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Why not an iPhone? At least Apple seems to care about privacy, and they aren't an ad-tech company like Google or FB.

No removable battery, no headphone jack, no SD card expansion, increased difficulty installing apps not in the official store.. Apples ecosystem is a gilded ghetto

Security on most mobile devices other than those by Apple is a joke. I understand wanting features that aren’t there, but for me these things are very small and easy to work around relative to the benefits iOS provides: namely that the software is generally advanced and high quality.

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We don't know what Apple does with their data. They might print it out and make paper airplanes with it. They might use it to test their backups. And yes, they even might sell it. Or, they may do nothing with it at all. We just don't know. I'm not accusing them of misusing our data, but I do know that they have, in the past, chosen to do something that looks like they are disregarding their user's privacy in order to…

Apple devices can be used without iCloud.

Yes, just like you can use a car without gas.

Re: YouTube and Reddit roll out new restrictions including channel and sub bans

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This is the 21st century equivalent to burning books.

No, it's more like a bookstore not selling books they don't like.

Well, the subs themselves contained lots of content that was wiped without warning, so in that sense it is like book burning.

Anyway, hopefully this'll all help stimulate the creation of actually-censorship-resistant platforms.

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Apple devices can be used without iCloud.

Yes, just like you can use a car without gas.

Not true. Even with the latest iOS 11, iCloud is opt-in, and not required. https://www.macworld.com/article/3252170/data-center-cloud/d...

Clearly, there are some features that rely on iCloud, but you can choose not to use those features and still have a functioning device.

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Let us know what kind of riveting discussions you have with racists, sexists, and conspiracy theorists.

Unfortunately, racists, sexists and conspiracy theorists appear to be the only people who still believe in freedom of speech, and are willing to fight to keep it. Even many of the "hackers" around here seem to support regulation and censorship.

This isn’t a free speech issue. The government isn’t stopping anyone from speaking or thinking anything they want.

Freedom of speech != freedom to publish whatever wherever you want

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America isn't other countries. Guns are as ingrained in rural America's culture as lifted trucks and beer. There would literally be armed revolts if the government tried taking peoples' guns away en masse.

What's interesting is that rural America was in favor of increased gun control in the 1960s when blacks started to assert their right to own guns. Ultimately peoples' attitudes can be swayed and changed and it isn't really hard to do it. Witness our embracing of torture, taking shoes off to board an airplane, fear of sharia law, etc.

Yes, and blacks were taking up arms because they were literally being bombed. The whites wanted to control their rights to have guns so they could continue controlling the black populations with violent force.

So you highlight how gun control has been used as an oppressive tool in the past. What are we do to when only our corrupt government is allowed to have guns?

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Bumpstocks were banned in multiple steps, here in MA where they have a list of ALL people registered to own a firearm they sent a letter out "if you own a bump stock after x date, you're committing a felony". They got back 4 devices. In the WHOLE state. Even though everyone received a letter. It's not going to be easy. source: http://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/02/02/bump-stock-massachuset...

Not everyone owns a bump stock. Anyway, you can also destroy it yourself.

Or... you can keep it and ignore the law. The above comment was highlighting the futility of this kind of ban, so I don’t see what voluntary disposal would do to realize it.

Re: YouTube and Reddit roll out new restrictions including channel and sub bans

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post #92

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Bumpstocks were banned in multiple steps, here in MA where they have a list of ALL people registered to own a firearm they sent a letter out "if you own a bump stock after x date, you're committing a felony". They got back 4 devices. In the WHOLE state. Even though everyone received a letter. It's not going to be easy. source: http://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/02/02/bump-stock-massachuset...

Not everyone owns a bump stock. Anyway, you can also destroy it yourself.

> Not everyone owns a bump stock. Anyway, you can also destroy it yourself.

This is an absurd comment. The parent stated that four units were returned state-wide. Asserting the ability to manually decommission them attempts to give the appearance of undermining the parent’s statement without actually addressing the issue.

I don’t think anyone here, even you, likely believes that even a majority of these were destroyed by the owners, let alone all but four.

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Why not an iPhone? At least Apple seems to care about privacy, and they aren't an ad-tech company like Google or FB.

No removable battery, no headphone jack, no SD card expansion, increased difficulty installing apps not in the official store.. Apples ecosystem is a gilded ghetto

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Re: YouTube and Reddit roll out new restrictions including channel and sub bans

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There are _so_ many ways to make a leathel weapon I can't begin...

If I take my car (a Jeep Grand Cherokee) and ram it into a crowd - I'm confident that can take out more people than I can with a gun, knife, probably even bomb.

Point being, I understand not facilitating trade, but for the love of god, videos? You really want to push the right over the edge?

We need guns. Legally, in the U.S. it's our right - one of the first and most protected rights. The ability to defend yourself and country in the face of tyrany. Look at what happened in Ukraine, Syria, etc. A government doesn't fuck with a populace that has guns, so it increases stability. When you don't have the ability to defend your rights, you don't have rights anymore.

Further, violence isn't associated with guns - it's associated with people being suppressed or by mental issues. The weather is more associated with murder than guns...

I even understand trying to reduce ways to kill massive amounts of people easily. But again, I have a car, I know how to make chlorine gas, so on and so forth.

Address the actual problem and stop making this political. We know you're afraid of guns - that's fine. I'm affraid of dogs, but I'm not going to support banning them (look at them, they are built to kill things human size).

Stop talking about mass murders and start talking about tragedies, do a black out on mass murders names. That'd probably fix the issue in time. Then teach everyone about gun safety, how to use them, the dangers, etc. I'm telling you right now, by removing these videos you're arming people, and exhasborating the problem.

In fact, they just pushed me to buy a weapon.

\flip table and walk out

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