meekmockmook

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by meekmockmook 6y ago
Well, that's okay. I'll be able to buy acid at Walgreens in 15 years anyway.
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
They didn't ban the dictators and warlords who preach genocidal rhetoric every day. They didn't ban the constant death threats from teenagers against each other and random celebrities they felt like canceling that week. They didn&
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
Silicon Valley has failed humanity. The governments of the world must ban targeted algorithms and initiate antitrust enforcement against GAFA immediately so this can never happen again.
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
No shit. It wasn't some broken, barely adopted start up that created this mess. It was the largest social platform in the world where this insanity spread for years. Break up GAFA with antitrust laws.
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
This can't continue the way it's been going.
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
Not just the IRL jannies, but the ones who police the platform too. They are contractors who make minimum wage and are exposed to horrors every single day with little psychological support.
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
Given our technological superiority over the majority of the world, why are states with far less resources vaccinating their populations so much faster? What can California do to streamline the process?
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
I am concerned this is being used as a pretext to ban encryption or push for backdoors.
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California lags far behind other states in Covid-19 vaccination rates(ocregister.com)
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
Well, yeah, it's a dictatorship run by warlords. It turns out that once you shut down the leader of the world's largest empire, every tinpot thug who fears losing their ability to control their citizens will shut down access to yo
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
I saw Twitter's Public Policy team melting down about this. What did they expect? Pandora's Box has been opened
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
It's not apathy, it's fatigue. It's been 10 months of terror and horror and people use whatever mental tricks they can to stay sane.
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
I'm already seeing people who I otherwise politically agree with demand that Telegram be decrypted. Madness.
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
"Remember what the MPAA says; Horrific, Deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don't say any naughty words"
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
I hope Baked Alaska is arrested.
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
My hot take? I think they are, yes. Information is literally everything.
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
You're 100 percent right.. i just think it's turned into a buzzword for "foreigners fighting amongst themselves" since the War on Terror began.
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
Tell that to my favorite ice cream shop that was smashed to bits on Melrose. Or the synagogues on Fairfax that were defiled. Or the vehicles all over DTLA that were set on fire. Or the man who died of smoke inhalation in a Minneapolis shop
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
I strongly disagree with Rowling's bizarre obsession but she faced months of death threats while Twitter looked the other way.
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
Of course I reported them. Nothing happened. Twitter was totally supportive of everything that happened in June. They even put up billboards bragging about how their platform helped protests grow. During a pandemic.
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
Yeah, the idea of GAFA as left wing is ludicrous. Sure, they plaster the internet with those ugly flat art cartoons of diverse people working together, (Corporate Memphis, I've learned the style is called) but they are anti-union, anti
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
I mean, I watched as people on Twitter and Facebook Live coordinated to torch one of my favorites neighborhoods in L.A. this summer. I saw looters tweet about breaking into a drug store in Sherman Oaks. You can't say it's just tal
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
Twitter didn't actively moderate the President, who broke every single policy in their rulebook, until he lost power. An argument could easily be made that they selectively enforce from that alone, but I don't see Parler's la
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
I have seen so many violent threats and incitements on Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram over the last 5 years that Parler could possibly make the case that they've been singled out, but I doubt it. They're just too unsym
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
I think every college student should be entitled to a year of free partying by endowment funds to make up for this.
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
This is the ugly truth. Big Tech has monetized hate since 2014 by guiding users to extremist content. Their algorithms were designed to create profit above all. The cost? Democracy. Do not let GAFA evade responsibility just because they&#x2
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
>even moreso his largely-White and not >particularly race conscious base of support This is baseless and such a slap in the face to the massive Latino, Middle Eastern, and Asian constituency in the Sanders coalition who worked their b
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
I'm a Sanders supporter and as Left as it gets but there is serious denial about the past 6 months of coordinated violence in major city cores from militant groups that claimed to speak for me. We have a problem with Big Tech and secta
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
I am terrified that Trump supporters will respond to attacks on their ability to peacefully communicate with direct violence. We are entering an era where nobody believes in peace anymore.
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by meekmockmook 6y ago
So because Twitter and Facebook are larger and have more resources to stamp out illegal activity (which they still do poorly), that means the violence, death, and algorithmic propaganda should be acceptable to host on their platform vs anot

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