Do you read any press? They don't do that (any more), they do whatever is needed to increase circulation (at best) or their personal brand.
I don't give a f*** if everyone in the world does it. The fact that x, y and z elects to do or not to do something is completely irrelevant. It's STILL irresponsible journalism regardless.
What you are effectively saying is that it's irresponsile for reporters to report the existence of lawsuits until they've verified all the claims in the lawsuit themselves or the trial has finished. It would even preclude out of court settlements ecause in that case it would be more or less impossible to verify the allegations.
Why intentionally lie about trivial facts immediately apparent to anyone having read TFA?
TFA does a heck of a lot more than simply report out the existence of lawsuit. TFA in fact reports out all of the juicy CONTENT of the lawsuit.
By your same logic and standards any journalist anywhere can report out content of anything and everything that comes across their desk with no due diligence simply by couching it in the fact such material exists. This is a ridiculous and unprofessional position.
They don't want customers fixing any of the "SMART" malware they purchased to no longer endanger their privacy, security, artificially limit capabilities or restrict choice.
They can't be expected not to publish because some people can't comprehend that it's not up to the journalists to investigate the claims.
Utter nonsense. It's up to journalists to investigate claims and evidence of articles they are working on. It's their fucking job.
They can't be expected to hold it back because some readers won't understand that it's the court that gets to decide if the complaint has merit, not them personally.
Hold back what? Public information already available to everyone? Your not making any sense. Just posting random shit that comes across your desk without vetting isn't responsible journalism.
Well, so is grabbing your coworker's boobs, but here we are.
TFA does nothing more than quote and summarize public information. Apparently no attempt is made to investigate any of the allegations. No objective evidence is offered.
No information exists for the reader to make any kind of determination of fact one way or the other.
This isn't responsible journalism. It's total complete and utter garbage. Whether the claims have merit or not is completely irrelevant.
Never understood why DVDs and Blu-Rays come bundled with download codes.
The content is literally on the disc you purchased why bother to enter a code or download it from the Internet (I assume with strings attached) when you can just copy content of disc and play it on anything you want?
Honest question here. If the Internet and all its benefits wasn't killed off by whatever Net Neutrality rules were set to counter, why will their removal have different effects?
The problem as I see it is couched in continuation of nonstop aggregation of the service provider market now well into its second decade coupled with imminent collapse of cable television.
We are starting to see not just mega consolidation of mega ISPs but vertical integration as ISP and their parent corporations control and seek to leverage massive and growing content portfolios.
Personally I would love to see NN without Title II or basically all ISPs more than some arbitrary number of subs broken up into little bite sized pieces or forbidden from providing content and network access. I would love for third parties to manage the last mile access walled off and separate from ISPs. I would literally favor anything that meaningfully addressed or enabled competition over NN legislation.
Yet in the absence of these things speaking for myself I just don't see how the current situation is sustainable how we can expect ISPs not to leverage their positions without government intervention to moderate the influence of what are essentially defacto monopolies. If your a corporation obligated to your shareholders to make money why the hell would you elect not to leverage your position? It seems malpractice not to peddle your content to your more or less "captive" audience and do so on more favorable terms.
There is VAST evidence that reducing numbers of guns available results in reduced gun crime.
These arguments have always pissed me off because the metric itself is obviously bullshit and completely meaningless.
What people in the real world care about is NOT getting killed or injured not so much HOW they are killed or injured.
If your going to conduct or cite a study that says less guns results in reduced crime or reduced death or injury then god bless make THAT argument.
Saying less guns result in less gun crimes is no different than saying less Fords results in reduced death or injury involving Fords. Well no shit Sherlock.
iOS has supported "sideloading" officially since 2014.
Do try to keep up, Hater.
Installing developer tools and going through a shit-ton of unnecessary hoops is not officially supporting anything. This places functionality well outside the reach of normal users.
Contrast this with Android. Copy the file and run it. No worthless hoops.
See the difference?
Of course you don't... your a hopeless Apple Fanboy. Apple is great and their shit doesn't stink.
Making a collaborative project work requires people to be relatively civil and professional in their communication, and to not bring personal attacks and
No while nice it absolutely does not.
other nonsense into it.
I've seen first hand what happens in these environments. Crybaby perpetually offended mentality is actively used as a bludgeon against people you disagree with.
I once commented how an approach was a "hack" and the next thing you know the guy responsible for the idea and his cohorts are all crying foul interpreting it as if I called them a hack wanting an apology when clearly no such thing was said. Antics like this are non-stop when people are working cross purposes and don't really give a damn about merit. X already has code written or in production and if Y wins the day X is inconvenienced.
Others have accused me of attacking them because I refused to let them weasel out of addressing issues of technical merit.
Being perpetually offended is a mental disorder that doesn't help anyone. The safe space walk on eggshell mentality is actively harmful in collaborative projects. People engaged in this type of thinking have no problem leveraging their hurt feelings as a weapon to attack and marginalize those they disagree with. These codes of conduct only make matters worse by providing cover for irrational belligerence to fester.
That wasn't my point at all. But then you already knew that.
You very clearly seem to be using cell phone as an excuse/cover for "smart speakers". What was your point other than more of the same makes one a mad hypocrite?
The full quote was "please stop with the madness of it being a listening device! You carry a microphone in your pocket everywhere you go. If you were really worried about that you'd stop carrying that device."
Apple is coasting on decades of momentum, and slowing down with every "new" product that isn't actually new.
Really? What technology company do YOU run?
What consumer products have YOU designed that have sold millions upon millions of units?
Thought so.
Why does it matter? What is the relevance? Say one is able to rattle off a subjectively impressive list of them would it make OPs statement any more or less true?
1. It's much harder to create good industrial design than it is to copy it. When the Macbook Air was released, it was breathtaking.
Are you serious? Breathtaking? Lenovo T series was already better than MacBook in every way when Air was released.
2. Technology matures. Many people rant that Apple's innovation around the iPhone and iPad has slowed. Of course it has, because all of the obvious things have been done over the last decade.
What innovation? A computer encased in a display and touch screen for human interface. When people say Apple innovated what precisely...specifically are they referring to? I always hear about how innovative companies are but nobody ever bothers to explain exactly what the hell they are talking about. What is innovative about a painful to use slow physical interface that makes productive work impossible or an application launcher that is in fact just an endless sea of square icons?
3. If you're the market leader, there is no value in going down-market. Apple does an outstanding job of maintaining margins without resorting to selling a bewildering array of phones at all price points in a desperate attempt to gain market share. Nobody wants a Samsung J3 or an LG K4. They're cheap pieces of junk that you only buy if you can't afford a decent phone.
The displays of my friends iPhone AND iWatch became unglued and battery turned to shit and needed replacing. Just one person having multiple issues with products they've had less than a year. Apple products really seems to be quite well made. The I purchased 4 years ago for $120 on eBay is such a piece of shit because it has an SD card slot with over 300 GB total storage and still works perfectly. I can swap the f*** battery or install a monster 10000 mAh monster when travelling. But by all means spend $1000 on a new iPhone because only Apple is decent.
4. Maintaining and developing iOS is a massive undertaking that Apple's competitors (with the exception of Google) don't have to undertake. We've seen Samsung's attempt at a third-party OS, and it was dismal.
Who the f**** cares? As a customer why do you think I or anyone else should give a shit how much work you do? We only care about results. We don't buy shit based on effort we buy shit based on value.
Clearly you are just another fanboy with Apple blinders on.
Oh and Google had nothing to do with most of the stack that makes up Android. The same goes for Apple. Quite a bit of their stack they didn't write themselves.
Given sticker price of vehicles I can't imagine it taking all that much more than a few people walking off the lot in disgust before dealers demanded change.
please stop with the madness of it being a listening device! You carry a microphone in your pocket everywhere you go. If you were really worried about that you'd stop carrying that device.
When your getting beat up by a girl please stop with the madness of asking her to stop. She already punched you. It's not logical to worry about being punched again.
I don't have a smart speaker either, but let's face it. Your phone can already be listening in on you. Have you analyzed whatever is being sent to play services recently?
The nice thing about Android is that it's more or less just Linux. iptables and tcpdump work just the same on Android as they do any normal Linux system.
The other nice thing about Android it works just fine without any Google malware installed.
Codifying intolerance in the name of tolerance is an oxymoron.
The price of freedom is tolerance of others. This doesn't stop at "free speech" = not going to jail. Freedom is about all members of society realizing they DO NOT have the right to NOT be offended. Freedom means tolerating those you hate, those whose views are 180 of yours. It means tolerating belligerence who stir the pot and piss you off. Freedom requires grown adults to grow up not be coddled like children.
Yes they are. You might argue that they are not good venues for such but one of their purposes is to establish facts.
No they are not. Their purpose stated or otherwise is irrelevant to what actually occurs in the real world.
Yes they peddle in objective evidence however it is an adversarial system mostly unconcerned with objective reality and people doing the deciding have zero domain knowledge which means court fact finding expeditions often devolve into opinion shopping and which side is best able to manage perceptions and often language itself to get their way. Courts are never about an honest attempt by all concerned to find truth and they most certainly do not adhere to any kind of scientific methodology.
Wrong! I run two companies, which make IoT enhanced products, everyone of my customers gets dedicated encryption keys when they set the products up, and those keys prevent me from seeing any of the data which is transmitted from the devices to my infrastructure.
Good for you but TFA is about Telecom services provided to mortals not "IoT enhanced products". It's hard to parse any relevant point of similarity from this. The issue of encrypting data was in no way relevant to TFA.
The issue was a CSR failing to authenticate account holder requesting an account change. The carrier was managing account information all mobile carriers are required to possess in order to provide service.
I'm not the only person doing this, you can find many companies that will, for instance look at ProtonMail, they have the same approach and there are several electronic lab book tools that function the same way, amount others, which I'm not going to list. I've had customers complain about this level of security, but my answer is always the same, "This is how a responsible company handles security, if you want to use insecure devices, go ahead, but I'll never sell you one.".
Sorry you lost your encryption key... the phone number you had for the last 40 years doesn't work anymore and there is nothing you can do to get it back. Sorry but hey at least we are serious about handling security...?
I hope you can see how a niche Email service whose raison deter is SECURITY has nothing on earth to do with practical issues facing mobile carriers with normal human beings as customers.
I answered this above, but this is very doable and reasonable. There is no reason I have to access one of my customers accounts, without their consent.
You seem to be mapping your experience on to something else entirely and assuming they are the same.
The point is that there should be no way for a customer service rep, to see the account, or preform control functions, without the account user letting them.
The point of contention from TFA is modalities surrounding "account holder letting them".
When you setup one of my devices, it warns you a number of times to backup your password, as if you lose it, we can't do anything to get you into your account.
While it may well work for your purposes this is a nonstarter for mobile telecom with millions of mortals as customers.
-You really shouldn't be using passwords, unless it's as a first factor method of authentication, and even then, use something like a YubiKey.
Who are you to tell me what I should or should not be doing? Security is a set of TRADEOFFs. Everyone has different value judgments.
A good firewall should block all HTTP request and as people move onto Secure DNS.
Secure DNS is currently a massive unpatched DDOS amplification vector that puts the network at considerable risk while solving nothing PKI hasn't already addressed.
It's not like anything resolved by DNS queries are themselves secure. BGP isn't secure and the network is inherently untrustworthy. What difference does secure naming service really make?
All email should be encrypted, PERIOD! All of my customers have to use secure mail to contact my companies.
Who are you to decide this for me? Maybe a cryptographic signature is sufficient for my purposes. Perhaps I WANT content to be public or be evident on the network for management/transparency purposes. Telling people what they should or should not do because of what you personally think is important misses the reality people only care about what is important to them.
In regards to billing, the system should watch the usage data and bill based on that, which wouldn't affect the account security
I'm actually a little disappointed. I was hoping that Damore's lawsuit might see decades of social study and feminist theory rigorously tested in court, or at least used to make some good arguments debunking his arguments which are fairly typical of the stuff we see on the internet quite often.
Courts of law are not venues for determining facts.
But you know what? You can uninstall Facebook app from Windows. Hell, you can uninstall Windows altogether from your PC and still have a usable PC. But I can't uninstall Facebook from my Samsung Galaxy A5 (2016) and I sure as hell can't uninstall Android from it.
So who's the greater evil?
Criminal A: Today I robbed two banks and stole purses from 5 old ladies.
Criminal B: Today I robbed three 7-11's, deflated tires of 20 vehicles in a Walmart parking lot and jacked three Teslas.
So who's the greater evil?
As a factual matter you do have a choice. You could install Lineage OS on your A5 and be completely free of both Facebook and Google malware.
A lot of people aren't paying for it. Loads of gamer types who build their own PC are using unactivated Windows 10, something they would have had to use hacks to be able to do with XP.
Microsoft is actually offering an incentive for some not to purchase Windows 10 since forced updates don't occur when you don't activate.
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Do you read any press? They don't do that (any more), they do whatever is needed to increase circulation (at best) or their personal brand.
I don't give a f*** if everyone in the world does it. The fact that x, y and z elects to do or not to do something is completely irrelevant. It's STILL irresponsible journalism regardless.
What you are effectively saying is that it's irresponsile for reporters to report the existence of lawsuits until they've verified all the claims in the lawsuit themselves or the trial has finished. It would even preclude out of court settlements ecause in that case it would be more or less impossible to verify the allegations.
Why intentionally lie about trivial facts immediately apparent to anyone having read TFA?
TFA does a heck of a lot more than simply report out the existence of lawsuit. TFA in fact reports out all of the juicy CONTENT of the lawsuit.
By your same logic and standards any journalist anywhere can report out content of anything and everything that comes across their desk with no due diligence simply by couching it in the fact such material exists. This is a ridiculous and unprofessional position.
They don't want customers fixing any of the "SMART" malware they purchased to no longer endanger their privacy, security, artificially limit capabilities or restrict choice.
Lost malware = lost revenue
Reporting the filing of this lawsuit is fine.
Lawsuits are public information once submitted.
They can't be expected not to publish because some people can't comprehend that it's not up to the journalists to investigate the claims.
Utter nonsense. It's up to journalists to investigate claims and evidence of articles they are working on. It's their fucking job.
They can't be expected to hold it back because some readers won't understand that it's the court that gets to decide if the complaint has merit, not them personally.
Hold back what? Public information already available to everyone? Your not making any sense. Just posting random shit that comes across your desk without vetting isn't responsible journalism.
Well, so is grabbing your coworker's boobs, but here we are.
TFA does nothing more than quote and summarize public information. Apparently no attempt is made to investigate any of the allegations. No objective evidence is offered.
No information exists for the reader to make any kind of determination of fact one way or the other.
This isn't responsible journalism. It's total complete and utter garbage. Whether the claims have merit or not is completely irrelevant.
Posting stories like this is irresponsible.
Never understood why DVDs and Blu-Rays come bundled with download codes.
The content is literally on the disc you purchased why bother to enter a code or download it from the Internet (I assume with strings attached) when you can just copy content of disc and play it on anything you want?
Honest question here. If the Internet and all its benefits wasn't killed off by whatever Net Neutrality rules were set to counter, why will their removal have different effects?
The problem as I see it is couched in continuation of nonstop aggregation of the service provider market now well into its second decade coupled with imminent collapse of cable television.
We are starting to see not just mega consolidation of mega ISPs but vertical integration as ISP and their parent corporations control and seek to leverage massive and growing content portfolios.
Personally I would love to see NN without Title II or basically all ISPs more than some arbitrary number of subs broken up into little bite sized pieces or forbidden from providing content and network access. I would love for third parties to manage the last mile access walled off and separate from ISPs. I would literally favor anything that meaningfully addressed or enabled competition over NN legislation.
Yet in the absence of these things speaking for myself I just don't see how the current situation is sustainable how we can expect ISPs not to leverage their positions without government intervention to moderate the influence of what are essentially defacto monopolies. If your a corporation obligated to your shareholders to make money why the hell would you elect not to leverage your position? It seems malpractice not to peddle your content to your more or less "captive" audience and do so on more favorable terms.
There is VAST evidence that reducing numbers of guns available results in reduced gun crime.
These arguments have always pissed me off because the metric itself is obviously bullshit and completely meaningless.
What people in the real world care about is NOT getting killed or injured not so much HOW they are killed or injured.
If your going to conduct or cite a study that says less guns results in reduced crime or reduced death or injury then god bless make THAT argument.
Saying less guns result in less gun crimes is no different than saying less Fords results in reduced death or injury involving Fords. Well no shit Sherlock.
iOS has supported "sideloading" officially since 2014.
Do try to keep up, Hater.
Installing developer tools and going through a shit-ton of unnecessary hoops is not officially supporting anything. This places functionality well outside the reach of normal users.
Contrast this with Android. Copy the file and run it. No worthless hoops.
See the difference?
Of course you don't... your a hopeless Apple Fanboy. Apple is great and their shit doesn't stink.
Making a collaborative project work requires people to be relatively civil and professional in their communication, and to not bring personal attacks and
No while nice it absolutely does not.
other nonsense into it.
I've seen first hand what happens in these environments. Crybaby perpetually offended mentality is actively used as a bludgeon against people you disagree with.
I once commented how an approach was a "hack" and the next thing you know the guy responsible for the idea and his cohorts are all crying foul interpreting it as if I called them a hack wanting an apology when clearly no such thing was said. Antics like this are non-stop when people are working cross purposes and don't really give a damn about merit. X already has code written or in production and if Y wins the day X is inconvenienced.
Others have accused me of attacking them because I refused to let them weasel out of addressing issues of technical merit.
Being perpetually offended is a mental disorder that doesn't help anyone. The safe space walk on eggshell mentality is actively harmful in collaborative projects. People engaged in this type of thinking have no problem leveraging their hurt feelings as a weapon to attack and marginalize those they disagree with. These codes of conduct only make matters worse by providing cover for irrational belligerence to fester.
That wasn't my point at all. But then you already knew that.
You very clearly seem to be using cell phone as an excuse/cover for "smart speakers". What was your point other than more of the same makes one a mad hypocrite?
The full quote was "please stop with the madness of it being a listening device! You carry a microphone in your pocket everywhere you go. If you were really worried about that you'd stop carrying that device."
Apple is coasting on decades of momentum, and slowing down with every "new" product that isn't actually new.
Really? What technology company do YOU run?
What consumer products have YOU designed that have sold millions upon millions of units?
Thought so.
Why does it matter? What is the relevance? Say one is able to rattle off a subjectively impressive list of them would it make OPs statement any more or less true?
1. It's much harder to create good industrial design than it is to copy it. When the Macbook Air was released, it was breathtaking.
Are you serious? Breathtaking? Lenovo T series was already better than MacBook in every way when Air was released.
2. Technology matures. Many people rant that Apple's innovation around the iPhone and iPad has slowed. Of course it has, because all of the obvious things have been done over the last decade.
What innovation? A computer encased in a display and touch screen for human interface. When people say Apple innovated what precisely...specifically are they referring to? I always hear about how innovative companies are but nobody ever bothers to explain exactly what the hell they are talking about. What is innovative about a painful to use slow physical interface that makes productive work impossible or an application launcher that is in fact just an endless sea of square icons?
3. If you're the market leader, there is no value in going down-market. Apple does an outstanding job of maintaining margins without resorting to selling a bewildering array of phones at all price points in a desperate attempt to gain market share. Nobody wants a Samsung J3 or an LG K4. They're cheap pieces of junk that you only buy if you can't afford a decent phone.
The displays of my friends iPhone AND iWatch became unglued and battery turned to shit and needed replacing. Just one person having multiple issues with products they've had less than a year. Apple products really seems to be quite well made. The I purchased 4 years ago for $120 on eBay is such a piece of shit because it has an SD card slot with over 300 GB total storage and still works perfectly. I can swap the f*** battery or install a monster 10000 mAh monster when travelling. But by all means spend $1000 on a new iPhone because only Apple is decent.
4. Maintaining and developing iOS is a massive undertaking that Apple's competitors (with the exception of Google) don't have to undertake. We've seen Samsung's attempt at a third-party OS, and it was dismal.
Who the f**** cares? As a customer why do you think I or anyone else should give a shit how much work you do? We only care about results. We don't buy shit based on effort we buy shit based on value.
Clearly you are just another fanboy with Apple blinders on.
Oh and Google had nothing to do with most of the stack that makes up Android. The same goes for Apple. Quite a bit of their stack they didn't write themselves.
Given sticker price of vehicles I can't imagine it taking all that much more than a few people walking off the lot in disgust before dealers demanded change.
please stop with the madness of it being a listening device! You carry a microphone in your pocket everywhere you go. If you were really worried about that you'd stop carrying that device.
When your getting beat up by a girl please stop with the madness of asking her to stop. She already punched you. It's not logical to worry about being punched again.
I don't have a smart speaker either, but let's face it. Your phone can already be listening in on you. Have you analyzed whatever is being sent to play services recently?
The nice thing about Android is that it's more or less just Linux. iptables and tcpdump work just the same on Android as they do any normal Linux system.
The other nice thing about Android it works just fine without any Google malware installed.
Do you have a cellphone? If so, then worrying about Alexa monitoring you is silly. A cellphone has far greater capability to track and eavesdrop.
This is like telling the victim of a drive by shooting not to worry about a second car because they only have small caliber pistols.
Yes, I would please like to be victimized by cyber stalking malware devices you actually have to pay money to own.
Codifying intolerance in the name of tolerance is an oxymoron.
The price of freedom is tolerance of others. This doesn't stop at "free speech" = not going to jail. Freedom is about all members of society realizing they DO NOT have the right to NOT be offended. Freedom means tolerating those you hate, those whose views are 180 of yours. It means tolerating belligerence who stir the pot and piss you off. Freedom requires grown adults to grow up not be coddled like children.
Yes they are. You might argue that they are not good venues for such but one of their purposes is to establish facts.
No they are not. Their purpose stated or otherwise is irrelevant to what actually occurs in the real world.
Yes they peddle in objective evidence however it is an adversarial system mostly unconcerned with objective reality and people doing the deciding have zero domain knowledge which means court fact finding expeditions often devolve into opinion shopping and which side is best able to manage perceptions and often language itself to get their way. Courts are never about an honest attempt by all concerned to find truth and they most certainly do not adhere to any kind of scientific methodology.
Wrong! I run two companies, which make IoT enhanced products, everyone of my customers gets dedicated encryption keys when they set the products up, and those keys prevent me from seeing any of the data which is transmitted from the devices to my infrastructure.
Good for you but TFA is about Telecom services provided to mortals not "IoT enhanced products". It's hard to parse any relevant point of similarity from this. The issue of encrypting data was in no way relevant to TFA.
The issue was a CSR failing to authenticate account holder requesting an account change. The carrier was managing account information all mobile carriers are required to possess in order to provide service.
I'm not the only person doing this, you can find many companies that will, for instance look at ProtonMail, they have the same approach and there are several electronic lab book tools that function the same way, amount others, which I'm not going to list. I've had customers complain about this level of security, but my answer is always the same, "This is how a responsible company handles security, if you want to use insecure devices, go ahead, but I'll never sell you one.".
Sorry you lost your encryption key... the phone number you had for the last 40 years doesn't work anymore and there is nothing you can do to get it back. Sorry but hey at least we are serious about handling security...?
I hope you can see how a niche Email service whose raison deter is SECURITY has nothing on earth to do with practical issues facing mobile carriers with normal human beings as customers.
I answered this above, but this is very doable and reasonable. There is no reason I have to access one of my customers accounts, without their consent.
You seem to be mapping your experience on to something else entirely and assuming they are the same.
The point is that there should be no way for a customer service rep, to see the account, or preform control functions, without the account user letting them.
The point of contention from TFA is modalities surrounding "account holder letting them".
When you setup one of my devices, it warns you a number of times to backup your password, as if you lose it, we can't do anything to get you into your account.
While it may well work for your purposes this is a nonstarter for mobile telecom with millions of mortals as customers.
-You really shouldn't be using passwords, unless it's as a first factor method of authentication, and even then, use something like a YubiKey.
Who are you to tell me what I should or should not be doing? Security is a set of TRADEOFFs. Everyone has different value judgments.
A good firewall should block all HTTP request and as people move onto Secure DNS.
Secure DNS is currently a massive unpatched DDOS amplification vector that puts the network at considerable risk while solving nothing PKI hasn't already addressed.
It's not like anything resolved by DNS queries are themselves secure. BGP isn't secure and the network is inherently untrustworthy. What difference does secure naming service really make?
All email should be encrypted, PERIOD! All of my customers have to use secure mail to contact my companies.
Who are you to decide this for me? Maybe a cryptographic signature is sufficient for my purposes. Perhaps I WANT content to be public or be evident on the network for management/transparency purposes. Telling people what they should or should not do because of what you personally think is important misses the reality people only care about what is important to them.
In regards to billing, the system should watch the usage data and bill based on that, which wouldn't affect the account security
To bill usage you need to know who th
I'm actually a little disappointed. I was hoping that Damore's lawsuit might see decades of social study and feminist theory rigorously tested in court, or at least used to make some good arguments debunking his arguments which are fairly typical of the stuff we see on the internet quite often.
Courts of law are not venues for determining facts.
But you know what? You can uninstall Facebook app from Windows. Hell, you can uninstall Windows altogether from your PC and still have a usable PC. But I can't uninstall Facebook from my Samsung Galaxy A5 (2016) and I sure as hell can't uninstall Android from it.
So who's the greater evil?
Criminal A: Today I robbed two banks and stole purses from 5 old ladies.
Criminal B: Today I robbed three 7-11's, deflated tires of 20 vehicles in a Walmart parking lot and jacked three Teslas.
So who's the greater evil?
As a factual matter you do have a choice. You could install Lineage OS on your A5 and be completely free of both Facebook and Google malware.
A lot of people aren't paying for it. Loads of gamer types who build their own PC are using unactivated Windows 10, something they would have had to use hacks to be able to do with XP.
Microsoft is actually offering an incentive for some not to purchase Windows 10 since forced updates don't occur when you don't activate.