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by convery 6y ago
It's shit like this that makes me re-consider the simulation argument, like how statistics is just an optimization to save compute power.
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by convery 6y ago
Didn't Mozilla recently-ish put out a statement about possibly having a black-list of sorts to remove bad sites / "think of the children"? On mobile so can't search for it but surely someone here remembers the link.
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by convery 6y ago
It's interesting to see how social media reacts to this. The same people that were cheering on conservatives being purged are now crying over how Antifa and socialists doesn't get a free pass. Does anyone know of any good study wh
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by convery 6y ago
Ah yes, Voldemort.. What an interesting time to be alive =P
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by convery 6y ago
Well, there was that study (Oxford IIRC) that found that Republicans get banned on Twitter 21:1 compared to Dems, Reddit is well known for purging right-leaning subs while allowing gov influence, VISA/mastercard forces patreon/gof
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by convery 6y ago
Indeed, but such things are covered by other laws. Just curious as to why peoples mind doesn't go to removing copyrighted content, instructions for how to manufacture weaponry, animal-related issues etc. but seemingly always equate &qu
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by convery 6y ago
Just like this comment is a failed attempt at writing a novel. Ascribing intent to the actions of a third-party is silly, especially when it comes to controversial topics or when referring to the actions of a small fraction (it's est
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by convery 6y ago
Why is it that whenever someone posts a variation of "platforms shouldn't ban users for simply saying naughty words / having naughty opinions"; the first thing that comes to proponents minds is CP?
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by convery 6y ago
The argument over 230 is that one can't pretend to be a utility/platform for communication while at the same time restricting what information is allowed to be published. Lots of these platforms want to have the cake an eat it too
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by convery 6y ago
Because he still has the power and influence to bring up questions over whether or not Twitter is a publisher. Censorship/ostracision is only useful for people that can't fight back. Just like a lot of Trumps deals/leases&#x2
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by convery 6y ago
Any notes on the VM integration in general? Been looking forward to a "Windows subsystem for Linux" style thing where I can run Visual studio and games without actually having to deal with Windows as a primary OS =P
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by convery 6y ago
Horseshoe-theory is indeed a thing. As for where it stops; we've already seen Mastercard/Visa force platforms like Patreon to blacklist users, Cloudflare pulling routing to sites, registrars willing to essentially dox owners of &#
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by convery 6y ago
Including this line from the previous NYT article as some seem to be confused about firings: "The company responded to her email, she said, by saying it could not meet her demands and that her resignation was accepted immediately"
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by convery 6y ago
I've seen bad negotiators in my days, but "give in to my demands or I'll resign after you reward me for my good work" is definitively near the top..
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by convery 6y ago
The previous article on this[0] includes: "The company responded to her email, she said, by saying it could not meet her demands and that her resignation was accepted immediately". [0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020
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by convery 6y ago
So, an employee sends an ultimatum to their superiors, is denied and their resignation accepted. Media creates articles claiming the employee was fired because of their race/sex and the company is pressured to apologize for accepting t
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by convery 6y ago
> As for senators sending "a strongly worded request" that this material be removed, I'm also puzzled by why people would conflate that with actual governmental censorship. Because Google is under heavy scrutiny and many R
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by convery 6y ago
Careful there comrade, the Hunter leaks never happened. If it did then you'd seen it on Twitter and Youtube, same as for the CIA 'whistleblower' and anything questionable around "the most secure election in history"
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by convery 6y ago
The concept of 'free speech' is not limited to the first amendment. Whether or not the government is involved (which could be argued given that it was requested by politicians while anti-trust issues with Google is a hot topic); i
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by convery 6y ago
Because they didn't accept/handle DMCA requests?
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by convery 6y ago
You can't claim you're not a publisher when you start promoting stories that push one narrative while blacklisting stories questioning that narrative. Imagine a news site that accepts submissions from the public, but filter which
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by convery 6y ago
Worth noting is that WP have officially endorsed Biden.
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by convery 6y ago
European here, but I can definitively see how someone would come to that conclusion. Both platforms bans anyone mentioning the supposed "whistleblower" (whom actually only had newspaper articles as 'evidence'), bans anyo
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by convery 6y ago
So, case #94223 of social media (and MSM) declaring that something is absolutely illegal followed by the SC saying it is? This timeline is starting to get predictable..
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by convery 6y ago
Indeed, it's a hard philosophical problem. On one hand we need to respect peoples privacy, but on the other FR would allow the police to act faster and catch dangerous people before they do more harm to society. I just hope they don&#x
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by convery 6y ago
I guess, but that disadvantage seems massively outweigh by the benefits. Can always use something like [1] to check if a client is active on interesting sites. [1] - https://www.webdigi.co.uk/demos/how-to-detect-visitor
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by convery 6y ago
Probably more the idea of "it's better to have 10 guilty men walk free than to jail an innocent man". A tweeter may be a propaganda account, or it may simply be a guy with a strong opinion on something.
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by convery 6y ago
Ehh.. the discrimination part sounds a lot like: "we had an AI look at statistics and it reported the patterns we choose to ignore".
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Microsoft Acquires Exclusive License for OpenAI's GPT-3 Language Model(sciencetimes.com)
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by convery 6y ago
Ye, but how could one possibly do that?

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