reedjosh

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by reedjosh 5y ago
Thank you. I too miss the days when I could find niche opinions and in depth knowledge via a simple search.
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by reedjosh 5y ago
> At least the US legally allows companies (ie prevents government censorship) to choose what they moderate... This directly conflicts with the following statement from the article itself. > Twitter said in the report India was now th
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by reedjosh 5y ago
> (in theory) Yes, exactly. > Facebook is accountable to nobody Except when I hop off their platform. > it don't even have any competitor in social network business. True-ish I like https://peakd.com/ and htt
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by reedjosh 5y ago
> We don't think of it as wrong that our laws restrict such speech. I actually do think it's wrong. Culture and more speech is the solution to those issues.
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The title is: Twitter sees jump in govt demands to remove content of journalists > The 1st amendment has nothing to do with Corporations restricting things Sure, but it has everything to do with a corporation taking instruction from the
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by reedjosh 5y ago
I'm anti-censorship. I didn't downvote you, but you are conflating two arguments. Anti-government-censorship and anti-private-censorship. Myself and I'm guessing many don't actually care what Twitter does so long as the
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by reedjosh 5y ago
> Anything private You don't have to support. The government will take your support at gunpoint. This is the crux of the issue.
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by reedjosh 5y ago
I agree Twitter should be able to censor, but the government shouldn't be able to ask Twitter to do so. This article is specifically about the government asking Twitter to do so.
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Yes, thank you for saying this.
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by reedjosh 5y ago
I don't care what Twitter does. I just don't want the government mandating what it does. If a private company wants to censor, then sure. But as soon as the government requests takedowns and shadowbans, that's majorly crossin
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by reedjosh 5y ago
I don't want to lean on Twitter to maintain freedom. I just want the government not to do the opposite.
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by reedjosh 5y ago
But with moderators on a forum, it is private censorship all the way. The issue is when at gunpoint people take my money from me, then use that money to fund more guns to point at the Twitters et al. of the world. If I don't like moder
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by reedjosh 5y ago
And if a person was prevented from printing an article in a newspaper, wouldn't that just be a veto on a particular means of speech? Our government isn't supposed to do this stuff. It's evil even if the initial intentions are
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by reedjosh 5y ago
> The authors of the paper went out of their way to say it. 2/3rds of the way through. I'm glad myself and others point this out. I personally read the whole article. That's time I can't get back. In the interest of k
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by reedjosh 5y ago
While I do think those are the key quotes of the article, I'm not sure I'd call those interesting. Those quotes belie the truth--the article and any inferred conclusions therefrom are meaningless.
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by reedjosh 5y ago
From the article. > They also lease land to neighboring ranchers, whose grazing cattle aerate the soil with their hooves and add organic matter and nutrients via manure. Meat can and should be a part of regenerative ag. I recently visite
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Does that account for infant mortality? Life expectancy should really only be talked about in terms of expected lifespan of someone who's already made it to say 3 years old. Otherwise, we get a very distorted view of modern medicine&#x
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by reedjosh 5y ago
> Plenty of non-governmental organisations are violent. The existence of private security firms is an obvious example of this. These organizations are either government sanctioned or considered criminal. The libertarian viewpoint on this
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Choice. I'm not forced into a service provided by anyone. Government is monopoly of violence. For example, mono crop wheat is terrible, but the government uses its monopoly of force to coerce me into subsidies for foods I refuse to eat
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by reedjosh 5y ago
> concentration of which is eventually exactly the vehicle of oppression? But concentration to this degree practically requires government force to survive. I believe even those on your side of the political spectrum believe that corrupt
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by reedjosh 5y ago
I'm not going to expound on all topics here. Instead I'll give you a resource that closely matches my thoughts on one of the subjects of concern. > We used to have entire cities burn down. https://mises.org/libr
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by reedjosh 5y ago
> The more likely they are to conclide that this is a mugs game This is one of the primary reasons I'm a pure libertarian. The more in depth research I did, the more I found it's nothing but a rigged game. It truly is like the
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Woo, let's put everyone in a box and call them crazy!
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Wow, thanks for the example. I've been wanting to do this myself soon.
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Centralized ad based services are never in your interest. What you spend your time on matters, so I try to be critical of my browsing habits. Some sites/services I currently use: neeva.com Paid search that I'm liking atm. Feels li
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Cows are amazing!
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Estrogenic Chemicals for one. https://www.amazon.com/Estrogeneration-Estrogenics-Making-Si... Pretty much 90% of plastics.
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It's a privately ran optional system. I do realize that society generally makes it non-optional, but then that gets into arguments about running a debt based monetary regime.
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by reedjosh 5y ago
I like your comment, and I agree the Swiss are probably free-er at this point--but we were something of a free nation at one time, and we still (Orwellian?) bill ourselves as such. > There are tons of central databases you are already re
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by reedjosh 5y ago
> That's not true at all You got me there. I believe the No Fly list is a tragedy of Kafkaesque bureaucracy that I wish didn't exist. People have found themselves on it with little recourse. I haven't researched the felony

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