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by studentrob 7y ago
Unintentional miscommunication and duplicitous behavior are not the same thing.
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by studentrob 7y ago
Law enforcement needs to go back to old-school detective techniques if they really need that phone data. Encryption is code, code is speech. Encryption keeps banks safe from criminals. Are we going to go through this for every administratio
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by studentrob 7y ago
> You must not have searched very thoroughly. You're being fairly condescending while assuming I should read the biographies of 7 people based on your brief comment. I'll make this my last comment. Here is a video titled to m
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by studentrob 7y ago
Have the net founders in that list discussed the topic recently? I only see results from 2007, and it's about legislation, not policy, so it could have meant something different at that time. It is unsurprising that investors like Andr
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by studentrob 7y ago
> there's significantly less 'keyboard warriors' over there HN is not blocked in China. Interesting. What is the sentiment when access to a popular website is removed? Does everyone just VPN, or forget about it?
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by studentrob 7y ago
I've often wondered how many controls Facebook gives to SE Asia in exchange for being allowed to operate there. Do they get moderator powers or alert systems? In Vietnam about 5 years ago, you could only use Facebook on your phone. It&
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by studentrob 7y ago
Laos is quite locked down, beyond the internet. You technically can't form a group (e.g. a book club) there without the government's consent, and it is very hard for NGOs to operate. I would not be surprised at any level of intern
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by studentrob 7y ago
I wonder to what degree the population is aware of the level of censorship that happens on the internet today.
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by studentrob 7y ago
It may be that Facebook does not want to show articles in its news feed with the "disinformation" tag attached. For the government to be more transparent, I suppose you could just publish the articles you marked as disinformation,
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by studentrob 7y ago
> making it easy to flag propaganda in apps and then blocking it as she describes is in fact building in a type of censorship That is not what was described, > this will inform the Facebook's algorithm so that it will stop bein
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by studentrob 7y ago
> You cherry picked a deleted comment from a troll subreddit No, as I showed, that post is the most upvoted removed comment in the sub's history. If you think t_d has no influence over the republican party, you do you. This is my
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by studentrob 7y ago
Point is people who understand NN support it. I did not mean to imply non-techies get it, only that when they do, they largely support it.
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by studentrob 7y ago
I shared aggregated statistics calculated across a whole subreddit's history to make my point. That is a fair basis for discussion.
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by studentrob 7y ago
Comments/posts of little substance are evidence of manufactured propaganda. A highly upvoted informed view, on the other hand, that gets removed, is evidence of censorship by those in charge.
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by studentrob 7y ago
The popularity of the topic and its censorship is evidence that the powers-that-be will put down NN wherever they have a chance. What would you use as proxy? r/conservative? They support NN too. https://www.reddit.com/r
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by studentrob 7y ago
> congressional record Politicians do what their constituents want now? That's new. > I wouldn't regard a single post on a subreddit as evidence Visit [1]. See the spike in the graph? That is the link I posted above. It is n
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by studentrob 7y ago
Oh I see now. Thanks for pointing that out. I agree it's not a top 5 issue now, but I believe this is our generation's first amendment torch. We can carry it, or let it go out. To that end, I tend to ignore anyone who suggests &qu
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by studentrob 7y ago
What is your evidence? I cited mine above. People who understand NN support it because it only enables entrenched interests to get more subscription fees from customers. The strong arm is regional ISP broadband monopolies. Through them, a s
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by studentrob 7y ago
I agree that Netflix dominating does not make them a monopoly. No more than Google or Facebook.
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by studentrob 7y ago
> there wasn't a problem Throttling traffic to certain websites [1] is not a problem? The reason net neutrality policy came into being is ISPs were beginning to violate it [2]. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/technol
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by studentrob 7y ago
You must be joking. It was front page here and r/technology for months before net neutrality was repealed. There is no question that public support for net neutrality is broad and bipartisan. The only question that remains is which 202
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by studentrob 7y ago
Comcast and AT&T have the ability to force consumers to pay more with no chance of losing revenue. Regional broadband monopolies + no net neutrality allows them to, 1, Zero-rate their own video services [1] 2, Throttle competitors like
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by studentrob 7y ago
Fair question. IMO this is the government trying to appease the public after they refused to maintain net neutrality, despite overwhelming public support for the policy. I've edited my comment to make that clear.
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by studentrob 7y ago
> I wonder what could be driving it. Redirecting people's anger for Comcast, and this admin's failure to maintain net neutrality despite protest from both sides [1], towards something else. [1] https://revddit.com&#x
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by studentrob 7y ago
And Netflix is not, probably because Hastings once said net neutrality is no longer their primary battle. IOW, they will pay to play. Disgusting. The selections make this a transparent move.
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by studentrob 7y ago
Agreed. Net neutrality needs to be an election issue in 2020. Red/blue agree. The most upvoted comment ever removed from t_d was about NN [1] [2]. [1] https://revddit.com/user/yiannopoulos_m?after=t1_dirwgoo&li
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by studentrob 7y ago
Unsurprising. The government needs to appease the public after killing net neutrality. And, now that ISPs don't need to follow net neutrality, the regional broadband monopolies are free to zero-rate their own video services like AT&amp
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by studentrob 7y ago
> ISPs are more regulated You must be joking. In the US, broadband ISPs are regional monopolies that can and do charge whatever they want while delivering lousy service. This happens while net neutrality is in place. Without net neutra
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by studentrob 7y ago
About the ad business, are businesses getting gouged by Google such that they need help from the government?
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by studentrob 7y ago
Google's products are free. That's not a monopoly.

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