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Florida state rep requests gov divest from Amazon, Twitter, Apple, Google and FB(twitter.com)
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by offby37years 6y ago
DDoSing is already an illegal cybercrime in the US. A DDoS attack could be classified as a federal criminal offense under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)[1]. Under Damaging a Computer, 1030(a)(5) > The provision may also be use
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by offby37years 6y ago
Telegram has no servers or offices in Russia and was blocked there from 2018 to 2020: https://t.me/durov/117
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by offby37years 6y ago
The cliché about "screaming fire in a crowded movie theater" misconstrues limits on the 1A. https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha... https://www.theatlantic.com&#x2
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by offby37years 6y ago
With almost every technological advance, destructive power arrives long before the protective powers. It's much easier to destroy something with a nuclear weapon than it is to build a nuclear power plant. Likewise, we arrived at musket
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by offby37years 6y ago
In attempt to curtail the latter you forgo the former.
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by offby37years 6y ago
This is correct. You can't have democracy without free speech. If you don't trust your fellow citizens to be able to deduce the truth, you shouldn't trust them to cast their own vote.
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by offby37years 6y ago
If he actually said something that explicitly called for violence CNN would have had it on loop 24/7 since Wednesday.
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by offby37years 6y ago
They haven't even finished tying the laces.
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by offby37years 6y ago
And worryingly, former Democratic Party staffers fill FAANG ranks, e.g. Andy Stone who is now Facebook’s policy communications manager: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-10-18/facebo...
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by offby37years 6y ago
There is no going back now. Imagine. It's 2024, Biden is re-elected under contested circumstances. Tens of millions of (mostly armed) patriots that again feel disenfranchised, though this time vindicated through four years of censorshi
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by offby37years 6y ago
Yes, expedited the decentralised, uncensorable web by 3-5 years. Then we're back to square one with no recourse.
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by offby37years 6y ago
Contrasting Geocities or MySpace of decades past with coordinated bans from Facebook and Twitter in 2021 (not to mention AWS and Stripe) is knowingly disingenuous and not argued in good faith. Neither were communication monopolies.
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by offby37years 6y ago
The "conspiracy theorist" would see these warnings as further pretext to instate the Patriot Act 2.0[1], this time under the guise of domestic terrorism. [1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-administration-u
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by offby37years 6y ago
What viable alternative DDoS protection platforms are available to them?
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by offby37years 6y ago
The slide into a totalitarian dystopia is much quicker than you'd think. It was only two years ago Alex Jones was banned from mainstream social media for his crazy theatricals. We've already slid to Chinese WeChat-level censorship
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by offby37years 6y ago
Agreed. A twist on Conway's Law wherein communication mediums will come to mirror political fractures.
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There is a distinction between website and the quoted "social media services".
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by offby37years 6y ago
As a country that has suffered the turmoil of both Nazism and Communism, it would be wise to heed their direction. They know the smell of tyranny all too well. The proverbial canary.
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by offby37years 6y ago
Their market share dwindling to zilch can't come quick enough.
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by offby37years 6y ago
Still more trustworthy than the mainstream alternatives (Google, Mozilla, Apple or Microsoft).