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| SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: Syntax Error on November 06, 2020, 04:08:17 pm ---Looks like a malicious 'Vero' report, possibly by a competitor, backed up by a person who would ban veroboard. I expect LittleBird's product range is also blocked on the basis that raspberrys are prohibited under Australia's strict biosecure import controls. Ebay has a 'team' of experts who know this stuff. Pay peanuts, get alergic monkeys. --- End quote --- Yep. And we thought oppressive censorship only existed in totalitarian states... |
| I wanted a rude username:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on November 06, 2020, 06:50:11 pm ---Yep. And we thought oppressive censorship only existed in totalitarian states... --- End quote --- In the past, the state was the only entity that could, in most cases, control publishing, access to markets, etc. Now with consolidation of Internet sites, some of them are the market (Amazon, eBay, etc.), are the press. And if someone doesn't like you, they'll get you kicked off them. The former protections should be extended into these domains ... but nobody seems to want to do this. |
| SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: I wanted a rude username on November 06, 2020, 10:31:19 pm --- --- Quote from: SilverSolder on November 06, 2020, 06:50:11 pm ---Yep. And we thought oppressive censorship only existed in totalitarian states... --- End quote --- In the past, the state was the only entity that could, in most cases, control publishing, access to markets, etc. Now with consolidation of Internet sites, some of them are the market (Amazon, eBay, etc.), are the press. And if someone doesn't like you, they'll get you kicked off them. The former protections should be extended into these domains ... but nobody seems to want to do this. --- End quote --- Eventually, I think governments will be forced to deal with the reality of it and enact laws that balance this out - including enabling people to have disputes settled in court, instead of by some f#ked algorithm sponsored by corporate giants for their convenience. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on November 06, 2020, 11:04:10 pm ---Eventually, I think governments will be forced to deal with the reality of it and enact laws that balance this out - including enabling people to have disputes settled in court, instead of by some f#ked algorithm sponsored by corporate giants for their convenience. --- End quote --- If not actual legal courts, there needs to be some kind of court process where they are compelled to have an actual human look over it, listen to both sides and make a decision. Too many of these companies automate everything and don't even provide a way to reach a human to contest anything. |
| SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: james_s on November 07, 2020, 02:37:48 am --- --- Quote from: SilverSolder on November 06, 2020, 11:04:10 pm ---Eventually, I think governments will be forced to deal with the reality of it and enact laws that balance this out - including enabling people to have disputes settled in court, instead of by some f#ked algorithm sponsored by corporate giants for their convenience. --- End quote --- If not actual legal courts, there needs to be some kind of court process where they are compelled to have an actual human look over it, listen to both sides and make a decision. Too many of these companies automate everything and don't even provide a way to reach a human to contest anything. --- End quote --- Exactly, the corporations have effectively bought a monopoly position in a monopoly market. |
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