dmatech

10 ms·

91.
by dmatech 4y ago
Twitter seems to be the social lubricant that makes all slopes it touches slippery. It massively accelerates social change and was basically the only place the KF story ever gained any traction at all. It's hard to overstate just how
92.
by dmatech 4y ago
Boycotting and cancel culture are quite different. At its core, cancel culture involves the isolation of a person or company by forcing their immediate network of friends or other connections. The cancellers force these connections to cho
93.
by dmatech 4y ago
Yes, and people keep saying "amoral" like it's a bad thing. For instance, I want my power company to be amoral in customer selection. I want certainty that my power won't be cut because enough people demand it. And I
94.
by dmatech 4y ago
Hate speech (both punching up and punching down) is protected speech in the USA. So is "injurious" speech that is not defamation or fraud. It's a common mistake. True threats and a specific form of incitement are NOT protec
95.
by dmatech 4y ago
Because the story covers a dispute about precisely what should be allowed on the internet and what the proper process is for removing something. A lot of people have decided that KF is morally bad and used that to justify any tactic to rem
96.
by dmatech 4y ago
Cyberbullying is tricky. A New York law intending to criminalize it was struck down as overly broad and an infringement on 1A. It is categorically different from "incitement to imminent lawless action". https://en.wik
97.
by dmatech 4y ago
Being an edgelord or even a Nazi is totally legal in the USA. So is hosting violent imagery. These things might be against the TOS of major social media sites, but they're absolutely legal. That said, most people won't want to
98.
by dmatech 4y ago
Now suppose they own the billboard themselves but you're the power company they use to light up that billboard. Do you cut their power?
99.
by dmatech 4y ago
Most of the posters on the site might do nothing illegal, but one or two did make actual threats that crossed the line into criminal conduct. Even if the posts were immediately deleted by moderators, people still took screenshots.
100.
by dmatech 4y ago
The Wikipedia articles for both them and Cloudflare are being edited by people publicly campaigning for the site to be taken down. There are massive conflicts of interest there.
101.
by dmatech 4y ago
Whether this comes across as stalking or courting depends on how weird or creepy you come across. Basically, once you leave university, your ability to spend a lot of time with people you're allowed to date kind of dries up, because p
102.
by dmatech 4y ago
A "right to be forgotten" is probably fundamentally incompatible with the First Amendment in the USA. While people have the right to their own identity, they do not have the right to absolute control over their reputations. The
103.
by dmatech 4y ago
I am extremely grateful that the world is not one big workplace and there's no HR to report everything to. Sexual harassment is actually legal outside the workplace, and it's generally protected speech up until you start violatin
104.
by dmatech 4y ago
It's wise not to interfere with a contract between two or more willing parties (especially as an outsider). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference
105.
by dmatech 4y ago
Correct. If customers can be "DDoSed" off of Cloudflare by Twitter mobs spamming them constantly, then what good is their product? Cloudflare needs to institute a policy of blocking people who make demands that they drop a custo
106.
by dmatech 4y ago
Legally, there's no requirement that you moderate a forum so that its contents can't facilitate the commission of a crime (outside of a few things like DMCA anti-circumvention). If this were the case, everyone would have to be ex
107.
by dmatech 4y ago
It's easy to support the creation of a monster when you're absolutely sure the monster will love you and tear your enemies to bits. But monsters aren't known for their loyalty.
108.
by dmatech 4y ago
At most, that's bullying. People can get restraining orders for those cases. Trying to mandate decency won't work. It will only empower people who control the definition of "harmful" to get rid of anything they don&#x
109.
by dmatech 4y ago
You're basically arguing that it isn't just the right of large organizations to deplatform content to make the world a better place (which has no consistent definition). You're implying that they have the obligation to do th
110.
by dmatech 4y ago
If you look at the revision history of this (and related) pages, you'll see plenty of edits by people publicly campaigning for the takedown of that site on Twitter. I wouldn't trust Wikipedia to be unbiased given these conflicts
111.
by dmatech 4y ago
Egocentrism is definitely not the same as selfishness. It's just an inability to understand that other people differ from you. In fact, it's possible to be highly egocentric and altruistic at the same time. You see this with par
112.
by dmatech 4y ago
This somewhat assumes that the purpose of democracy is to create stability and institutional trust at the possible expense of freedom. Social media creates terrible disorder compared to what you can get by ABC, CBS, and NBC giving you rough
113.
by dmatech 4y ago
We just need to cement the notion that no theory is truly proven or beyond attempts to disprove it through replication. Attempts to discourage replication should be a red flag.
114.
by dmatech 4y ago
And this is why I'm increasingly suspicious of "consensus" in the scientific establishment. With careers, egos, reputations, and grant money at stake, it's tempting to use one's power to entrench this consensus. Sc
115.
by dmatech 4y ago
A default that is only due to sanctions preventing repayment of debts isn't really a meaningful default.
116.
by dmatech 4y ago
Having a lot of monitors might encourage multitasking beyond what one's attention span can handle. If you have 4 monitors, you'll be tempted to throw YouTube on one and news sites on the others. A single monitor forces you to re
117.
by dmatech 4y ago
What he says on his personal Twitter account (unless it's on behalf of the employer) is not a "workplace" concern. There's no right for workers to not have an off-the-job embarrassment as a CEO. Perhaps there is for in
118.
by dmatech 4y ago
Intel processors have a feature called Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention (SMEP) designed specifically to prevent that in most cases (because there's a decent chance the code might be attacker-controlled). It's totally optional,
119.
by dmatech 4y ago
That is largely the media's fault. They covered Trump 24/7 during his entire presidency like it was some sort of addiction. They could have covered anything they wanted (and they ignored numerous newsworthy stories). Perhaps we
120.
by dmatech 4y ago
It's not improbable that he was privately opposed to it, but he had to be publicly in favor of it in order to not undercut people like Vijaya Gadde and Del Harvey. Remember that Dorsey was also CEO of Square at the time and doing a bu

More ›