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Re:PayPal is currently blocking all transactions containing ... by Silhouette on Saturday September 12, 2020 @11:56AM (#24453355)
And I agree with them. Tech is far too unregulated today, and this causes massive damage to our societies.

But regulations should always be reasonable and proportionate, and expecting a social network to police all human communication via their system for vaguely specified bad content does not seem to clear that bar.

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Re:PayPal is currently blocking all transactions containing ... by scarface74 on Saturday September 12, 2020 @12:10PM (#24453465)
Yet the representatives who are going to pass laws are the same people who grilled Zuckerberg for Twitter’s practices.

Do you really trust their competence? All the laws being passed and all we got was shitty pop ups on every website saying “we use cookies”. Of course we also got the DMCA....

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Re:PayPal is currently blocking all transactions containing ... by Silhouette on Saturday September 12, 2020 @05:18PM (#24455803)
The government system in the US is essentially dysfunctional, as far as I can tell from outside. Fortunately, not everywhere is like that. All politicians are politicians, but some are more politician than others.
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