Aunche

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by Aunche 2y ago
Characterizing Andre Tate as being pushed by big tech is like characterizing YouTube "pushing" people to use iPhones. When it came to people actually putting their thumbs on the scale, that went overwhelmingly against Andrew Tate
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There are indeed valid concerns about vaccinations, but I'm not convinced that vast majority of anti-vaxxers made any effort to represent that stance with an good faith. Hell, they politicized wearing a mask during a pandemic, which or
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Eli Whitney thought he could reduce slavery by making cotton processing 45x more efficient...
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What people consider oligarchy is actually allowing the outsourcing of governance to the elite. Corporations are disproportionately represented because they are the ones who do the most research and strategizing. The high profile victories
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A traditional hierarchy is a tree, whereas a flat governance aims to be as close as possible to a connected graph. It's significantly easier to maintain a tree than a connected graph, especially with a sufficient group size. You'r
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It's significantly easier to get a Visa from academia than work
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> Laws that does not explicitly curtail free speech but effectively still does You can say the same thing about an antitrust law that forces Alphabet to sell Youtube.
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You cannot expect a foreign adversary to comply with laws designed for domestic corporations. For example, Facebook cooperated with the DOJ to find the source of Russia's 2016 disinformation campaign. Not only will China not allow simi
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Why should one be surprised that the US Department of State is involved in geopolitics? Your example further reinforces my point that content matters less than who is saying this content. You quoted a phone call that was very likely to be h
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Why do you trust that an app based in China would actually comply with American rules? Facebook voluntarily disclosed that misinformation was spread on their platform. They cooperated with the DOJ to connect this misinformation campaign to
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This is a nice narrative, but has not been consistent with how counter-disinformation has been applied in the contemporary US. It matters less what you say than who is making you say this. For example the founders of Tenet Media were indict
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> This is why i think that this is a case where the interests of the american people may not necessarily align with the "national" interests of wanting to ban tictoc Your home country at least has some incentive to work towar
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I'm not sure about "all our major telco's, but there is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora > On January 12, 2010, Google revealed on its weblog that it had been the victim of a cyber
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Privacy legislation only works because companies have to worry about whistleblowers leaking violations to the media, which would cause them to be fined. China can disappear any whistleblowers and has full control over their media. If CCP co
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The government doesn't care about the editorial policy so long as if it's not managed by a foreign adversary or proxies of a foreign adversary, which obviously fall out of scope of the First Amendment. This is consistent with the
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What does this have to do with the First Amendment? How would this be different from an antitrust ruling that requires Alphabet to divest Youtube, but Alphabet decides to shut down Youtube instead?
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Domestic based social media platforms can be pressured to comply with demands such as the DOJ's investigation into Russia's 2016 disinformation campaign on Facebook. Likewise social media platforms based in a foreign adversary wou
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If that's your attitude, you can't be surprised when your side continues to lose. Meta "fought and lost" their first attempt to ban TikTok.
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There are multiple generations of hate in the West Bank as well. Israel isn't threaten by them as much as they have much more difficulty accumulating weapons.
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> What would it look like to make real change to address the objects, rather than the subjects of frustration? Real change will come when those who actually put work into it. Nobody will do it for you. Not China, not Trump, not the DNC.
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> A foreign enemy keeps us from focusing on our own domestic policies. The nice thing about fiction is that you can make anything sound plausible. Ironically, what people consider the most prosperous time of America happened to be the ti
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> having autocratic private institutions having undue cultural power is proving to be worse for our culture than anything a foreign country has done to us Dogs kill more Americans than lions, but that doesn't mean that we should be
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This nihilistic outlook may make you feel better, but at the end of the day only creates a void in government that megacorporations and malicious actors are happy to fill in. In case if you weren't merely being facetious, your home cou
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Antiestablishment-types supporting an ideology like Maoism is at least something I can understand. Antiestablishment-types expressing their loyalty to the establishment of a foreign adversary is significantly more concerning.
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I agree that their example is absurd, but China has definitely used social media accounts to influence opinions on Hong Kong, Xinjiang etc. American social media companies cooperate with investigations and flagging of this propaganda. On th
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America is still on the gold standard in that you can theoretically exchange an American Gold Eagle worth $2800 for $50 at a bank. What the end of the Bretton Woods is really means is that the government is unwilling to sell you an oz of go
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The only people asking for the return of a gold standard are those who are hoarding large quantities of gold. Ironically, the only reason they were allowed to hoard this large quantity of gold was due to the end of Bretton Woods which also
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This ban only applies to foreign adversaries (e.g. China, Iran, and Russia).
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> The govt is mad that a foreign company is outcompeting a domestic one China certainly engages in security theater for their own economic advantage as well. It's no coincidence that any American internet company that tries to opera
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This is a very unpopular opinion, but I believe ideally taxes in America should be more a lot more "regressive" like they are in Sweden. VATs are economically more efficient than income tax, and harder for corporations to avoid. T

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