allows the agency to seek civil penalties against those who knowingly violate it.
I hate that wording. Ignorance of the law isn't a defense, unless you're a corporation, apparently.
It also looks like this doesn't address the practice of offering incentive for actual purchasers to leave positive reviews.
As an American who will be negatively affected by this...
Great! Seems like the perfect time for a strike. I hope they get what they're asking for, but if they don't, I hope they keep it up as long as they need to.
Flowers for Algernon, that was thought provoking but also way too heavy for a 7th grade English class.
Is this just a thing we're going to do, now? Have a performative impeachment effort every time there's a blue president, just so Trump doesn't have to have his feelings hurt?
They're banking on the assumption that they won't have to once Trump wins the election.
It's honestly embarrassing that our political landscape has been reduced to this.
It's telling that the people who push this narrative are the people whose jobs pay the most money for the least amount of actual work.
We used to pay our rent in 15-20 installments, one every day or two. The office of the apartment building we lived in was on the way to our apartment, so it wasn't any inconvenience for us to just drop a check in their drop box when we passed by, but I like to think it was mildly irritating for them to have to deal with the book-keeping. They asked us not to on multiple occasions but their only online option had a small "convenience charge" attached, so... No, thank you. I'd be happy to use it if they paid me a "convenience fee" for not making them process 20 checks every month.
“Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.” ― Richard Adams, Watership Down
That book does a really good job of presenting just how shitty humans are pretty much throughout, without coming across as being preachy or sanctimonious, and I like that.
I, for one, fully support this development.
WEI’s goal is to make the web more private and safe The WEI experiment is part of a larger goal to keep the web safe and open
(Emphasis mine)
They contradict themselves in the span of 2 sentences. Great look, folks.
It's like that story about the family that moved to Russia and said "We didn't think it would be so hard to live in Russia when we didn't speak Russian!"