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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
It's back up now. It was down.
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
"What @jack told the Senate, under oath, is false. I just tried to tweet the @nypost story alleging Biden’s CCP corruption. Still blocked. 18 USC 1621 makes it a felony to lie under oath to the Senate." https://twitter.
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Spam filters are a form of censorship. Not all censorship is bad.
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
"In the teaching of the Catholic Church, an indulgence (Latin: indulgentia, from indulgeō, 'permit') is "a way to reduce the amount of punishment one has to undergo for sins".[1] The Catechism of the Catholic Church
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
They adopted this term for the same reason all authoritarians play Orwellian games with language.
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
> The only reason to doubt climate change is if you've been a victim of the concerted misinformation campaign. Nobody doubts climate change because the climate has and always will be changing.
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Ok I get what you're saying. It really comes down to whether or not you believe in objective morality. If you do then there is a sensical notion of free speech (or any other principle) even if no one person has a complete picture or un
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
> you're just arguing for others to adopt your own boundaries of what's acceptable By virtue of operating under the principle of respecting free speech you are making a value judgement and asserting a set of values. There is no
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
To accept the legitimacy of the principle of freedom of speech is to make a value judgement. If you want some pure criteria you can use to make content moderation decisions, then the purest criteria is no content moderation at all. You can
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
The reporters who wrote the story were so skeptical of what they wrote they didn't add their names to their own story... that they themselves wrote. That's pretty stupid and unlikely. More likely, people were concerned about the r
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
My understanding is that it wasn't stolen. The repair bill was never paid and after 90 days under Delaware law it became legal property of the repair shop owner.
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Oh yes, you're referring to the pictures of Hunter with a crack pipe in his mouth and things like that. You're correct. I took that to be just proof that they had the laptop. Everyone knows that Hunter has a crack addiction proble
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
> Drivel. No sensible person believes blocking QAnon nonsense is a "scandal. The fact that you conflate QAnon with this story indicates an extremely myopic and unrefined understanding of the world. This story was first published by
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
I'm not talking about political opinions, I'm talking about highly connected political operatives in positions of power within these companies. Liz Bourgeois would be an example of such a person. She was Assistant Press Secretary
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
The lines get blurry when there is a revolving door between Silicon Valley tech companies and DC. Recent example from the banning of Bret Weinstein from Facebook: https://twitter.com/Liz_Shepherd/status/13194510848
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
They made copies of the hard drive in the laptop? As a software engineer I can assure you that that it is very easy to make copies of a hard drive and I expect that a computer repair guy would know how. > He had been a senator in Delawar
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Where are you getting this idea that 3 laptops were dropped off to this repair company? There was one laptop. The repair shop is in Delaware, where Joe Biden was a senator for many decades and where the Bidens have held various political po
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
At "best" they're evidence of extreme corruption that compromises US national security. The allegations and evidence points to many insider dealings with CCP linked Chinese companies including what appear to be unreported loa
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Are you claiming that the content that has been published is manufactured and bogus (aka fabricated)? I don't think anyone has actually claimed that. What makes you say this?
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
I think you're stretching the idea of compelled speech to the point where it loses its essential meaning. Compelled speech is when someone forces you to say something, not when you are prevented from disallowing someone to say somethin
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
My understanding is that it is Gnews that is publishing these photos, not NY Post. NY Post is publishing screenshots of emails.
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Free speech is a moral principle. Content moderation decisions can adhere to this principle or not. Removal of viagra bot spam from a blog comment section is a clear example where content moderation adheres to the principles of free speech.
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
You hear a lot more talk about the suppression than the actual story because the news media you follow isn't covering the content of the story. There are emails being released constantly detailing various business dealings with CCP lin
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Content moderation is a form of censorship. Censorship isn't always bad. You can look up the history of the term if you want (hint: it shares the same origin as the term "census"). A closely related phenomenon to the patholog
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
> “red-pilling some normies” — internet slang for a propaganda technique in which distorted, fabricated, or skewed information is used to further a self-determined “truth.” True to form, Snopes imparts to its readers an inaccurate and mi
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
The FBI is probably the most corrupt institution in America.
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
A source? https://www.thedailybeast.com/reddit-quarantines-pro-trump-s...
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Many tech companies ban things for political reasons and provide these types of explanations as cover. Similar to how Reddit banned the_donald because of supposed anti-cop violent threats on the subreddit which is of course completely and u
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
I don't believe any of that literally but Fred Trump (Donald Trump's father) was supposedly a member and financier of the John Birch Society: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/John_Birch_Society
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
The only way bitcoin can become corrupted is if someone gains control of >50% of the hashing power of the network. I'm talking about the integrity of the system itself, not actors within it. George Soros famously did the same thing

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