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by owisd 1y ago
Maybe manageable till they're 11 or 12, but after that there are just too many internet-enabled devices out there in the world for a parent to police.
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by owisd 1y ago
A majority of adult GenZs who've grown up with this stuff agree it was bad for their childhood and most older adults use social media and feel the negative effects too. Using some sophistry to argue it's all made up by the governm
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by owisd 1y ago
There's a cognitive dissonance to the opposition to this: a) Content controls don't work, what are the government thinking? b) This is parents' problem, they should use content controls. Individual action doesn't work be
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by owisd 1y ago
I guess if everywhere's zoned for max density. If it's zoned as a public park, so no ability to develop it and generate revenue, or close it off for private use, then its rated value would be close to zero. Possibly negative if ow
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by owisd 1y ago
Manufacturing Consent is a book that rails against ad-supported media empires. I think anyone who reads it would come away more supportive of these kinds of restrictions. If you want to give it a go, the first chapter is basically a sum
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by owisd 1y ago
The problem with trying too hard to neutrally report both sides of a story is that's not unbiased either, it's just biased in favour of the side that can lie the most convincingly.
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by owisd 1y ago
You do in the end because you're buying the products that are funding the ads.
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by owisd 1y ago
These days the courts give wide latitude to companies to offer virtually any plausible reason why superficially altruistic acts are in fact good long term for shareholder value. Anyone wanting to do what Ford did just needs to keep their mo
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by owisd 2y ago
It's just a ban on buying and selling fake reviews, so the same way they regulate buying and selling anything.
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by owisd 2y ago
Foreign countries buy USD through trade. Japan needs dollars for international trade so the US Treasury prints dollars and gives them to Japan and in return Japan gives the US Nintendo Switches or whatever. Those dollars go into the interna
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by owisd 2y ago
Of course, because we also consider intent, so the law distinguishes saying something true that someone happens to find offensive (which carries EHRC Article 10 protections), as opposed to saying something to cause offence that also happens
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by owisd 2y ago
Or they just take the more nuanced JS Mill view that free speech is about truth and not simply about being able to say whatever you want without any consequences. Being offensive for the sake of being offensive has nothing to do with findin
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by owisd 2y ago
There's been pushback against this, 8 states have passed “Reasonable Childhood Independence” laws since 2018, Georgia in the last few days, and more will.
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by owisd 2y ago
I can recommend Michael Lewis's The Fifth Risk that covers Trump #1 doing this sort of thing - go after the public bodies that protect against low probability but high consequence events because you'll get minimal pushback from
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by owisd 2y ago
If it was merely about taxes and regulations then nobody would want to choose California over almost any other state for their startup.
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by owisd 2y ago
The OSA definition of hate is what was already illegal under the 1986 Public Order Act.
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by owisd 2y ago
Most have the same zero-sum first-order attitude to free speech, and couldn't see what's happening now was always going to be net worse for free speech than any controls that could have been put in place to reduce the chance of ge
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by owisd 2y ago
Changing the code of practice is a years long statutory consultation process, they're not going to be able to change the rules to go after you on a whim.
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by owisd 2y ago
The deal private for profit corporations make with society is that profit provides an incentive that leads to better outcomes, yet every developed country with a not-for-profit healthcare system has better outcomes.
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by owisd 2y ago
The theory is that (a) the tax would be paid by the property owner and not the venue (it is assumed rent follows an econ 102 inelastic supply model) and (b) property would be less attractive as a store of wealth so prices would drop.
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by owisd 2y ago
No jurisdiction is going to let you claim freedom of speech is a valid defence against libelling a private citizen.
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by owisd 2y ago
The actual OfCom code of practice is here: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/onli... A cycling site with 275k MAU would be in the very lowest category where compliance is things like &#x
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by owisd 2y ago
It's not that hard to create privacy friendly age verification. Have a system like Sign in with Apple vouch that you're over 18. Go to Apple store to flash your ID and they just set a flag on your account. Apple doesn't give
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by owisd 2y ago
I guess it will become self-fulfilling if everyone denies that there are privacy friendly options. Legislatures globally are starting to take this seriously so chances are it's happening one way or another.
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by owisd 2y ago
The idea that social media is like a Meta commercial, all making new friends and video calls to smiling Grandparents, etc. is a fabrication, presumably one that a lot of HN folks have a vested interest in maintaining. Kids are lonelier now
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by owisd 2y ago
And totally counterproductive, given the underlying insinuation that scaling back the government would solve the problem, when in reality it just hands more power over to corporations to do even more [wrongdoing].
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by owisd 2y ago
This gets raised every charter renewal and they always find the administrative overhead of e.g. collecting Netflix subscriptions, etc. is pro rata higher than the overhead for the licence fee.
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by owisd 2y ago
The UK offers aggressive discounts for advance purchasing tickets on long distance routes at quiet times, which works well.
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by owisd 2y ago
Probably meant 'cycle' in the sense of instruction cycle, rather than clock cycle.
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by owisd 2y ago
They can set the rules however they like before the vote, but the Electoral Count Act prohibits states changing the rules around how they appoint electors once the votes have been cast.

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