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That is extremely unlikely to be true. The guests don't own the copyright, so they can't leverage that. Also, some of the guests are protesting this on Twitter.

> Predictably, people break out the C-word. Censorship is now a taboo word? That's pretty ironic.

I'm sure the motivation of many book burners of the past was also to save the would-be readers from eternal hell. Possible good motivations don't justify censorship. You could argu…

I don't think that's a good framing of the issue. Otherwise, why is merely making the "cancellers" face the "consequences" of their actions bad?

No, it's not representative of how free speech would look like. "The coven of the witches" problem arises in part because of all the witch-hunting going on.

> Forgive me but what are you protesting exactly? Corporate censorship. [1] > At some point you have to look in the mirror. I don't appreciate your personal attack. You are not arg…

> They can do whatever the fuck they want. If that's your framing, you should also grant that we can also protest whatever the fuck we want. This is a trite and unfruitful line of …

> every periodical does. I’m not sure what the point of complaining about that is. That is broadly correct, though not all of them are equally biased. However, journalistic objecti…

I don't think that's the reason. Hanlon's razor is just a heuristic, we shouldn't blindly and naively apply it to everything. I think you can see how biased Mother Jones is by taki…

I think that is is an excellent and relevant example of press bias, which @legerdemain was commenting on. Generic straw mans are not conducive to good faith arguments, HN or elsewh…

> I have seen this disingenuous copy-paste objection show up in every thread on this topic on HN To be fair, your comment is objectively more generic and closer to a "copy-paste ob…

We don't have a moral duty to make eighth-graders see depictions of everything that is heinous and ugly about the world.

It has a "FIND GAME" option if you'd like to play with random people.

I don't know, but Brendan Eich (Brave's CEO) [1] is pretty active on Twitter, and I think he used to answer the questions people asked. You could try asking him there. Let us know …

Come on, what kind of clickbait is that? So Brave has an opt-in option to see ads [1], and they have some measures to protect against fraud. They are simply being honest about the …

Maybe, but still P(doing something nasty | "Great question") > P(doing something nasty)

Right, and a standard response to cryptopunk fundamentalism is pointing at rubber-hose cryptoanalysis [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis

I changed the title, as the original was misleading and clickbaity: "Elections Canada: 205,000 mail-in ballots were not counted". The original reporting this is based on is by Blac…

It is a technological problem too. Telegram has a much better UI/UX than Signal, and not having end-to-end encryption by default is part of the reason.

Based. Abelson and Sussman, of SICP fame, are among the signatories. So is Ronald Rivest, the R in RSA (and CLRS). Chomsky too.

The title is slightly misleading. It would be more accurate to change "its own archives" to "its reruns of the old shows". That's bad enough though. They are making "woke cuts" [1]…

Antibiotics rock, and I think penicillin is rightly praised as being as closed to a Panacea as it gets. However, we shouldn't underestimate the positive effect of better hygiene, v…