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by bmarquez 6y ago
From the perspective of a hypothetical corrupt, authoritarian government, it's an issue of control. Of course they have their own websites. But the goal would be to promote the "official" point of view while suppressing the o
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If I was the leader of a country, why would I let Silicon Valley companies potentially censor my speech? Other authoritarian leaders are likely thinking "If Twitter can deplatform the President of the United States [which has more powe
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So I use Parler occasionally, and one of the first things I noticed when I signed up is that they banned ALL pornography. They eventually loosened up their restrictions but I haven't run into any of it -- people generally sign up to ta
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> child porn > Because that's what you'll find on Parler. No article I've read substantiates the presence of child pornography. Source?
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> P.S. He is also removed from Mastodon[1] too For some reason, I thought that Mastadon was supposed to be free from censorship (for the sake of discussion, let's just call it that) because you could run your own servers. Did Trump
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The old one was a duplicate of an earlier post.
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This is true. I've previously been downvoted for pointing out that Parler does moderate, but they're a small company so it's a slow process. Parler is not the "anything goes" website that people like to conflate wit
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by bmarquez 6y ago
I've seen Parler moderate content, perhaps not very quickly due to it being a small company. It's Gab that has no moderation (with all the pros and cons of a pure "free speech" network).
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Absolutely. The only reason Parler is getting banned and Facebook isn't is because Facebook is too big to fail. Facebook and Twitter have the same amount of questionable content, just better PR and bigger clout.
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> It's not tolerant to tolerate intolerance. If I find your views intolerable, what happens now?
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Whatever the reason, I view this as a good thing. Hopefully the news regarding WhatsApp privacy will convince others as well.
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We humans may know that, but do the algorithms know the difference between a video describing one voting error and a video describing multiple cases of errors? It's not a rhetorical point because if you upload a YouTube video with cont
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"EM Drive works" is not a controversial view because most people have no idea what you're talking about (I had to Google it myself).
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> The 60 people who left makes it clear this is not agreed upon. Did all 60 people leave because of Coinbase's political stance, or did some leave because of the generous severance package of 4-6 months pay that the CEO offered in S
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That's one of the downsides of using Medium to host a blog. Looking at the footer links: "9 Fantastic Signs That Your Partner Is Madly In Love With You" and "The Elites Are Preparing a New Currency to Replace the U.S. Do
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To be fair, Parler views itself as a town square, certainly more free speech than Twitter, but less free than Gab and 8Kun. Having minimal standards on free expression is probably a good thing, lest they get kicked off all the app stores. W
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by bmarquez 6y ago
Teamviewer has a terrible reputation. I dropped Teamviewer after they sent threatening emails claiming I violated their EULA. I got emails falsely claiming I was using it for commercial use, when I hadn't logged in for months. Ended up
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Brave recently became my default browser, but I personally don't care for the crypto stuff. The current iOS beta allows users to sync their bookmarks with Windows and iOS privately, and it's what convinced me to switch. I didn&#x2
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Fortunately the criminal was dumb enough to use his home internet connection. If he used public WiFi or VPN, he might have gotten away with it.
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I have multiple streaming services and sometimes I can't figure out which show is on which service. The services with smaller content libraries are the first on the chopping block (sorry AppleTV, I'm not renewing once the free tri
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> But why do you care what their costs are? What will you do with that information? Make a purchasing decision? There are value-conscious customers out there, many of which hang out on "deal hunting" sites even for luxury goods
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Twitter's lack of transparency is depressing. If they're going to lock the NY Post account, they should put a notification on the page (and perhaps a reason why). Right now if you go to the NY Post Twitter it just looks like they
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It's yearly, not monthly. But I'm also confused about the pricing model. What is the benefit of buying the $9.99 subscription if the $29.99 purchase covers everything (or does it?), and you keep the app for more than 3 years?
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Instant RAW is a fascinating feature. If you normally shoot RAW, they'll be a bit "flat" since no post-processing is done, but Halide will post-process them to make them similar to jpg output (while retaining the editing flex
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The censors (content moderators) are low paid third-world contractors[1]. While they have English skills, they aren't immersed in American culture and might misunderstand the humor, even if it is labeled satire. [1] https://
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I've seen commenters on HN that claim that the emails are suspect because they don't include DKIM signatures. Redacting the email would make it even more suspicious in their eyes.
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I am talking specifically about the NY Post article that has been censored.
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Do you have actual proof that this article is "blatant disinformation meant to destabilize the election and disenfranchise voters with blatant lies"? Because that implies something far worse than the censored article's accusa
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> What panel of certified physicians is YouTube using to identify what information is correct vs. incorrect? The cheapest content moderators possible, of course. Outsourced through contract agencies in foreign countries to keep costs dow
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I love CCC. Since yesterday and today are Amazon Prime days, I've been using to compare if the "deals" are really deals. What I've noticed is that for some of the items I'm looking for (like wireless chargers), the

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