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by forgetfreeman 2mo ago
I mean I think we can all broadly agree that showing snuff and hardcore porn to 11 yr olds is objectively bad. There is a line, we just might not agree on exactly where it should be placed.
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by forgetfreeman 2mo ago
Nah, we definitely need identity and age verification, if for no other reason than it strips tech companies and data brokers of plausible deniability. They already know who you are and by extension your age, this fight is very much about
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by forgetfreeman 2mo ago
Except technicality absolutely factors in. Sure there's mouthbreathers out there that exercise no oversight at all over the content their kids are exposed to but there's also a large group of well-intentioned parents that would li
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by forgetfreeman 2mo ago
"parents will always be shitty" Maybe cut nontechnicals a little slack? Their adversaries have invested literally billions of dollars in R&D.
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by forgetfreeman 2mo ago
1990s: ~%36 of all teens smoked 2020s: >%2 of all teens smoke Kinda suggests that putting limitations in place actually produces results. Crazy innit?
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by forgetfreeman 2mo ago
This "well actually" feels like it's in the same vein as tobacco companies funding cancer research. 30 seconds with Google shows that CoreCivic's Q1 earnings for 2026 are ~%50 higher than earnings reported for Q1 from
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by forgetfreeman 2mo ago
I think it's the utter banality of the end goal that offends me as much as anything else. The idea that we as a society will sell ourselves this cheaply beggars belief.
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by forgetfreeman 2mo ago
If that were actually true the tech industry would not have minted trillions building a global digital panopticon.
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by forgetfreeman 2mo ago
A poli-sci major...who was an "ethicist" at Meta... I'm having a hard time deciding what part of this is the most ridiculous. Contenders include: - A political Science major lecturing on ethics. - Meta and ethics in the same
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by forgetfreeman 2mo ago
The most frustrating part of all of this is the underlying premise that the internet is, has been, or could ever be a credible cultural record is deeply stupid. Or maybe more charitably it's both historically and technically illiterate
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by forgetfreeman 2mo ago
I mean I might give it to you for Discord but Facebook is an easy win here. There's so much bot crap on Facebook Meta keeps getting dragged in front of congress over it.
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by forgetfreeman 2mo ago
Depends on how long it takes me to find my checkbook but yeah pretty much, and it's a lot less irritating.
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by forgetfreeman 2mo ago
Fuck no, I stopped using my phone for anything besides maps and phone stuff before the pandemic. You peddling the idea that that isn't what all of the social platforms are these days?
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by forgetfreeman 2mo ago
"Our society is structured around the assumption that you'll have not just a cellphone, but a smartphone." Except it really isn't, it just seems that way when you spend a bunch of time on your phone. As part of an utterl
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by forgetfreeman 2mo ago
The really obnoxious part is that with the possible exception of maps all of the other "services" touted as vital parts of a digitally connected existence are so enshittified at this point that the original value proposition for a
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by forgetfreeman 2mo ago
Yeah would someone like to explain why there's an octopus in the break room?
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by forgetfreeman 2mo ago
Author appears to have concerns about the belts working out of the top of the housing, but is seemingly ignoring the four existing screws that could be used to fasten a top plate to prevent this?
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by forgetfreeman 2mo ago
I'm with you. If the last 30 years have proven anything it's that enthusiasm for tech industry hype is at best historically illiterate.
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by forgetfreeman 2mo ago
Previously on We Bet On Unlimited Growth, the global financial meltdown of 2008. If I was even slightly less cynical I'd honestly wonder how many times they're going to stick a fork in the same outlet in my lifetime.
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by forgetfreeman 2mo ago
Roughly a third of the market is digging a $1T-a-year-deep-hole with <5yr amortization schedule on all of it and passing around the same $100B like it's in all of their bank accounts simultaneously. Yeah, shit's going to work o
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by forgetfreeman 2mo ago
Crazy to assume that an individual of vision has so thoroughly dropped the plot simply because their position is at odds with tech industry orthodoxy. If anything that should be an indication to more closely examine your assumptions.
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by forgetfreeman 2mo ago
I mean yeah, diversify we must but idk anyone who had a retail portfolio that didn't eat shit in 2008 so it isn't real obvious where the bomb shelter is.
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by forgetfreeman 2mo ago
So competent sociopaths get their roses on HN? Good to know.
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by forgetfreeman 2mo ago
I'd be excited for the show myself if I had any idea how to prevent my portfolio from tanking when this clusterfuck finally unravels.
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by forgetfreeman 2mo ago
Your brand loyalty might be clouding your vision here: https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/apple-just-traded-your-privac...
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by forgetfreeman 2mo ago
I understand the author's claims that ideas matter and that is a major part of what I'm sneering at. Ideas grow on trees and they're worthless 100% of the time there aren't skilled and motivated individuals behind them p
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by forgetfreeman 2mo ago
I'm mostly curious about how they managed to get all of the scary looking parts crammed onto that one end and how hairy that process was.
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by forgetfreeman 2mo ago
So having established one would have to institute I'm-hiding-from-at-least-two-sovereign-governments-that-are-actively-hunting-me levels of OPSEC to even stand a chance of avoiding being thoroughly fingerprinted I'm fairly confide
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by forgetfreeman 2mo ago
sigh If data brokerages, Meta, Google, and Palantir are all staring at you how is it possible to claim privacy is even possible? Like, you have to have a thing before it's possible to assault it.
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by forgetfreeman 2mo ago
Who are we threatening today?

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