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by guscost 6y ago
Think it has something to do with the ubiquitous breakdown of mental health, leading to cultural war and inevitable cultural Balkanization, at a minimum?
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by guscost 6y ago
Never mind plain old lobbying, any legislator who supports a crackdown on Facebook could be de-platformed. These tech leviathans have captured the regulators in a way that has never been seen before, and now they are flaunting grotesque ant
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by guscost 6y ago
Nooo, not the plot! The setting . Really fun story though, yes.
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by guscost 6y ago
In a fast-moving globally-connected world, even the choice of facts to present is an editorial decision, and subject to bias.
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by guscost 6y ago
If you are wondering where all of this is headed, read “Snow Crash” by Neal Stephenson.
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by guscost 6y ago
25 people died in their riots last year.
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by guscost 6y ago
They are betting everything on the belief that they will win permanently this time, and their opponents will never get control again.
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by guscost 6y ago
If you genuinely believe this, then what you witness in the next few months will be utterly shocking.
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by guscost 6y ago
“The First Amendment is first for a reason. Second Amendment is just in case the First one doesn’t work out.” -Chappelle
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by guscost 6y ago
My point is that there is an age-old institution to solve this problem, called a court. We all participate in a social contract where the court's decisions about subjective matters have the force of law. Where it gets weird is that Twi
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by guscost 6y ago
There's more going on than appears to be the case from either of these (PR submarine) stories: https://apnews.com/article/capitol-police-reject-federal-hel...
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by guscost 6y ago
Ah, feds against feds. Totally plausible!
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by guscost 6y ago
AP source will get fewer downvotes: https://apnews.com/article/capitol-police-reject-federal-hel...
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by guscost 6y ago
But the police also rejected offers of federal help: https://apnews.com/article/capitol-police-reject-federal-hel... Propaganda war to escape the blame, DC municipality against feds? Something else?
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by guscost 6y ago
Surely there must be a way to let the courts determine legality in every single controversial case. It’s just an optimization problem. We sent fourteen people to walk around on the moon, twelve of them made it, and all of them made it back.
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by guscost 6y ago
Perhaps. The strongest supporting evidence seems to be the rejection of federal assistance: https://apnews.com/article/capitol-police-reject-federal-hel...
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by guscost 6y ago
And I thought Trump’s rambling and angry improvised speech before the riot was a stupid move. It just keeps getting crazier.
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by guscost 6y ago
“War on (Domestic) Terror”
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by guscost 6y ago
Another explanation is that it is “the blue” getting back at the left: https://www.wbez.org/amp/stories/chicago-police-union-presid... Or, maybe the CIA just manipulated the blue into doing this! Conspiracy incept
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by guscost 6y ago
BLM riots were not a direct and realistic threat to the establishment. They are scared.
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by guscost 6y ago
Now this makes the “cops let them in” conspiracy super interesting. The timing is pretty convenient!
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by guscost 6y ago
So do we need a DMCA type thing for courts to file injunctions against illegal content? What is the solution? The fact is any moderation will be subjective and imperfect. How can making more complicated subjective rules help at all?
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by guscost 6y ago
It bloody well should be.
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by guscost 6y ago
Here is my suggestion for Parler’s new moderation plan, which is what at least Apple is demanding: 1. Illegal content is not allowed. That’s it.
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by guscost 6y ago
Yikes, that is dumb.
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by guscost 6y ago
The Times intentionally left that out. Notwithstanding earlier inflammatory language, this is the exact quote: “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices he
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by guscost 6y ago
The only person shot was an unarmed protestor/rioter.
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by guscost 6y ago
You are twisting yourself into a logical pretzel to avoid answering. And no, harmful content does not get you deplatformed if it harms the right people: https://twitter.com/chineseembinus/status/134724760209453465.
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by guscost 6y ago
You are right that a few too many people actually had the idea that was a possible outcome. But the crowd outside was chanting “Who’s house? Our house!” and just celebrating. Then almost everyone left and did not defy the curfew.
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by guscost 6y ago
Remember “If you don’t like Twitter’s rules, you are perfectly free to make your own platform”? I suppose we are perfectly free to make our own pocket computers now, right?

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