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by dirasieb 8mo ago
oh, so now you care about what the law says again? remind me, what does the law say about destroying Flock cameras?
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by dirasieb 8mo ago
how did you jump from property damage and arson to speech? non sequitur much? financial damage absolutely can be violence, you can ruin someone's life if you take away their job by burning down the place they work at and it could lead
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by dirasieb 8mo ago
are you sure? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47129267 they seem to disagree
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by dirasieb 8mo ago
the person i replied to made a broad "destroying property is not violence" claim, the scope of the conversation is more than just that also, i consider a security camera in a place i live to be security infrastructure, you should
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by dirasieb 8mo ago
> Damaging or destruction of property is not violence. you wouldn't consider someone vandalizing your home or the infrastructure in your neighborhood to be violence? of course it is violence, an attack on the place i live (whether t
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by dirasieb 8mo ago
i've never found this type of "humans were left with no alternative" argument in defense of destruction of property convincing, some of the things that separates humans from other animals is the concept of private/public
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by dirasieb 8mo ago
i don't think the people destroying flock cameras are open to the idea of going through the legal process to replace them with alternatives that have better privacy, something (maybe the fact that they currently are vandalizing them) t
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by dirasieb 8mo ago
ok so let's just put aside chinese companies! ring is an american company, should people's ring cameras be vandalized because ring might share their data with the american government?
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by dirasieb 8mo ago
What do you think a GPU is? A chip manufacturer absolutely has the ability to add their own bias in firmware and drivers.
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by dirasieb 8mo ago
15 missed calls from your local power company
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by dirasieb 8mo ago
how about the ~12k arrests per year for social media posts? are you able to discuss a bit of that with your busy work schedule?
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by dirasieb 8mo ago
>America-style "you can even yell bomb in an airport" that's not even remotely close to reality, you have zero understanding of what the free speech laws in america are if you believe this is covered by the first amendment
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by dirasieb 8mo ago
do you think being arrested for social media posts can lead to a chilling effect on those social media posts? why are we pretending that being "arrested but not convicted" is anywhere near acceptable for speech the government does
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by dirasieb 8mo ago
the UK is located in europe, this US plan is about pushing for more free speech in europe whether or not 30 arrests per day for social media posts is exclusive to the UK it is relevant to the OP link >harassment and death threats we both
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by dirasieb 8mo ago
lol ok https://archive.ph/bdEqK
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by dirasieb 8mo ago
i'll take US mitm harvesting my data over the european alternative (man in the jail)
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by dirasieb 8mo ago
...and collapse their own economies in the process
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by dirasieb 8mo ago
12 thousand people arrested per year for social media posts is "balanced"? https://archive.ph/bdEqK at this point it's the #1 principle of the UK government, everything else comes second after putting people
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by dirasieb 8mo ago
complaining about losing the freedom to watch porn without ID while in the same comment pushing for more people to face state action for social media posts porn is ok, posts that hurt my fee fees and ideological bias bad :'( (both are
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by dirasieb 8mo ago
https://archive.ph/bdEqK >>Police make 30 arrests a day for offensive online messages >The police are making more than 30 arrests a day over offensive posts on social media and other platforms. >Thousands of peo
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by dirasieb 8mo ago
you're the one trying to shame people about using software you don't like by setting an impossible standard, how can you get upset when someone does it back to you and points out you don't fit it either? could you be any dens
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by dirasieb 8mo ago
it's so funny to watch the people who pearl clutch over AI expose that they don't even know the difference between LLVM and LLM rofl
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by dirasieb 8mo ago
you can have public transit without a totalitarian police state, i’d rather keep building up western civilization through our values than to throw it all away for your promise
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by dirasieb 8mo ago
so you browbeat people when they use “evil” software when you also do it? got it
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by dirasieb 8mo ago
you've never looked at any of them but you have an opinion on how they should and shouldn't be?
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by dirasieb 8mo ago
on the other hand, communism is collapse at everyone's cost
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by dirasieb 8mo ago
do please share your "ethical" software stack that doesn't include contributions from "unethical" sources involved in spying, wars, human rights violations, etc what sort of device did you type this comment from?
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by dirasieb 8mo ago
what if these “others” voluntarily apply to a position where they have regular contact and help take care of your children? is it ok then to be informed on whether or not they are a convicted child rapist?
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by dirasieb 8mo ago
https://x.com/MillennialWoes/status/1893134391322308918
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by dirasieb 8mo ago
next time you should read what the thread is about before commenting, this is not about "wanting the government to publish X", it's about the government ordering a private company to delete, from their own servers, data that

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