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> 15.2(2)(d) cannot as a matter of law be used to effectively ban anyone from the internet at all. How laws are read can change. It may not fly in court today, but what about 5 or 10 years later? T…

I'm pretty sure there are already laws that allow the government to deal with devices used for spying. There's no need to introduce this broad-spectrum bill that controls way more than it sh…

You're right, 0 kb/s would be too obvious. Let's do 0.1 kb/s, or restrict their plan to 1 minute of use per day. You realize that while the charter still safeguards your freedoms, …

They could make the ISP not be able to provision more than 0 kb/s of bandwidth to you unless some condition is met, which apparently could be anything that the Minister considers relevant. --- Yo…

That "almost entirely" part is the problem. They sneak in a clause that makes those restrictions also apply to which customers ISPs can serve. Even the supposed intended purpose of restricti…

nick__m quoted the wrong section, but there's an identical Factors section 15.2(6) that applies to 15.2(2)(d). There's also a non-disclosure clause. The headline is true. Order (2) If the Mi…

This is worse than the EU's ChatControl, or the UK's Online Safety Act. This will pave the way for total online censorship and surveillance in Canada. The Canadian government will be able to…

See also: https://systemfontstack.com It's similar.

Reality over propriety. ...seems to be the sentiment expressed here: there is so much more of everything else to care about than money and fame. But there is also value in caring about those things a …

> I'm tired, after hundreds of years, of people still insisting "no no no, just a little more information freedom and humans will magically fix all their natural biases and magically stop…

These are examples of minorities being oppressed through physical violence. Minorities are still oppressed in democratic societies today because a democratic society by definition prioritizes the majo…

The examples you're listing aren't just words. They're actions. I could say I'm going to deny your health insurance, or deny entry of your type to my group, or sue you for somethin…

Ideally, individuals are the ones responsible for moderating content. All filters should be implemented client-side. A person can have all the freedom to decide what they see, but not what anyone else…

> A regime attempting to kill a large group of people is also oppressive and much worse. Indeed. But one should realize that thorny words are precisely what replaces physical violence. Human nature…

> How is it solved? It is solved by a democratic system that defines truth as "mutually observable phenomena", defines good as "the wishes of the people", and allows individuals…

AGPL or even GPL is fine. It's just a statement of intent: "artificial scarcity is bad, we want information to be free and those who take from the pile must add to it." Realistically, o…

True. The description encodes very little about the actual sensory experience besides its relationship to similar experiences (bitterness, crunchiness, etc) and how to retrieve the memories of those e…

I share this sentiment for the most part. The only nuance is we probably shouldn't give away core technologies that are closely related to cutting-edge weapons, which would spark an arms race. Le…

Hotter take: consumer devices should always have publically available schematics. It doesn't even matter if the Chinese companies get it. That will only accelerate innovation because nobody would…

A description of the taste of chocolate must contain some information about the actual experience of eating chocolate. Otherwise, it wouldn't be possible for both the reader and the author to und…

I'm trying to say there's no sufficient evidence either way. The mechanism by which our consciousness emerges remains unresolved, and inquiry has been moving towards more fundamental process…

The LLM is not performing the physical action of eating a piece of chocolate, but it may be approximating the mental state of a person that is describing the taste of chocolate after eating it. The qu…

I think this popular take is a hypothesis rather than an observation of reality. Let's make this clear by asking the following question, and you'll see what I mean when you try to answer it:…

The UK doesn't have the exact equivalent of chat control yet, but it already arrests people for politically incorrect posts. They're doing things in smaller steps, which is more likely to su…

There's no utopia. The value of unmitigated speech is in replacing unmitigated violence. The people you mention, whoever they are, are grossed out by human nature.

If murder is common in the populace, then that means the social norms of that society have already drifted to the point where murder is acceptable. In that society, the murderers are probably running …

Dear citizens of the EU: If this gets pushed through, you will gradually lose control of your government much like how the people of the UK already lost control of theirs. What are you going to do whe…

Describe reality. Make an effort to separate your aesthetic judgements from your observations.

When people say or hear "manipulation", it usually implies deception: someone is tricking someone else into a position that's against the former's goals and interests. It's po…

Don't just dream. We can choose to use the ISP that says "yes", or at least a less firm "no". We can vote with our wallets to create a market opening for the ISP that says &qu…