nhchris

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by nhchris 4y ago
To me, it's not about ruining or enhancing books. It's about falsifying them. They should remain artifacts of their time, so we may have perspective on changing attitudes, and not be gaslit that the sensitivity readers' sensi
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R.L. Stine accuses publisher of censoring Goosebumps books without permission(nationalreview.com)
73 points by nhchris 4y ago|65 comments
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by nhchris 4y ago
Thanks to ongoing consolidation of large manufacturing firms, this kind of attitude quickly leads to having nothing to buy. The only solution is collective bargaining in the form of regulation.
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by nhchris 4y ago
> it's unsurprising a criminal defense attorney might argue that it does. You misinterpreted my post - I have never heard of a defense attorney arguing this, and much less of a judge or jury accepting it as a valid defense. The exam
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by nhchris 4y ago
"Boys will be boys" has been deliberately conflated with a permissive attitude towards sexual abuse. Your use of what you thought was an innocent phrase describing rowdy behavior will be abused by activists as evidence of misogyny
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Longer jail terms for viewing terror content online (2017)(bbc.com)
5 points by nhchris 4y ago|0 comments
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by nhchris 4y ago
> ads are a failed monetization approach If it's worth paying for a giant un-targeted poster next to a highway, it's worth paying for embedded (i.e. unblockable, equivalent to other site content) ads based solely on website con
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by nhchris 4y ago
It's not the same, but it shows why the argument that "there are alternatives" doesn't hold water.
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by nhchris 4y ago
> discrimination suits are increasing DEI programs don't help guard vs. litigation, therefore that can't ever have been a cause for their or their antecedents' inception! > discrimination suits are decreasing If the pro
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by nhchris 4y ago
> we have safety checks for that too with anti-trust policy. Yeah I remember when Microsoft came perilously close to dominating the desktop OS market and using that dominance to push their other products, like their suite of Office softw
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by nhchris 4y ago
> By implication, you are also arguing that all the companies running these programs don't believe the things they're saying, but rather have been coerced into saying them I'm arguing no such thing. Hiring of people that e
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by nhchris 4y ago
It's highly likely. Much likelier than the idea that having anti-discrimination so broadly enforced that a mere IQ test is illegal would not cause corporations to take steps to reduce legal risks. But you are correct, my evidence is ci
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by nhchris 4y ago
> It can be foreign actors They don't have to be foreign. And tangentially, good propaganda is not recognized as such. For a borderline example, see how Call of Duty changed the attackers in the highway of death from the US to Russi
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by nhchris 4y ago
"Colonization" in the sense that Kenya will become dependent on a foreign company for food production.
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by nhchris 4y ago
They don't have to be "so much better" - they just have to be the few % better that represents farmer's thin margins.
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by nhchris 4y ago
They're not sued for not having a DEI program, but for vaguely and broadly defined "discrimination". Having a DEI program is a defense against such accusations.
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by nhchris 4y ago
The scandal is not about whether the pandemic response was correct given the information they had, but their efforts to manipulate public perception.
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by nhchris 4y ago
> Oakeshott said she chose the newspaper for ideological reasons, because it “pushed back against lockdown during the pandemic”. She made the right choice, as much as The Guardian might dislike it. They seem more interested in reporting
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by nhchris 4y ago
You are really intent on stretching any kind of multiple versions released by the same author, into a license for full-blown falsification of books. Unless I can provide a legalistic formula for exactly how much notice must be given for exa
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by nhchris 4y ago
> Córdoba’s mosque-cathedral is an architectural expression of the complex, intricate history of Europe. And that, for some, is the problem. There has been a long campaign by the Catholic church to diminish the Islamic heritage of the bu
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by nhchris 4y ago
> Very few companies have DEI programs. Please don't lie to me: "I have surveyed the programming of every Fortune 100 company and have confirmed that all of them have now adopted so-called DEI programs." - https:/&
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by nhchris 4y ago
> he rewrote his own books While releasing a new version of one's book without noting any significant changes can be somewhat deceptive, it is not even remotely comparable to rewriting someone else's book, and passing it of
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by nhchris 4y ago
Funny. This sounds nothing like the "going dark" problem law enforcement is always warning about.
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by nhchris 4y ago
They tried to falsify our literature, but still expect our business? Even if this time they were caught, they have revealed their intent. Dear reader, if you still fund your enemy after this, you have only yourself to blame for the future b
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by nhchris 4y ago
> Really does feel orwellian to change the authors being referenced. > This change I feel is one of the least objectionable, IMHO. I think it's one of the most objectionable changes. Removing authors whose politics have gone ou
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by nhchris 4y ago
> My generation grew up watching Romeo + Juliet and 10 Things I Hate About You, rather than pouring over the original Shakespearean plays. But you were not deceived into thinking those were the originals.
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by nhchris 4y ago
> a system where consumers have access to all revisions of a book A key component of censorship or falsification is hiding the fact that it even takes place. They are tools of deception, and if you tell people exactly how you are deceivi
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by nhchris 4y ago
Unpaywalled: https://archive.fo/OSLQN Key paragraphs: Owners of Roald Dahl ebooks are having their libraries automatically updated with the new censored versions containing hundreds of changes to language related to weight
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by nhchris 4y ago
Absent from your question is the author [1]. The owners may have the legal right to edit and distribute the text, but by passing it off as Roald Dahl's words, they are perpetrating fraud against their readers. And even if it were the
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Roald Dahl ebooks remotely updated to censored versions after purchase(thetimes.co.uk)
420 points by nhchris 4y ago|364 comments

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