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Comment · 5 years ago
We already have laws against that.
Comment · 5 years ago
Yeah… who are the owners of a flat to decide what to do with it, eh?
Comment · 5 years ago
Alternatively, inform yourself and take a conscious and thoughtful decision using the information at your disposal. Don’t let others (especially the government) push you around to take or not take the vaccine.
Comment · 5 years ago
If those workers stand their ground the mandate can be delayed forever. It will be interesting to see what the regime does next.
Comment · 5 years ago
Because features in software don’t exist until someone adds them.
Comment · 5 years ago
In some countries something like this has been mandatory for a long time.

In Germany and its lapdog Austria there’s the mandatory impressum: fully doxxed whether you want it or not.

In Spain if you handle a database with personal information (like a forum or a blog where people can leave their email addresses along with comments) you also have to put all your data somewhere in the page so people can contact you to have themselves removed.

But hey we have cookie banners at least!

Comment · 5 years ago
Apologising for something that happened decades ago when those responsible are no longer working and most of them are dead? Well that’s got to be easy.
Comment · 5 years ago
They could also host these on their own website, but of course that doesn’t sound as flashy.

We are subject to American Puritanism because Europe has failed time and time again to create competitive social networks because of regulations and scarce access to capital. Better complain about that.

Comment · 5 years ago
Is this the guy who put crypto in Signal?
Comment · 5 years ago
They rewrote the entire interface of chrome in JavaScript with obvious consequences.
Comment · 5 years ago
Automattic, the makers of Wordpress, have a free and very powerful cache plugin.

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