paulnechifor

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by paulnechifor 6y ago
That's the case for protected classes. I just think it should be expanded. It shouldn't be that way if media companies weren't coordinating behind the scenes to ban stuff together. But given that it's happening, it'
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by paulnechifor 6y ago
:) Political opinions are more well-defined? At least political opinions are in realm of reality.
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by paulnechifor 6y ago
As an individual, when your speech is banned, it's all the same whether it's by an authoritarian government or by private companies.
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by paulnechifor 6y ago
That's exactly the argument for GDPR is. If an American megacorp doesn't want to respect the rights of non Americans then it shouldn't be allowed to profit at all from them. You can't just ban some and profit from the re
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by paulnechifor 6y ago
The freedom of individuals is more important than the freedom of corporations. When the freedom of people to speak clashes with the freedom of corporations to not allow that speech, it's better to side with more speech (i.e. the side o
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by paulnechifor 6y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/17/business/media/ronan-farr...
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by paulnechifor 6y ago
It was coordinated behind locked doors with Google and Apple which are competitors.
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by paulnechifor 6y ago
All companies shutting them down without so much as a hearing in court will probably lead them to build parallel societies.
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by paulnechifor 6y ago
AWS's response was based on its legal right to shut down every customer it is biased against. Nothing was adjudicated in court.
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by paulnechifor 6y ago
Free speech approved by media giants. Everything else will be blockaded.
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by paulnechifor 6y ago
Political opinions should be a protected class (certainly more than religious opinions).
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by paulnechifor 6y ago
A message on Twitter: > Someone take this clown out NOW! #assassinatetrump utter evil this man! #DonaldTrump I’m on Twitter and it seems like this stuff is not uncommon there and since they are a huge company it seems like it wouldn&#x27
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by paulnechifor 6y ago
Americans sure like this bad faith argument. If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck... If you're free to communicate anything on public owned spaces on the internet but there are no public owned spaces on the internet, then
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by paulnechifor 6y ago
That's not how it works. The decision was entirely political. Twitter is full of assassination calls but it's in no danger of getting banned: https://twitter.com/hashtag/assassinatetrump .
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by paulnechifor 6y ago
Then Twitter should be banned too because it's full of calls for political assassinations: https://twitter.com/hashtag/assassinatetrump
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by paulnechifor 6y ago
There are tweets from 2016 calling for Trump's assassination. When is Apple going to take down the Twitter app? Here's just a search I did now: https://twitter.com/hashtag/assassinatetrump
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by paulnechifor 6y ago
Just accept collective punishment bro.
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by paulnechifor 6y ago
Humor aside, intercourse and discourse are synonyms. Although, intercourse is often used as short for "sexual intercourse". But you are pretty much asking for that joke (like when you still use "ejaculate" with the &quot
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by paulnechifor 6y ago
I guess that's part of the plan, give it for free and make it indispensable and then reap the rewards. Feels like a drug operation. :(
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by paulnechifor 6y ago
You might be living in a bubble if you think HN is alt-right. Trump got 46.9 % of the vote. He has nowhere near that level of support here.
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by paulnechifor 6y ago
It was peaceful. Very few people got murdered.
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by paulnechifor 6y ago
> I'd genuinely like clarity on why it's considered a matter of civil liberty to develop whatever you want and force Apple to distribute it on their store? Some value the civil liberties of individuals more than that of corpora
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by paulnechifor 6y ago
3.17 billion in 2019 dollars, or 1.11 if you exclude the sunk costs.
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by paulnechifor 6y ago
The next Air Force One supposedly costs 4 billion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_One#VC-25B .
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by paulnechifor 6y ago
> tell the truth about Palestine I don't know why, but my dogwhistlemetre for antisemitism is spinning out of control.
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by paulnechifor 6y ago
I started watching The Wire recently expecting a very dry show that's difficult to understand but I found it gripping from the start. The characters felt real and the world very fucked up and interesting. Season 2 was good, but I didn&
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by paulnechifor 6y ago
It's hard to take photos when you're not allowed to leave your home... I just put my tripod inside my backpack and pretend I'm an essential worker.
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by paulnechifor 6y ago
> "I don't have one" is an acceptable answer to why you're not wearing a mask. I haven't worn a mask twice. Once because I forgot it and once because I just forgot to put it on. If "I don't have one&quo
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by paulnechifor 6y ago
Looks like this is just a Windows/OS 10 trojan. These sort of bullshit software issues usually come the the territory.
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by paulnechifor 6y ago
In middle school I often had to reset my plugged-in 12-hour alarm clock at night because I would switch plugs for some reason. I noticed a pattern that sometimes my alarm would refuse to ring in the morning but would ring at 8 at night. I e

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