No, I'm not a fan of something just because it's a market. A market is a morally neutral concept. I don't think Somalia is an example of when states get out of the way. I think it's an example of one extremely bad state…
I don't think Somalia can properly be considered to have been stateless, but as you seem to think so, maybe you can explain why life expectancy, immunization, birth weight, infant mortality rate, maternal mortality…
I don't think the FDA has saved nearly as many people as it has killed, but it's going to be impossible to get good statistics on either variable. "Saving" someone against their will is not a good thing, so even if the…
There are many different kinds of laws that are supported under the banner of "right to repair", even some that I support, such as limitations to IP, even though I'm generally very sceptical to any proposal that is…
Under the "opt-in regulation" system, a requirement could be to have insurance or other contingencies, but I think the main problem here is that it's proprietary. If it was open-source, I think anyone would have been…
That's frankly a ridiculous straw man. A person can likewise not have enough knowledge, understanding, or time to make informed choices for other's survival. The difference is that when someone makes the wrong choice…
You are assuming they would sell a version of their product the state want them to sell (and that such a version would give you more options), rather than not sell it at all. That's not necessarily true. There are many…
I don't know anything about him besides him having been a "Surveillance Officer" for 15 years. I feel the same about that as I feel about someone who has been a member of a crime gang or terrorist organization for that…
My objection is not really that they hired him. I believe that people can change and no one is irredeemable, but I don't think they should advertise it like this. It's like hiring an ex-con who used to use your product…
The media should not be on the same team as the government.
If I owned all the dollars, the US would simply decide to start demanding taxes in something else because it could not use those dollars for anything. If it refused to switch to another currency, it would not be able to…
That's still ultimately targeted at the individuals who control and benefit from those assets. If a married couple own a car together, you can threaten to damage their car to influence their actions. The same is true if…
No, it's not possible to use violence against a corporation. It doesn't have a body, it can't feel pain, fear, etc. Ultimately, the violence needs to be directed at an individual. The government may (or may not) have…
Freedom of speech is the freedom from violent consequence. When the government enforces a law, it does that by using or threatening individuals with violence. It cannot use violence against a corporation without using…
> The solution is easy: stop lying about being a "platform" if you want editorial control. The "platform" argument is based on a misreading of an American law. Whether or not someone call themselves a platform is…
A corporation is made up of people. You cannot take away their free speech without infringing in the free speech of individuals. I have never even visited the US, and I still support free speech. It's not a uniquely…
That would not protect free speech, it would infringe on it. Forcing someone to host someone else's speech is both an infringement on their right to free speech and on the free speech rights of users who want a…
No, I'm not a fan of something just because it's a market. A market is a morally neutral concept. I don't think Somalia is an example of when states get out of the way. I think it's an example of one extremely bad state…
I don't think Somalia can properly be considered to have been stateless, but as you seem to think so, maybe you can explain why life expectancy, immunization, birth weight, infant mortality rate, maternal mortality…
I don't think the FDA has saved nearly as many people as it has killed, but it's going to be impossible to get good statistics on either variable. "Saving" someone against their will is not a good thing, so even if the…
There are many different kinds of laws that are supported under the banner of "right to repair", even some that I support, such as limitations to IP, even though I'm generally very sceptical to any proposal that is…
Under the "opt-in regulation" system, a requirement could be to have insurance or other contingencies, but I think the main problem here is that it's proprietary. If it was open-source, I think anyone would have been…
That's frankly a ridiculous straw man. A person can likewise not have enough knowledge, understanding, or time to make informed choices for other's survival. The difference is that when someone makes the wrong choice…
You are assuming they would sell a version of their product the state want them to sell (and that such a version would give you more options), rather than not sell it at all. That's not necessarily true. There are many…
I don't know anything about him besides him having been a "Surveillance Officer" for 15 years. I feel the same about that as I feel about someone who has been a member of a crime gang or terrorist organization for that…
My objection is not really that they hired him. I believe that people can change and no one is irredeemable, but I don't think they should advertise it like this. It's like hiring an ex-con who used to use your product…
The media should not be on the same team as the government.
If I owned all the dollars, the US would simply decide to start demanding taxes in something else because it could not use those dollars for anything. If it refused to switch to another currency, it would not be able to…
That's still ultimately targeted at the individuals who control and benefit from those assets. If a married couple own a car together, you can threaten to damage their car to influence their actions. The same is true if…
No, it's not possible to use violence against a corporation. It doesn't have a body, it can't feel pain, fear, etc. Ultimately, the violence needs to be directed at an individual. The government may (or may not) have…
Freedom of speech is the freedom from violent consequence. When the government enforces a law, it does that by using or threatening individuals with violence. It cannot use violence against a corporation without using…
> The solution is easy: stop lying about being a "platform" if you want editorial control. The "platform" argument is based on a misreading of an American law. Whether or not someone call themselves a platform is…
A corporation is made up of people. You cannot take away their free speech without infringing in the free speech of individuals. I have never even visited the US, and I still support free speech. It's not a uniquely…
That would not protect free speech, it would infringe on it. Forcing someone to host someone else's speech is both an infringement on their right to free speech and on the free speech rights of users who want a…