This is a widespread problem, not just Sephora, not just Sunday Riley. (At least one comment here may be interference!)
Rather than get outraged at the specific people involved what can we do. Some ideas:
Be aware that the "open" Internet is intrinsically untrustworthy, and be on alert.
Help those you care about to understand this too.
If you're involved in a site with identified fraudulent reviews, maybe promote and emphasize falsely downgraded reviews, mark the malevolent accounts clearly as such and make their fake reviews undeletable and clearly shown as what they are.
Identify those who do and have done this, make sure that their behaviour is known to those you care about.
Blow the whistle on such activity and do your best to make sure that whistle blowing works well, when genuine.
Don't get cross eyed with outrage.
If somebody you know made a good review for a product that uses this sort of fraud, warn them that they may be unfairly tarred with the same brush if they don't delete it.
Thanks for that. I personally was fooled by the Google/Facebook killed the papers narrative.
I especially appreciate the article at this time. (I'm in the process of withdrawing from a years long test immersion in Social Media and News Media. I'm now certain that these things degrade cognitive performance.)
Given the quality of discussion in this place, I'll look around a bit to see what solutions (to Internet-derived-brain-degradation) people around here have adopted (and how they're working out).
I would have thought that unknowable law is no law at all. Which presents a fairly simple defence in court and the basis of mass civic "do what you want".
I sure hope there are no proper humans involved in making these laws.
If there are it's time to reconsider whether the species deserves to exist, whether we need to correct existence and let nature start again.
First they worked to give Google hegemony with GDPR (and it's working), now this.
If there are intelligent electorates in Europe, it can't be too long before be get FREXIT, GEXIT (DEXIT?), NEXIT, HEXIT and all the rest, followed by public execution of all those involved.
This is the most hopeful thing I've read in a long time.
I had been bamboozled by the bit dribble of politicians et. al. that the rules that guide them only gave a damn about their own Citizens. Let's face it, that's fairly true, of the inner concerns of individuals in question.
My respect for the US constitution grew when I saw this. Those founding fathers were a lot wiser than the mental midgets who pretend to carry the flame they lit. How would the midgets be judged the founders?
It's good to see that the review included compiling and testing and fuzzing.
My contention is that it is, ultimately, more productive to publish tests for the project, than just source. (I haven't checked TrueCrypt distribution to see whether they do that.)
Then: 1. More people can more easily test and add their own tests, and run them. 2. Alternate implementations can arise, more easily. I think a function that can be switched between several independent versions can be more reliable. 3. An NSA with the protection function separated should then participate too. IMHO
They are presumably doing this as PR to say that they are trying to fulfil the seemingly ignored part of their brief.
Given that the public (and many private) announcements are perceived as being devoid of truth they have a long way to climb back into the light of public approval.
This is a distraction. The real issue is splitting the organisation. The Public Protection section cannot be the same as the Attack the Public section.
At the end of the day we need some of what they do, we just need a return or morality and balance.
It's a long, long road out of Hell, for these guys.
First thing. Maths and Programming != the same thing. Conflating them is confusing.
We are embedded in societies where communication is mathematically illiterate. Just look at textual posts like this with textual comments.
(((General Communication) contains Maths) && ((Keyboard / Character-sets) contain (Maths Symbols)) → (We'd be able to use it more)
I was unable to write the above using decent symbols as they aren't available. In other words, the way our so called civilisation has "developed" is intrinsically hostile to maths. (The dinosaur brains have effectively bred more of themselves by preventing sensible expression of thought...)
In Russia they have a system called SORM. As I understand it the ISP pays for the boxes of SORM which can spy on people at will.
Seems the NSA has taken a leaf out of the FSB book and wants a similar charging model. Difference is that the Russian system is public knowledge (AFAIK).
When I analyse this, I see a legal system that is not up to the job.
The way it works is simply NOT FIT for the purpose it's designed for.
Any civilisation built on such things is maybe doomed. Mankind needs to be rid of the lunacy. I'd prefer determined evolution, very soon. The, high probability, alternative is revolution, but that tends to take us backwards!
Elected reps that haven't a clue, legal systems that are inimical to the future of mankind, people with primitive idea sets unable to have original thought and in control.
Man oh man. It would be cool to just have a clean way to get out of this.
I'm happy to buy the very few movies or TV series that have interest for me, to buy music on disc. I find newspapers expendable and most TV channels fairly useless. Just need a way to limit influence of these rubbish, to what I want, and keep them from preventing the future.
Failing that, in this reality, what choices are there:
1) Do a Ukraine on the idiots? 2) Take interstellar voyager ONE to Epsilon Eridani?
Sheesh. We need to stop the decrepit brains from stopping the decent futures that can be.
These bizarre things will continue while we have law systems based on inappropriate core precepts administered by those who are criminally ignorant of the world they impact.
Secondary Liability cuts both ways.
This music company (Universal) represents artists. So I guess they bear primary responsibility for this travesty of reason, rightness and humanity.
If you care tell their fan clubs, burn your copies of their music (if that's your thing), boycott their concerts, tell them in person whatever (as long as you stay within the law).
Here's some names from the Universal web site:
A THOUSAND HORSES AALIYAH AARON FRESH AARON NEVILLE ABRAHAM MCDONALD ACE HOOD ADRIENNE BAILON AFI AFROMAN AGNES AGNETHA F?LTSKOG AIR AKON AKWID ALACRANES MUSICAL ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ ALEX CLARE ALEXISONFIRE ALFREDO OLIVAS B.B. KING BABASONICOS BABY BASH BABY BOY BAD LIEUTENANT BAD MEETS EVIL BANDA EL RECODO BANDA LOS RECODITOS BANDA SINALOENSE MS DE SERGIO LIZARRAGA BANKS BARRY WHITE BASTILLE BAT FOR LASHES BE YOUR OWN PET BEASTIE BOYS BEBEL GILBERTO BECK BELANOVA BERNARD FANNING BETH ORTON C. BREWER/D. RUNNICLES/ASO C2C CAF? TACUBA CALIBRE 50 CAPITAL CITIESCARE BEARS ON FIRE CARIBBEAN CONNECTION FEAT. DAD CARLA BRUNI CARLOS Y ALEJANDRA CARLY RAE JEPSEN CARNEY CASHIS CAT STEVENS CELTIC THUNDER CHAMILLIONAIRE CHARLES HAMILTON CHASE COY CHENOA CHER CHESTER FRENCH D. FRIZZELL/S. WEST DANIEL ASH DANIEL HOPE DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL DAVID BANNER DAVID BISBAL DAVID GARRETT DAVID GRAY DAVID GUETTA DAVID NAIL DAYS DIFFERENCE DEAN MARTIN DEBI NOVA DECEMBERISTS DEF LEPPARD DELTA SPIRIT DEMI LOVATO DERRICK HODGE D'ESPAIRSRAY DIAMOND RINGS EASTON CORBIN EDDY LOVER EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS EELS EL DE BARGE EL MACIZO EL POTRO DE SINALOA EL TIGRILLO PALMA EL TRONO DE MEXICO ELBOW ELECTRIC TOUCH ELECTRIK RED ELEFTHERIA ARVANITAKI ELEPHANT MAN ELI YOUNG BAND ELIZABETH AND THE CATAPULT ELLIE GOULDING ELTON JOHN/LEON RUSSELL ELVIS COSTELLO EMELI SANDE FABOLOUS FAIR TO MIDLAND FALL OUT BOY FANNY LU FAR EAST MOVEMENT FATBOY SLIM FEDERICO AUBELE FEFE DOBSON FEIST FERGIE FIDEL RUEDA FINDLAY BROWN FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH FLIPSYDE FLOBOTS FLORENCE + THE MACHINE FLYLEAFFONOVISA FOREVER THE SICKEST KIDS FOUR TOPS G. LOVE GABRIELLA CILMI GAME GARY ALLAN GARY GO GAVIN ROSSDALE GEORGE STRAIT GERMAN MONTERO GHOST B.C.GHOSTFACE KILLAH GIN WIGMORE GINUWINE GIRLICIOUS GIT FRESH GLORIA TREVI GODSMACK GOLD FIELDS GORAN BREGOVIC GOYO GASTELUM GRACIELA BELTR?N HAJI SPRINGER HAL LINTON HALEY REINHART HALFORD HATEBREED HAYES CARLL HAYLEY WESTENRA HAYSTAK HECTOR EL FATHER HEDLEY HELENE GRIMAUD HOLE HOLLY WILLIAMS HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD HOOBASTANK HOT CHIP HUICHOL MUSICAL I-15 IDA MARIA IGGY AZALEAIL VOLO IMAGINE DRAGONSIMELDA MAY IMOGEN HEAP & FROU FROU INDIA.ARIE INGRID MICHAELSON INNERPARTYSYSTEM INTERSCOPE ISSA GADALA IVAN IVY QUEEN J KING Y MAXIMAN J. FUTURISTIC JA RULE JA-BAR JACK JOHNSON JACKIE CHAIN JACKSON 5 JADAKISS JAKE BUGG JAMES JAMES MORRISON JAMES VINCENT MCMORROWJAMEY JOHNSON JAMIE CULLUM JARED EVAN JARON AND THE LONG ROAD TO LOVE JARVIS JASON ALDEAN JASON MORAN JAVEN KACEY MUSGRAVES KAISER CHIEFS KANYE WEST KANYE WEST/JAY-Z KARDINAL OFFISHALL KATE NASH KATE VOEGELE KATHARINE MCPHEE KATIE MELUA KATY PERRY KEAK DA SNEAK KEANE KELIS KELLY ROWLAND KEM KENDRICK LAMAR KENNY "BABYFACE" EDMONDS KERI HILSON KERLI KEVIN RUDOLF L.L. COOL J LA APUESTA LA ARROLLADORA BANDA EL LIMON LA FACTORIA LA INCONTENIBLE BANDA ASTILLEROS LA ROUX LADY ANTEBELLUM LADY GAGA LADYHAWKE LARRY HERNANDEZ LAURA BELL BUNDY LAUREN ALAINA LEDISI LEE ANN WOMACK LEE RITENOUR LENY LIFEHOUSE LIGHTS LIL JON LIL' ROB M.I.A. MACHETE MUSIC MACK & MALONE MACY GRAYMAJOR LAZER MAKANO MALI MUSIC MALLARY HOPE MANN MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER MARCO ANTONIO SOLIS MARGO GURYAN MARIAH CAREY MARIANNE FAITHFULL MARILYN MANSON MARISA MONTE MARK SALLING MAROON 5 MARQUES HOUSTON MARTINA MCBRIDE/TRAIN N.E.R.D NAS NAS & DAMIAN MARLEY NATALIA KILLS NATALIE COLENATURALLY 7 N-DUBZ NEIL DIAMOND NEIL HALSTEAD NELLY NELLY FURTADO NEON TREES NERO NERVO NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK NEW YORK DOLLS NE-YO NICKI MINAJ NICOLE SCHERZINGER NIKKI YANOFSKY OLGA TANON ONE BLOCK RADIUS ONEREPUBLIC ORIANTHI ORIGINAL BANDA LIMON ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING OWL CITY PABLO MILANES PAC DIV PALOMO PAPA ROACH PARACHUTE PARADISO GIRLS PATRICK STUMP PAULA COLE PAULINA RUBIO PEARL JAMPEDRO FERNANDEZ PEGGY LEE PESADO PET SHOP BOYS PETER FRAMPTON PHIL VASSAR PHILLIP PHILLIPS PHILTHY RICH PHOENIX PJ HARVEY Q-TIP QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE QUINCY JONES R.CITY RAKIM RAMMSTEIN RANDY HOUSER RANDY MONTANA RASCAL FLATTS RAY LAVENDER RAZORLIGHT REBA MCENTIRE REDMAN RENI LANE REV THEORY RHYERICH BOY RICHY NIX RICK JAMES RICK ROSS RIHANNA RISE AGAINST ROB ZOMBIE SAFETYSUIT SALIVA SALLY SHAPIRO SALT-N-PEPA SAM SPARRO SARAH BLASKO SARAH BUXTON SAUL EL JAGUAR ALARCON SCHOOL GYRLS SCOOTER SMIFF SCORPIONS SCOTTY MCCREERY SEAN GARRETT SEAN O'CONNELL SEBASTIAN INGROSSO SELENA GOMEZ SEMI PRECIOUS WEAPONS SERENA RYDER SERGIO DALMA SHANIA TWAIN T.O.K. 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Even if they're great artists, these guys have no right to smash the Internet.
What if all public officials (police, congress-persons etc.) could have database searches by anybody, anytime. Private citizens not paid by the taxpayer have protection and easy ways to check who "checked on them".
They reveal a corner of what is being done. Focus only on that and the problem is, arguably, made worse.
I believe Germany intercepts 1 in 20 or 1 in 25 emails. Frances spy agencies are renown for aggressively using their resources to steal industrial secrets. Russia makes Internet users pay pretty directly for spy hardware that can intercept absolutely everything on the Internet without warrant. China... And we haven't even started on what the Internet Advertising agencies grab. Then the criminal gangs... ...
Cherry picking who you whack is itself a mistake.
We need whistleblower laws internationally that shine light on all of this. (Not just windfall revelations, thanks to one decent person. Seemingly, there are very few decent enough people, among the millions who work in this sector.)
Any chance of mankind waking up before it's too late?
This blundering around by legislatures and legal systems will have major impacts.
Those driving it don't understand what they're doing.
What could go wrong?
Is there a way to get a lot of people realise, so they can fix it?
We kinda have this already
I see quite a lot of politicians.
Many of of them are meat robots that do this already. They're programmed by the teleprompter, voice and speech coach, chief of staff, etc.
Will they challenge the patent?
What to do about it
This is a widespread problem, not just Sephora, not just Sunday Riley. (At least one comment here may be interference!)
Rather than get outraged at the specific people involved what can we do. Some ideas:
Well that a start.
What do we do now (if we care)?
Thanks for that. I personally was fooled by the Google/Facebook killed the papers narrative.
I especially appreciate the article at this time. (I'm in the process of withdrawing from a years long test immersion in Social Media and News Media. I'm now certain that these things degrade cognitive performance.)
Given the quality of discussion in this place, I'll look around a bit to see what solutions (to Internet-derived-brain-degradation) people around here have adopted (and how they're working out).
Thought Experiment
You run your own discussion systems, for everything.
You comment across Techdirt, Facebook, the NYT etc. etc. You decide whose comments you see, how often etc. You decide who can see your comments.
You can can run separate discussions on the same topic, with different audiences.
Other people do the same.
If you want to pay heed to external censorship systems, you can, your choice.
How would a system, like that work for you?
Picture it for this discussion.
Is secret law any law at all?
I would have thought that unknowable law is no law at all. Which presents a fairly simple defence in court and the basis of mass civic "do what you want".
There site seems to say otherwise
The web site says;
OUR COMMITMENT
We won’t share your DNA
We believe your DNA belongs to YOU and only you . . . period. For that reason, we will never sell your DNA to third parties.
Can the other guys say that?
Didn't read the privacy policy. Is that actionable if they break that?
I hope there are is nobody considered fully human doing this
I sure hope there are no proper humans involved in making these laws.
If there are it's time to reconsider whether the species deserves to exist, whether we need to correct existence and let nature start again.
First they worked to give Google hegemony with GDPR (and it's working), now this.
If there are intelligent electorates in Europe, it can't be too long before be get FREXIT, GEXIT (DEXIT?), NEXIT, HEXIT and all the rest, followed by public execution of all those involved.
This point is crucial
This is the most hopeful thing I've read in a long time.
I had been bamboozled by the bit dribble of politicians et. al. that the rules that guide them only gave a damn about their own Citizens. Let's face it, that's fairly true, of the inner concerns of individuals in question.
My respect for the US constitution grew when I saw this. Those founding fathers were a lot wiser than the mental midgets who pretend to carry the flame they lit. How would the midgets be judged the founders?
More than reading the code
It's good to see that the review included compiling and testing and fuzzing.
My contention is that it is, ultimately, more productive to publish tests for the project, than just source. (I haven't checked TrueCrypt distribution to see whether they do that.)
Then:
1. More people can more easily test and add their own tests, and run them.
2. Alternate implementations can arise, more easily. I think a function that can be switched between several independent versions can be more reliable.
3. An NSA with the protection function separated should then participate too. IMHO
Why are they doing this will it work?
They are presumably doing this as PR to say that they are trying to fulfil the seemingly ignored part of their brief.
Given that the public (and many private) announcements are perceived as being devoid of truth they have a long way to climb back into the light of public approval.
This is a distraction. The real issue is splitting the organisation. The Public Protection section cannot be the same as the Attack the Public section.
At the end of the day we need some of what they do, we just need a return or morality and balance.
It's a long, long road out of Hell, for these guys.
Re: Testing some entities, to achieve mathematical expression
That's cool. It works. So I have reduced pessimism!!
Δ Optimism > 0
Testing some entities, to achieve mathematical expression
Trying to write for all, there exists, union, subset of or equal and Integral:
∀ ∃ ∪ ⊆ ∫
Math Programming
First thing. Maths and Programming != the same thing. Conflating them is confusing.
We are embedded in societies where communication is mathematically illiterate. Just look at textual posts like this with textual comments.
(((General Communication) contains Maths) && ((Keyboard / Character-sets) contain (Maths Symbols)) → (We'd be able to use it more)
I was unable to write the above using decent symbols as they aren't available. In other words, the way our so called civilisation has "developed" is intrinsically hostile to maths. (The dinosaur brains have effectively bred more of themselves by preventing sensible expression of thought...)
So the US is a bit like Russia
In Russia they have a system called SORM. As I understand it the ISP pays for the boxes of SORM which can spy on people at will.
Seems the NSA has taken a leaf out of the FSB book and wants a similar charging model. Difference is that the Russian system is public knowledge (AFAIK).
Not a sane foundation for a civilisation
When I analyse this, I see a legal system that is not up to the job.
The way it works is simply NOT FIT for the purpose it's designed for.
Any civilisation built on such things is maybe doomed. Mankind needs to be rid of the lunacy. I'd prefer determined evolution, very soon. The, high probability, alternative is revolution, but that tends to take us backwards!
We need to get out of here
The planet has just gone wrong. BADLY wrong.
Elected reps that haven't a clue, legal systems that are inimical to the future of mankind, people with primitive idea sets unable to have original thought and in control.
Man oh man. It would be cool to just have a clean way to get out of this.
I'm happy to buy the very few movies or TV series that have interest for me, to buy music on disc. I find newspapers expendable and most TV channels fairly useless. Just need a way to limit influence of these rubbish, to what I want, and keep them from preventing the future.
Failing that, in this reality, what choices are there:
1) Do a Ukraine on the idiots?
2) Take interstellar voyager ONE to Epsilon Eridani?
Sheesh. We need to stop the decrepit brains from stopping the decent futures that can be.
If you object,do something
These bizarre things will continue while we have law systems based on inappropriate core precepts administered by those who are criminally ignorant of the world they impact.
Secondary Liability cuts both ways.
This music company (Universal) represents artists. So I guess they bear primary responsibility for this travesty of reason, rightness and humanity.
If you care tell their fan clubs, burn your copies of their music (if that's your thing), boycott their concerts, tell them in person whatever (as long as you stay within the law).
Here's some names from the Universal web site:
A THOUSAND HORSES
AALIYAH
AARON FRESH
AARON NEVILLE
ABRAHAM MCDONALD
ACE HOOD
ADRIENNE BAILON
AFI
AFROMAN
AGNES
AGNETHA F?LTSKOG
AIR
AKON
AKWID
ALACRANES MUSICAL
ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO
ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ
ALEX CLARE
ALEXISONFIRE
ALFREDO OLIVAS
B.B. KING
BABASONICOS
BABY BASH
BABY BOY
BAD LIEUTENANT
BAD MEETS EVIL
BANDA EL RECODO
BANDA LOS RECODITOS
BANDA SINALOENSE MS DE SERGIO LIZARRAGA
BANKS
BARRY WHITE
BASTILLE
BAT FOR LASHES
BE YOUR OWN PET
BEASTIE BOYS
BEBEL GILBERTO
BECK
BELANOVA
BERNARD FANNING
BETH ORTON
C. BREWER/D. RUNNICLES/ASO
C2C
CAF? TACUBA
CALIBRE 50
CAPITAL CITIESCARE BEARS ON FIRE
CARIBBEAN CONNECTION FEAT. DAD
CARLA BRUNI
CARLOS Y ALEJANDRA
CARLY RAE JEPSEN
CARNEY
CASHIS
CAT STEVENS
CELTIC THUNDER
CHAMILLIONAIRE
CHARLES HAMILTON
CHASE COY
CHENOA
CHER
CHESTER FRENCH
D. FRIZZELL/S. WEST
DANIEL ASH
DANIEL HOPE
DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL
DAVID BANNER
DAVID BISBAL
DAVID GARRETT
DAVID GRAY
DAVID GUETTA
DAVID NAIL
DAYS DIFFERENCE
DEAN MARTIN
DEBI NOVA
DECEMBERISTS
DEF LEPPARD
DELTA SPIRIT
DEMI LOVATO
DERRICK HODGE
D'ESPAIRSRAY
DIAMOND RINGS
EASTON CORBIN
EDDY LOVER
EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS
EELS
EL DE BARGE
EL MACIZO
EL POTRO DE SINALOA
EL TIGRILLO PALMA
EL TRONO DE MEXICO
ELBOW
ELECTRIC TOUCH
ELECTRIK RED
ELEFTHERIA ARVANITAKI
ELEPHANT MAN
ELI YOUNG BAND
ELIZABETH AND THE CATAPULT
ELLIE GOULDING
ELTON JOHN/LEON RUSSELL
ELVIS COSTELLO
EMELI SANDE
FABOLOUS
FAIR TO MIDLAND
FALL OUT BOY
FANNY LU
FAR EAST MOVEMENT
FATBOY SLIM
FEDERICO AUBELE
FEFE DOBSON
FEIST
FERGIE
FIDEL RUEDA
FINDLAY BROWN
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH
FLIPSYDE
FLOBOTS
FLORENCE + THE MACHINE
FLYLEAFFONOVISA
FOREVER THE SICKEST KIDS
FOUR TOPS
G. LOVE
GABRIELLA CILMI
GAME
GARY ALLAN
GARY GO
GAVIN ROSSDALE
GEORGE STRAIT
GERMAN MONTERO
GHOST B.C.GHOSTFACE KILLAH
GIN WIGMORE
GINUWINE
GIRLICIOUS
GIT FRESH
GLORIA TREVI
GODSMACK
GOLD FIELDS
GORAN BREGOVIC
GOYO GASTELUM
GRACIELA BELTR?N
HAJI SPRINGER
HAL LINTON
HALEY REINHART
HALFORD
HATEBREED
HAYES CARLL
HAYLEY WESTENRA
HAYSTAK
HECTOR EL FATHER
HEDLEY
HELENE GRIMAUD
HOLE
HOLLY WILLIAMS
HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD
HOOBASTANK
HOT CHIP
HUICHOL MUSICAL
I-15
IDA MARIA
IGGY AZALEAIL VOLO
IMAGINE DRAGONSIMELDA MAY
IMOGEN HEAP & FROU FROU
INDIA.ARIE
INGRID MICHAELSON
INNERPARTYSYSTEM
INTERSCOPE
ISSA GADALA
IVAN
IVY QUEEN
J KING Y MAXIMAN
J. FUTURISTIC
JA RULE
JA-BAR
JACK JOHNSON
JACKIE CHAIN
JACKSON 5
JADAKISS
JAKE BUGG
JAMES
JAMES MORRISON
JAMES VINCENT MCMORROWJAMEY JOHNSON
JAMIE CULLUM
JARED EVAN
JARON AND THE LONG ROAD TO LOVE
JARVIS
JASON ALDEAN
JASON MORAN
JAVEN
KACEY MUSGRAVES
KAISER CHIEFS
KANYE WEST
KANYE WEST/JAY-Z
KARDINAL OFFISHALL
KATE NASH
KATE VOEGELE
KATHARINE MCPHEE
KATIE MELUA
KATY PERRY
KEAK DA SNEAK
KEANE
KELIS
KELLY ROWLAND
KEM
KENDRICK LAMAR
KENNY "BABYFACE" EDMONDS
KERI HILSON
KERLI
KEVIN RUDOLF
L.L. COOL J
LA APUESTA
LA ARROLLADORA BANDA EL LIMON
LA FACTORIA
LA INCONTENIBLE BANDA ASTILLEROS
LA ROUX
LADY ANTEBELLUM
LADY GAGA
LADYHAWKE
LARRY HERNANDEZ
LAURA BELL BUNDY
LAUREN ALAINA
LEDISI
LEE ANN WOMACK
LEE RITENOUR
LENY
LIFEHOUSE
LIGHTS
LIL JON
LIL' ROB
M.I.A.
MACHETE MUSIC
MACK & MALONE
MACY GRAYMAJOR LAZER
MAKANO
MALI MUSIC
MALLARY HOPE
MANN
MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER
MARCO ANTONIO SOLIS
MARGO GURYAN
MARIAH CAREY
MARIANNE FAITHFULL
MARILYN MANSON
MARISA MONTE
MARK SALLING
MAROON 5
MARQUES HOUSTON
MARTINA MCBRIDE/TRAIN
N.E.R.D
NAS
NAS & DAMIAN MARLEY
NATALIA KILLS
NATALIE COLENATURALLY 7
N-DUBZ
NEIL DIAMOND
NEIL HALSTEAD
NELLY
NELLY FURTADO
NEON TREES
NERO
NERVO
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK
NEW YORK DOLLS
NE-YO
NICKI MINAJ
NICOLE SCHERZINGER
NIKKI YANOFSKY
OLGA TANON
ONE BLOCK RADIUS
ONEREPUBLIC
ORIANTHI
ORIGINAL BANDA LIMON
ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING
OWL CITY
PABLO MILANES
PAC DIV
PALOMO
PAPA ROACH
PARACHUTE
PARADISO GIRLS
PATRICK STUMP
PAULA COLE
PAULINA RUBIO
PEARL JAMPEDRO FERNANDEZ
PEGGY LEE
PESADO
PET SHOP BOYS
PETER FRAMPTON
PHIL VASSAR
PHILLIP PHILLIPS
PHILTHY RICH
PHOENIX
PJ HARVEY
Q-TIP
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
QUINCY JONES
R.CITY
RAKIM
RAMMSTEIN
RANDY HOUSER
RANDY MONTANA
RASCAL FLATTS
RAY LAVENDER
RAZORLIGHT
REBA MCENTIRE
REDMAN
RENI LANE
REV THEORY
RHYERICH BOY
RICHY NIX
RICK JAMES
RICK ROSS
RIHANNA
RISE AGAINST
ROB ZOMBIE
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Even if they're great artists, these guys have no right to smash the Internet.
Should there be open season on public officials
Maybe this thing is backwards.
Thought experiment.
What if all public officials (police, congress-persons etc.) could have database searches by anybody, anytime. Private citizens not paid by the taxpayer have protection and easy ways to check who "checked on them".
What would be the consequences?
This is where publicity makes us do the wrong thing
The Snowden revelations are being taken wrong.
They reveal a corner of what is being done. Focus only on that and the problem is, arguably, made worse.
I believe Germany intercepts 1 in 20 or 1 in 25 emails.
Frances spy agencies are renown for aggressively using their resources to steal industrial secrets.
Russia makes Internet users pay pretty directly for spy hardware that can intercept absolutely everything on the Internet without warrant.
China...
And we haven't even started on what the Internet Advertising agencies grab.
Then the criminal gangs...
...
Cherry picking who you whack is itself a mistake.
We need whistleblower laws internationally that shine light on all of this. (Not just windfall revelations, thanks to one decent person. Seemingly, there are very few decent enough people, among the millions who work in this sector.)