pumaontheprowl

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by pumaontheprowl 5y ago
"Private companies can do what they like" should only apply to companies that are not monopolies. Due to network effects there is no legitimate competition to YouTube, so YouTube needs to be regulated as a monopoly (unless maybe T
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by pumaontheprowl 5y ago
Ironic that you're complaining about violence in the context of a protest against forcibly jabbing people with a vaccine they don't want. The government's policy here is violence in itself. If you truly were concerned about v
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by pumaontheprowl 5y ago
Are you sure about that Reuters? Twitter's stock is up 5% over the last five days. It seems to me that they met the market's expectation for growth. Not many people buy more of a stock after it underperforms their expectations. Th
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by pumaontheprowl 5y ago
How long does Google need to maintain your unlimited storage before you won't complain when they take it away? Until the sun goes out?
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by pumaontheprowl 5y ago
No, the First Amendment only applies to the government. Free speech is a concept that can be applied anywhere.
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by pumaontheprowl 5y ago
Well in this case he's signalling support for censorship, so you can't really call that virtuous.
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by pumaontheprowl 5y ago
Not only that, but it's rumored that Rogan negotiated significant creative freedom into the contract. If Spotify were to capitulate to Young's request, they'd most likely be breaking their contract with Rogan. In which case R
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by pumaontheprowl 5y ago
What a bizarre comment. He most definitely did do it in hopes of forcing Spotify to drop Rogan. Appearing on the same streaming platform as Rogan costs him nothing (neither financial nor moral). Nobody believes that he and Rogan share belie
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by pumaontheprowl 5y ago
These companies overwhelmingly support the Democratic party. The idea that they are deliberately stonewalling this investigation strains credulity. Poking some of their most powerful allies like this feels like a tactical error for the Cong
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by pumaontheprowl 5y ago
I wish I could laugh at this, but watching institutional racism come roaring back to life over the last decade has been extremely depressing. Is there any doubt that the goal of this change is to make it easier for them to reject Asian stud
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by pumaontheprowl 5y ago
How do you know the author is insulting your intelligence and not just lacking in intelligence themself? I find the latter explanation more likely for this idiotic article.
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by pumaontheprowl 5y ago
First time I've ever seen somebody on HN request to change a neutral headline to a biased headline. This is a he said/she said dispute. Taking either side's statements at face value is just foolish.
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by pumaontheprowl 5y ago
Because they don't discuss the methodology used to arrive at these numbers nor do they link to any sort of full report explaining these stats. For all we know, these numbers are complete bunk. Furthermore, these sorts of wealth-inequal
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by pumaontheprowl 5y ago
North Korea.
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by pumaontheprowl 5y ago
You counter all skepticism the same way: by a designing an experiment to test the skeptic's hypothesis and presenting the results of the experiment to the skeptic. Name-calling, censorship, and persecution are not going to bring the sk
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by pumaontheprowl 5y ago
If Facebook is responsible for the content users see on their site, how is Apple not responsible for the content users see on Safari? I really don't see how you can argue for banning the Instagram app while the Safari app still allows
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by pumaontheprowl 5y ago
> Companies (many/most of the medium and big ones) are desperately monitoring Twitter (Reddit is gaining) because it’s the only window they have into what people say about them. This just makes Twitter even worse. Only a tiny percen
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by pumaontheprowl 5y ago
Interesting. My stack ranking of unethical tech companies would have Twitter at the very top. None of the others have caused as much societal harm as Twitter. I saw research recently that as much as half of all trending topics in Turkey wer
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by pumaontheprowl 5y ago
Something doesn't add up here. Levels is showing that the average senior engineer at Netflix is only getting $11k stock though. If employees were allowed to choose what percentage stock they wanted, I'd expect most employees to ch
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by pumaontheprowl 5y ago
It basically makes it impossible to propose any new medical treatment on Youtube when their definition of "misinformation" is really just "not proven to work." This would be more acceptable if they only banned discussion
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by pumaontheprowl 5y ago
If McDonald's mistreats me, I can go to Wendy's or Burger King and get a similar meal for a similar price. When Youtube mistreats me, where am I supposed to go? BitChute? Vimeo? Neither of those have even half the creators as Yout
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by pumaontheprowl 5y ago
Hence why Google needs to be made a public utility.
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by pumaontheprowl 5y ago
The definition of hate speech can be made to fit whatever political agenda you seek to promote. For example, you will get banned from Twitter for saying "feminism is cancer" on the basis that the statement is hate speech against w
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by pumaontheprowl 5y ago
The number one contributor to increasing carbon emissions is population growth, but the same people who pretend to be outraged about carbon emissions are also the same people who were adamant that we needed a full lockdown for COVID so that
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by pumaontheprowl 5y ago
2.8 million people die during childbirth every year. It's absolutely a medical condition. And you should absolutely have a doctor there.
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by pumaontheprowl 5y ago
By your definition, the guys who burned down the Wendy's in Atlanta are domestic terrorists, but I've yet to see anybody in the media or law enforcement refer to them as such. The fact is the definition of "domestic extremism
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by pumaontheprowl 5y ago
Offering a bounty to locate a person of interest in a crime is not "vigilante justice." The police frequently employ the very same strategy. Offering a bounty is not a call to attack or harass the person in question; if you want t
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by pumaontheprowl 5y ago
Not after Linux banned University of Minnesota from submitting patches. We're safe now.
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by pumaontheprowl 5y ago
Twitter's engineering team is just completely incompetent. More than 50% of tweets I'm linked to fail to load on the first attempt, and many times I have to reload the page two or three times before the tweet actually loads. It do
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by pumaontheprowl 5y ago
How are you downvoted for this? Tesla directly lost over $100M as a result of this decision. If this was a pump-and-dumb, they did a horrible job of it. Also, a pump-and-dump scheme doesn't require you to crash the price of an asset af

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