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Don’t Blame the Babies(jacobinmag.com)
2 points by iron0013 8y ago|0 comments
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by iron0013 8y ago
That's a provocative title, so I hope people will actually read this article before dismissing the scientist who was quoted. edit: but they didn't. :(
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by iron0013 8y ago
Yikes, he was shadowbanned in August of 2017 after creating the account in June 2017 and has been commenting into the void ever since!
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by iron0013 8y ago
You don't have the right to shout hate speech in my living room or on Facebook, but you do have the right to do so on your own platform or soapbox--and so do the far-right groups that got banned from facebook (they're also banned
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by iron0013 8y ago
Free speech is an awesome civil right! But weren't we talking about Facebook essentially "kicking people out of their living room for shouting the N word"? What does that have to do with free speech?
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by iron0013 8y ago
the Las Vegas shooter is one recent example. You are repeating a lie, and I think you know it.
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by iron0013 8y ago
They’re free to place any demands on their platform as they see fit. I have no problem with anything they’ve done. Great, I'm glad we agree! The problem arises when you insist that Facebook do things according to your political lean
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by iron0013 8y ago
so... 1) didn't kill anyone 2) not actually left-wing 3) didn't kill anyone 4) didn't kill anyone
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by iron0013 8y ago
Only if you decide to use their platform, which you're perfectly free not to do...
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by iron0013 8y ago
Wait, what would be the problem of operating under their own political leanings? That's exactly the point--Facebook has decided that they oppose hate speech and will not host it. That's a political decision, and that's okay.
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by iron0013 8y ago
They're not the "free speech police", they're the "speech on their own platform which they own and operate" police. Why are you pretending not to understand the difference?
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How the IRS Gave Up Fighting Political Dark Money Groups(propublica.org)
2 points by iron0013 8y ago|0 comments
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Why Have So Many Daily Caller Writers Expressed White Supremacist Views?(snopes.com)
3 points by iron0013 8y ago|0 comments
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by iron0013 8y ago
Am I missing something, or does the author really not mention the strong body of evidence showing that calorie restriction is one of the only interventions consistently associated with a significantly longer lifespan? I feel like it's
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Anarchists Who Took the Commuter Train(longreads.com)
107 points by iron0013 8y ago|41 comments
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Kentucky Republicans Worried Inviting AOC to Meet Coal Miners Might Backfire(gq.com)
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Republicans reject Democratic attempts to tighten vaccine laws(politico.com)
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by iron0013 8y ago
Another culture war article pushed by the obsessively anti-PC crowd. I'm not interested in yet another "SJWs bad" fusillade.
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by iron0013 8y ago
Aren't we supposed to use the actual title of the page when we post to HN?
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I Gathered Stories of People Transformed by Fox News(nymag.com)
2 points by iron0013 8y ago|1 comments
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by iron0013 8y ago
That's not what "postmodernism" means. Care to try again?
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by iron0013 8y ago
you seem pretty eager to get upset about something!
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by iron0013 8y ago
The vote was practically along party lines, with all Democrats voting to reinstate net neutrality and all but one Republican voting against net neutrality. Republicans have vowed to kill the bill in the Senate.
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House votes to reinstate Obama-era net neutrality rules(thehill.com)
1 points by iron0013 8y ago|1 comments
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Curb Cuts, Universal Design, and the Creation of a Welcoming R Community(rfortherestofus.com)
1 points by iron0013 8y ago|0 comments
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Earned Income Tax Credit: Senate Democrats Propose Big Expansion(vox.com)
1 points by iron0013 8y ago|0 comments
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Mysterious safety-tampering malware infects second critical infrastructure site(arstechnica.com)
2 points by iron0013 8y ago|0 comments
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When local newspapers shrink, fewer people bother to run for mayor(niemanlab.org)
31 points by iron0013 8y ago|0 comments
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Andrew Ferguson: The Joys of Reading a Print Newspaper(theatlantic.com)
3 points by iron0013 8y ago|0 comments
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by iron0013 8y ago
I agree about Silver, and that was kind of my point! Silver knows his shit and is able to communicate it in such a way that the reader actually learns something. Taleb may or may not know anything, but all he is able to convey to the reader

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