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Good. freedom.gov is a clear subversive political influence campaign that should be banned by all European countries.
by tovej 8mo ago
Good. freedom.gov is a clear subversive political influence campaign that should be banned by all European countries.
- rvnx 8mo ago[flagged]
- mschuster91 8mo ago> We have the best bottle-caps in the world. Spoken like someone who never walked the Isar river beaches in the morning after a Saturday night in summer. Used to be full of plastic bottle caps from all the party goers, now it's just the metal beer caps that you can easily pick up with a magnet.
- rvnx 8mo agoFair enough, this is actually a positive regulation. This was more to put on perspective that innovation and gaining market share are the main priority in US/China, whereas in Europe, priority is more on regulation. For example, one of the priorities here in the EU is to regulate and tax AI companies, rather than to make the place attractive.
- adithyareddy 8mo agoThe chip on the server hosting this comment was almost certainly printed with an ASML lithography machine. I get the sentiment but the bottle-cap meme needs to die. Innovation and regulation are not opposite ends of a slider where you have to pick one or the other.
- rvnx 8mo agoI'm totally on your side that ASML, Airbus and a couple of pharmaceutical companies are great innovators and very special (in a positive way) companies in this world. But still, this is where I slightly disagree, because I feel the more regulation, the less innovation is possible. Here just feeling frustrated when I see that freedom.gov getting censorship of that overall tendency to regulate, rather than to actively promote freedom of entrepreneurship, of expression, of thinking out-of-the-box etc, and this freedom.gov thing is just a symptom of that whole system.
- googlehater 8mo agohm.. i wonder where their lithography tech was patented?
- Rumple22Stilk 8mo agoInnovation is not correct. Extracting maximum profit is correct.
- kamyarg 8mo agoPlease make sure to review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. ... > Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes. > Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. > Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.
- JohnLocke4 8mo agoIt is basically just a proxy. I don't see how censorship could be an antidote to a "subversive political influence campaign" - if anything you're describing censorship
- tovej 8mo agoCensoring foreign political influence and misinformation campaigns is just sane policy. US misinformation is no different from Russian misinformation. freedom.gov is specifically meant to spread this misinfo, freedom of speech is the stated purpose, but if you believe that, you are naive. This is obviously an influence campaign.
- rvnx 8mo agoIt has a name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime The solution to disinformation is not censorship, it's education and to teach early people on how to critically think by themselves.
- SpecialistK 8mo agoIt's "thoughtcrime" and "censorship" when they do it. It's "stopping disinformation" and "protecting democracy" when we do it.
- bigstrat2003 8mo agoThat is unfortunately the truth of it. There are distressingly few people in the US these days who actually have a principled belief in freedom of speech. Both the left and the right talk up freedom of speech when they are out of power, but are quite willing to destroy it when they are in power. I would give my left proverbial for a political party that actually protects freedom of speech.
- rockemsockem 8mo agoI think the people blocking content in Europe and those "protecting democracy" in the US share most of the same political beliefs.