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by apostacy 8y ago
I don't see any outcome that doesn't involve Apple clamping down more on who can sideload apps. It took the non-profit that I worked for weeks to get the correct DUNS numbers that Apple would accept. As long as nobody is charging
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by apostacy 8y ago
> This is simply not true. Harassment is not the same as calling out harassment. Saying "hey, I have a right to exist and be included, stop your exclusionary actions" is fundamentally different from actions to exclude someone i
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by apostacy 8y ago
Many codes of conduct include language like this. > Our open source community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. We will not act on complaints regarding: Our open source community prioritizes margi
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by apostacy 8y ago
The problem with this article is that it seems to be shaming Apple for letting people have some way of doing what Android users can do; sideloading apps of their choice onto devices they own. And this isn't the only article like this I
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by apostacy 8y ago
The problem with codes of conduct is that many of them contain pro-harassment carve-outs, for vaguely defined groups like "marginalized peoples". They specifically enshrine harassment against by some groups onto other groups. (I w
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by apostacy 8y ago
On the one hand, this "journalism" really is disgusting. It is calling for unreasonable censorship. Censoring internal enterprise apps makes as much sense as expecting Apple to police pictures users take with their iPhones. But on
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by apostacy 8y ago
There is no more debate. The platforms have chosen to take responsibility for what they host. Every major platform now actively polices their networks and removes content for flimsy political reasons. If Apple has the resources to remove an
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by apostacy 8y ago
After seeing The Philippines, I don't see how anyone can argue against net neutrality...
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by apostacy 8y ago
Really?? Because I and my companions had a huge problem with data. The only plans we could find were for things like 700M for "general use data", and the remaining for different websites. It was expensive and slow. We weren't
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by apostacy 8y ago
I visited the Philippines recently, and was shocked at how non-neutral it was. ISPs have promotions like "free half an hour of YouTube per day". It is like the nightmare scenario that we in the rest of the world were warned about.
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by apostacy 8y ago
Am I factually incorrect? NO. Patreon should not be trusted with anyone's money, because they will make up new rules on the spot, and ban you for things that were not against their own rules. How long until Patreon decides that they do
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by apostacy 8y ago
> If you feel that way, you have every right to set up your own platform and allow those people access to it. But if you're giving access to literal Nazis, I also have the right to shun you, which I will. If you want to willingly as
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by apostacy 8y ago
Someone like Jordan Paterson is absolutely not like Stormfront. Refusing to support a best selling author and professor because some vocal activists have launched a smear campaign against him is not some sort of proxy for morality. Business
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by apostacy 8y ago
What this article fails to mention, is that Patreon lied about why Benjamin was banned. He did NOT violate their TOS. Patreon dishonestly tried to retroactively apply an amended TOS to justify banning him, after the fact. This demonstrates
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by apostacy 8y ago
These are just platitudes about "heroes" and "public servants". I want police that are effective. If someone is threatening you with a weapon, you had better hope that there is at least one other weapon in this situation
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by apostacy 8y ago
Sure, we'd all like nothing bad to ever happen. But, if you were being attacked by someone, would you prefer that the police "de-escalate" things by not engaging your attackers, or would you want them to come in "guns bl
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by apostacy 8y ago
So, if you are being robbed, you would rather that the police wait a few blocks away?
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by apostacy 8y ago
This is nothing new. It has already been ruled on that the police have no obligation to protect you. They can simply say "no" if you ask them to protect you. It certainly means that they can de-prioritize your call and only show u
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by apostacy 8y ago
This is correct. In many places, the police actively avoid "hot calls", where if there is shooting, they will hang back until it is over before moving in.
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by apostacy 8y ago
I'm really unhappy that Homebrew twists user's arms to update to the latest version of OSX. I'm glad that I waited a year before I updated to High Sierra, seeing as how there were APFS file corruption bugs, and a default root
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by apostacy 8y ago
Twitter is massively censored. I don't know why anyone would claim otherwise. Twitter lies about shaddowbanning people, and is highly selective of enforcement of their policies.
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by apostacy 8y ago
> YouTube, for example, can show advertisements for well known companies in videos about Anti-vaccination, far-right conspiracies, etc. without consequences. It is a myth that there is any problem with ads being shown on controversial vi
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by apostacy 8y ago
> Impersonating Googlebot doesn't change the terms of the access. But I wouldn't be "impersonating" the Google bot, I would just be using it's user-agent string. That does not make me the Google bot. If a foolish
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by apostacy 8y ago
I'm sorry to be rude, but I honestly believe that the only thing that will save Mozilla is for people like you to take your terrible ideas elsewhere. You must see that your ideas are not working. Have you been able to attract new users
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by apostacy 8y ago
You are deeply misinformed, and to be blunt, people like you are killing Firefox. Somehow Firefox managed to go for over a decade without blocking sideloading of extensions. And no Mozilla should not be thinking in terms of "market sha
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by apostacy 8y ago
I was referring to financial companies higher up, like Visa and Mastercard. Banks implicitly have government protections and privileges. But in addition to that, the barriers to entry are extreme, to the point where they are essentially mon
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by apostacy 8y ago
I was referring to the credit card companies as being a monopoly. They use their top-down power to impose their politics on people. It's not just Patreon. If anyone sets up a similar service, and does business with someone that Visa do
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by apostacy 8y ago
Is it the freedom of banks to not offer checking accounts to minorities? Why can't a bank express itself in the form of denying service to some people? Must they be compelled to? Yes. If these platforms and payment processors want to c
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by apostacy 8y ago
> It's almost like what is being discussed has nothing to do with free speech. BitChute didn't have its free speech rights harmed in any way. No jack booted government thugs pointed their guns at the owners faces and told them
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by apostacy 8y ago
Perhaps. But "Maybe Google is just pretending to be evil" does not give me much comfort. Especially as I have friends who are ethnic minorities in SE Asia.

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