When I'm trying to take care of basic bodily functions, I don't need some exec using it as an opportunity to manipulate me into workplace / social interaction.
1. The thief would probably still find the tracker.
2. You would probably still lose connection/track of the device.
3. Police would probably still be reluctant to travel to a private residence somewhere and try to find it.
4. Are you going to physically find and confront a criminal yourself?
Encrypt your digital devices, have backups and insure anything valuable. That is the better than using some tracker and spending your time trying to chase down criminals.
Is it an American thing to vigorously defend corporations from accountability to the public?
Twitter and even here seem full of people defending Peloton when clearly there have been enough incidents to warrant some design changes.
It seems like a lot of people want to advocate returning to a time where businesses had little responsibility when it came to the dangerous products they churned out.
There are plenty of developing countries where this is still the case and lots of people/children unnecessarily die as a result. I imagine it would be hell to live in a place where many innocuous products are dangerous and people reguarly lose their kids. I don't want to live in that world.
HackerNews usually: But they're a private company, they can do what they want!!!
Reality is Spotify and other companies are trying to corner the podcast market, this is going to lead to more censorship in this space. You might be inclined to say creators can just avoid these platforms but it will become harder not to use those platforms when looking for an audience.
Rogan despite portraying a right leaning / freedom of speech angle doesn't actually really care so it's not surprising he just grabbed the money and accepted censorship.
Afterall, private organizations can do what they want according to the mantra repeated here. At least that was the defense for social media organizations implementing censorship and bans.
99% of the opposition to Signal integrating cryptocurrency payment seems to be from people who generally disagree with the idea of cryptocurrencies (the article has this position). These arguments of course are veiled as keeping the Signal app "pure" and focused on encrypted messaging. I've rarely seen people kick up this kind of fuss with other messaging features so it just reeks of being disingenuous.
At least be honest and just say that you disagree with cryptocurrencies, instead of dancing around it with other strange arguments / conspiracies about government attention.
Australia is riddled with this kind of Chinese pressure, particularly at universities.
My university went as far as to install an ugly out of place confucious statue. This was followed by being pressured to cancel a talk from the Dalai Llama. Then more recently PRC supporting students engaged in suppression of pro Hong Kong students with no consequences.
People all around the world have state sanctioned freedom of speech but are oppressed by the majority in their country.
This infantile view of freedom of speech is simply a way to pretend you care about freedom of speech while sanctioning other ways to silence/punish people. Even when that punishment is completely disproportionate too.
Go tell that to all the minorities around the world who have state granted "freedom of speech" but are suppressed/controlled by mobs in other countries.
It's counter to freedom of speech and it isn't acceptable.