There are many people out there who beat their children (and believe that's fine). While those people may claim to agree with being kind to their kin, they understand it very differently than I would.
What are you worried will happen? ChatGPT releases and noone will know? Anyone interested in staying up to date with new technology can read a tech newspaper. That newspaper is paid by the readers, so its incentive is to show actually interesting products. It is not paid by some random company whose product might be bad or outright malicious.
Depends on what exactly gets banned. What is an ad? What isn’t? Must all information be paid for by the audience? I wish someone would tell me what this ban is supposed to cover.
I worry that innovators and small businesses won’t be able to get their message out efficiently. You won’t be able to display your message on anyone else’s property. You won’t be able to take any compensation for promoting anything.
Anything wie usually consider an ad/sponsored content/boosted content. That includes ad banners, video sponsors, boosted posts, billboards, etc. Really any way that a third party pays some organization to put certain content on their space (be it physical or digital) to be seen by people who are probably there for other reasons than to see that content.
An exact definition fortunately isn't necessary, since our legal system is well adapted to deal with terms that are difficult to define.
> Must all information be paid for by the audience?
Other monetization paths are still possible. E.g. some SaaS orgs could still run blogs to gain mind share, as they do now.
Hopefully most information will be paid for by the audience though.
> I worry that innovators and small businesses won’t be able to get their message out efficiently.
If ads are no longer a thing, people will find other means to get information.
You mentioned in another comment that you like ads in newspapers telling you about some local stores and events. If the readers are genuinely interested in this, the newspaper can still put that information there. Just instead of the highest bidder, they'll put the ones that are genuinely interesting.
Of course, if your product is not worth reading about, it will suddenly be much more difficult to promote it. In my opinion, that is a good thing.
Thank you. You listed concrete examples of things you would ban and you stated a general definition. It sounds like a terrible kind of regime, stripped of the freedom of speech and loaded with arbitrary decisions about what the audience probably wanted to see, resulting in an even more opaque and corrupt flow of information. Nope, no thanks.
I think the problem you have with ads is a you problem.
> It sounds like a terrible kind of regime, stripped of the freedom of speech [...]
I agree that this would be a significant restriction on speech. I think it'd be worth it, especially since paying someone to show your opinion isn't necessary for political discourse, but I understand the caution.
> I think the problem you have with ads is a you problem.
That I very much disagree with.
Ads not just waste billions of dollars on producing content that is so bad you literally pay people to watch it, they also degrade the business model of large parts of the industry. Because of the ad-based business model, Google doesn't show you the best results, Meta tries to get you addicted, YouTube prevents you from swearing and discussing certain political content (a restriction on speech), everyone tries to track you, etc.
I believe that if all these companies' customers were their users, there would be a societal shift.
I'm unsure why you're spinning a discussion about foreign interference in the EU into a discussion about Republicans vs. Democrats.
To the EU, it doesn't matter much if it's the Republicans or the Democrats doing it. What matters is that the USA is trying to interfere with the EU's political landscape.
It would be bad if they pushed the extreme left, too. They just happen to be pushing the extreme right.
>The reason right-wing political violence is more talked about in the EU is also rather simple: It is much more prevalent.
Ah yes, data of left wing government in power shows that the big problem is only the "hate speech twitter comments hate crime" of their growing right wing opposition that threatens their power.
100% trustworthy and unbiased of them.
Just like to UK government denying grooming gangs were not real and only due to "far right white supremacists", until they couldn't hide it anymore thanks to the backlash on social media they're trying to ban right now.
Always believe what your leaders are telling you, as they have your best interest at heart and would never lie to you to protect their own interests.
You consider the current German government to be left-wing?
The current government is led by the CDU. The only popular party that's even further right, the AfD, has merely 20% of the vote. Or worded differently, 80% of voters voted either for the current government or further left. This clearly places the current government in the center, maybe even a bit on the right wing.
The current government can only be considered left-wing if you completely disregard the democratic will of the German people.
It’s just not the same thing. There is significant overlap, but it’s not enough to be a reasonable suggestion. You can’t suggest a service as a replacement for a local offline tool. It’s like saying “Why do you need VLC when you can just run peertube?”. Also since then, age is the real replacement for pgp in terms of sending encrypted files. Wormhole is a different use case.
There are two parts of "sending encrypted files": the encryption and the sending. An offline tool (e.g. PGP or age) seems only necessary when you want to decouple the two. After all, you can't do the sending with an offline tool (except insofar as you can queue up a message while offline, such as with traditional mail clients).
The question thereby becomes "Why decouple the sending from encryption?"
As far as I can see, the main (only?) reason is if the communication channel used for sending doesn't align with your threat model. For instance, maybe there are multiple parties at the other end of the channel, but you only trust one of them. Then you'd need to do something like encrypt the message with that person's key.
But in the use-case you mentioned (not wanting to publicly post a log file), I don't see why that reason would hold; surely the people who would send you logs can trust trust Signal every bit as easily as PGP. Share your Signal username over your existing channel (the mailing list), thereby allowing these people to effectively "upgrade" their channel with you.
Sticking to the use case of serving that 0.1% of users, why can’t a service or other encrypted transport be a solution? Why doesn’t Signal fit the bill for instance?
> Despite this being clearly shown within the HPV vaccine trials, since testing before vaccination would reduce vaccine sales, it was never recommended within the prescribing guidelines (some groups even said to not test before receiving the vaccine).
Citation needed. In Germany, the HPV vaccine is recommended only to below 14 year olds, so as to reduce precisely that risk.
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