The arguments about if and when companies can exercise these rights are good to have otherwise we may end up in one of the extremes.

I was young and believer in open internet once (and still am mostly) but the society as a whole has underestimated how much people are susceptible to being deceived and the cost differential between spreading and refuting false information.

I don't see this as anything other than an extension of anti-spam over email efforts of early 2000s.

If you want to get a Linux based laptop for casual users and dont want to maintain it, just get them a chromebook.

It is also a good everyday machine I can use to ssh into my desktop for real work.

"Free Software" has a specific (and different meaning) than Open source.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

I think this is what OP meant not wanting their software to be available at no cost.

But I'd say 90% of my youtube consumption is on TV.

Other than that, the biggest issue might be to IT consulting companies (mostly based in India) that tend to have their employees work at a lower rate than tech companies.

And you are claiming humans share no genes each other over a span less than 100K years.

The issue was solved by Google (and others) stepping up their spam detection game. The spam problem can and should be stopped with the technology, but I am not sure if Facebook has the motivations to do this.

Through sheer scale, spammers of Indian origin may be more noticeable than others and thus reinforcing the stereotype.

I am not sure if he sounded regretful or just was sharing a fact of his life, but that really was weird.

https://www.ccs.neu.edu/~shivers/advisor-stmt-original.txt

Something like spacemacs and prelude would have a much wider adoption if there was a mode that can be enabled to make the learning curve smaller, the look / themes better, ui more intuitive.