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by toofy 6y ago
We have to remember that certain people were wholly convinced that Jazz in the early 20th century was evidence that the Jazz generation with all of its “degeneracy” would destroy civilization because the music in their generation was someho
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by toofy 6y ago
> I don't think the demographics of this platform fall under that umbrella. If someone on here is asking for more information and articulating their reasons for it well, there's no reason to hide it. The data is available. No o
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by toofy 6y ago
I think that’s part of the OPs point–this article tells us almost nothing usable other than its “good enough” and when that type of statement accompanies no information about actual quality, it’s useless and is almost certainly a puff piece
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by toofy 6y ago
This feels like convenient timing with the all of the recent talk of raising broadband standards. Its also convenient that this seems to not actually measure quality by anything other than “good” which sounds an awful lot like the language
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by toofy 6y ago
I’d argue we have more interaction with different people and ideas now than we have in the entire history of the world. And i’d argue people were far more siloed with people before than they are now. Joining up with people or clubs or group
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by toofy 6y ago
> Yes it's unfair that Twitter gets away with hosting way worse content, but life is unfair, that doesn't mean you stick your head in the sand and pretend the risk of de-platforming never existed. Im with everything your post s
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by toofy 6y ago
the same people have been denying this problem for the past few years. they’ve been constantly either changing the subject or denying that the problem exists at all. mass shootings? oh no big deal. a newsroom was shot up? oh no big deal.
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by toofy 6y ago
Twitter can make a good-faith argument they attempt to remove content that is questionable or that incites violence–they can point to millions of accounts and posts they’ve removed for those very reasons. The ceo of parler can not.
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by toofy 6y ago
I understand what you’re trying to say, but let’s remember, the position of many who want higher taxes is that a lot of things some of those conservatives “built” was actually built by someone else and they also heavily rely on a massive in
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by toofy 6y ago
> I think platforms like Youtube and Facebook have shown the dangers of democratised mass-broadcasting. Does anyone know of any good research on the early days of radio? I have a suspicion we had a similar problem before regulation due
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by toofy 6y ago
While the amount of wealth companies and a few individuals have is absolutely concerning and something we’d be crazy to ignore, it boggles my mind that you don’t see any differences between governments and companies when it comes to speech.
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by toofy 6y ago
I understand folks ITT saying some of these are known issues, but it’s important to remember this community is more informed than most others in terms of technology. I’ve absolutely had to steer some users away from telegram who were misled
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by toofy 6y ago
I’d feel much more strongly about companies having policies asking people to stay out of politics if this meant money could go nowhere near politics. If we allow the money from those who control that money to be used as cudgels to sway po
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by toofy 6y ago
look at it this way, if major companies who spend billions to hire the best industry security experts to secure their devices and their networks still find themselves regularly compromised, then consider how many of the iot companies are ti
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by toofy 6y ago
zoom has already become a verb. honestly, i was aok with riot as a name being a barrier to entry, i’m fully convinced at this point that barriers to entry somewhat mitigate against eternal september and the toxicity which follows with it.
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by toofy 6y ago
> ...perhaps Facebook hastens a journey that some users were already on... My suspicion is that we had built up guard rails that were somewhat effective in mitigating against the vulnerable falling completely into the cracks. We should
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by toofy 6y ago
Yeah, food coops but strictly limited to a residents of neighborhood would be close to what I had in mind. I wonder if you could put in the association bylaws that it must remain free of profits/margins/“arbitrage” to mitigate aga
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by toofy 6y ago
For a few years I’ve wondered how possible it would be for large neighborhood associations to own a neighborhood grocery store. I haven’t bothered yet to run the numbers, but I would expect if the association was large enough it wouldn’t ad
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by toofy 6y ago
I think it’s a bit dishonest for us to imply it would have taken a determined online sleuth — unless we now consider anyone who would have simply googled a name to be a determined sleuth. I agree though, it’s kind of a silly thing to put mu
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by toofy 6y ago
The cats been out of the bag for a long, long time. I mean, look, if he had already had anonymity, I would absolutely be considerably more understanding of the outrage behind this, but let’s be honest, his name has been connected to ssc (si
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by toofy 6y ago
They can seemingly do most acts which occur in war, as long as they don’t officially declare it. I mean, when is the last time we officially declared war? It has to have been decades ago.
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by toofy 6y ago
I hope we’ve reached a point where aside from pedophilia or coercive sex practices, sexual proclivities and drug use would not be enough to blackmail anyone today. The religious right and their “moral majority” have been hamstrung both thr
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by toofy 6y ago
We can’t pretend this discussion isn’t directly rooted in government overreach, the government is using the data.
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by toofy 6y ago
> Do you really want to take the position that the government cannot monitor any group until it commits a crime? There is an ocean of options in between “do nothing” and “surveil and database every citizen who potentially maybe, might, c
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by toofy 6y ago
And almost every single one of those they had evidence, indications of which particular individuals to monitor/infiltrate. Often this was through reliable sources.
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by toofy 6y ago
> ...very pessimistic of law enforcement getting anywhere near politics. > Many of the ugliest chapters in our history involve failing to uphold this standard. I don’t have data to back this up, but I certainly would not be shocked to
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by toofy 6y ago
I’ve seen many videos of the same types of behaviors. My suspicion is things like this are intentional. Police are incredibly aware of how things are framed in media reports and they’re very aware of how little the media questions their ac
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by toofy 6y ago
> So I'm not clear why so many people are against the police catching the violent criminals Because someone can be against physical violence and simultaneously think surveilling everyone is wrong.
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by toofy 6y ago
But it is much more difficult to get away from the expectation that you’re always on.
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by toofy 6y ago
Yeah, I think a lot of the people who don’t think the ad boycott will be impactful are not taking into account how fb is just plain unpleasant to use now. This boycott is also causing a conversation to occur where people are considering oth

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