armchairhacker

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by armchairhacker 6y ago
If we're concerned with getting consent, but also allegedly too many people are just forgetting to opt-in: What if, before somebody gets their ID (or another process everyone goes through), we ask them "do you want to be an organ
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by armchairhacker 6y ago
idk if the argument is that legalizing prostitution decreases sex slavery or that it just doesn't increase it. You're 100% right that even if we legalize prostitution people will still be exploited. But if we criminalize prostitut
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by armchairhacker 6y ago
Is there a video streaming service that has at least a limited form of moderation besides YouTube? Ignoring politics, YouTube needs competition because its algorithms suck and remove uncontroversial videos, and Google support sucks so they
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by armchairhacker 6y ago
Agree or disagree I don't really see how this is news. Companies like Twitch will ban people they don't like anyways, they don't need an explicit rule. It seems obvious that someone who commits violence or hate crimes will ge
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by armchairhacker 6y ago
"Too few ideas." I don't think this is true. If anything, we might be getting too many people and not enough ideas, as a lot of people are making niche products just so they can invent something . I don't have a good ar
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by armchairhacker 6y ago
Some context I got from https://www.wired.com/story/richard-stallman-and-the-fall-of... : Stallman was pressured to resign from the board and MIT because of some of these controversies: - Jeffrey Epstein coerced one of
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by armchairhacker 6y ago
> The virus would have survived somewhere in the world, and quickly began spreading once the 2 month lockdown ended. No, because we can still do testing and tracing. A virus infecting a few hundred people that we can detect fast is a lot
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by armchairhacker 6y ago
The real problem is that we should have locked down differently. Lockdowns were absolutely necessary, but the way which we locked down - what was allowed / restricted and the way we emotionally dealt with the pandemic - was really, rea
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by armchairhacker 6y ago
Religion is different than politics. Religious "rules" can't actually be enforced, you can leave a religion whenever you want and be exempt from doing anything Church-related (although of course your friends / family &#x
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by armchairhacker 6y ago
IMO the main issue with cancel culture is when it targets people who are innocent or gives unreasonable punishments for small mistakes. Those being cancelled are tried in the court of social media, where critics attack without evidence or e
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by armchairhacker 6y ago
We would need a third party, like the government or a nonprofit. When a company or companies get large enough that they monopolize a niche, when they apply arbitrary restrictions, said restrictions can be challenged in court. If Uber preven
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by armchairhacker 6y ago
> What you really mean is "supposed the Big Tech companies became far-right instead of centrist neoliberal capitalists". This is right. I should've said something like "what if they censored progressive reform instead
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by armchairhacker 6y ago
I'm usually don't have a strong opinion but in this case. Consider the following hypothetical: Suppose the Big Tech companies are far-right instead of left. Instead of banning racism and insurrection, they are banning people calli
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by armchairhacker 6y ago
That's actually a good point. Idk how many otherwise unbiased people would be convinced that the election was a major fraud, but moving that to other platforms wouldn't hurt.
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by armchairhacker 6y ago
Here is my opinion on this, in case you're interested for some reason. I consider myself centrist but usually agree with liberal policies, however I also believe in free speech. I honestly don't have a problem with mainstream plat