1. WL disclosed information to US population.
2. WL is accused of being "Non-state Hostile Intelligence Service".
3. Hostile intelligence services work for enemies.
4. US population is the enemy.
To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, "Fake News is the Last Refuge of the Scoundrel".
The "fake news" meme itself is the last desperate attempt to preserve the fake news monopoly which giant publishers enjoyed for so long. There is really nothing left when this one wears out.
Before "fake news" we had massive injections of noise to drown out information, but that didn't work quite well, not in the long run.
The current trend of turning giant social platforms to Disney-like dystopias is not working well either. People are flocking back to ... web sites!
So what can we expect after "fake news" ? Probably Disneyfication of DNS, and that's where it ends.
Because audiences will shift to the lowest commeon denominator - IP addressing, as they did in the beginning (Napster, Gnutella) and still do (Bittorent, Tor).
It is far from 'clear' or 'obvious' that the Directive is a bad deal for content producers. Read it yourself - especially Articles 11 and 13.
The narrative funded through GOOGL (and its affiliate EFF) and other big platforms is that this is evil doing of big content distribution monopolies.
What is missing in this picture is that this Directive gives affordable enforcement muscle to all content producers, including the smallest ones.
This Directive is the death knell for these platforms, which peddle content produced by 'nobodies' (their users) without any remuneration. There is nothing natural, just or given about it.
It promises that muscle over the backs of people creating platforms, though. How is a small company going to ever create an upload filter that has little to none false positives and false negatives when even the FAANGs are not able to do this?
All content producers are copyright owners by definition, except insofar as they have contracted deals about the content in question prior to production.
I never had the second or third problems. I don't use the horn on pedestrians unless strictly necessary, nor do I honk at people as revenge.
The first point was a challenge at the beginning, but I think I've done fine using both the brakes and the horn at the same time. I can think of any least one instance where both were necessary to avoid a crash. I'm certain my worst case stopping time has increased at least a small amount, but it's a worthwhile trade-off in my view.
What is the most optimistic benefit of a driverless car?
If we put aside creation of unemployment, putting limits on what human drivers will be able to do, and similar dystopian outlooks, what are the benefits for the masses?
People who cannot drive will be able to use cars as people who can. Is this good? Are interesting places on the planet going to have the same fate as Internet did, when it transformed from elite audiences in 90s to tragedy of commons today?
It's becoming obvious that well-off 'progressives' strive to crown their status with the ultimate pet: human beings in need. Horses are not so in vogue any more.
Like all pets, they are to be kept in the appropriate place, like horses that is. Not in the living room.
I cannot begin to understand how is it better to reveal your DNS access patterns to the global company like Cloudflare, as opposed to revealing them to your local ISP?
Who do you think can smoother monetize your data - your local ISP or Cloudflare? Or maybe Cloudflare solemnly promised never to do it?
If an effort is to be taken, the best thing is to run your own DNS resolver that will query root servers and follow the chains directly.
It's fragmenting the data - CloudFlare _only_ gets your DNS data, whereas your ISP has DNS, content of non-HTTPS traffic (Cloudflare gets a non-zero percentage of this anyway), billing information, real identity etc. Your ISP can _immediately_ tie your DNS records to a real identity (or a member of your household at the very least), whereas CloudFlare can only make inferences from the data and the source IP location. It gives two companies an incomplete picture, rather than one knowing EVERYTHING. CloudFlare promise to not do so is also a non-zero consideration - it's clearly unenforceable/you would never know, but the mere promise is probably better than many ISPs.
I'd also say most users' ISPs are probably are global companies (or at least national) anyway.
> the best thing is to run your own DNS resolver that will query root servers and follow the chains directly
Only if the first step is also encrypted. If it is plain DNS, then your ISP can see the requests almost as easily as if going to their own servers (or transparently redirect the requests to their servers).
I assume it has something to do with how easy it is to connect your data with other aspects of your identity. Presumably with an ISP it is associated with the name of the subscriber, whereas there is some chance with other DNS servers that this is untrue.
The scariest part is un-adult emotional environment, where employees (people hired at-will to work) refer to other employees as "brothers and sisters".
This looks more like _Lord of the Flies_ setup than like for-profit company workforce that sells 8 hours of its time in return for paycheck, with some reasonable socializing at work.
This seems to be the trend, and is by no means limited to Facebook. Providing socializing benefits (food, playground, etc.) and requiring emotional committment at work is far more sinister than it appears.
While keeping employees emotionally arrested at 12-year-old stage may extract extra sweat, the overall downside for the society is abysmal.
1. WL disclosed information to US population. 2. WL is accused of being "Non-state Hostile Intelligence Service". 3. Hostile intelligence services work for enemies. 4. US population is the enemy.