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by djsumdog 6y ago
I hope everyone else walks away before then.
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by djsumdog 6y ago
You have Wal-Mart, Target, Wal-greens, CVS, BestBuy, MicroCenter, tons of mom-and-pop stores (until all the world leaders drove all of them to bankruptcy due to COVID) Say you had two stores: Walmarket and Toget. That's it. That's
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by djsumdog 6y ago
The FDA forces food standards. Should the government really be able to prevent a farm from cutting your meat with sawdust? Should government really keep pharma companies from selling you pills that are filled with snake oil? Should a govern
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by djsumdog 6y ago
> This what is happening in USA right now is nowhere near that It's going to happen. These platforms are so large they encompass a signification amount of the communication market .. and I don't say that lightly. Look at how Fa
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by djsumdog 6y ago
It's corporate censorship and not government censorship. Corporate censorship is legal to a point. We see now Corporate and State are highly aligned in every possible way. The party Big Tech supports now has control over the House, the
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by djsumdog 6y ago
The purge has been happening for years. I hate how people on HN is praising this. There are literally few alternatives for the average person apart from Google and eyeProducts. I have a PinePhone, but what percentage of America can truly pu
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by djsumdog 6y ago
Removing Section 230 would be horrific because it would prevent anyone else from being able to make competing platforms to those that have the massive ability to moderate everything. However, the platforms are too large to be allowed to mod
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by djsumdog 6y ago
Considering the competence of most politicians, I think it would easily solve a lot of problems if they did.
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by djsumdog 6y ago
> attempt at a coup You have a very very low bar for what you think an attempted coup was.
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by djsumdog 6y ago
But, they let these people in: https://twitter.com/i/status/1347615998610911234
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by djsumdog 6y ago
Let's step back to before this happened. Why did the Capitol Police let people in: https://twitter.com/i/status/1347615998610911234
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by djsumdog 6y ago
And you assume that's everything that happened? Did she break through a barrier? People were walking right in.You don't know which group she cam in with. In the various videos, she was trying to get out. They all were. The dude wh
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by djsumdog 6y ago
> insurrectionists Peaceful protestors. Were the BLM people who stormed city hall in Seattle insurrectionists? Where the Black Panthers who took the California State Capitol in the 1970s insurrectionists? Stop with the bullshit name game
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by djsumdog 6y ago
> different skin color. In the 1970s, armed Black Panther members took the California State Capitol and no one died. At least one officer is dead (this changes daily so who knows) and one protestor (she was unarmed, that's a protest
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by djsumdog 6y ago
Except for that part where they murdered an unarmed Air Force veteran.
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by djsumdog 6y ago
The Capitol Police were either incompetent or complicit. There are literally no other options. They knew there would be a big protests, numbers put it around 200k~300k (a tiny percentage of which actually went into the capitol building mind
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by djsumdog 6y ago
> Trump who has been very clearly violating twitter TOS on a daily basis How has Trump violated Twitter's TOS on a daily basis? It feels like every policy that has been put up is typically put up specifically for Trump. I don't
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by djsumdog 6y ago
I agree that HN comments were completely and totally wrong to be onboard with banning Trump AND I also do not agree with banning Sci-Hub... but the solution isn't screaming at Twitter. The solution is using our freedom of speech and ex
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by djsumdog 6y ago
Start using ActivityPub (Mastodon/Pleroma/PeerTube/PixelFed/etc.) If takes people in tech using it first to build momentum.
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by djsumdog 6y ago
Pirate Bay is a great tracker of last resort .. and when I look for something rare I can't find on a public tracker, it usually showed up on Pirate Bay.
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by djsumdog 6y ago
oh and here is a video of Trump supporter stopping a vandal: https://freespeechextremist.com/media/d5a1870d-1c9d-45a9-be2...
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by djsumdog 6y ago
Here's one video: https://noagendasocial.com/@cgarison/105517331411076930 There was also one on Steve Bannon's War Room too this morning towards the end. There are multiple ones if you just search of the Capi
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by djsumdog 6y ago
And were all of those people evil, terrible people? Seriously? You need to go back and look at the Stanley Milgram experiments. It's impossible to really know if you or I would murder the person in the other room if the person in autho
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by djsumdog 6y ago
> And it's telling that you're blaming the people upset about that for any possible consequences rather than the Trump supporters who stormed the Capital with pipe bombs, guns, knives and zip-ties for taking hostages, believing
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by djsumdog 6y ago
Fine, but regardless of that ... it was still a confidential settlement call protected by attorney client privilege.
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by djsumdog 6y ago
Yep, very true. I can't disagree with anything you've said. I do remember 2006 very well and the "I landed under sniper fire" from Hillary. I agree Bill Clinton was outside of it, but he got in and they started their ent
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by djsumdog 6y ago
> If you're still willing to support Trump or excuse his actions, you're a fascist If you think this way, you're deranged. This is how religion starts. This is how wars start. If a war started, the righteous would not prev
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by djsumdog 6y ago
How is continuing to count without observers present even remotely a good thing in one of the most controversial elections of our time? Why didn't they call the observers back in? Why dismiss everyone and then tell some people to go ba
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by djsumdog 6y ago
Standing: If A violated the rights of B, person C watching it cannot sue on A's behalf. The Texas standing was always going to be an issue, yes. What right does Texas have to make PA enforce their own laws? PA can choose not to enforce
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by djsumdog 6y ago
The entire reason the Cambridge Analytica thing happened was because Zuck made moves for politics. At least that was my theory. I spell it out here: https://battlepenguin.com/politics/facebook-politics-and-orw...

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