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by drak0n1c 6y ago
Market entrenchment is an unfortunate side effect. The oligopolistic old guard can weather or ignore such criticism against themselves and lobby for their own Section 230 protections, while using such to eliminate small market entrants.
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
Did you read the letter? Gab specifically said that their efforts to block calls to violence and help authorities investigate suspects have been hampered by big tech's blacklisting of them from services (such as PhotoDNA).
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
Dozens of Hong Kong democracy activists were rounded up and imprisoned this week.
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
On Facebook, “WalkAway” a community that was devoted to compiling hundreds of thousands of ex-Democrat video and text testimonials was banned. It was not about Q and didn’t advocate breaking into government buildings. It was the most wholes
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
Regarding the "FIRE!" analogy - there are journalists such as Glenn Greenwald arguing that media and politicians fearmongering the specter of right wing terrorism are the becoming the ones yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded mo
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
I believe you’re confusing Scott Pressler the volunteer cleanup guy with Brandon Straka of WalkAway.
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
My comment did not intend to attribute the corporate act to Leftism, intent was to show the parent commenter that it is flawed to assume all banned speech is the result of impartial enforcement of basic rules against malicious toxicity. Bec
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
The grassroots WalkAway group was removed from Facebook today. It was not about Q and had only encouraged rallies and protests, and did not condone breaking into government buildings. It was a repository of hundreds of thousands of video an
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
Yes, corporations can and should be criticized for legal actions that are within their right (and oftentimes should stay within their right). Whether that is pollution, poor employment practices, or applying censorship unevenly.
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
Who decides what counts as lies and conspiracy theory? What if they decide spreading the attitude that “all cops are bastards” or the notion that police shooting events are mostly motivated by bigotry a conspiracy theory that leads to addit
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
Those statements you gave as examples weren’t so clear cut. The first was in the context of talking about court cases that the judges will see. It was probably referencing 2A legal defense and litigator orgs like the NRA and GOA. The second
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
Competence does have a moral dimension as far as the relevance of ethics, specifically the importance of work ethic and a modicum of self-awareness. There is a point where repeat negligence and the opportunity cost of its resource drain bec
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
True - such surveillance is still costly, and not yet omnipresent. Similar to speed cameras at certain intersections in the US. The hope is that it remains just that, an occasional feature that inspires deterrence, and does not escalate int
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
At 5:30 in this Bloomberg video there's a discussion between expats, some talking about how they were hit by the new system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydPqKhgh9Mg
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
In Shenzhen, starting in the last couple years if you jaywalk your face is automatically recognized and the fine is automatically deducted from your bank account. It's extremely accurate due to full access to corroborating location&#x2
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
There is an interesting near-future thriller about mining Ryugu - “Delta-V” by Daniel Suarez, the same author of “Daemon”.
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
The CDC is creating literature assuming "Promoting Justice" and racial criteria are triage factors for vaccine distribution, sufficient to prioritize essential workers (listed examples are mostly government employees) over at-risk
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
Or to avoid extra vulnerabilities like the past 3rd party Xcode downloads, or the current SolarWinds debacle.
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
That difference will soon be wiped out if the state legacy budget bailout rider ends up being passed.
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Election officials in two counties claimed that an automatic update to Dominion machines was to blame for their multi-hour outage during the election. Automatic updates are not only vulnerabilities but can undermine trust in elections. htt
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
Why is it insane to criticize the decisions of a corporation? Activists of all stripes regularly criticize corporate behavior that is completely legal and within their rights as a private company. Is there some substantial difference betwee
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
I think that reputation comes from Apple's historical care for iPhone audio engineering which used to have a massive advantage over Android when it came to latency, quality, and dev APIs.
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
Oyakodon is one of the blandest dishes in Japanese cuisine (typically made with no sauces or spices - or just a tiny dash of shichimi), so I'm not surprised foreign travelers found it disappointing. Growing up with the context of the d
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
Studies show that transplants from blue states moving to Texas actually voted red at a higher rate than those born in TX. Keep in mind that there are millions of right-leaning individuals in populated coastal areas (much more than many red
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
As a private company with their own free speech, Facebook is also free to enable the speech of controversial participants, regardless of whether you like who they have been enabling. That is free speech as much as their later choice to disa
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
For those interested in medieval military, Invicta, the excellent history Youtube channel, has a recent documentary "How to Raise a Medieval Army": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2cm-rsDfjw
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
I'd say MSNBC was just as complicit as Fox over the decades. In 2009, they purposefully cropped video of the main protester outside an Obama town-hall meeting to only show his back and slung rifle, and then used the footage to immediat
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
I agree land value tax is a far more efficient tax than property or revenue taxes. The goal should be to raise revenue with minimal impact on commercial decisions. Punitive revenue/wealth taxes are essentially a form of sin taxes and d
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
Taxes tend to increase price levels, not reduce them. Costs are passed through to every level.
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
Chase Bank has previously closed without notice the checking accounts of felons, and right-wing political activists. Despite no abuse happening on the accounts.

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