Entrusting our speech to multiple different corporate actors is always risky. Yet given how most of the internet is currently structured, our online expression largely depends on a set of private companies ranging from our direct Internet service providers and platforms, to upstream ISPs (sometimes...
  • @RobotToasterEnglish
    3•10 months ago

    If you go to a bank and attempt to steal money, but you were unsuccessful in doing so, there wouldn’t be any loss, but you’d still go to jail and it’s widely accepted as wrong.

    Theft is taking property with the intention to permanently deprive the owner of it, which you were attempting to do

    getting a service, e.g going to the barbers and running out of the store before paying

    Technically fraud not theft.