negidius

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by negidius 3y ago
I love night trains. It's really convenient to be able to go to sleep in one place and wake up at my destination in the morning. Train stations tend to be in much more central locations compared to airports, and it's nice to not h
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by negidius 3y ago
Which means that someone who forgets their passcode because of the stress of being arrested and threatened with years in prison could easily be wrongfully convicted. It's a horrible law, even for those who don't care about privacy
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by negidius 3y ago
> It would be more equivalent to refusing to let the police search one room in your house after they’ve established a reason to believe that you might be hiding bodies in it. No, it isn't. The police searching a room in my house doe
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by negidius 3y ago
The stress of being arrested and threatened with years in prison if you don't remember your passcode could very well cause someone to forget it.
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by negidius 3y ago
I think Twitter's distinction between "state-affiliated media", "government-funded media", and "publicly-funded media" is confusing and unnecessary. It would make more sense to use the broader category of
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by negidius 4y ago
The title is inaccurate. It was an unsigned order with two dissents. > Two members of the Supreme Court's 6-3 conservative majority, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, dissented from the decision to not hear the appeal, with
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by negidius 4y ago
Calling things you disagree with "really dumb" is not an effective way to change minds. Unless you are part of the 0.01% richest (or something like that), governments are not your voice or strength, and you have essentially no abi
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The chat control proposal does not belong in democratic societies(mullvad.net)
816 points by negidius 4y ago|398 comments
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by negidius 4y ago
It seems a bit facetious to compare the collapse of the US government with an extinction event. There will almost certainly be a world after the US government, and that world will probably still include ancient banks like Lloyds and Barclay
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by negidius 4y ago
That would still be subject to risk. It's impossible to completely eliminate risk. The FDIC is not an absolute guarantee. The government could decide that it doesn't want to honour it, or could itself collapse. Both scenarios are
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by negidius 4y ago
Even if you don't value free speech per se, you should recognize the danger of allowing the most powerful to decide what is true or acceptable. You could well find yourself on the opposite side of state censorship. There is no guarante
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by negidius 4y ago
Sorry for misunderstanding you. I'm not sure if it's really inevitable, but if it is, I think tolerance should be their most important virtue. I think that's also what sets western rulers apart as generally higher quality. Th
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by negidius 4y ago
It sounds like you believe those in power are more astute or intelligent than those they exercise power over. I disagree. I don't think there is a positive correlation between a person's ability to impose their preferences on othe
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by negidius 4y ago
I think it's the opposite. It's the people who are at the greatest risk of violence who have the most to fear from censorship. If you are anywhere near powerful enough to commit genocide, you are also powerful enough to ensure tha
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by negidius 4y ago
That's ridiculous. The Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack is 100% the fault of the terrorists who carried out the attack. They are the only ones who got people killed. The victims did not get anyone killed. Saying or publishing something t
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by negidius 4y ago
They may need the user's details to look into it and determine if it's an actual issue. When they have done that, it makes sense to fix it for that user at the same time. They should definitely come back and tell us that they have
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by negidius 4y ago
It seems like the obvious solution would be to replace words that refer to specific races, nationalities, genders, religions, etc. with symbols that only indicate the category so if someone ranks "the Danes are rude" as hateful th
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by negidius 4y ago
That's not an accurate representation of the problem. It's more like: Comment A: Muslims are evil. Comment B: Christians are evil. It's a terrible idea to treat Comment A and B differently. The same applies wheth