Joshua Crawford @jlcrawf@librem.one

@FediTips
If you have decent internet and an old computer, #yunohost is a great option also.

@gardiner_bryant
Honestly, I don't know exactly how best to limit it, though I agree that the less information the better.
I think that a good starting point would be, any information that they feel could be mishandled by a foreign government, should also be restricted from private businesses.

@gardiner_bryant
Now, we might possibly have reached a point where we might find some common ground and maybe even a good compromise.
Rather, than ban apps, why don't we instead regulate how much information all companies can gather on Americans?

@gardiner_bryant
This company is owned by a disfavored ethnic group with political leanings that I disagree with so must not be allowed on any application stores, is not a regulation, it is an authoritarian rule that will get expanded and abused.
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@gardiner_bryant
Regulations are concise rules that apply equally across the board.
Porn cannot be posted on Social Media, would be a regulation.
All social media must implement age verification and cannot allow users under a specific age, would be a regulation.

@gardiner_bryant
Nobody that I know of is making the argument that TikTok is a free speech platform. That is a straw man argument.
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@gardiner_bryant
1. I was simply arguing that the bill is authoritarian. Whether or not you agree with the bill does not change the fact that it is an authoritarian bill.
2. Disallowing app stores from distributing it is effectively banning it.
3. Saying that an app should not be banned is not the same as saying that it is 100% impervious to regulation. That is a completely bad faith argument on your part.

@gardiner_bryant
The bill uses the force of law to prevent people from accessing information presented by free will of the publisher and accessed by free will of the consumer.
It is by definition authoritarian.

@sj_zero
Or, for the baseball game, sneak in your own water. For the printer, use pen asnd paper.

@foone Not entirely true. If the browser were invented today, it would be allowed until it got popular. Then it would be deemed a security risk three weeks before Apple released their own version.

@gardiner_bryant
Yep. There are definitely no monied interests in government that would make regulations that would help big businesses while hurting smaller open source projects with no money.

@gardiner_bryant
Right now, in the heavily regulated banking industry, banks get dinged on there audits for using open source software because it is "less secure."
I don't think the regulations will go the way you want them to go.

@mangeurdenuage
My niece told me today that she had grown one centimeter. I asked her what that was in American.