zarkov99

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by zarkov99 6y ago
"We are seeking a permanent injunction against defendants and demanding that they delete all Facebook data in their possession" Facebook data. Not user data. That pretty much sums it up.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Parler had 12 million users at the time it was executed by Amazon.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
That approach would not address the, in my opinion, valid concerns about speech that is harmful to society overall. There is a real problem here with disinformation and incitement to violence. I do not know that letting the self-virtuous te
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Well, that should be solvable by giving people much better tools to manage their personal information intake. The crux of the problem is figuring out when it is OK to decide for them what they can or cannot see.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
The central problem here is in what circumstances free people should give up the right to decide what information they can consume. This is not a question that can be answered easily but without first accepting it as the central issue we ar
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I am actually sympathetic to the Trump ban. I think what he did was pretty close to inciting violence, close enough, specially in the hindsight, that a temporary ban was justified. I agree on the hypocrisy of the Antif/etc stuff.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
This is factually false. There was moderation, there were terms of service and they banned appeals to violence from their site. The glee with which so many in tech are celebrating was essentially an attempt at corporate murder, on ideologic
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Perhaps Parler did not realize that being aligned with conservatism was grounds for deplatforming. I am sure they will learn as will the whole world.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
This is a great response to what happened. Twitter is perhaps justified in banning Trump, when there were no more options. The Parler move on the other hand was a cowardly abuse of power disguised as a display of virtue - and it will be see
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Which of the mobs?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Analogies are fun, but here's a better one. What do you think would happen if you bombed to rubble a mosque that for the most part is frequented by regular people but occasionally is visited by terrorists? For the sake of fairness let&
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Thanks, I took a look. It is not the most coherent presentation but I can see there were examples of crappy posts in there, but so there are everywhere else. The AWS letter made the most reasonable argument and it amounted to an indictment
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by zarkov99 6y ago
You know, one day we might see real Nazis but we won’t have a word for them anymore.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Do you have a good reference that summarizes these findings? I would like to learn more about this.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
And who is it that decides what is Parler's intent and allots the corresponding thought-crime punishment? I am sorry but your point is absurd.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
How was it different from Facebook? Plenty of hate there, for months, why aren't they shutdown? Just listen to the Parler executives account of what happened. Contrary to all the nonsense being spewed by ideologues, Parler did have a m
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I take it you think it is a stupid idea. Why? I am genuinely interested.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
It wasn't applied instantly? Was there some specific deadline they did not meet? Because Twitter does not remove bad things instantly either.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I do not think the problem is that we lost the pretense of objectivity. I am fine listening to people who are not objective, and that is everybody really, the problem is the lack of intellectual honesty and basic fairness. That is just revo
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by zarkov99 6y ago
America would be in a much better place if more people had your sense. Or perhaps most Americans do and we are just being driven insane because the nutcases are the ones that get all the attention.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
No way. NPR is clearly aligned with the Democrats. You have to live in a bubble not to see it.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I agree whole heartily, but I think we should go bigger. I think we should create a fourth branch of government, call it the Informational, whose job is to independently educate and inform citizens of matters relevant to their citizenship.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Are you sure about that? I almost sure I read somewhere that Parler has a policy that prohibits incitement of violence.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I agree that is wrong, but it is not new. Standard of living are much higher than say the 50's. There is something else going on. A mix of nihilism, vast inequality and a societal sensory apparatus that is profiting immensely from chur
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Perspectives are important and so is a humble study of history as way to understand human nature. We are so in love with your technological prowess that we forget it all sits on top of wetware that is very close to what it was 10000 years a
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by zarkov99 6y ago
The problem is who arbitrates which speech is good. If you look back at history there are many examples of speech that was suppressed because it was considered blasphemous or immoral only to later become orthodoxy. I think we are better off
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by zarkov99 6y ago
How have you managed to keep your knees working?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Why is it hard to take it in good-faith? Regardless of one's political persuasion it should be chilling to anyone, especially the hacker types, to see how easily the tech companies can snuff voices out of existence. Who elected them? W
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Oh for crying out loud. Is it not obvious that in both cases people should go to freaking jail? We do not need to agree on which is the worst crime. Are we so blinded by irrational partisanship that we allow criminals a pass if they are in
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by zarkov99 6y ago
You should probably mention Portland, Seattle, Kenosha, Chicago, New York as well. The other kind of insurrectionists seem to also have little to fear from the law.

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