Government-ordered shutdowns do not work the way you think. Government doesn’t play by the rules, it makes rules for itself.

Which means - they may, say, make a list of instances updated hourly, which automatically get blocked by ISPs.

Free speech or not, it won’t withstand such.

Telegram is the least secure thing there is. Not only it’s complete zero effort security, it’s also much above zero effort to advertise itself as almost secure. Not a good combination as you know.

In copyright protection terms the ratio shouldn’t matter. They should pay for all the lost profits from pirating everything they’ve downloaded. Every time someone pirated it should be counted. And every time someone uses the AI trained on the data.

They can become the corporate Jesus of the interwebs, having paid for our sins.

Not just this one. But I think you are overestimating such improvements over strategic ones that the US is still doing more. Say, Starlink really turning into some sort of planetary cell network.

They are ostensibly a one party state, not a dictatorship.

This sentence feels so Soviet.

So they received money for something they didn’t do. They should pay those back.

Doing a from-heart-to-sun salute tends to hurt sales in UK and Germany, who woulda thought. The stereotype about French is that they don’t care and might even like it, but maybe this is also about build and design quality.

I don’t think I’m taking side in that text.

I do think you shouldn’t make opinions of text you didn’t understand.

Internals of state structures being mandated some terminology is not really a violation of free speech.

In theory there are two approaches to discrimination - the neutral and the compensatory. The neutral one is that eventually discrimination will dissolve if the structure is built truly neutrally. The compensatory one is to detect kinds of discrimination and compensate for them specifically. I can imagine both the former and the latter feeling nicer in theory. The former - well, no special cases, just prevent the structure itself from reinforcing injustice. The latter - well, everything in life is a special case, you’ll never have a perfect structure, so it’s better to work with what you have.

It’s like different kinds of interference in radio, requiring different solutions. In fact they are not contradictory and both have their place in a working system (I haven’t heard of such).

Most of the web now is like that article.

AI has a role in turning pages and pages of text into one sentence.

Are costs of ownership and maintenance low enough to make the difference in initial purchase cost justified, with all the jokes about Apple’s pricing?