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by ggggtez 6y ago
> very few people complaining about censorship are complaining about enforcement of rules against actual hate speech. Citation needed. But honestly, it doesn't matter because it doesn't change the fact that this is the libertar
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by ggggtez 6y ago
HN Rules: don't comment on being downvoted. It's not interesting.
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by ggggtez 6y ago
I think the gray area is why the far right thinks that "free speech" means "free-from-consequences speech". They have their free speech already. They go on various platforms, and say whatever they want until people get m
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Exactly. Many people (like the judge in this case, clearly) have a dream about how they think it works. But if they just read what the text said, it's very clear. They've changed the wording a few times, but as far back as I can
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Two decades ago, the internet wasn't even encrypted. You're living in a fantasy history.
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Would you ask someone random off the street to invent a COVID vaccine? To treat someone with cancer? To represent you in a homicide trial? Maybe you could get them to opine about what interest rates to set at the Fed? We hire scientists, do
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't PRISM done without the knowledge of Google? Wasn't the whole scandal that the NSA was wiretapping everyone including Google's internal corp network?
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by ggggtez 6y ago
The article seems to imply that it's just aggregated data about what ads were shown and stuff.
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by ggggtez 6y ago
> If you want to identify an anonymous counter, or keep depersonalised logs, or IP logs for security, that's fine; it can't identify the user. (Maybe IP logs could) Some laypeople would disagree. That's what it means to b
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by ggggtez 6y ago
> Is it unreasonable to want, or even expect, an incognito window to disable all forms of tracking? > Ask what the layperson would think tracking is! No. No no no no no. There is a serious problem with this line of thinking. Lay peopl
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Kids today are too young to know that Incognito/Private browsing was invented as a solution to clearing your history/cookies every time you looked at an Adult website so your parents wouldn't find out. This feature is literal
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Others pointed out here in the comments, and elsewhere everytime this subject comes up, that Incognito window has a very carefully worded disclosure when you open it that websites can still track you. I think any judgement saying that Incog
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by ggggtez 6y ago
I think you're wrong, but I don't think this should be downvoted. I think it helps to compare "copy and remix" with "does nothing". Compare "watched 50 difference dances" with "saw 0 dances"
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Use the "..." menu below the video, and click "Open Transcript".
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by ggggtez 6y ago
>Casualties = 3 * (strength of attacker / strength of defender) Talk about out of touch. I can't imagine being so deep in your own head to think that this is the sort of thing that is comparable to Einstein's theory of rel
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by ggggtez 6y ago
It's not obvious to me: Is the creator just a horrible artist, or does the system suck?
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by ggggtez 6y ago
To be honest, this is kind of the problem I have to stock investing as a whole. It sounds great to "invest on the fundamentals", but there doesn't appear to be a way for the average person to even comprehend what "the fu
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by ggggtez 6y ago
That's exactly what I mean. Even if he thought he had some power, or acted as if he did, it's in his best interest to downplay that as much as possible. This guy was a well known poster. I'm sure he thought he had some powe
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by ggggtez 6y ago
And he was right. If you read what what you linked, you'd that everything his said is true when you dig down into it. > Consider today’s online world. The Usenet, a worldwide bulletin board, allows anyone to post messages across the
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by ggggtez 6y ago
I personally won't go as far as the grandposter here, but I'd be at least skeptical of any investment advice from random internet people. Even if this instance is not manipulation, I'm sure there are people on wsb that do try
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by ggggtez 6y ago
I believe this is CYA (cover your ass) language. Given the recent interest in the case, he's likely saying now that he didn't intend to (or that even if he intended to, he didn't think it was within his power) as a pre-emptiv
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Just because he's still in doesn't mean that it's actually worth $300 on the fundamentals. I could definitely see the argument that $20 was undervalued, but it's plain to see that the short-squeeze is now part of the cal
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by ggggtez 6y ago
This seems to misunderstand the purpose of moderation entirely. Moderation serves many purposes, but only one of them is to save your delicate eyes from seeing things you don't want to see. Perhaps the more important one are things lik
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by ggggtez 6y ago
I don't know where you even come up with these outdated ideas. Very few people care about what you are talking about. The subset of people who care are: tech savvy, young, mostly male, and vaguely misanthropic. This demographic is alre
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by ggggtez 6y ago
So... they p-hacked an experiment that really only shows that some people can avoid getting dizzy some of the time. > the subjects were gently rotated to face toward the ambient geomagnetic north or east, depending on the experiment >
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by ggggtez 6y ago
And yet, in the Amazon suit, Amazon clearly says that Parler did not. So, it's not "factually false". At best, it's up for a court of law to decide who is telling the truth. But considering that it's trivial to show
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by ggggtez 6y ago
The CEO literally was personally banning anyone who posted anything left-wing, and yet claims that he's for "free speech". It's laughable. If he wasn't cynically cashing in, then he's not a very deep thinker ei
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by ggggtez 6y ago
I'm not sure I like the world where conservatives are making bed-fellows with pedophiles and ISIS. Over this last week, I've talked to people who have un-ironically argued that companies should not be allowed to moderate content
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by ggggtez 6y ago
If I recall, that wasn't the DB of Parler, but of their wordpress blog. It's still sloppy, but it's not on the same level.
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by ggggtez 6y ago
This is not a good argument, please go back to the drawing board. You are making the extraordinary claim, so you are the one that needs to provide evidence. No browser vendor has blocked any sites in the way you are describing. Not Firefo

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