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by tarakat 4y ago
Liability? Has a game developer ever been held legally liable for not policing their community hard enough?
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And who has been the greatest cheerleader of this totalitarian corporate control, where nothing happens on a platform without the blessing of its corporate master? MS have only themselves to blame, for they did everything in their power to
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Yes, being constantly surveilled by AI-enhanced telescreens when in public is so very complex and nuanced, that we need security and geopolitics experts to tell us if that's the kind of society we want to live in. A lay person is simpl
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The reasons they gave are lies. They're paying you less because (they think) they can. That's all there is to it. Another reason is because they know where you live, and the salaries in that location. Keep that in mind when someon
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Actions of individuals are representative of and inherent to a website/movement/ideology when it is useful, and at most incidentally connected otherwise. It's the same reason the media always mentions the Charlottesville rall
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As a [flagged] [dead] comment noted, that doxxing dates to 5 days after its "victim" shot up a school, then killed himself: https://www.newsweek.com/william-atchison-led-double-life-on...
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by tarakat 4y ago
> A new, lower voting age of 16. Moreover, voting “constitutes a right and a civic duty,” and so voting would become compulsory for everyone 18 and over. This keeps popping up. Whose interests does it serve to make those who vote, on ave
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Those Europeans were themselves on the receiving end of foreign disease when the Black Death was brought to Europe from somewhere in Asia. Strange how for some plagues, their foreign origin is emphasized, while for others it is ignored, des
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But it should do something about how 2-3 giant corporations have become effective arbiters of online speech.
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We'll see if this runs afoul of disparate impact [1], or even the narrower disparate treatment, since it was their declared intention to choose neighborhoods based on race. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispara
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by tarakat 4y ago
So if an article casually threw in some disparaging remarks about Blacks, Asians, or Jews (or, as was the case here, implied the entire problem the article was talking about was disproportionately their fault), they'd be expect to let
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by tarakat 4y ago
That sounds rather Euro-centric. Non-majority-white countries are also heavily represented in academia - China, India (and most of Asia, really), and the Middle East pop to mind - whites don't enjoy "intersectional privilege"
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by tarakat 4y ago
It's largely due to that alliance that ISIS even cares about Europe. The "alliance" itself is largely one-way - the US and Europe topple the government of any country that looks at Israel funny, and in return they get.. what?
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A better comparison would be Black Panther or Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - fictional stories and worlds loosely inspired by real places, just like Middle Earth.
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> Amazon says that intentionally bad reviews shall not pass Will "intentionally good" reviews also be banned? For example if they like the show for the "wrong" reasons?
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Affirmative Action Was Banned at Two Top Universities. They Say They Need It(nytimes.com)
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Those sound like problems with the pupils, not the school. This is not semantics - it affects how to solve the problem, and informs what consequences various solutions may have.
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How does one decide which countries owe reparations? Poland could equally demand reparations from Russia [1], as could most of Eastern Europe, while South-Eastern Europe could demand reparations from Turkey. Yet one never sees headlines abo
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> But generally, this is simply because of crime and bad schools due to the cycle of poverty. What makes the schools bad, if they receive on-average marginally higher per-pupil funding than mostly-white schools [1]? [1] on average, both
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by tarakat 4y ago
> this story says that this program is in historically Black and Latino neighborhoods. Kind of a difference if it's open to all people or not. Even if open to all people, this is a clear case of disparate impact [1], which runs afou
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> The only way your comment makes sense is if you're suggesting it's a problem that white British being a minority is a problem. Why don't you tell me - do ethnic minorities without a country of their own face any challeng
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Salami slicing. No single step will ever make much difference for the majority of Portuguese, until they suddenly find themselves a minority in their own capital, as happened to the English.
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If a nation cannot give preference to its own people, then that nation effectively does not exist. As for "established rules", the idea that nations should be reduced to economic zones is relatively novel, and not something most v
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It's hard to empathize with a belief system that thinks pricing a native population out of their own country is fair. I suppose if you hold that everything should be subordinate to economics, including community and nationhood?
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> It only dropped support for the Daily Stormer after Heather Heyer was killed in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 during a white supremacist rally. When someone calls for censorship because speech leads to violence, ask yourself: Is t
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> Open to the public, accessible and inclusive, museums foster diversity and sustainability This sounds less like a definition and more like a goal. It is absurd to consider an institution that ticks all the other boxes, but does not &qu
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I hope that since this is an issue both 'teams' agree on in this case, the discussion can be fruitful, and not devolve into partisan bickering. I am especially curious why progress has been so glacial, given that both sides of the
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DeSantis sues Biden administration over Canadian drug importation program(politico.com)
1 points by tarakat 4y ago|2 comments
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A story was submitted on this topic. I don't wish to give the right-wing site that published it more exposure, but the top comment [1] is falsely defaming the website and giving cover to Google's deception, and should be corrected
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> On June 22, 2020, a month after George Floyd’s murder, the director of Google.org emailed the Jewglers listerv, to formally apologize to Jewish employees. He cited concern from Jews at the company that Google’s donation to the Movement

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