LightHugger

17 ms·

61.
by LightHugger 2y ago
The government was moderating speech through those private companies, like twitter. Before musk bought it was literally taking government orders on what to censor, so your basic argument is not responding to what i already said. You come of
62.
by LightHugger 2y ago
I agree that what trump is doing is a threat to free speech, i really wish there was some kind of non partisan free speech faction in US politics but there doesn't seem to be. In any case, i'm replying to this post because you&#x2
63.
by LightHugger 2y ago
The extent is not even a fraction of extreme as what the left has been doing for years. But the author speaks like he was completely onboard with and even endorses that stuff. Hard to take anything he writes seriously after he gives off tha
64.
by LightHugger 2y ago
> If you spent the last decade being fundamentally wrong about the gravest threats to speech in America, these are clever ways to rewrite history to give the impression that you were right all along. Funnily enough the author here is att
65.
by LightHugger 2y ago
Monopolies are at their worst when they use their position to make a power play over a market (such as browsers) that isn't very profitable on it's own but can be used as a loss leader in a wider monopolistic scheme. This is when
66.
by LightHugger 2y ago
I don't know but it might be the highest profile thing that specific department can muster.
67.
by LightHugger 2y ago
Well, everyone needs food, but not everyone needs luxury items. Lowering taxes on basics like groceries and raising them on luxury items or even better, raising income tax for the rich, would be way better.
68.
by LightHugger 2y ago
Mozilla's self stated mission as a self proclaimed "global crew of activists" [1] is to "more than deplatform" [2] people they disagree with. Deplatforming just means censorship in this context and they want people
69.
by LightHugger 2y ago
I've been optimistic on ladybird after watching the speed of progress with tests in their monthly youtube updates, they are quite well presented. Ladybird is also not ideologically captured by anti freedom extremists with self contradi
70.
by LightHugger 2y ago
I suppose the main target here is to sell firefox sync bookmark and history data? It is possible to host your own firefox sync instance but it's too much work. I hope it gets easier with these announcements lighting a fire under people
71.
by LightHugger 2y ago
If one of your family members was killed because of Brian Thompson using an bot to auto deny valid medical claims, among hundreds of thousands of others, you'd consider him a mass murderer too. Do you have an argument about why you thi
72.
by LightHugger 2y ago
Your use of the word "innocent" there is doing a lot of heavy lifting. He did not have a day in court, and what he did was indirect. However, a lot of people consider the supposedly "innocent" guy that got killed a mass
73.
by LightHugger 2y ago
Presumably the point is that the user (or bot) wants to access the content, a connection would have to complete the load successfully to do what they came for. if they just drop it instantly then that's a bot turned away.
74.
by LightHugger 2y ago
Serverside of course, but i would think the loading bar can be per connection rather than be per account right? Like a connection is attempted, starting the loading bar, and then 5s later you only allow that connection to continue the load?
75.
by LightHugger 2y ago
Can't you just put a 5 second "loading bar" delay instead of a captcha then i wonder?
76.
by LightHugger 2y ago
There have been cases where companies convinced internet archive to take down archives of sites for various reasons, ranging from copyright concerns to social outrage, how do you plan to handle these eventualities?
77.
by LightHugger 2y ago
I feel like often people in your position don't have a basic undestanding why racism is wrong. You don't have a concept or any empathy for how racism affects individual people, all you see is the broad identity group itself. You d
78.
by LightHugger 2y ago
Is "eliminated the privilege of" some kind of dogwhistle for being racist against white people? You're intentionally using circuitous language but that appears to be the message. People are individual human beings, discrimina
79.
by LightHugger 2y ago
bluesky isn't ideal either with it's lacking attitude towards free speech, not that twitter is perfect. Unfortunate that every tech platform is marred by some flavor of crazy these days.
80.
by LightHugger 2y ago
Funny how the EFF posted an anti free speech article a week ago now they're hand wringing about this. HN link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42652882
81.
by LightHugger 2y ago
I agree that they are not publicly owned or managed decently, but regardless these are the large publicly available communications platforms that people use these days, in massive numbers. Therefore repressing speech here causes a violation
82.
by LightHugger 2y ago
The general idea is that social media platforms especially at the scale of twitter and facebook are not private parties but public squares, in which free speech must be protected. I think this is obviously true, but there is of course the q
83.
by LightHugger 2y ago
For profit companies, especially facebook will just follow whatever is popular at the time, they have no morality at all. They had no morality when treating people like absolute shit under oppressive moderation and censoring people like cra
84.
by LightHugger 2y ago
I was not suggesting a paid browser, that's a bit of a leap. But right now mozilla has burned all their goodwill. If they wanted to, for example, focus on making firefox really good and solicit donations specifically to support continu
85.
by LightHugger 2y ago
They appear to actively scorn the idea of making a good browser as a method of funding as well, they seem to prioritize everything but firefox, and want to blow what's left of the budget on company events at fancy hotels. There's
86.
by LightHugger 2y ago
Hmm, there are some companies that are run by openly ideologically driven people who are caught up this. They are very open about their agenda which is also very well defined in conference talks and blog posts, there is no conspiracy theory
87.
by LightHugger 2y ago
Cryptocurrency when not being used for speculation or investment nonsense has already successfully provided a pressure release valve for abuse by the credit card cartels. It still sucks, and isn't very convenient or good for most trans
88.
by LightHugger 2y ago
There is a lot of utility in bypassing the credit card company cartel which have been abusing their position to create a pseudo government to shut down or kill the value of (maybe to make them easier to buy out?) targeted businesses. Or in
89.
by LightHugger 2y ago
People who are so sick often can't do very much, it's truly evil to scam people in that position. Maybe relatives though.
90.
by LightHugger 2y ago
Just like how we look at the anti tobacco movement as a moral panic? I think not.

More ›