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Yes. The more control centralized authority has the more they can control hate speech. Please babysit us apathetic cynical regulatory capture mechanisms - I mean politicians.

I’m so tired of seeing these posts. Private people can criticize whatever they want about Facebook and the crappy things they do. Commenting isn’t some “illegal activity” when it’s…

Good. Maybe this’ll clarify for some people that a tech oligarchy isn’t the optimal way to control speech.

I care about the reality of free speech, not the abstract concept. It matters to me not one bit who the censors are if the end result is the same. A handful of companies control th…

Yeah, let's forget that taxpayers paid for the internet and so much of the internet infrastructure in US. But it's cool to cut off the people who subsidized it.

If the US antitrust machine hadn't been asleep at the wheel for a couple decades, it wouldn't be a problem. "There's no mechanism to force a private business to do a thing" - but b…

Neither party values freedom or privacy. Who can I vote for who even pretends? I'm gay and largely agree with leftist ideals, but completely disagree with modern tactics by both pa…

Thank God Jeff Bezos is protecting us from these vile terrorists. We need to take down Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile. The insurrectionists were customers and bafflingly, thes…

As long as it's framed as a way to cut off immoral right wing extremists from the financial system, Silicon Valley will enthusiastically embrace dystopian government control of cur…

"Go make your own Facebook" Then AWS takes down Parlor. And so many on Hacker News rejoice. "Go make your own AWS" Where does that end? Go make your own domain registrar? Go make y…

Deplatform France!

That's totally the same thing - because downloading a paper destroys the original copy.

Referring to the straw man platform, obviously.

What's embarrassing is the fact that our industry is so obsessed with censoring wrongthink that it's not enough to drive thought criminals off of mainstream platforms - we have to …

Let's sweep all the dirt under the rug and then act surprised when we find it's so much grosser than the rest of the floor.

After WWII when the Soviets took control of nations like Poland, they didn't flat out ban free speech. But they did make sure only the communist-aligned outlets had unlimited acces…

I just received the above email from Azlo, as well as a very similar email from https://www.simple.com/ Both companies are owned by BBVA USA. I wouldn't be surprised if there are m…

It is with regret that I share this news today: Our parent bank, BBVA US, has made the strategic decision to close Azlo. Transparency is incredibly important to me and the Azlo tea…

I really like the way they lay out the probability factors that contributed to their conclusions - it's easy to follow, at least. I'm glad they put money behind it, but dislike tha…

Unsurprising. I wish that mass surveillance didn't have complicit bipartisan support, but people in power only ever seem interested in expanding it.

A lot of fun facts here - definitely a pick-me-up as the year closes out. I'm cancelling my upcoming polar bear liver eating party ASAP.

Over the last several years, I've stopped buying games that aren't on Linux. It's just too much of a hassle to be switching around when there's plenty of Linux-supported fun to be …

> they hate controversy even more. Did you come from the Berenstein Bears universe? Apple does unpopular things constantly. The iPhone 12 doesn't come with a charger, and you think…

> De-monitized just means advertisers don't want to advertise on those channels via YouTube It means YouTube believes that advertisers don't want to advertise, or that journalists …