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vk6zgo:

--- Quote from: tooki on December 19, 2022, 07:59:49 am ---
--- Quote from: Psi on December 17, 2022, 09:48:44 pm ---It's like the old phone books that were in order of last name and initials and if you looked up someone name in the book you could find their phone number and address.
But it was illegal to use the info to make a new book reordered by phone number to locate an address and name from a phone number.

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Why would that have been illegal? Until Caller ID came out, there wouldn’t have been any need for reverse phone lookup. But land-line caller ID not only showed the caller’s number, but name as well!
It really wasn’t until digital cellphones, where caller ID inexplicably doesn’t support sending the caller name, that reverse lookup even became necessary, and clearly compiling that data into a reverse lookup is not illegal, or there wouldn’t be reverse lookup websites.

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Easy!------ landline caller ID didn't show the name in Australia, just the number.
vk6zgo:

--- Quote from: Ranayna on December 19, 2022, 08:16:21 am ---
--- Quote from: MK14 on December 19, 2022, 03:41:51 am ---He has started up a poll, which he will allow to vote him out of the chief of twitter job.

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Who seriously would want to take the job as Twitter CEO while Musk is still the owner? You can only loose here.

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Thinking about it, I don't really care much---- I've never has a Twitter account, anyway.

I didn't like Elon when he was lauded for his efforts in energy conservation, & I still don't like him, now that the other side love him because he is supposedly "anti-woke".

As rich people do, he will do whatever he wants.
tom66:

--- Quote from: MK14 on December 19, 2022, 03:41:51 am ---In a poll to his 122 million followers, he tweeted: "Should I step down as head... I will abide by the results..."

Source:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-your-money-64021412

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Every Twitter user who votes 'No' mysteriously finds their account locked out the next day...
PlainName:

--- Quote ---Again what you think is irrelevant, it does not matter at all to anyone but you.
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That's your standard reply in this, isn't it? You can't engage to say why something is OK and something similar is not, or discuss the merits or whatever of something. "That's your opinion." Well everything YOU post is merely your opinion, so let's drop that kind of non-engagement (or just don't bother rejoining).

And, FYI which is going to come as some surprise, not everything that is bad is illegal. It takes the law a long time and/or some very, very public situations to get with the times and, as has already been noted, there is civil law where things are not expressly illegal. Which is not to mention that illegal shit doesn't always get punished (even when TPTB has chapter and verse of a trangression), and many people are just too poor or lacking in willpower to sue someone else. Does that make it fine to walk all over them? Of course not,  but by your book - it's not illegal and I don't see any court case - says it is.
PlainName:

--- Quote from: vk6zgo on December 19, 2022, 05:09:52 am ---
--- Quote from: PlainName on December 19, 2022, 01:07:27 am ---
--- Quote ---A civil suit normally concentrates upon whether what is done injures the person bringing the suit in any way.
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Well feel free to correct me, but if someone has been injured then surely the person causing that has been naughty.

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Sorry, I didn't necessarily mean a physical injury---it could be an injury to the reputation, or financially.

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Yes, that's the context in which I used injury. The question remains: if someone is injured (their reputation shredded, say) there the person or entity causing that might have been naughty. No-one will get nicked and shoved in the slammer but, nevertheless, they have been bad.
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