.
To position funny cartoons, comments as "fake accounts".
People who now want a political test for art, jokes, cartoons, comments, accounts.
Your CC comes with a new political code of conduct.
Any gov assistance program gets a new long no buy list.
No gambling, no drugs, no alcohol, no smoking.
A bank account will be needed.
Detection of illegal migrants and other criminals trying to use a fake ID.
Social media use gets linked back to a cashless account and all spending is tracked.
Cash gave a person the spending power to enjoy freedoms away from big gov and the politics of a bank, CC.
A cashless world returns all spending to a bank, CC.
Buy the wrong book? The wrong comment on an ISP account linked to your a cashless account?
The cost saving that was to allow the USA to out bid any nations domestic service for cloud support.
In terms of storage limits, quality 24/7 support costs, lower energy costs, better quality encryption, free speech, banking support, bandwidth costs, peering. Legal and tax support. Newer and better servers. Better CPU support for the costs.
The USA was to be supporting the worlds computer network use at a lower cost from the USA.
That all changed withe EU laws, EU censorship, EU nations tax rates, the censorship demands of a Communist gov in China.
Nation demanding their citizens data is kept safe in their own nations. With their own workers getting well paid local jobs looking after the domestic cloud services. 24/7 staffing at with professional level wages.
The EU nations will want to control tax and speech, comments, data, images due to politics and to enforce EU censorship.
China will demand control over its own data due to Communist party censorship.
The USA will offer freedom and try to enter a lot of markets globally only to find local laws demanding cloud products have to stay in that nation.
All expected US profits in US scale, US energy costs and size give way to cloud bandwidth, energy costs, legal costs, tax cost and staff costs in each nation.
Who would risk their nations own data under another nations tax, political and legal system?
Have to use junk NSA approved crypto? Junk GCHQ approved crypto? The political, tax and control over content in EU nations?
Fully support Communist China?
Host in Japan? South Korea? Taiwan the real China? Face questions from China?
Upset Spain, Germany, France with political free speech?
Find the US gov is really interested in banned groups, a user on a global cloud service?
Enjoy Irish tax levels but the EU is looking into extracting more tax?
A domestic service with national laws, understood tax rates, expert staff and full gov protection starts to look great.
The type of computer code used and huge data sets can't be updated?
It all has to be swapped out with an update?
Whats more expensive?
1. Making users download 10s of gigs on their own networks?
2. Learning to code and getting better upgrade support into the code?
Why would any gov touch blockchain technology knowing the NSA was all over it early on?
The "tracking down" using OAKSTAR and MONKEYROCKET. https://theintercept.com/2018/... (March 21 2018)
Every movement is known to the USA making the gathering, keeping and later sale of anything blockchain a trap.
Pro:
Citizens have the freedom to buy any product and service they want with cash.
No social media tracking, ads. No supporting the politics of the companies offering cashless products and services with every use of their service.
Cons:
Cashless makes illegal migrants and criminals trying to create a new ID have to register some more information with every transaction.
Having to create a new bank account with fake ID may not work as expected in past decades.
State ID might finally detect more illegal migrants and criminals when banking and using new cashless services.
Taxation is enforced on digital accounts when in use. Money in and money out on every digital account can finally be tracked and taxed.
More income for the city and state to spend on US citizens.
Better education, roads for US citizens as tax is finally getting collected that was once lost to crime and illegal migrants.
Paris fails to welcome photographers, tourists and creative people?
Take your money to a better, more welcoming part of France.
Pay for a hotel. Food, transport. Sit and eat in a part of France that wants your business.
Enjoy taking some great images. Tell your friends about the much better parts of France.
Why stay in Paris when your money and spending is not wanted.
Vote with your ability to spend money and try a different part of France.
The alternative would be for the USA to get on with more of the internet. With its freedom of speech and freedom after speech.
Let communities bring in their own community broadband free of new federal NN rules, laws and regulations.
Gentrified communities can then get the most advanced and innovative new networks without having to wait for federal NN approval.
Lots of great new network creation all over the USA to get past the federal NN rule protected monopoly telco.
Federal rules and laws that protected NN approved wireline.
Less innovation.
Less ability for gentrified communities to get new networks.
If your telco likes your wireline plan, they can keep you on your NN approved wireline plan.
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The USA has freedom of speech, the freedom to publish and freedom for the press.
Who gets to set out a "plan for a democracy"?
A faith group? Communist? Th EU? A think tank? NGO? A political party? A brand with a product to sell?
Thats why freedom of speech is so great. Lots of ideas, cartoons, memes, art to think about without needing to consult a "plan for a democracy" for approval.
With freedom of speech no need to wait for "someone always has to decide" to publish, print, link, to comment.
The UK existed long before a France and Germany planned an "EU". :)
Lots of art, trade, science, culture spread around the world from the UK well before the EU
Re "There is no perfect solution" :)
Thats why the USA has that great system of allowing publication, comments and freedom of speech.
Who gets to say what is "correctly and prominently attributed" to what standard?
A think tank? NGO? NATO? Germany? China? A person with ideas about a code of conduct? A faith group?
Everyone will have ideas for what is an approved "publication" once any censorship is allowed.
Freedom of speech lets everyone have the ability to publish and enjoy other peoples ideas, cartoons, memes, art, music, culture, faith.
No need to wait for a cult, NATO, NGO, think tank, university, expert, Communist party, gov, mil, brand, bank, CC company, publisher to approve
Banks and CC brands make it trendy and low cost at first to get consumers spreading the good news about the "free" cashless services offered.
Then the banks and CC brands up the fees and costs on every movement of money once a nation is captive on their "cashless" services.
Wage goes in? Thats a new cost.
Shopping? Thats going to be an account cost.
Buy a political book? Thats a review of the account and loss of an account due to a new CoC?
What could any US brand offer nations globally then?
Hosting in the USA under a US brand has to offer something over services offered in a Germany, France, Japan...
Price, crypto, more CPU power, code support, support staff, tax, freedom, peering, bandwidth?
Re "customers want a data center that's relatively close rather than halfway around the world"
Governments start using laws, censorship and tax to make much better US products and services less attractive?
Protectionism using laws, censorship, tax and demands for police/mil access?
The UK population got to vote on Brexit.
People voting all over the USA and UK got the results they wanted.
:)
Messages and memes are part of the freedom the USA protects for people to share cartoons, art, culture and funny memes.
Freedom of speech. Freedom after speech.
Should a NGO, brand, gov, think tank, academic get to stop funny art? Stop a fun cartoon? Stop a funny meme?
Should Germany get to ban history, art and cartoons?
Should Spain get to block comments?
Should China get to say what Taiwan can publish?
Who gets to say what is going to "enhance democracy"? A think tank? An expert? A political group? NATO? an EU bureaucrat, someone from a university? The person who sets a code of conduct for their brand?
Someone from Germany? France? Spain? A cult? A religious group? Communist China?
Why should the internet now get a political test for art and what is funny?
How about users who are paying for their ISP get to use the internet to search for, share and LOL at things they want to
Its their internet to enjoy as they are paying for the internet.
Its their cartoons, memes, art to publish and share. Its their time to search for anything they want. Their links and comments to publish and share.
Their ideas to enjoy with others on any topic they want.
Thats what US freedoms protect from censorship.
The freedom of the press. The freedom to publish. The freedom to read and comment on what is interesting. What is funny. What is creative.
To stay free after publishing. Not needing a governments permission to comment, to publish. To be a journalist and publish any story.
Not to risk the tools of publication after publication in the USA.
Political parties who can't win elections due to their own low quality candidates.
NGO's with a political view to spread looking for funding.
NATO looking for funding.
Clandestine services looking for larger budgets.
Energy interests looking to block the flow of lower cost energy from Russia.
People selling security products and services.
Groups pushing for censorship and control over the internet.
To position funny cartoons, comments as "fake accounts".
People who now want a political test for art, jokes, cartoons, comments, accounts.
Your CC comes with a new political code of conduct.
Any gov assistance program gets a new long no buy list.
No gambling, no drugs, no alcohol, no smoking.
A bank account will be needed.
Detection of illegal migrants and other criminals trying to use a fake ID.
Social media use gets linked back to a cashless account and all spending is tracked.
Cash gave a person the spending power to enjoy freedoms away from big gov and the politics of a bank, CC. A cashless world returns all spending to a bank, CC.
Buy the wrong book? The wrong comment on an ISP account linked to your a cashless account?
Whatever the many different aliens left abandoned on the moon?
The cost saving that was to allow the USA to out bid any nations domestic service for cloud support.
In terms of storage limits, quality 24/7 support costs, lower energy costs, better quality encryption, free speech, banking support, bandwidth costs, peering. Legal and tax support. Newer and better servers. Better CPU support for the costs.
The USA was to be supporting the worlds computer network use at a lower cost from the USA.
That all changed withe EU laws, EU censorship, EU nations tax rates, the censorship demands of a Communist gov in China.
Nation demanding their citizens data is kept safe in their own nations. With their own workers getting well paid local jobs looking after the domestic cloud services. 24/7 staffing at with professional level wages.
The EU nations will want to control tax and speech, comments, data, images due to politics and to enforce EU censorship.
China will demand control over its own data due to Communist party censorship.
The USA will offer freedom and try to enter a lot of markets globally only to find local laws demanding cloud products have to stay in that nation.
All expected US profits in US scale, US energy costs and size give way to cloud bandwidth, energy costs, legal costs, tax cost and staff costs in each nation.
Who would risk their nations own data under another nations tax, political and legal system?
Have to use junk NSA approved crypto? Junk GCHQ approved crypto? The political, tax and control over content in EU nations?
Fully support Communist China?
Host in Japan? South Korea? Taiwan the real China? Face questions from China?
Upset Spain, Germany, France with political free speech?
Find the US gov is really interested in banned groups, a user on a global cloud service?
Enjoy Irish tax levels but the EU is looking into extracting more tax?
A domestic service with national laws, understood tax rates, expert staff and full gov protection starts to look great.
The type of computer code used and huge data sets can't be updated?
It all has to be swapped out with an update?
Whats more expensive?
1. Making users download 10s of gigs on their own networks?
2. Learning to code and getting better upgrade support into the code?
Where did people really think that new wage money would be extracted from? Profits?
You, the ads and the NSA.
They get to look at injury counts and injury prevention not just wet leprosy and resistant TB.
Why would any gov touch blockchain technology knowing the NSA was all over it early on?
The "tracking down" using OAKSTAR and MONKEYROCKET.
https://theintercept.com/2018/... (March 21 2018)
Every movement is known to the USA making the gathering, keeping and later sale of anything blockchain a trap.
The NSA is the telco down the street.
China still has to use wider US networks to get the data in and out.
Communism.
The ads and NSA still collect it all.
Pro:
Citizens have the freedom to buy any product and service they want with cash.
No social media tracking, ads. No supporting the politics of the companies offering cashless products and services with every use of their service.
Cons:
Cashless makes illegal migrants and criminals trying to create a new ID have to register some more information with every transaction.
Having to create a new bank account with fake ID may not work as expected in past decades.
State ID might finally detect more illegal migrants and criminals when banking and using new cashless services.
Taxation is enforced on digital accounts when in use. Money in and money out on every digital account can finally be tracked and taxed.
More income for the city and state to spend on US citizens.
Better education, roads for US citizens as tax is finally getting collected that was once lost to crime and illegal migrants.
Paris fails to welcome photographers, tourists and creative people?
Take your money to a better, more welcoming part of France.
Pay for a hotel. Food, transport. Sit and eat in a part of France that wants your business.
Enjoy taking some great images. Tell your friends about the much better parts of France.
Why stay in Paris when your money and spending is not wanted.
Vote with your ability to spend money and try a different part of France.
The alternative would be for the USA to get on with more of the internet. With its freedom of speech and freedom after speech.
Let communities bring in their own community broadband free of new federal NN rules, laws and regulations.
Gentrified communities can then get the most advanced and innovative new networks without having to wait for federal NN approval.
Lots of great new network creation all over the USA to get past the federal NN rule protected monopoly telco.
Federal rules and laws that protected NN approved wireline.
Less innovation.
Less ability for gentrified communities to get new networks.
If your telco likes your wireline plan, they can keep you on your NN approved wireline plan.
Recall "NSA likely targets anybody who's 'Tor-curious'" https://www.cnet.com/news/nsa-... (July 3, 2014)