memeCrasher

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by memeCrasher 9y ago
Or just bribe people in the government and have them appoint one of your lawyers to the governing body meant to regulate you. Why care how egregious your actions are when the government listens to you and your bags of money, and not the peo
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by memeCrasher 9y ago
And people are 'cutting the cord' because TV content is boring trash, and the media/news channels completely controlled by a few megacorps. You can't get independent or personal views, you can't get personalized sho
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by memeCrasher 9y ago
As far as I'm aware, net neutrality was assumed to apply up until a court ruling that went in Verizon's favor. So it's not a case of "It only came into law 3 years ago!" but rather "We put it back into law afte
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by memeCrasher 9y ago
What makes you think you're taking sides between two industries? The way I see it, and probably why Google et al don't seem to be throwing up a recent fuss anymore, is that the big tech companies and industry giants can cut deals
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by memeCrasher 9y ago
>I find it annoying in these threads how people refuse to acknowledge that we have much stronger rule of law in the west. No we don't. We have a stronger belief in the rule of law, but not an actual practice of rule of law. It'
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by memeCrasher 9y ago
I can already tell you how and why it will be bad: By living on a basic income provided to you by the government, you become dependent. That dependency is a weakness that gives the government greater power over you. What recourse do you hav
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by memeCrasher 9y ago
No need to completely censor, when you can instead control the direction of the conversation. Without comments, people go elsewhere to discuss the issue - elsewhere that you don't control. With comments, they discus it on your site, wh
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by memeCrasher 9y ago
A conversation that a moderator can't clean up, does save you from biased and unfriendly moderators. Something I find a lot of people carelessly shrug off - moderation isn't always a good thing. The act of moderation is, at its es
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by memeCrasher 9y ago
Far as I can tell, reddit functions best as a PR platform for businesses and corporations to communicate with their customers and fan-base. It's not the sort of place I'd go to for serious conversations about anything.
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by memeCrasher 9y ago
It's not like it'd be difficult for NYT to have whitelisted commentator accounts run by NYT editors to game their own comment/vote system and drive a false consensus for readers. Modern media do this every day already with th
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by memeCrasher 9y ago
Smarter and more insightful commentators. That's pretty much it. Once the population gets too big and the level of discourse too low, the intelligent people will move to greener pastures with better signal:noise ratios. Slashdot's
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by memeCrasher 9y ago
I disagree with any conclusions drawn that censorship has solved any kind of problem here. Let's take the fat people hate subreddit. Okay, you ban every user and the subreddit itself. Some people make new accounts, and a new subreddit
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by memeCrasher 9y ago
I Absolutely have. Though with rampant censorship these days, few people have to build up any kind of argument to counter these bigots. It's a lot easier to hit a downvote button, or a ban button, than to present a reasoned argument at
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by memeCrasher 9y ago
When you ban speech, you don't convince people they were wrong. If anything, you convince them they're right. The only thing censorship achieves is sweeping problems under the rug and pretending they've been solved.
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by memeCrasher 9y ago
Genetic arms race, or intentionally crippling your population to make them easier to control? I wonder which the various governments will go for? Are gene-modded babies going to have genetic compulsions that make them predisposed to propaga
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by memeCrasher 9y ago
Could be that the genes have a deleterious effect in youth, not just old age.