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Re:My Talk at Microsoft by close04 on Monday September 23, 2019 @10:20AM (#21049158)
> then the small interactive interactions you can make them in JS

With JS enabled any site could potentially run non-free code so this has no benefits. As far as I can tell the proposed solution wasn't to develop some tech that ensures (somehow) that all functionality JS provides is transferred to something "free-only" but rather to give up that functionality entirely. That's not a solution, that's just running away from the problem.

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Re:My Talk at Microsoft by UserIsUnused on Monday September 23, 2019 @10:42AM (#21049339)
Sometimes there is no practical solution, and running away is the pragmatist approach
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Re:My Talk at Microsoft by close04 on Monday September 23, 2019 @11:30AM (#21049836)
I'm not seeing any reasonable evidence of a consensus that this even is a problem. Let alone that there is no other solution than to run from it.

There's no fix for criminal activity on the internet (objectively worse than non-free code) and yet I don't think anyone (RMS included) is proposing to sever the connections just to make sure they don't accidentally encounter such activity. The more radical comparison would be "bad stuff" in society and completely isolating yourself from it.

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