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by ccn0p 5y ago
I'm not making any judgement on your actions - I, like most decent humans, am deeply saddened by "premature" loss of human life and can only empathize with the situation you are put in, but your answer is a noop and makes no
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by ccn0p 5y ago
Just to be clear, this is definitionally "deplatforming". Having "plenty of other choices" doesn't change that. There are always other choices.
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by ccn0p 5y ago
Awesome writeup thanks. That said, anonymity might literally be binary as you point out so eloquently, but the point of the article is that most people only need to think about it as a spectrum and be somewhere on it to be safe. Most peop
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by ccn0p 5y ago
any source that talks about that? gmail is a wealth of information for Google that is almost certainly monetized six ways to Sunday.
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by ccn0p 5y ago
Unrelated? Trust is earned . Companies are big, but senior leadership teams and boards are pretty small and wield an enormous amount of influence and power and since we can't predict future actions we can only look backwards. Not allo
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by ccn0p 5y ago
not to mention facial expressions transmit an incredible amount of non-verbal information that transcends language itself (which the article touches upon). not taking this, and all the other variables that we now have a better understanding
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by ccn0p 5y ago
You're entitled to your opinion about someones work and that's fine, but I would hardly call her work repetitive, whining, or an appeal to insecurity. When people get "cancelled", she interviews them to get their side of
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by ccn0p 5y ago
On that logic, if that's the case, then shouldn't a responsible "mainstream" media (CNN, NY Times, WaPo, etc.) be talking about these published papers by Pierre Kory et al. even if positioned as "minority viewpoints
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by ccn0p 5y ago
Dissenting and getting downvoted, kind of proving the point. My experience living in a county and working in an industry that are both dominated by one particular way of thinking given to them by authority figures (CDC, New York Times, etc.
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by ccn0p 5y ago
don't be surprised -- it's just your typical moronic media propaganda used to label and denigrate anyone who questions an established narrative, shutting down any discourse in the process. Much easier to call someone a "consp
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by ccn0p 5y ago
A big chunk of US deaths were elderly in nursing homes when officials made uninformed decisions to put infected individuals back into the homes (when we knew a lot less about the virus) and it ripped through. Very sad, but that's where
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by ccn0p 5y ago
Given the amount spent on lobbying [1], the Pharmaceutical industries track record of deceptive tactics [2], and the profits they have made and stand to make [3], it's not unreasonable to question the underlying motives, intentions, an
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by ccn0p 5y ago
"I'm Pro Nudity" would be a good t-shirt. but nobody would wear it.
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by ccn0p 5y ago
>> I see it every time the topic comes up I hear you, and agree wholeheartedly that there is "absolutely nothing wrong with this", but maybe if the topic keeps coming up, people should have less trust in the companies (and t
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by ccn0p 5y ago
Seems to me like the core of the problem is that, despite its flaws, this is one more step away from any semblance of community "moderation" at a time when trust in platforms is low. It doesn't surprise me that the issue is p
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by ccn0p 5y ago
Well it is a fitting conclusion if you think about it. Joe Rogan is like a one-man RSS feed of people's thought streams, while being one of the few like it with an audience large enough to challenge an established mainstream narrative
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by ccn0p 5y ago
This. But it's not like politicians aren't intelligent and ambitious, so many of them look to earn money in other ways, ie the stock market, which gets dangerously close to conflicts of interest because they are, by design, there
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by ccn0p 5y ago
one example: vaccines are the status quo, I presume you agree on that. Most platforms are removing content that cause "vaccine hesitancy". YouTube has even expanded their this to apply to all vaccines [1]. Furthermore, it seems re
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by ccn0p 5y ago
Very well said. I don't have any insider knowledge on the way "Science" happens, but I can say from personal experience that this is exactly how politics in the US seems to be trending. You're allowed a certain range of
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by ccn0p 5y ago
Agreed, but even the term "pro-science" might seem innocuous but has been politically weaponized... like the "I believe in Science, decency, human rights for all, blah blah" signs on people's lawns. There's suc
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by ccn0p 5y ago
But should it really be big tech's responsibility to triage? If so, based on what information? The CDC? WHO? Then what happens if a doctor on the frontline wants to disagree with one particular aspect of the "authoritative source&
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by ccn0p 5y ago
I suppose "it ought to be" that way, in a working system. But it seems that the line between politician and scientist is becoming increasingly blurry (Fauci comes to mind).
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by ccn0p 5y ago
Thanks for the response. You're right, but, I'm not trying to say that the headline claim of "false" is misleading with the body of the article . I'm trying to say something more nuanced... that the headline clai
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by ccn0p 5y ago
The problem with "fact checkers" is you can design them any way you want to get the answer you want. Here's how this is done with this one: Yes, the claim that Pfizer's new pill is "just repackaged Ivermectin"
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by ccn0p 5y ago
I find fact checkers quite interesting in the way they've been deployed over the last few years. As if one source is the "truth" and that settles things. Usually when you get to the end of "false" claims, you find s
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by ccn0p 5y ago
thanks hacker news. today I learned that "people who cannot be reached for comment" are "guilty and everyone knows it". https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xkcd-substitutions...
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by ccn0p 5y ago
also... the VPN seems to be the modern day antivirus of personal security.
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by ccn0p 5y ago
It seems to me that, at least speaking for the US, there is a massive demographic that is becoming increasingly skeptical and weary of "big tech", and VPN companies have targeted this demographic with panacea solutions to stop big
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by ccn0p 5y ago
True, and the cat can't be put back in the bag, so it's up to the collective "us", who build the Internet, to rediscover our moral imperative to fix what's broken... and Facebook is a huge chunk of this brokenness.
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by ccn0p 5y ago
Was that your first encounter with an officer in your lifetime?

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