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All of the people who need to be in jail to protect us from them seem to never go, and they are busy busting people like these guys and Ross Ulbricht who were actually advancing use of technology.
They have done this for years, unfortunately. Admins are the weak spot in Reddit, not the jannies (ironically). My sympathies!
Are people just now discovering that Reddit has run on full censorship for a long time?
The political system filters out the noncompliant, so the parties start to resemble one another.
It’s going to be difficult to jam outside of the cities. I imagine people are going to set up private wired networks in their neighborhoods, or use Wi-Fi mesh. The good news is that at that point, laws against piracy will be totally moot.
Sure, and both were exposed to PARC and early 80s experiments in GUIs. There was a certain amount of convergence. But it is interesting that Windows was in motion first.
Bet it happens for political reasons. First rule of suppressing revolutions is to cut communications.
Interesting that Windows was in development before the Macintosh. To be fair, lots of 8-bit systems had experimental GUIs at the time as well.
Probably a plea deal. Plead guilty to a few charges and others are considered closed. If you do not have the millions required to litigate this mess, it is probably the safest option.