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by hagbard_c 5y ago
With the word itself? Nothing, really. With the ideology which traditionally uses it? Plenty. The same goes for that black fist they're using, in itself it is but an image but it happens to be the image which has been used and continue
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by hagbard_c 5y ago
If that ISP wants to remain protected as a common carrier you do but it will take a number of such cases to find out whether this holds. This is why I used the term should instead of is - a precedent needs to be set.
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by hagbard_c 5y ago
It is called 'the Internet' and can be used to disseminate whatever you want, within or (to a limited extent) outside of the bounds of the law of the land. As long as you remain within those bounds it is generally possible to say
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by hagbard_c 5y ago
It certainly does not, it makes it all the more clear that it is foolhardy to rely on these centralised corporate entities to carry your message for you unless that message happens to coincide with the current desired narrative - and even i
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by hagbard_c 5y ago
As far as I know he was banned more or less across the board - Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Twitch, Snapchat, Shopify, Reddit and possibly others [1]. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/11&#x
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by hagbard_c 5y ago
I seem to remember your former president getting banned? His shtick may have been that he entered politics as an outsider but once he was in he surely was a politician, and a famous one at that.
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by hagbard_c 5y ago
> If my daily commute is a handful of bus stops and that guy's is a train for an hour from another city, then I am basically funding his commute by overpaying for my pass... In that case you would not buy this pass, instead opting f
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by hagbard_c 5y ago
> As a parenthetical, when I was planning to fly to Austria from Paris, I put my luggage in a 24-hour locker in Gare du Nord the evening before the early-morning flight, but the room the locker was in was closed from 10pm to 6am and the
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by hagbard_c 5y ago
Ken Follet's Pillars of the Earth [1] deals with this subject, the building of a cathedral in the fictitious city of "Kingsbridge" in the middle ages. It is, of course, heavily romanticised and weaves the tale of the constr
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by hagbard_c 5y ago
> It would be nice if I could configure my browser to rotate through different searx instances rather than configuring one as the default search engine. That can be achieved using the Privacy Redirect [1] extension, set it to redirect se
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by hagbard_c 5y ago
While this might solve the problem for the Google search engine it is but a patch to a bigger problem. Instead of applying this patch on each and every device you happen to use it is much more effective to refrain from using these search en
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by hagbard_c 5y ago
A form of Newspeak [1] has already started to grow in the form of people talking around the subjects mentioned in the Youtube blocklist and other 'forbidden' subjects. Some people use descriptive terms to indicate the forbidden su
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by hagbard_c 5y ago
So get off Youtube (et al) already if you have opinions which do not coincide with the currently desired narrative in Silly Valley. The writing has been on the walls for years now, MegaTech™ has taken it upon themselves to push the desired