kbal

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What Twitter/X has done is no conduct that the Canadian people would tolerate if they were conducted by a corporation that was aligned with, say, the government of China

And yet, we did not ban TikTok. Nor did the Americans, when it came down to it. Perhaps they saw no prospect of such a law surviving the legal challenges that would rise against it.

As a general rule, the government can’t simply ban speech it dislikes. The government in Canada would perhaps have a marginally easier time of it with our less complete constitutional protection of the freedom of expression, but it would remain a bad idea, unlikely to succeed legally and very likely to do more harm than good if it did stand. It's wrong to say that "no reasonable jurisprudence would defend" Canadians' rights to visit the website and run the software of their choice when doing so is not in violation of any laws other than an arbitrary ban on one specific vendor who is disliked.

If social media firms have engaged in practices that should be illegal, then make those practices illegal. It will be discovered that once they are identified and specified, far more than just Facebook and Twitter will be affected. That is as it should be. The government of Canada should do what it can, and not attempt to do what it cannot. It should pass data privacy laws that make the worst practices of surveillance capitalist social media illegal in Canada. Legislate directly against the "data harvesting" and ad targeting.

And obviously, first of all, the government should stop using Twitter and Facebook, stop promoting them on government web sites, and thereby start leading people away from that shit instead of towards it. Here's the petition again, which has 15000 signatures so far and lots of time left to sign it.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Is it really down to TSMC being unable to keep up? It seems plausible but I didn't notice anything in the video to support it. Are there other sources that point to it as the problem?

Edit — for circumstantial evidence I did find this: https://wccftech.com/tsmc-reaches-100-percent-utilization-5nm-3nm-supply/

[–] kbal@fedia.io 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

the standard basically just looks better

Place your bets everyone, has OP ever looked at either standard?

[–] kbal@fedia.io 13 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Hey AMD, here's an idea: Ramp up your manufacturing, make an RX 9050, MSRP $350, flood the market with them, win the GPU game.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Carney will conventionally do the most conventional thing that can be justified by conventional economics, as is his passion. It will not solve our problems. Neither will it lead to an "even more rabid" future Conservative party, if he somehow does keep them out of power this time. The party and the people will have seen rabid populist wreck-everything politics fail to win an election in Canada and bring the USA to ruin. They are likely to want to try something else.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 45 points 4 months ago (17 children)

I'm watching on cpac.

Good speech from Chrétien, considering he's 90 years old although the people yelling "woooo!" after every other sentence should maybe calm down a bit.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Post title: "ban X" — an insane idea that is not going to happen.

The petition: "stop using X" — a good idea that they should've done already.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah I haven't watched much TV since twenty years ago, forgot for a moment how tightly regulated broadcasting is. By contrast, nobody has even talked about banning the RT web site. For the most part, banning the use of foreign websites is something only autocratic censorship-heavy states are in the business of doing. Canada's one attempt to block some random for-profit pirate streaming site that almost nobody had heard of was dangerous enough.

[–] kbal@fedia.io -4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Would you ban the broadcast of CBS News as well?

[–] kbal@fedia.io 5 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Canada should not ban individual social media services one at a time. It can't be justified, constitutionally or morally. Canada should instead pass a privacy law that prohibits the surveillance capitalist dirty tricks that make them profitable, and design regulations that require interoperability.

Of course that would require a government capable of designing good tech regulation, which we don't seem to have much chance of seeing around here any time soon.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 40 points 4 months ago

"President Trump will work with any ally or partner who understands the dangerous world inherited after the disastrous Biden years"

a whiff of Führerprinzip coming from the White House

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