lki876

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by lki876 6y ago
Not legally required != shouldn't do it. You're not legally required to say "Hi" when you run into people you know and making it legally enforceable would be a legal nightmare, but it's the decent thing to do.
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by lki876 6y ago
For people there is and its always people who make decisions. Companies are just a legal entity.
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by lki876 6y ago
Then a hundred years after you were burnt at the stake, it turns out you may have had a point.
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by lki876 6y ago
> Saying that free speech has nothing to do with governments is like saying making contracts is nothing to do with governments The concept has absolutely nothing to do with governments. If you were the only person in the world living alo
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by lki876 6y ago
> This is not an argument to allow any fearmongering So let's ban information that claims corona isn't that bad then, because it's DANGEROUS and you should BE SCARED and PEOPLE ARE DYING and if you don't wear the mask
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by lki876 6y ago
Indeed. Something thought to be right was actually wrong. Happens all the time. And of course something thought to be wrong was actually right. This is why disallowing "misinformation" is utterly stupid.
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by lki876 6y ago
> We could go and base things more off of Nordic nations They're very much capitalist though.
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by lki876 6y ago
> Capitalism is theft You write, I reply, you reply to me and so on. You do your neighbour a favor and remember that. If you keep doing them favors and they won't help you, you'll stop helping them. The list of examples is long
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by lki876 6y ago
> Venezuela was done-in by so-called "Dutch disease"-- over-reliance on natural resource extraction There is always an excuse and yet after some 20+ experiments the pattern is always the same. The only thing that keeps changing
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by lki876 6y ago
You're confounding "freedom of speech" with "freedom of speech as defined in the [US] constitution". > Facebook can ban whatever they want. They are not censoring anything. That's literally exactly what cens
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by lki876 6y ago
I don't trust them for a second. I use them because things are published there that I need to reach.
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by lki876 6y ago
...and it's headed in all sorts of directions simultaneously. Then add a few more decades and everything changes in ways you could not imagine.
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by lki876 6y ago
This confounds the difference between a platform and a publisher. If you chose what to publish, you're a publisher. That means you chose to speak, or not to. A platform does not chose, but merely let's people speak -- or if it doe
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by lki876 6y ago
Spam, bots and scams aren't speech in any meaningful way. They don't attempt to say anything. Threats of violence and abuse may be speech in some sense but is in no way part of a dialogue.
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by lki876 6y ago
The concept of free speech has nothing to do with governments or private institutions. The legal differences between those entities has nothing to do with the general concept.
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by lki876 6y ago
> The arrow of progress points in a specific direction. Pretty much everyone agrees with this. What people don't agree about is the direction.
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by lki876 6y ago
> I like it better how it can be done at e.g. reddit Reddit is heavily censored. Content is removed, subreddits are removed and people are banned and shadow-banned.
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by lki876 6y ago
> This heavy-handedness isn't an encroachment on free speech Maybe this is necessary and good, but of course it's an "encroachment on free speech". That's literally what is is. We can obfuscate this by replacing
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by lki876 6y ago
Also, water wet.
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by lki876 6y ago
IMHO: Don't bother with college. All information anyone could possibly need is available from libraries and the internet. If you learn what you need to know and prove that you know it, people will hire you.
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by lki876 6y ago
The rate of infection may be lower, but that doesn't necessarily mean fewer people will be in infected -- it means the spread takes more time.
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by lki876 6y ago
Almost no outbreaks are ever successfully contained though.
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by lki876 6y ago
The virus spread from a single point in China and now exists in millions if not billions of hosts. If it could spread from a single point if will definitely spread now. As long as the virus exists it will continue to spread regardless of me
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by lki876 6y ago
> the intention is ... to put a burden on them Sounds like a great model to get people to use software.
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by lki876 6y ago
The "journalist" could have picked any two events. Picking these to make it seem there is causation without proof.
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by lki876 6y ago
> Just like how Poland and Hungary are EU members and they are walking their own way not giving a f about anything, rewriting the constitutions and laws as they wish There are mechanisms in place to change constitutions and laws in all c
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by lki876 6y ago
Happens a lot in the west too. Reddit, Twitter and Facebook come to mind.
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by lki876 6y ago
> The NIH should fund and produce these drugs, no patents, free for all to produce. There is nothing to stop that under the current model. It just isn't happening.
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by lki876 6y ago
Open source software works because it's easy to use. Start including limiting clauses and you'll need lawyers to figure out what you can and can't use. Even then, there's still the chance that downstream the package will
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by lki876 6y ago
"the Climate Strike License violates the Open Source [Initiative]" So it's not open source.

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