MikeUt

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by MikeUt 6y ago
> easier for a person to go viral with their words now than through say a newspaper A person that they allow to post, without secretly suppressing their reach, or banning their account outright. That's not decentralization, that&#x2
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Regarding their privacy commitment, visiting the link with Tor browser gives "503 Service Temporarily Unavailable". https://old.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/lqtecn/update_to... works - for n
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> in the United States we are living in a white supremacist society Is this the kind of company training you would expect in a white supremacist society? Would a white supremacist society have an immigration policy that will soon make wh
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"To be less white is to: [..] break with white solidarity" All other forms of ethnic solidarity are encouraged , so how viable is it for whites to act as enlightened aracial individualists?
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Sounds recklessly optimistic. "I don't care if open platforms go from 5% to 0.1% market share - I am confident manufacturers will keep serving me. Also market share is the purest expression of democratic will, questioning that App
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> I just don't believe that it's not possible to more closely align the interests of class action lawyers with that of the classes they represent. But how does capping the settlement % that goes to the lawyers achieve that?
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> It should be law that lawyers can't have more than something like 5% of the settlement Then finding a lawyer willing to go through the long and complex class action lawsuit will be even harder and/or more expensive, resulting
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> There was a reasonably strong correlation between the rate of guns recovered and traced in a state in 2019 and that state’s murder rate How strange they would use the "rate of guns recovered and traced", and not simply gun ow
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> there would be proof. There would be documents. Would there? Or would such blocks simply be the result of strong, shared political leanings at Twitter [1], without any need for central organization? In age when so much is being attribu
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On the one hand you may be right, on the other hand you're giving Twitter so much deniability that you'd never get enough evidence to convince you that you're wrong.
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And it's getting worse.
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If these private corporations decide to censor some message, an individual "just dropping" them won't help them spread the message one bit.
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The key difference is a manufacturer exerting control over what you're allowed to do with property that is supposedly "yours". That the terms were announced ahead of time will mean little once this becomes commonplace.
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France to ban far-right group Generation Identity(france24.com)
6 points by MikeUt 6y ago|1 comments
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The tired "It's not illegal so you can't complain." doesn't apply in this case, so the conversation should be more interesting.
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Caltech to Remove the Names of Robert A. Millikan and Other Eugenics Proponents(caltech.edu)
42 points by MikeUt 6y ago|67 comments
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> If companies would agree not to sell or share my data with third parties (law enforcement serving a warrant being the major exception) then I have no real issue with the tech. In many countries (Russia, China, Myanmar come to mind) you
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According to [1], 30% of all prisoners are non-Hispanic white, which is close to the numbers given for federal prisons. And I used homicide as proxy for violent crime, since if I had used anything else, you would have claimed the numbers ca
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> But what has gotten inadequate attention is the increasing role these fees play in funding our courts and police departments, and how they crush the chances of millions of Black and brown Americans to make a better life for themselves
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So your entire argument is that nothing illegal was done? I don't think anyone claimed otherwise, so that doesn't contribute anything to the conversation.
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If "you can complain if you want", then "Nobody is forced to host your site. This is partly how free market capitalism works" is not any kind of rebuttal to their complaint, is it?
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> if you strip people of the ability to debate and discern facts If you dare to debate and discern the wrong facts, you get a hit piece published on you like Slate Star Codex. Or you get fired like the NY Times reporter Donald McNeil Jr.
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A.I. ‘Bias’ Doesn’t Mean What Journalists Say It Means (2017)(jacobitemag.com)
2 points by MikeUt 6y ago|0 comments
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A quick skim of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_(region) says Palestine was controlled by the Mamluk Sultanate since 1260, then by the Ottomans since 1516. So by "European oppression", is he referring
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That's a great argument for Apple being the arbiter of what is allowed on their app store, but a very poor argument on why they should also decide what can run on your phone.
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> Personally, I'm not sure what the answer is, because I don't know much about these people. If only a world-famous newspaper could look into this and find out, so that you would not have to guess.
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So how did he platform them? All the article offers is that he linked to the blog of a person that neoreactionaries also like. If that person has said or done anything controversial, the Times should say so. Instead, they just try to tar
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Having to trade away your privacy for access to financial services (where this is headed) is not OK just because the spying is unbiased. This is a common red herring, like the proliferating surveillance cameras and face recognition - someho
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> try saying "where can I read more about this topic" Very polite, but also much more ambiguous. Instead getting a reference backing up the claims, you could get a reading list recommendation on black-white relations in the US.
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The price being letting one central entity monitor which sites everyone visits, and block access if they like? For example if you try to avoid their spying by use of TOR, only to find half the web is now blocked. Or did you mean the 30 seco

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