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by morlockabove 6y ago
That might be good in the long run; bitcoin's notoriously flawed when it comes to privacy, speed, power use etc. But maintains top position because it were forst; were USG to crush it, a more modern, privacy-centered currency like m
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by morlockabove 6y ago
You pay the price for your politics.
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Section 230
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Monopolies are de-facto government bodies. It isn't that Ebay is administered by USG (although I'm sure Ebay has an NSA/DHS detachment); it's that it makes no difference to the user whether a government bans the sale of
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by morlockabove 6y ago
But it should be, given it's a monopoly on the space.
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by morlockabove 6y ago
The r-word is potentially triggering. Stop.
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by morlockabove 6y ago
They're a publically traded monopoly marketplace with special legal protection from being sued. I would be fine with them being forced to act like what they pretend to be- a commons, a market. The freedom of a giant, monopolistic comp
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Law of the jungle; you get someone fired from their job, get their health insurance taken away, your life is forfeit. It's worse than SWATting. This is going to lead to reverse-dox revenge killings.
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by morlockabove 6y ago
When there's one company (due to network effects) that does something, that company's a de facto arm of government for that thing. So yes, we do need distributed everything.
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Why did so many pioneers die of broken legs and dysentery? Why do most restaurants go out of business?
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by morlockabove 6y ago
But it would put some people in the tax department out of work, so even if hypothetically a more efficient tax scheme would let you grow the government as a whole, the current people in the tax department have an incentive to not let that h
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by morlockabove 6y ago
If they just don't eat, they won't need insulin anymore!
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by morlockabove 6y ago
What a very convenient point of view for the people above the law. I hope they're passing some of their gains on to you.
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Depending on where you live, there might only be one.
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by morlockabove 6y ago
>personal attacks That's rich, given the condescension you've shown in this thread. Where I come from, trawling through people's post histories is creepy.
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by morlockabove 6y ago
How does zuck's zuckle taste?
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Just starve bro
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by morlockabove 6y ago
I get wanting to crush untouchables; I just think it's a hysterical stance to take vis-a-vis something like FB. You're not having the King "do something about taxes"; you're having him go on witch hunts. I'm
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by morlockabove 6y ago
I'll take the median judge with multiple appelate courts above them over a 26-year old overworked unaccountable 95 IQ [x] studies graduate. If facebook moderators wore fancy clothes and hit things with gavels on camera when making judg
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Bro just build your own AWS
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Whoever gets to decide what's "violence and terrorism groups" can just remove whoever they want. So your stance, combined with centralization, immediately leads to tyranny.
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by morlockabove 6y ago
You don't want a world where people can be deplatformed, but you want facebook to deplatform people? If I built an uncensorable distributed/federated FLOSS Facebook equivalent (fedbook?) with distributed moderation (personalized s
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Sorry, they can do what they want if they're funded by venture capital.
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by morlockabove 6y ago
If we can get federated solutions to be nice enough, maybe that'll do it.
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by morlockabove 6y ago
If you put too much comparative value on keeping the boot on Bad People's necks, you'll help close off methods to shift influence away from e.g. Facebook. If a lot of people move to e.g. the fediverse facebook equivalent, that shi
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by morlockabove 6y ago
People were using the argument five years ago, 4,3,2, yesterday. Whenever one of these monopolies does something to A that B approves of and A objects, B comes out with IAPCTCDWTW. People generally seem love to make excuses for Power when
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by morlockabove 6y ago
It turns out that handing the public square to centralized control ends badly. Who knew! You reap what you sow.
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by morlockabove 6y ago
"It's a private company, they can do what they want!"
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by morlockabove 6y ago
Yes!
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by morlockabove 6y ago
I meant that thinking in terms of 'LGBT' being a distinct category in your conception of the world is a worldview foreign to a lot of *chan people. They don't slice up the world the same way you do; whoever made up that word

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