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by ttt0 6y ago
Of course, you're right, I should've phrased that differently.
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by ttt0 6y ago
I guess, but that's a weird point to make in the context of (self-)censorship in the academic world. Just saying.
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by ttt0 6y ago
Who said anything about book burnings? Claiming that it's just the owner of the work who decided not to sell it is not giving the full story, if it's not a lie by omission.
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by ttt0 6y ago
It's closer to "you know, I wish this hadn't been released and I've decided that no one should be able to sell their copies of it ." According to wsj: > Online marketplace eBay Inc. said it is working to prevent
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by ttt0 6y ago
Regarding gender, there is another thing that confuses me. I was told all this time that gender is a social construct, a set of behaviors for a particular gender that might differ between different cultures, ie. it's not real. But read
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by ttt0 6y ago
But different how? Did they just imagined they were transgender, but they really weren't?
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by ttt0 6y ago
> Not a thought was given to it. Because you don't look at your family in a sexual way. Similarly in Renaissance, for example, we had some nudity going on in art, but it was done in a tasteful and non-sexual fashion. That's dif
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by ttt0 6y ago
> Nobody chooses to be a transgender person. It just happens sometimes, like being born with 6 fingers on your hands. Does that explain the existence of people who regretted it and detransitioned?
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by ttt0 6y ago
> If Facebook starts censoring posts or private person-to-person DMs with your URL in it https://heavy.com/news/2019/05/facebook-bans-infowars/
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by ttt0 6y ago
> This is just another case of someone who believes in ideas that are becoming less popular and less acceptable complaining about nonexistent unfairness. I don't know, it's not a good look when you censor someone and say "
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by ttt0 6y ago
Sure, I'm not saying that they are the only people responsible. The thing is that everyone has the same mindset to the point where it seems almost like a coordinated effort. And Cloudflare's CEO admitted that the purpose behind th
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by ttt0 6y ago
They were successfully censored from the internet for quite some time. I believe they were only available through the onion. They must've burned through like two dozens of domains at this point.
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by ttt0 6y ago
There are already laws in place that do just that.
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by ttt0 6y ago
>> one day around the election GoDaddy made a decision to cancel them > Huh. How could they just do that? It eventually went back up right? > Do you have more examples? The first big deplatforming case was probably Cloudflare pu
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by ttt0 6y ago
I suspect you'd have a similar problem if you decided to run a twitter archive.
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by ttt0 6y ago
> it's also hard to make it to a mainstream language without a hugely popular project that's associated to it. As long as it's a good language, why do we care if it's mainstream or not?
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by ttt0 6y ago
> Do you honestly think that a black person right now would have trouble finding a restaurant to eat in even if there was no law forcing all restaurants to serve them? No. My point is that it's not as big of a deal as you make it ou
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by ttt0 6y ago
As a solution to this particular problem, not banking overall. And we're not talking about central banks, but normal banks. The competition is still there. Tell me, why shops are not allowed to discriminate on the basis of race? Why no
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by ttt0 6y ago
> Which allows banks to remain an uncompetitive yet inherently necessary market. But how is that better than having enough competition between banks that anyone can find one willing to provide service? Just because the market is regulate
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by ttt0 6y ago
> I reached Apple support but they're unwilling to help, they even refuse to nuke the account as a last resort. I wonder, aren't they required to nuke the account under GDPR? It's probably tied to your real identity.
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by ttt0 6y ago
Yeah, just provide like logs what specifically got you taken down or something. Anything .
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by ttt0 6y ago
Probably something something along the lines of "private company and they can do whatever they want".
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by ttt0 6y ago
Like they were in the right in removing decades of comp.lang.c archives, because it contained some spam? edit: just noticed, their comp.lang.c archives are back up now
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by ttt0 6y ago
They can remove your YouTube account, app, entire Google account or even your website at any time and you can only make guesses why did that happen, because they always make the rules really vague and it's never clear what is or is not
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by ttt0 6y ago
I guess so, but that's a weird question. It's not even a programming language and you can learn most of those in a week or so. It's just a simple library, learning everything about it should take max few days. You can probabl
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by ttt0 6y ago
I think the modern standard of racism is just being white: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/elena-guthrie/racism-white-... https://www.theguardian.com/society/2002/jul/03/raceintheuk
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by ttt0 6y ago
Now I wish I was keeping the archives of all those cases where supporters of cancel culture got cancelled and they suddenly didn't liked it anymore.
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by ttt0 6y ago
> You mean the almost exclusively US interpretation is the most relevant. As far as I'm considered, the worst part about this is that because of American propaganda in the mass media and popculture, people from outside the States ar
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by ttt0 6y ago
Slavery was almost always based on race/ethnicity.
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by ttt0 6y ago
> Words such as "master", "owner", among some other ones were deemed problematic and needed to be changed. This is slippery slope happening right before your eyes. For those who claimed that slippery slope is just a f

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