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by rscoots 6y ago
It's only a problem if citizens are somehow influenced by the # of Facebook likes a politician gets. Those who'd hold Facebook to account for not programmatically 'fixing' this would do well to also acknowledge the under
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But agnostic to this specific situation, you would acknowledge that there could be a situation in which the people kept away are morally confused to the point in which it's actually better to do without them from a moral (and long-te
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by rscoots 6y ago
But how do we all decide for ourselves what is abhorrent? Hopefully by some sort of reasoning right? (And hopefully not as tortured and ill-advised as what RMS wrote all those years ago.)
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>Do you think he is such a phenomenal genius that keeping him is worth ten good people quitting or not joining in the first place? A hundred? A thousand? Unless the people at the FSF calling for his ousting are privately acknowledging th
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by rscoots 6y ago
Suddenly a lot more interested in this study since my city of Chicago seems to now be taking it as a policy recommendation. https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2021/3/28/22355204/foxx-s... Has anyone
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The words "may need" is the lie. Is there anything to indicate these signs will be required in order for parks to reopen?
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by rscoots 6y ago
It's just an unenforced health guideline. Reading through the article it appears this lede is a straight up lie, no? >Six Flags Magic Mountain, Knott’s Berry Farm and Disneyland may need to add new warning signs at the entrances to
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by rscoots 6y ago
You'll have to re-read my comment, that's not at all what I said.
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So you disagree with the 1st amendment in principle? Websites either allow freedom of conscience or they do not. The government supplying a "right" doesn't appear to be morally relevant.
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> If we were talking about sending people to jail for sharing PizzaGate conspiracies I wouldn't support it, but I don't really see what benefit there is to Facebook or Twitter tolerating such content Why is the punishment moral
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What is their excuse for not having a transparent and accountable model for their censorship efforts? You never named the people at these companies you trust to decide what is conspiracy and what is not. I'm sure you can recall many re
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by rscoots 6y ago
The quotes in thier headline were entirely fabricated, and several other news organizations who claimed to have had "independently verified" the quotes also spread the lie for months. So yes, the exact organizations who are arguin
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>That is the reason why his message resonated so well. Not because he was color blind, that is naieve. It is because he pointed out, and very rightly, that ignoring the black community or any community of people over racism creates a los
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by rscoots 6y ago
If you forgo justice in the name of the greater good don't be mad when you get neither. By your own admission, it's a precarious moral tightrope you're walking here.
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He advocated for a color blind future. Obviously he did not bury his head in the sand to the non-color blind injustices he saw in his country.
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You'll note that the user you're replying to mentioned news organizations, not people with fedal power. Can you name the people at these large tech companies you trust to determine what constitutes a hoax and what doesn't? Ho