They pay through their ISPs who then pay through peering agreements. Whats next, my friend’s ISP charging me to deliver him an email? Let’s make it like in the US where you’re charged for receiving SMS.
I don’t get the argument. I pay a telecom for service, I expect them to deliver whichever data I request. It doesn’t matter where it originates, that’s what I’m paying for. It shouldn’t be dependent on whether some third party has coughed up or not.
Every data gets even paid twice. The sender has an internet service contract and pays, the receiver does as well.
You opening some Lemmy post and requesting data, has the server owner pay via his hoster contract and you pay for the same data packet via your ISP monthly fee.
Now they are asking for a 3rd payment (once again). Why even stop at 3? Just ask for 4 or 5 payments and then meet in the middle at 3.
Pootin probably has compromat on Elon. Rumor is that back in the early 00s when he was looking to buy a rocket in Russia, the FSB enticed him with a minor.
They also have compromat on Trump.
Can’t know for sure, but the fact is that Elon is risking a nationalisation of SpaceX right now and I find it hard to imagine he sympathizes hard enough with the Russians to lose SpaceX.
You know, even granting the hypothesis that someone wanted to fuck a minor (and such people obviously exist, it's not a major stretch) why in the fuck would you do it in Russia where they have a long and illustrious history of honey trapping fools?
Oh.
When asked correctly, it really kind of answers itself, huh.
I think we need to stop overestimating dictators and engaging in this kind of conspiracy so much.
Putin isn't a chessmaster. He's a strongman. People around him fall in line because they rightfully fear violent retribution.
People overseas that take pro-Russia stances do so for the same reason they cleave to any conservative politics -- they're grumpy, unskeptical simpletons. Musk and Trump are not victims of Putin's grand strategy. They're just bad people.
I agree, Putin/Russia having kompromat on everyone and everything, while based on some kind of historical truth, is absulutley an overblown conspiracy.
As far as trump goes, I personally believe “probably” not in a pp tape way, as if those ever existed, we would have seen them by now. I absolutley believe Putin had hard paper trails/evidence that trump was, and still is massively inflating his net worth, and all the weird bank stuff in the EU
Fundamentally, we do not live in an era where personal secrets can be kept. If someone knows about it enough to blackmail you, then it's going to get out.
And even then, it doesn't matter. These people are immune to blackmail. If you think about it at all, it doesn't make sense. Blackmailing Trump? What does that even mean? He'll just say it's fake news and lies, that any evidence is proof of a conspiracy against him. That any prosecution is a corrupt witch hunt led by his enemies.
What POSSIBLE evidence could we have that would change the minds of the American people about him?
A history of sexual abuse perversion, and rape? Already a matter of record.
Shady financial dealings? Again, we already know it -- and a prosecution is underway for some of the specifics that may yet sink his organization (but, notably, will probably do little to him personally).
Attempts to subvert American Democracy and elevate racism and bigotry? He's proud of that.
Individual fraud and larceny? His supporters think it's totally fine for him to give all his kin cushy government jobs they are unqualified for and to force the CIA to pay for deluxe packages in his hotels.
Implicate his family? He doesn't give a shit about them and is the entire reason they're involved in any case. The abused abuse.
Grand, national corruption and treason? He proudly accepts the Saudi money and makes public requests for help from the Russian intelligence services.
Anyone who hasn't already 100% made up their mind about Trump is too much a fool to have new evidence changing their perspective at this point. And the story with a Musk type is barely any different.
Trained teachers are in short supply around the world, good to know they are proactively training teachers for language lessons when Ukrainian people are free to learn the language of their homeland without punishment from the Russians.
In Kharkiv, a historically Russian-speaking city in eastern Ukraine, just 25 miles from the Russian border, Ukrainian classes are in high demand. Waiters, hairdressers and shopkeepers have stopped using Russian. Ukrainian language books are flying off the shelves, and local publishers are struggling to keep up with orders.
One of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s central — and false — justifications for invading Ukraine, that he was defending Russian-speaking people, has backfired dramatically.
In cities across Ukraine, people started bringing their Russian literature to local recycling stations to be shredded and converted into toilet paper. Street names have been changed to honor Ukrainian heroes instead of Russian writers. Russian dishes, like pelmeni dumplings, have been relabeled on restaurant menus. Radio stations stopped playing songs by Russian artists, long popular in Ukraine.
My understanding is they’ve done bugger all. MP’s behind the bill have merely said they won’t use the provision, primarily because there is no sufficient technical means to do so, but the wording of the bill hasn’t changed.
If the bill goes through as is then businesses may be compelled to create the means to do so, regardless of it breaking encryption - maybe they won’t do it right away, but they’ll have the perogative under law. It wouldn’t be too much more effort to throw in a gag order and prevent public disclosure. I’m sure Signal and a few others would kick up a stink and leave if they were targeted, but I could see Facebook and Google signing up, for a price. Hell I’d be more surprised if WhatsApp didn’t already have backdoors.
Maybe we shouldn’t ally with genocidal regimes, including Israel and the nationalists/nazi’s at home?
Don’t be or support murderers? It’s almost too simple. Someone should maybe start a religion and include that in the “thou shalt not” part… That’ll stop em!
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