All data carriers, like ISPs, payment processors, email services, etc. should have NO control, nor even oversight or input, over the content of their transmission or the purposes thereof.

Imagine if all roads were privately own and they wanted to know every detail about those traveling on their roadways. Origin and destination, every detail about you, about your vehicle, what you have in your car, etc. And imagine they could decide that certain cars were allowed on their roads, you weren’t allowed to use their roads to get to certain destinations, they get lobbied by bigots to not allow gays to drive on their roads, or people that have porn in their vehicle. There’s no public alternative, and sometimes no private alternative, and even private alternatives do the exact same thing… if we wouldn’t allow that sort of surveillance, interference, and autocratic control with or means of movement, why should we allow it with our means of trade.

No. But in college, we had a pub we would go to for dinner on Wednesday every week with the same group of friends, with the occasional tag along. Does that count?

Agree to disagree.

It’s not “shit.” That’s just an over correction to its relative success for its mediocrity. Excluding the visuals, it’s fine. It’s not stellar, not terrible, just… fine. Simple. There are plenty of worse movie plots, dialogue and acting out there. It’s nowhere near unwatchable.

It’s a vehicle for the visuals and technology showcasing on a basic film frame, yes. But, it’s allowed to be really good at one thing and appreciated for that.

Like a plain chip in some bomb-ass dip. You could’ve scooped it on a dirty shoe and someone would have licked it clean. But, you gave me a plain chip instead, which is better… even if boring. So, thanks.

Trying to figure out how this could possibly be a Loss meme.

When I worked for a small business MSP, my boss had an off hours call about an issue, walked the guy through rebooting their server. He was monitoring the uptime so he saw it go off. Then he told them to turn it back on. The guy said he did, but my boss never saw it come back online. He asked him if it was lit up, the guy said yes. He said “are you sure”, and the guy, annoyed, said “yes! I see lights”. Waited a bit longer and it never came online. He called another person at the business to check, and they too confirmed that it was lit up. So he drove 35 minutes to go to their office, walked in their network closet and hit the power button, and magically it turned on. They were seeing the lights on the router, an entirely different machine sitting on top of the server and thought it was on. The issue was fixed by the reboot alone and my boss drove home very very annoyed.

He literally said he was anti-free speech once they install their dictatorship. It’s just a tool he’ll use now to get to that point

turn off monitor

count to 10

turn on monitor

“Nope, didn’t work”

PEBCAK

They are a self-sustaining department of the government. Before unnecessary rules were placed on them regarding how they generated money, they used to actually make a surplus of revenue all while providing service to every home and commercial property in the country. Downsizing or privatizing them does nothing to save the government money. It only serves delivery services like UPS, FedEx, etc, to boost their revenue.

Guess what Zionists. When you equate Judaism, the Jewish ethnicity, and the citizens of Isreal, and the government of Isreal, you sound racist as fuck, and stupid too.

Edit: To the downvoter, that goes for you too, asshole.

“Oh well, then there is no pleashing you.”