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> start worrying about more serious problems I completely agree with your sentiment, but what societal problem isn't currently being made worse by political polarization and misinf…

> For example, in Poland, "one party’s social media management team estimates that they have shifted the proportion of their posts from 50/50 positive/negative to 80% negative and …

The distinction lies in whether the service provider has rendered themselves a "publisher" under 230. The protection has historically been broadly interpreted but, in theory, Faceb…

By "work[ing] well", what is the metric you see as success? A broad society that has rendered itself completely nonthreatening to its ruling class? A place where certain forms free…

> Secondly, I'm not convinced that mass surveillance is entirely ineffective. Wholly I agree that it's illegal, unconstitutional, immoral, overwrought, wicked expensive, and overre…

OK I'll bite. From this article: >The public learned about the NSA’s “PRISM” and “Upstream” programs, which involve [...] warrantless surveillance of Americans’ international commu…

And the key question would be: is there any statistically significant report of safety or efficacy problems in any peer reviewed study or even reported through VARES?

Nothing was omitted from my statement. They have been authorized under an Emergency Use Authorization, not the full approval process because, if we waited for full approval, we wou…

Healthcare workers in many U.S. states are required to have vaccines for a variety of infections, including hepatitis, influenza, MM&R, etc., as a condition of their presence (and …

Correct -- In many jurisdictions, corporations cannot proceed pro se. They must retain counsel. As far as a company speaking for itself, a corporate representative is often designa…

> a civil court can act against you without giving you representation, without allowing you to have representation, without you present, in secret from the public, and even without…

It’s not just a presumption and it isn’t media just “pushing this.” https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/ > Nineteen of the warmest years have occurred since 200…

How, exactly, does this observation “invalidate” anything? What narrative is being sold here? Please support statements like this with objective facts or thoughtful analysis.

Do you see benefit corporations as being a natural fit for LTSE? If so, would LTSE ever require companies be organized as b-corps as a condition of listing on LTSE?

>We literally have to invent stories of "Russian hacking" and "Russian interference" to try and conjure up some parity. Which of these stores, specifically, were invented? State-sp…

This is an accurate description of limited liability. It does not blanketly shield corporations from liability, only shareholders (and there are exceptions to this as well). In fac…

We could look at one of the cases cited there: >A National Labor Review Board (NLRB) investigation has now found that Amazon illegally interrogated and threatened Jonathan Bailey, …

Writing off legitimate complaints about working conditions at Amazon–which are, in fact, widespread–as "outrage of internet leftism" is dismissive and plain incorrect. [1] By what …

Unfortunately, it seems increasingly apparent that it is. It is especially common in clinical research to gather troves of data "anonymize" it, and release it publicly. I'm very cu…

>The health-care systems are financing the company, with each owning an equal share, Myerson said. He declined to say how much funding the company has received...Eventually, the co…

Iranians who use Signal are Iranians. Your statement is premised on the Iranian government having absolute authority to surveil the communications of Iranian citizens. By that logi…