@eruwero @maybeanerd @bagder the #FSF is a shitshow with no moral basis to stand on.

• #DualLicensing basically has the same issues as #ClassAction settlements and #SueHappy arrangements of other kinds:

"If the penalty for a crime is a fine, it's only illegal for the poor!"

Furthermore it'll combine the disadvantages of #CCSS & #FLOSS with potentially no benefits of either.

• Why should I contribute to CCSS and/or pay for FLOSS?

Instead it allows rich corporations like the #GAFAMs to just buy indulgences and absolve themselves that way.

@steaphan also #ClassActions are useless forvanyone outside of the #USA.

• See any #ClassAction in history and espechally the #OtherOSsettlement.

Like literally: The only profiteers are #lawyer and even the #corporations because they'll just pay and don't get forced to #UndoHarmCaused…

• The "#SueHappy" industry is for them just an operating expense and at worst these are losses to write off…

@VictimOfSimony @m04 @FediPact we don't really have that #ClassAvtion stuff and #SueHappy cultire in tue #EU, and most courts will instead demand unlawful acts to be reverted/undone instead of allowibg perpertrators to just pay up and walk away instead.

@Linux there's a reason the #USA has <5% of the world's population but >30% of all #lawyers!

• #SueHappy is a #US thing...

@erosalie I wish all those parents would sue RFK Jr. personally and the CDC for damages...

• after all, for every bs people do #SueHappy in the #USA…

#UnpopularOpinion:

#ClassAction as a measure to deliver recourse against #Corporations is inherently #flawed, #unjust and cements the fact that "If the #penalty is a #fine, it's only #illegal for the #poor"!

In case you don't believe me that #ClassActions only exist to enrich #LawFirms and allow any #corporation to send out insultingly-low #cheques:

• #Valve literally changed their [luckily illegal in places with #ConsumerProtection like the #EU] #SteamSubscriberAgreement to basically force people [in the #USA and the rest of the world] to kiss their #Steam account goodbye if they choose to join a Class Action.

• #Sony's #OtherOsSettlement didn't force them to #reinstate the #OtherOs functionality on the #PS3 and only gave US comsumers tiny cheques! A core functionality that was as much of a seller of the product as #BackwardsCompatibility and #BluRay playback...

• No Class Action against #Apple forced them to #undo shit they purposefully designed into products - espechally their #AntiRepairDesign with #DRM that basically requires a RAT to authenticate parts which they do to this very day and which they literally patented...

(Don't even get me started on the shitshow that is #iCloudLock which I hope the @EUCommission will #ban as it's *infringing on #ConsumerRights re: #property and causes thousands of tons of 100% avoidable #eWaste...)

#Rant #US #UScentrism #AmericaCentrism #law #legal #ValueRemoving #RentSeeking #Consumer #PropertyRights #ITsec #IT #tech #SueHappy #SueHappyCulture

@Privacymatters Maybe because #Google doesn't consider @protonprivacy to be "#secure"

• Which no provider is BTW and advertising otherwise should be illegal IMHO!

But #sarcasm aside OFC Google does that.

• It's in their best interest and legal mandate as a corporation to maximize profits by all means legal.

  • Modifying search results is not illegal!
  • There are good reasons to do so espechally with a #SearchEngine almost exclusively used by #TechIlliterates (which would otherwise be flooded with #CredentialStealing #Scam-Sites for which they may get sued in a #SueHappy juristiction like the #USA by litigatious #consumers)!

So yeah, I don't think #ProtonMail is a good example in that regard and the only valid solution to this problem is to choose a different search engine (i.e. @monocles / #monocles at https://monocles.eu ) entirely...

@pinganini That would be a waste of time and money.

Also the whole "#SueHappy" bs doesn't work outsode the #USA...

@deutschewellerss classic #SueHappy culture...

@ScottStarkey @KrissyKat I mean, if I were to drive with a Snowmobile onto an airfield - whether legal or not doesn't matter - I kinda have to expect planes or helicopters being parked if not moving about.

Just like everyone would expect cars on a 4+ lane highway in Los Angeles during rush hour...

I hope their #SueHappy attempt backfires and the #Judge will disqalify them from driving any motor vehicle as certainly they didn't reflect upon their actions or showed remorse...

@dalfen @shekinahcancook I'm shure they'll have all their meetings with Trump recorded where they brief him on the seriousness of the case and that he'd be wise to do #STFUfriday in court.

Just to get any suit against them dismissed outright...

Bit then again in the USA #SueHappy is a thing for better (#ClassAction) amd worse (#ThielVsGawker and other #SueIntoInsolvency cases)...

Also #BusyBox seems to rather be interested in #SueHappy than actually making #FLOSS better...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0&t=2195s

@heidilifeldman I think that's typical #SueHappy culture as it doesn't adress the #ViolenceCulture and #StochasticTerrorism but only results in some #ValueRemoving #RentSeeker to cash in on a #ClassAction...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3VQULyT390

@interru You can thank assholes that abuse every #Filehoster and a #SueHappy #Copyrightmafia for that...

Seriously, the former one killed #AnonFiles and the latter one is why they only want to allow-list access to their upload function...
https://alternativeto.net/news/2023/8/anonymous-file-sharing-service-anonfiles-shuts-down-due-to-users-abusing-the-service/

@jeremybmerrill I guess instead of suspending their licenses and making said drivers pay for the damages, the drivers are gonna #SueHappy #Tesla...

@primonatura #SueHappy again...

Fix the laws!

@WIRED #SueHappy won't change the core issue that you do partake in:

#PropagandaOfTheDeed rewards #StochasticTerrorism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3VQULyT390
https://mstdn.social/@kkarhan/110375037301517321

Also manufacturers are not at fault for abuse of their products, otherwise car companies would be out of business as they could be sued for every drive-by shooting or kidnapping.

Or every cooking appliance manufacturer would get sued for people burning themselves...

@hewittlaw pretty shure they just try #SueHappy for lulz.

@tprophet all they need is getting some customer who out of spite and principle will go full "#SueHappy" on them...