There are very few cases I can think of for location data more precise than a postal code. Active navigation is the only one that occurs immediately.
Most apps that collect location data are doing so because they can, not because they really need it for anything. Most of the time, verifying that a user is within the country that they’re supposed to be should be enough for geolocation security.
Banning sales of the information won’t accomplish anything except increase the market value.
Banning the collection of such information is required.
“We didn’t start the fire…”
If I remember correctly, one of the biggest problems was the transportation issue, which no one had a solution for. How exactly do you safely transfer several tons of nuclear waste from, say, Shearon Harris to Yucca Mountain? that’s a very long train route. And you want to do this on a recurring basis? from several different locations around the country?
How exactly are you going to convince the states in between that they should permit you to transport nuclear waste across their borders, repeatedly? Who is going to provide security for all of this nuclear waste while it’s in transit? Who is going to accept liability for any accidents that occur, and who is going to handle the PR when a truckload of irradiated water gets dumped in some neighborhood?
Good luck getting anyone who even wants to explore establishing those arrangements as their full-time job. “Yes, I brokered the agreement for transporting radioactive material that resulted in a half-ton of waste being spread across ten backyards and an elementary school playground just outside of Birmingham.” Sounds like career suicide, and maybe not career suicide.
Fail to plan, plan to fail.
So… He’s either incompetent or intentionally malicious. Those are all of the options. Either way, he should be standing trial for high crimes against the Unites States and its allies.
So… your idea is to have an organized general strike that includes everyone while not informing anyone ahead of time?
We need to not expect some hero figure to appear and change our world for us.
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Hopefully the energy of this reaction won’t be scattered among too many alternatives, although some amount of scattering is always good.
It’s traditional:
Well sure, we have to narratively excuse it somehow. Otherwise… take a Pokémon game and replace all the Pokémon with pit bulls and rot weilers &etc and then you have dog fighting simulator.
I mean… don’t we consider dog fighting to be animal abuse?
On second thought, let’s not go outside. 'Tis a silly place.
Just a warning on running a service like this - any website that allows arbitrary text entry from anonymous users will be found and flooded by bots very quickly.
The most innocent, least damaging version of what happens is adbots posting links to shoddy websites selling “essential oils” and other homeopathy nonsense.
More obscure but more malicious, text posts are used to control botnets for cybercrime. Basically a human running the botnet will post a string of letters and numbers to a website which the bots have been programmed to look for instructions. Websites that allow anonymous text entry are convenient for this because if the criminal activity is investigated, it’s hard to trace the instructions from the controller back to a real person.
Just be aware that people will abuse your service for purposes you did not intend. You’ll probably need both automated tooling for identifying and blocking bot traffic, as well as human moderation.
Aww, does the fragile little snowflake need a safe space?
Can we get 4chan to start a new rumor?
“Anti-vax parents make children autistic”
Would it? I’ve seen some videos here of people absolutely harassing lone ICE agents in cars sitting in parking lots, and those guys just drove off as fast as they could manage.
If you have a crowd of 20+ people around the car, not doing anything directed at the occupant, just kind of hanging around the outside, plus cameras taking video and actively posting it to social media because, hey, flash mob!.. what then?
This seems overly optimistic to me. I think the historical record demonstrates that broad sociocultural change primarily happens after some great destructive crisis (war, famine, plague, etc) during which the status quo breaks down and a lot of people die, and the survivors have to pick up the remains and try to patch some form of society back together like a jigsaw puzzle where half the pieces have been burned in a fire.
Sometimes, the survivors get together and try to imagine a better future, saying to themselves, “we don’t want our children to have to go through what we just went through.” More often, the person or people with the most resources left after the crisis take control, attempt to form society such that it sustains and increases their current power, and repeat the same old cycles of exploitation and selfishness.