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by zpeti 6y ago
Fair point. Of course a lot of those industries have sown up regulation and spend enough of lobbying to not have to do shit. Unfortunately.
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by zpeti 6y ago
Then your management aren't very good. The reason is that every business, or system gets worse if you don't improve it. Call it entropy in physics. If you don't try and improve, pay attention to the market, adapt, move, chang
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by zpeti 6y ago
This attitude is a big problem, because once you allow it for political pile-on, it's suddenly available for other issues, like this one. It's what every free speech advocate has been saying for years, or decades, or hundreds of y
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by zpeti 6y ago
I'm slightly sceptical, because with open standards you still need to do moderation somehow. The WSB are complaining that Reddit didn't give them the mod tools they need. I believe we're going to see fragmentation in platform
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by zpeti 6y ago
Except that they are also saying they weren't given the mod tools they needed. And I'm not sure how you moderate decentralised social media. I say this as the founder of Retalk.com, which we built exactly for this type of situatio
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by zpeti 6y ago
Sigh, do we really have to play this game? I'll take the other side. I wonder what all the EU citizens think who are not getting vaccinated because the EU thought it would play hard ball with the drug companies, who basically went else
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by zpeti 6y ago
Yes they did. For 4 years they blamed and attacked FB and Twitter for letting trump win. The pressure was enough. Enough for these platforms to disable private messaging of bad Biden news story links. Whether you think it was true or not, i
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by zpeti 6y ago
Except it was Obama that jailed the most whistleblowers in history. Who didn’t pardon Snowden either. But yeah, it’s all an alt right conspiracy.
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by zpeti 6y ago
Come on, you are saying that greenwald is compromised because he attacks the left, yet he’s done good work at the same time on Brazil and bush? So which is it? He’s crazy when he’s talking about others but not your side? Could it be that he
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by zpeti 6y ago
I think you’re thinking of the gold standard abandonment which was in 1976, way before Reagan or thatcher. They did liberalize a lot of markets but attributing the way banking works specifically to them is a bit of a stretch. Also during wa
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by zpeti 6y ago
Twitter bans people for misgendering someone. 5 years ago that wasn’t even a word. Who exactly is the fringe here?
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by zpeti 6y ago
I'm surprised how no-one ever brings up this point. I've thought about it many times too.
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by zpeti 6y ago
Going down this path, consider that Facebook caused genocide, the active killing of a population. Parler caused 1 night of rioting. How is that for percentages of content being objectionable?
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by zpeti 6y ago
Maybe with the democrats winning everything, plus the obvious power tech now has, they don't think there's much risk in actually breaking the law in this. But hey at least they're banning apps that haven't actually been
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by zpeti 6y ago
I think baby boomers are not as fragile (as some other "groups") and don't get offended by someone calling them a name.
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by zpeti 6y ago
Open protocols, or non profit open source projects will never compete with true entrepreneurship and hardcore entrepreneurs creating products. They just can't move as quickly, or deliver good enough products. What I think internet 3.0
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by zpeti 6y ago
That will depend on how much resentment the food photo artists will feel. Plus a lot of social media companies start with fringe groups but then grow more mainstream over time. You are also assuming the censorship is only of people calling
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by zpeti 6y ago
So, medium and long term, what's the plan here (in the market)? Are we going to have "Republican Friendly" services for everything? CRM? Social media? Patreon alternative? App stores?? Seems like the market at some point is g
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by zpeti 6y ago
A lot of people are bringing up points about how big FB and Twitter is and they inevitably have bad content... so... Let's take into account that parler (and other platforms) caused 1 night of rioting. Facebook caused GENOCIDE - the ac
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by zpeti 6y ago
This a thousand times. This is one of the biggest issues in how we’ve set society up, yet no politician wants to bring it up because it’s harder to sell than “everyone should own a home”. Young far left wingers really should know that it’s
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by zpeti 6y ago
That’s an interesting clarification as I’ve never heard this take before, especially from the press who’s supposed to speak for the left. They seem pretty happy with just plain: let’s defund the police, full stop.
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by zpeti 6y ago
Fine, you are right, I’ve said the same thing many times, and fallen into it myself. However on the left the people pushing for this are as mainstream as Nancy pelosi, so I’m not sure what term to use. “Pro censorship left”?
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by zpeti 6y ago
The less worrying option 4 is that the right just has to use browsers and desktop computers and not apps. But I worry that you are right. Visa and MasterCard have already been non politically neutral. And where will the left stop? Even if w
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by zpeti 6y ago
I always liked Felix Dennis' metric that he said in his book about "lifetime spending totals". Which he claimed he won at (hundreds of millions) with the amount he spent on crack, wine, and hookers. Good times.
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by zpeti 6y ago
You’re saying that like the other side hasn’t had to endure the entire Russian conspiracy thing (Steele dossier) for years, which has been thoroughly discredited. It was shared widely and I haven’t seen any mainstream coverage when it got d
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by zpeti 6y ago
Because despite so many people claiming Trump will create a dictatorship, it turns out US courts do actually have power, and the seperation of powers does actually work. The president isn't the be all and end all power in the USA, as s
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by zpeti 6y ago
Reading this thread I really start to feel people don't understand what fraud is. You shouldn't be calling it fraud when in the next paragraph you say that FB does work for impulse buys and not "ozonetel" Just because yo
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by zpeti 6y ago
Even if I agreed with you, we are talking about the cutting edge of optimisation, of driving down costs, of doing things in volume. The exact things you also say a market is needed for. We aren't talking about a military research proje
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by zpeti 6y ago
It’s almost become normal now that bureaucrats get to decide which social group to spend money on, or which region to renovate buildings in, but the arrogance of thinking you can spend your way to the most cutting edge of current technology
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by zpeti 6y ago
It’s sad to see that in the last 10 years this type of comment (tries to) ruin every single inspirational story. Just because there’s shit in the world doesn’t mean there isn’t beauty and greatness and awesomeness sometimes. In fact that’s

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