Verizon, AT&T tell courts: FCC can’t punish us for selling user location data
arstechnica.com
Carriers claim location data isn’t protected, say they have right to jury trial.
    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It won’t be gone, it’ll be used to ensure the most powerful companies in the country never, ever, have any legitimate competition, and can do whatever the fuck they want. They’ll write whatever laws these companies want. They’ll make it illegal to try to start a new telecom.

      • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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        2 months ago

        They’ll make it illegal to try to start a new telecom.

        They already did in some states at least for municipalities… aint “free” market grand?

      • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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        2 months ago

        that’s a felony lol

        and trust me… state will defend a “legal” person’s financial interest than they would defend a shiti organic person’s life.

    • SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      lol

      I wish the FCC would lighten up the amateur radio rules tho. Cool stuff like Meshtastic is happening outside of licenced bands and is taking off

        • SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Or we could actually make some stuff in the US/EU for a change. I know it takes time but it’s probably for the best in the long run

          • Clent@lemmy.world
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            2 months ago

            Tell me you don’t know how the global economy works without telling me you don’t know how the global economy works.

            • Joël de Bruijn@lemmy.ml
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              2 months ago

              Tell me you dont know how supply lock-in is a tool for geopolitics without telling me you dont know how supply lock-in is a tool for geopolitics.

              • Clent@lemmy.world
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                2 months ago

                Looks like you’re the one confused here. Supply lock-in means what exactly to you?

                This appears to be a term you made up. What is supply lock-in returns no results.

                Perhaps you mean vendor lock-in which is actually what I am talking about and you don’t understand what vendor lock-in means.

                • Joël de Bruijn@lemmy.ml
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                  2 months ago

                  We as a species make up terms on a daily basis, so I feel the liberty to do the same. Glad it doesnt give any results because it indicates original thought.

                  If large parts of the supply chain consist of suppliers (vendors) on the other side of the earth, one can focus on one vendor lock-in or one by one (for analytical purposes) and optimise for that but often the bigger picture of a complex supply chain is missed.

                  Hence the aggregated lock-in.

    • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      It won’t be gone. How else will they make good on their threat of shutting down media companies that say things they don’t like?