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by gwright 6y ago
I don't understand the need to rank violent events. Outrage against these violent events isn't a zero sum game that requires us to pick and choose between them. Vandalism, trespassing, arson, assault, and so on can and should be p
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by gwright 6y ago
Totally not my area of expertise, but but IMHO the dual sovereignty relationship between the federal government and states is actually not the same sort of relationship as between the United States and Indian tribes. There may be similariti
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by gwright 6y ago
Who said it was like locking people in prison? Due process isn't some concept that is only applicable to government actions. IANAL, but I feel like contract law includes lots of elements of due process.
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by gwright 6y ago
Yeah, I wasn't really talking about that sort of thing. Just trying to speculate on how you could build a platform that supported user-generated content and resolved the difficulties and bias inherent in moderation mechanisms -- a vib
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by gwright 6y ago
Selectively enforced laws grinds my gears.
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by gwright 6y ago
I agree, in the sense that "break them up" seems to be an undefined action left as an exercise for the reader. I'm not necessarily against reasonable regulations, but it is hard to agree or disagree if there is nothing on the
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by gwright 6y ago
Well no, what I was trying to imagine was something beyond messaging that included public, user-generated content but analogous to common-carrier status. But perhaps there simply is an inherent problem with being a platform for user-generat
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by gwright 6y ago
While I understand the value of anonymous public communication, I think it comes with a huge "bad-actor" problem that we haven't figured out how to offset. Anonymity is a problem when it is used to commit crimes and law enfor
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by gwright 6y ago
Honest question(s): Is it possible to build a platform with user generated content that is agnostic regarding the content in the same way that a traditional telco is agnostic about the content of phone calls (or SMS)? Is the difference that
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by gwright 6y ago
I understand that. Not disputing that. But that is an entirely different (as in not the same) thing than being the source of the violent/illegal threats or incitement. The comment I was responding to was misleading IMHO ("the spee
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by gwright 6y ago
Well, is it Parler's speech or the speech of it users? I don't think anyone has asserted that Parler or its employees are advocating violence.
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by gwright 6y ago
I think this is a form of what might be generally called "due process" -- something that is missing from many of the operational actions made by online platforms long before any of the recent incidents.
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by gwright 6y ago
A fair point. I think it is a lot easier to start a civil war than it is to successfully replace a government by force. I'm saddened that we are even talking about those scenarios.
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by gwright 6y ago
> It’s not like cities “control their police departments”. All the things you listed (except for perhaps the selling of military equipment) is part of the policing responsibility of the states and local government. Those authorities have
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by gwright 6y ago
What is particularly difficult here is that the election is not the source of the problem, it was just the straw that broke the camels back (so to speak). Even if the election results were accepted as 100% correct by everyone, the grievance
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by gwright 6y ago
I don't know how to assess the credibility of that document, but as a plan to overthrow the government that seems laughable to me except for that fact that a whole lot of people are going to get hurt as it utterly fails.
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by gwright 6y ago
Because industrial strength blaming isn't going to get us out of this pickle. We need to be talking about ways to get everyone to cool down and take a time out. Instead all I see is efforts to blame, cancel, belittle, and disparage l
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by gwright 6y ago
> public policy backed by Republicans Are you asserting that Republicans controlled the cities and police forces in which "blacks are disproportionately targeted and harmed by police without consequence"?
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by gwright 6y ago
Not possible to outline the details but these are the areas that need attention by serious thinkers. Many of them intersect with each other and this isn't in any particular order: * the role of the federal government (federalism,
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by gwright 6y ago
> No, we definitely don't know that it's used as a tool for control. Irrespective of the nature of climate change, humans are humans and a crisis or enemy, if you will, will always be an opportunity for people to assert control
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by gwright 6y ago
I don't believe that is correct. Congress has the power to reject electors and has done so on several occasions. There are established procedures for this process: https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/explaining-how
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by gwright 6y ago
> willing to do anything to stay in office So far he has tweeted, initiated legal actions and abided by the rulings. Where is your evidence that he will "do anything to stay in office"?
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by gwright 6y ago
How is that an example of violent overthrow? Stating that Congress should act in a particular way is advocating violent overthrow?
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by gwright 6y ago
That's it? That is your evidence that Trump was going to initiate a military overthrow of the government? I do think was careless and even erroneous in many of his assertions but that is miles away from advocating for the violent over
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by gwright 6y ago
So advocating for Senators and representatives to vote in a particular way is a problem?
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by gwright 6y ago
> trying to prevent that same sitting president from murdering tens of millions of innocent people in your Any evidence at all that this was a thing?
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by gwright 6y ago
Give me the quote that justifies your statement that Trump was "Advocating the violent overthrow of Congress and the rule of law"
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by gwright 6y ago
To my mind, this effort by Pelosi (if true) is more dangerous than anything Trump said this week.
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by gwright 6y ago
You are too focused on the election. The divisions in the electorate pre-date the election. It should be noted that the vehement disagreement about the election is really centered on just a tiny percentage of the votes in a few swing distri
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by gwright 6y ago
Thank you for saying concisely what I've been thinking.

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