MrGman

Can you explain why you think "the appeals court fucked this up, hard."?

Isn't the way the law is written the real root cause here? Judges and courts don't write laws...

Basic questions pop up (hey look "pop" that's an API) in my mind like: is copyright on code a thing that should exist?

Microsoft Frontpage + java script snippet websites + Geocities. /s

How is AWS not black box computing? Isn't it worse than a black box? Because it's a black box that's sitting in a black building that you don't have access too?

Disclaimer: I'm a n00b when it comes to web stuff.

With Libra, Facebook wouldn't just make itself a bank. It would make itself a central bank. A world wide central bank.

Libra = inventing a new fiat currency and then replacing a significant portion of other fiat currencies around the world through a cloak of "we're just here doing the next big thing, also App, p2p payments, online crypto AI blockchain social network Facebook innocent whistling of a song". As a little bonus, they would be selling the Libra nodes (that handle all the payment traffic) to third parties. Initially for 10 million USD per node. That way they can shift the blame of selling payment data to third parties away from Facebook, while still making money by giving third parties the right to do whatever they want with that payment data.

Having a banking license doesn't allow you to replace a countries' fiat currency by some new invented token. The value of Libra in Europe would depend on a promise by an American tech company (led by 1 man). A promise to keep the value of the Libra tied to a predetermined basket of fiat currencies. Assuming that Libra would become popular, this would yield pretty much infinite international political and economical power to Mark Zuckerberg based on the mere perception of the possibility that this promise could be broken by him. This is also why Libra is not comparable to an actual crypto currency like Bitcoin. The value and existence of Bitcoin and the Bitcoin network is not dependent on 1 man and the contracts he has with Bitcoin nodes.

Germany and France aren't stupid. I guess.

Those are my thoughts on what's actually going on.

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