• eltimablo
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    25 months ago

    When you say “corporations,” it seems like you’re exclusively counting companies like Google, Meta, etc, whereas I’m also including the mom and pop, 15-person operations that would be impacted by the same regulations you suggest. Those underdogs are the ones I want to protect, since they’re the only chance the world has at dethroning the incumbents and ensuring that the big guys don’t outlive their usefulness.

    • @demesisx
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      35 months ago

      I just realized you’re the Tesla guy from yesterday. I’m glad we could have a more mature discussion on this topic and I’m glad I didn’t block you. 🤣

      • eltimablo
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        25 months ago

        NGL, my first comment was partially meant to see if you actually had blocked me lol

        • @demesisx
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          35 months ago

          😃 Wholesome AF. Sorry about yesterday. That was a SUPER immature discussion after a while.

          I wouldn’t consider you my best friend or anything but I’m glad I didn’t put in blinders to someone critical of my ideas. Cheers, fellow fediverse user. After all, you don’t seem like a dummy; just a person with different perspective than me.

          • eltimablo
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            25 months ago

            Hey man, it happens. I could tell that you had some valid arguments in there, I was just trying to get you to express them. I definitely didn’t help by joining in the immaturity either.

            Side note, I’m legit starting to hate my Tesla anyway, but I wasn’t about to admit that yesterday lol. There are absolutely a lot of valid criticisms of them, I just think the majority are overblown, especially as they relate to FSD. I’m in the beta and it’s basically the only reason I still have the damn thing.

            Anyway, I’m sorry too. I probably should have just walked away when things got heated, but there was a part of me that was secretly hoping to see how long we’d keep going back and forth calling each other assholes because I thought it would be funny.

            • @demesisx
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              35 months ago

              This interaction definitely improved my day even more than our interaction yesterday perhaps soured my day. Thanks for that!

              This fediverse thing is really nice sometimes. I look forward to some really good discussions. I promise to try to keep my cool. If I call you a name, you should know that it is with a smirk and only meant as a soft, subtle jab. :)

            • @Numberone@startrek.website
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              15 months ago

              Just want to say that I appreciate how you two ended up haha. It was a wide eyed “Woah” from me at the beginning there (both), but I do love that you guys talked it out and ended up all civil and complimentary. There’s hope for us all to understand each other is my takeaway. Thanks to both of you for showing us the way.

    • @demesisx
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      5 months ago

      I’m not.

      And what I proposed (see my revised original comment) actually protects those companies because it takes into account:

      • the amount of users infected
      • the general standards that were or were not followed by that theoretical startup rag tag team of hacks which would help paint a picture for regulators of the severity of the violation and codifying the ever-evolving concept of what is “reasonably secure”.
      • the market cap of said theoretical hacked corporation.
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        See, I figure all of those things would be accounted for in whatever civil suit gets brought against the company. Frankly, I think that’s much more fair to companies both big and small because it involves a group of people working together to figure how much of a fine to levy in each individual instance, rather than having a blanket policy that may or may not account for edge cases. If the company is huge and the fuckup egregious, then the jury is (theoretically) going to throw the book at them.

        At the very least, I’d want a jury in between the company and whichever government body is fining them, because regulatory bodies are prime targets for corporate shills to take over and it’s harder for that to run rampant if you have a bunch of regular jackoffs acting as gatekeepers.

        There’s also the issue of ongoing compliance for small companies. Cybersecurity engineers are not cheap, and being all but required by law to employ one could (1) drive small companies out of business (180k a year may be cheap for Facebook, but it’s definitely not for Joe Buttsniffer and Sons Catering), and (2) cause market saturation so bad that the average salary makes nobody want to do the job anymore.

        • @demesisx
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          35 months ago

          Agreed. Corporate regulatory capture was a 100% success in the United States. It has been that way since at least Reagan. It always comes back to government corruption and what I see in these kinds of civil suits against corporations that were breached is a gentle slap (actually more of a caress!) on the wrist (and a wink and a nod when the cameras turn off) between the demagogues and the corporations that own them.

          • eltimablo
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            25 months ago

            Yeah it really comes back to “fines are only for poor people.” Google can just count the fines as the cost of doing business while simultaneously leveraging their dominance to force other companies to break regulations in order to work with them.

            • @demesisx
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              35 months ago

              It’s VERY similar to how we (in the US) allow Congress to decide the rules that THEY THEMSELVES have to follow when you have the legalized bribery that is known as lobbying in the US.

              • eltimablo
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                25 months ago

                You know what I bet we both agree on? Limited liability in general being a shit idea.