RT:
WhatsApp is threatening users who violate its rules with lawsuits, even if the only evidence of “rule-breaking” exists outside of the Facebook-owned messaging app and the only judge is an AI.
“WhatsApp will take legal action against those we determine are engaged in or assisting others in abuse… even if that determination is based on information solely available to us off our platform,” the company warned in an ominous FAQ entry posted on Monday.
The source is RT, but the FAQ linked in the excerpt does say that. Would we want Kellogg's surveilling us to make sure we're using their corn flakes properly?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday June 15 2019, @02:54AM (3 children)
2400 baud? Damn, man, that's some ancient history right there. I bet there are fewer than a dozen Soylentils who would recognize the sound of the modem handshake.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday June 15 2019, @03:04AM (2 children)
I ran a 300, later 1200 baud BBS in 1983-5, it was more entertaining than Mork and Mindy reruns.
It was absolutely mindblowing when the phone modems were getting up to 38.4kbps in the early-mid 90s.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Saturday June 15 2019, @01:05PM (1 child)
Haha, dude, you're a fossil. Next thing you tell us is you ran a MUD too, I suppose?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday June 15 2019, @05:18PM
Nah, fossils used punch cards - they took the punch card machines out the semester before I took Fortran.
Never did a MUD, I did have a little bit of an outside life - MUDs seemed too all-consuming for me.
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