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“Handset” is obfuscating legalese to refer to a cell phone in a way intending to distance the meaning of the word from the thing that the old and technologically illiterate people who rule on this use every day.
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I’m no fan of their strategy, but cell phone providers have claimed for a long time that filling your phone with unremovable bloatware causes the overall price to decrease. Their argument is most likely that they will have to charge more once the propagators of that bloatware realize that they can no longer force it on people and wedge that as a reason to pay less to carriers.
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The reality is that cell phones are priced based on what people will buy anyway and carriers pocket as much of the money as they can that third parties pay them for their bloatware. Ultimately because of that this ruling hurts their bottom line, but the above reasoning gives plausible deniability in the face of the law as it is interpreted by old technologically illiterate lawmakers
I get that .ml is a Chinese-based server full of anti-west sentiments, but you guys have to recognize that the resolution to not strike Russian land itself is completely ridiculous, right?
Russia is waging total war on Ukraine. Other countries have been supplying arms under the premise of self defense, but the idea that one side of a war isn’t allowed to be aggressive is straight up propaganda.
The “peace talks” that are coming are going to involve total surrender of Russian claimed land on Ukraine’s part.
Somehow augmenting Russian defense forces with foreign armies is just poor old Russia reacting to a sucker punch while augmenting Ukraine’s is tantamount to starting ww3.
The idea that Ukraine can’t use foreign aid to strike back only really makes sense if you believe Ukraine owes Russia land in the first place. Otherwise, regardless of what side you’re on, it’s just walking on eggshells about escalation when the only one actually escalating anything is Russia.