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by spacebear 6y ago
I would argue that removing the App Store as a single point of failure for free speech [1][2] would be a pretty big benefit. [1] https://torrentfreak.com/apple-bans-vpns-from-app-store-in-c... [2] https://www.buz
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by spacebear 6y ago
Because YouTube has a practical monopoly on user-generated video in the US.
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by spacebear 6y ago
The response you imagine somebody having to that alert: “oh wow, I’ve been mislead. I should reevaluate some of my thinking” The response somebody actually has: “Twitter is part of the pedophile ring and also they’re watching me.”
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by spacebear 6y ago
Yes, any government when you account for overall reach. Just because some governments have censored more content to date, doesn’t mean they’re more powerful than the US tech monopolies. If a link can’t be shared on Facebook, Google, or Twit
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by spacebear 6y ago
In 2020, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Cloudflare are bigger gatekeepers of free speech than any government.
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by spacebear 6y ago
To populate the list of credit cards in your account.
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Feds would be banned from using facial recognition under new bill(theverge.com)
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by spacebear 6y ago
Looks like they're using Jitsi Meet: https://github.com/brave/jitsi-meet
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by spacebear 7y ago
Government-mandated backdoors seem more likely to enable terrorist attacks than prevent them, honestly.
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by spacebear 7y ago
Any tips on how to get your friends to actually use the social network? I've tried and failed with Slack and Mastodon.
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by spacebear 8y ago
I hit that limit when I tried to import my Rdio collection and, similarly, switched to Apple Music. The Spotify UI is pretty awful for browsing a big list of albums, too.
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by spacebear 9y ago
Discover Weekly works great for me, but I have 10,000 songs in my library. (Exactly 10,000 songs, because that’s the very annoying hard limit Spotify has set.)
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by spacebear 9y ago
How do you define art? I've always liked Scott McCloud's definition from Understanding Comics: "Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reprod
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by spacebear 9y ago
Yeah, I've been thinking that for a while now. Haven't seen a "Kill your Facebook" bumper sticker yet, though.