I don’t know how it operates under French law, but governments have been tending to use palantir’s services since it let’s them circumvent the procedure for issuing a warrant since a lot of the laws that require warrants to be procured were written in such a way that assumes that the government would be the only ones able to spy on their citizens, and thus make no provisions against corporations spying on people.

I will take his idiocy over the next in line any day, he is flip flopping constantly which slows him down from actually accomplishing villainy, while I fear Vance would be incredibly more directed and thus far more vile.

They were never given security guarantees, they were given security assurances, which is kind of the issue that led to this. Granted all geopolitics is down to the whims of leaders upholding agreements, but on paper a security guarantee is near automatic cobeligeration with the defending party while a security assurance is in no way as heavy handed. I would say that the Ukrainian goal is to have an agreement that will give them dependable allies in a future conflict.

They might, but any half decent lawyer would get that thrown out on the basis of the 5th amendment.

I cannot get behind the hosting part, it is too abusable. If that was changed for promoting, I could support that.

The act of promoting or curating user submitted data makes the company strictly liable for any damages done by the content.

I assume you don’t mean simply providing the platform for the content to be hosted, in that case I agree this would definetly help.

The deliberate spreading of harmful false information makes the hosting company liable for damages.

This one is damn near impossible to enforce for the sole reason of the word “deliberate”, the issue is that I would not support such a law without that part.

I have very little experience with the other sections, but I have some comments on the operating system secrion.

I would highly recommend staying away from Ubuntu, they are making quite a few questionable decisions when it comes to developing the Linux ecosystem which do not lend well to their continued openness and favorability.

I also couldn’t help but notice that all the distros that are represented are Debian based, I would probably throw in fedora Linux for begginer friendly and bazzite for the gaming crowd although I do believe a decent amount of the maintainers are american. I also found it interesting that there was no section for moderately technical people, in which case the arch distros should be included, ie endeavoros and cachy os.

The number one shock for most people when coming over to Linux is a reliance on package management for programs rather than the exe’s & msi’s of windows. In general on mint your installation methods in order should be

1.software manager 2.appimage 3.deb 4.tar

I may have forgotten some other formats since I haven’t used mint in a while, but this should allow for the smoothest experience when it comes to installing programs.