There should be legal ramifications if they don't do what they say, but the practical solution is "don't use it".

what happens if you criticise the government in these safe countries?

what happens if you criticize the government with regard to certain topics in the UK on social media?

https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/world-news/uk-free-speech-stru...

it appears you've misunderstood what criticizing the government is, nice try though

there was a recent case of a kid who was literally stabbed by a sihk guy and got arrested because the sihk guy said the guy said something racist.

Now before you say that I need to check my white privilege, I am brown. everytime one of these people commit these crimes and the police look the other way in the name of political correctness, it gives legitimacy to the racists who want to cast all of us in a bad light. Law and order needs to be a applied equally and its very strange to me how people are getting arrested for speech when they are a direct consequence of government policies. don't make teh speech illegal, correct the issues the=is speech is surfacing.

Yes, that wasn’t criticising the government either.

you don't think criticizing asymmetry in policing isn't criticizing government?

If it doesn't support GP's position, it doesn't count.

Which topics?

Racist ones? I only skimmed the article.

What happens if you criticize the government of Japan?

Nothing.

Generally nothing. In Singapore, there are some risks.

> As of March 2023, Emirati authorities continued to incarcerate with no legal basis at least 51 Emirati prisoners who completed their sentences between 1 month and nearly 4 years ago. The prisoners are all part of the grossly unfair “UAE94” mass trial of 69 government critics, whose convictions violated their rights to free expression, assembly, and association. UAE authorities used baseless counterterrorism justifications to continue holding them past their completed sentences. Some prisoners completed their sentences as early as July 2019.

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024/country-chapters/unite...

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/10/uae-reporters-un-cl...

Nothing in UAE? I call bullshit.

Personal laptops go on guest wifi with zero access to company resources, just like personal phones

+ everybody working in tech has a large mobile data plan, no reason to even connect to the wifi guest network.

+1, guest network is risky. Even VPN/ts is risky, since you're actively hiding what you are doing. Mobile data only.

Inside many offices mobile data is spotty or not working at all

The US has ~97 people / mi² vs ~519 people / mi² in Italy so the article is less relevant than you think

Perhaps an AI summary would have helped here

Maybe they are hoping for a tiny bit of research / looking into things

Fine allow any text through, kids can use whatever gopher site they like.

Compiling

Depends how compiling actually happens in practice, what executables and scripts are called.

"I have no idea how that rm -rf $HOME ended up in the Makefile"

Guess what, the AI companies training their models aren't going to include themselves in the "rest of us"

The AI companies training their models are going to refer to it as their own data, once it's on their servers.

Ah this world where doctors are perfect and know everything

ah the world where ads are a good form of education.