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by lordloki 5y ago
I don't think that's a good analogy for the statement given. I think a better analogy would be "the difference between your floor and the top floor isn't the problem, falling out the window is the problem."
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by lordloki 5y ago
True. It's also sad that in the effort to stop "misinformation" and "Fake News", sites like Facebook and Twitter are censoring actual analysis which may disagree with the current consensus. That form of censorship i
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by lordloki 6y ago
What this solves is getting people to understand that science is a process of discovery and not simply a set of facts set in stone. Too many people don't seem to understand that and that leads to some people who beleive in science(but
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by lordloki 6y ago
The whole concept of dog whistles is to build a strawman argument. There may be some small groups that use some coded language, but extrapolating that out to the entire population is a straw man argument. It basically allows you to alter wh
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by lordloki 6y ago
Targeting a company for their own policies and actions is much different than targeting a company because someone you don't agree with works there. That is the difference I see between boycotts and cancel culture.
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by lordloki 6y ago
It's just supply and demand. The rich are leaving the cities for suburbs, so more of the higher end apartments are available. Which will lower those rents because there is low demand and high supply. Meanwhile, there is a moratorium on
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by lordloki 6y ago
I just call them all Clavins.
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by lordloki 6y ago
It is too big of a hassle. We should not have to overanalyze everything we say. It is not even possible. We don't speak in code, we speak in highly interprative languages. Many meanings and interpretations of a statement can be made. P
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by lordloki 6y ago
Your examples are all based in times of local news sources not large global news sources. In the times before the internet all communication was local, and all pushback was local too. It may have looked one way, but counterpoints were made
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by lordloki 6y ago
>They can keep you off their platform, nothing more. Why? Because you believe corporations are people? >And you think this would be less censored? By law, in the USA, it would have to be less censored. They could only censor constitut
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by lordloki 6y ago
>You're talking about using other people's services, infrastructure and registered users. You sound a lot like someone who is against net neutrality with this statement. Does ATT or Comcast have to allow all content through the
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by lordloki 6y ago
We should still call it yellow journalism. The fact that reporters at large media companies will search for outrage on Facebook and Twitter in order to get more hits is a failure of modern journalism. Reporters basing so much of their time
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by lordloki 6y ago
This is an overly simplistic calculation. They are only taking into account the current days vaccination rate instead of calculating the rate of change in vaccinations to extrapolate the future trend. The problem is that new vaccine product
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by lordloki 6y ago
It sounds to me like people get hurt by microagressions because they have been taught that microagressions exist in the first place. That is once you have been convinced that microaggressions are a problem you will find them everywhere, sin
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by lordloki 6y ago
Only if you view a company as a person.
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by lordloki 6y ago
The NY Times editor who "resigned" didn't say burning downtowns should be countered with the National Guard. He approved the publishing of an op-ed from a US Senator that approved of sending in the national guard. The editor
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by lordloki 6y ago
"Cancel culture" isn't choosing not to consume media. "Cancel culture" is actively trying to destroy it, like advocating lawsuits against Fox News, or deplatforming media hosts. What you describe is how it's al
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Right now Pakistan is able to block any service they deem as illegal by getting Google and Apple to block it. They have two gates they need to close. If users could load any apps they want outside of the google and apple stores there would
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by lordloki 6y ago
Is this really the place for a comment like this? This comment shows pretty clear bias and concludes with an insult. This is subpar dialog for HN.
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by lordloki 6y ago
You'll notice that the rise in media reporting on systematic racism correlates strongly with the rise in discussions about class difference, industry trends, globalization, etc. The latter was Bernie Sander's platform before he wa
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by lordloki 6y ago
So you support the abolition of free speech to preemptively keep a hypothetical free speech abolitionist group from abolishing free speech?
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by lordloki 6y ago
I disagree. HN has actual discussions and is, for the most part, politically neutral. That is, while some discussions will have a political component to them, such as discussing tech censorship, no opinions are being buried for simply exist
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by lordloki 6y ago
Free speech is a natural born right of all people. This is recognized in the first amendment to the US constitution, where it specifies that as a human right the government cannot regulate it. As the "public square" moves from phy