"Hey buddy! So just FYI, I think your people are monsters, and I kinda low-key cheered on the murder of a bunch of them recently, and I totally think they deserved to die, and I'm tacitly cosigning their complete eradication by taking the side of a group that has that as an explicit goal...oh, and I want you to give me a job!"
"Uhm...I don't think I wanna work with you."
"Oh my gawd, this is oppression! Whatever happened to free speech?!"
It's not different than Nazis or whatever: you're free to say whatever you want, but nobody has to like you for it. Go start your own law firm.
Same goes for law students who are too enthusiastic about Israel's violent response, nobody has to hire them either. And I don't think you would mind that at all.
Sounds like it's high time for a change in leadership!
...and nobody has been given a decision...
Wikipedia would call those 'weasel words', passive voice. Been given? Who's going to give it to them? They're independent and self-governing. If they don't agree with the actions of their leaders, they need to change leaders; neither Israel nor anybody else can do that for them.
If Hamas doesn't represent the Palestinians, and refuses to step aside, that makes them bad guys twice over: terrorists to Israel and tyrants to the Palestinians. My understanding is that they're pretty popular, though.
If I were the head of a law firm, I wouldn't hire the idiot you're talking about or this guy. That doesn't mean nobody ever will, but it's not that shocking that one potential employers decided to pass. Nobody is obliged to hire him and he showed a pretty fundamental lack of judgement & ethics.
Seriously, this guy makes great videos. I've enjoyed his videos on heat exchangers, VHS vs Beta, liquid dish detergent vs pods, or humidifiers way more than is reasonable.
People seem more mature, skeptical, genuinely left-leaning, interested in discussion, and the moderation isn’t totalitarian.
You've finally found the right echo chamber for you!
Kidding, kidding. But really, I don't find people on Lemmy that much more mature or skeptical than Reddit, and I've had fewer productive discussions (though those have also been rare on Reddit for several years now). It's definitely more left-leaning, though.
Moderation seems more friendly, though, I agree with that.
This might've been a guy who got shot shortly after sneaking across the border in the wee hours of the morning. There's no reason to assume this is one of the attackers who spend the day fighting the IDF.
Another problem: legislation like this cements the status quo. It's easy enough for large incumbents to add features like this, but to a handful of programmers trying to launch an app from their garage, this adds another hurdle into the process. Remember: Signal and Telegram are only about a decade old, we've seen new (and better) apps launch recently. Is that going to stop?
It's easy to say "this is just a simple hash lookup, it's not that big a deal!", but (1) it opens the door to client-side requirements in legislation, it's unlikely to stop here, (2) if other countries follow suit, devs will need to implement a bunch of geo-dependant (?) lookups, and (3) someone is going to have to monitor compliance, and make sure images are actually being verified--which also opens small companies up to difficult legal actions. How do you prove your client is complying? How can you monitor to make sure it's working without violating user privacy?
Also: doesn't this close the door on open software? How can you allow users to install open source message apps, or (if the lookup is OS-level) Linux or a free version of Android that they're able to build themselves? If they can, what's to stop pedophiles from just doing that--and disabling the checks?
If you don't ban user-modifiable software on phones, you've just added an extra hurdle for creeps: they just need to install a new version. If you do, you've handed total control of phones to corporations, and especially big established corporations.
I mean it seems outrageously greedy, but stop and think about it: if they'd paid for a pizza party, the banner would've had to read "Thanks for driving sales and beating plan by $5,999,727!!" And that's just ugly.
Got any examples? Between Walmart, Etsy, AliExpress, Best Buy, MonoPrice, Home Depot, and Wayfair, plus the fact that nearly every major store has online shopping and delivery...I really can't think of anything I could only get on Amazon. To be quite frank, I think the US government's case is sorta ridiculous.
That's basically an exploit. Different 'products' can be related, and the reviews are supposed to be useful across them. The most obvious examples are just different colors of socks, or different sizes of shirt. Sometimes it's variants on a product: one with a handle and one without, or different models of TV with the same screen, or whatever.
But it's not Amazon who makes those connections, it's the companies entering product data. Some of them abuse it, and say products are related when they're not at all. Since there's millions of products listed, it takes time to identify and fix the false associations. In the meantime: people looking for headphone stands see reviews for whisks.
But yeah, quality has gone down. It hits some product categories a lot worse than others: cheap electronics is a shitshow.
Sure. But they'd make similar amounts of money (possibly more) by selling non-counterfeit goods.
They want their market to be open to third parties, because otherwise those third parties are gonna launch competing platforms. Better if they stick with Amazon, and Amazon gets a cut of the sale. There are thousands and thousands of Chinese companies selling products on Amazon, and many of them are fantastic deals. If Amazon blocks them, they all move to AliExpress, and maybe that really takes off and bites into Amazon's market share.
But when you consider the sheer number of products offered on Amazon, it's hard for them to separate the good-but-cheap from the crap counterfeit bullshit. And as you say...they make money either way, so it's not the highest-priority problem to fix--though as I said in another comment, they are aware that if enough products are crap, people will lose faith in Amazon as a whole, so they've tried different techniques to block bullshit reviews in the past.
But if somebody else wants to put in the work to filter shitty knockoffs from the results page? Well, that's fine with them! They make money selling you the real deal products, too--likely more, because their cut of a more expensive original product is gonna be higher.
"Hey buddy! So just FYI, I think your people are monsters, and I kinda low-key cheered on the murder of a bunch of them recently, and I totally think they deserved to die, and I'm tacitly cosigning their complete eradication by taking the side of a group that has that as an explicit goal...oh, and I want you to give me a job!"
"Uhm...I don't think I wanna work with you."
"Oh my gawd, this is oppression! Whatever happened to free speech?!"
It's not different than Nazis or whatever: you're free to say whatever you want, but nobody has to like you for it. Go start your own law firm.
Same goes for law students who are too enthusiastic about Israel's violent response, nobody has to hire them either. And I don't think you would mind that at all.