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I am a long-time Ars reader and subscriber. I am not American, but I always found their articles on various public policy issues to be interesting and fascinating.
One particularly fascinating element is the callousness of the various "legal arguments" used to justify (and enable) various crimes/corruption schemes.
"I didn't know this was illegal ... it's the fences fault ... we sold both voice and data info, so umm it's legal."
Motherfuckers, you were selling real-time location of your customers to random thugs. By any real understanding of the term "justice", you should be locked up for decades with full asset seizure.
No sane person would agree for you to sell their real-time location data to random goons. You know this and you dare to come up with this gibberish?
It's not even so much the corruption/criminality that is fascinating (things like that happen everywhere), but the arrogance and callousness inherent to their world salad.
Cable and Internet providers in the US and Canada are some of the most underhanded, evil entities in existence.
Don't worry: now that trump is in office it will get even worse
I don't believe this is a Trump specific thing, at least that was the impression I got when I did get a chance to live in the US.
It's not a trump specific thing, but it's the type of thing trump would absolutely allow to happen. It's like saying kids like candy. Which is true, but it doesn't mean kids are the ONLY one who like candy. Kids are just the stereotype for the people who love candy the most, because they can't get enough of it. Trump and corrupt behavior go hand in hand.
No more pesky federal agencies powers, companies will have the right do whatever they want with full support of the trump admin