It’s not about proprietary stuff, it’s about US software patents. The codecs are open source, but you can’t use them under US law because of patents. Fedora cares about that because they are closely tied to Red Hat which is an American company. Community distros without any corporate affiliation like Arch or Debian generally don’t give a shit since there is no commercial entity to sue. IDK how Canonical circumvents that though.

I wrote up

I don’t think you did.

You think USA government agencies never thought of using public surveillance cameras to spy on people before now? That’s like basic stuff for any domestic security agency, in any country. The only difference is that now the data is shared with regular police with all the incompetence and abuse it implies. You have always been spied on.

Any “license plate reader” has a camera and can be used for anything. This was true before flock.

Nah the nation-wide vote is the most moral approach. The list of candidates is selected from trending posts on social media, then the whole nation decides whom to kill in a democratic way.

Android doesn’t have network permission. Any app can access the internet (otherwise ads wouldn’t work).

Well, technically it does. But it’s granted automatically and user can’t even revoke it without using custom ROM.

I did not claim otherwise. You can understand why someone did something inexcusable without feigning confusion and incomprehension. I’m sure a logical and rational person like yourself would not have any trouble understanding the minds of those emotional people, right?

Have you heard of such thing as “emotions”? It wasn’t a logical and rational decision.

It’s right there in the article.

The Rwampara centre was reportedly set alight by local youths, enraged after being stopped from retrieving the body of a friend believed to have died from Ebola, according to an eyewitness who spoke to The Associated Press.

They didn’t understand that the body couldn’t be released because it was still contagious.

Well, some people do dedicate their lives to protesting about stuff. It’s called political activism.

Way too many trolls and other forms of bad actors on the Web who intentionally or unintentionally use ad hominems or other toxic communication, it’s so hopelessly divisive and draining.

How exactly would id verification help against that. Do you want “toxic speech” to become a crime and punished by a court of law?

That would require this money to become real

So your parents pay for all your expenses while you are looking with disgust on how they contribute to this sick society?

It’s not a real rave unless it’s illegal. You are not punk of you are a rule abiding citizen.

If European laws mandate this then this “european” phone will of course do it. That’s what you get when asking for “digital sovereignty” - instead of tech corporations serving interests of US government you have tech corporations serving interests of European governments.