Would you say there is also a similar difference between LinkedIn and Indeed.com? People go to Indeed to search for a Job, so it knows your intent. LinkedIn puts job ads in your activity stream. Although at least LinkedIn charges recruiters, so there's part of the business model.
Another point - people in prison still deserve "human rights", even though they've lost their right to freedom. This implies that even freedom isn't a human right. Of course, you could argue that this leads to a contradiction about taking away one's freedom, but that's another discussion.
As someone who was once banned from the Internet by the US gov't[1], I actually agree with you. People throw around terms like "human right" without knowing what it means. If access to the Internet is a human right, that means every human in the world should be able to demand access to the Internet?
I think the Internet absolutely should receive First Amendment protection in the US (and the US Supreme Court agrees), but calling it a human right doesn't seem to agree with the definition[2]. I'd love to hear arguments for the other side.
Note that this doesn't mean I think governments should be able to actively deny individuals access to the Internet, but a Constitutional right is not the same as a human right.
At my previous company (where I stayed for 7 years), I remember seeing our CTO doing the dishes in the kitchen/break room once. This wasn't just in the first year, but about 5 years in. It didn't surprise me, it was more of a confirmation of what I already knew about him. The company is pretty successful today.
Will this integrate with schools' registration systems (add class, drop class, is-class-full, etc?). When I was in school I made some decent college cash with something I built called "Classgrabber" that registered for hard-to-get classes automatically. I had to write a registration "bot" that acted like the web browser. With an API, it would have been much easier, and more open to innovation. The school's response? They outlawed Classgrabber, but it didn't stop people from using it (after all, they needed to get their classes).
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