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Re:70% of Japan smartphone games bypass in-app payment to av... by micromacrofoot on Friday August 22, 2025 @10:18PM (#44992434)
doesn't sound like freedom to me
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Re:70% of Japan smartphone games bypass in-app payment to av... by bluefirebrand on Friday August 22, 2025 @11:59PM (#44993015)
If you want absolute freedom for people to exploit society for their personal gain, then I want absolute freedom to use a brick to cave in the skulls of anyone who behaves that way

The fact is that any decent society has restrictions on absolute freedom for good reasons

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Re:70% of Japan smartphone games bypass in-app payment to av... by micromacrofoot on Monday August 25, 2025 @10:01AM (#45013948)
There's a long gap between "absolute freedom" and "you have personally been deemed too greedy to operate a business" (by whom is the most dangerous factor)
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