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Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Hah, this is great. If you don't get the references, it's Hanlon's Razor ("Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity") plus Arthur C. Clarke's "3rd law" ("Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.") Apparently it's called Grey's Law: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Grey%27s%20L...
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Even better, here are the videos along with their locations: https://www.tommycarstensen.com/terrorism/index.html
That's hilarious. Some trumpian complaining about furniture in offices while people are homeless on the streets https://www.tommycarstensen.com/terrorism/pQf5uxtLtxH5.mp4 Neglating to remember his president has been in charge for 4 years The guy coughing at 1m34 too! Rioter 1: "They just hit that dude" Rioter 2: "Yeah because he was being a prick" https://www.tommycarstensen.com/terrorism/4wIDySD7tKxo.mp4 18 seconds…
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Someone put together an animated heatmap of Parler photo locations along the Mall throughout the day of 1/6: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/kvx88n/oc_...
Looks like this aged poorly https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1348619731734028293
"Authoritarians never believe they're authoritarians, no matter how much censorship, surveillance, jingoism, & imprisonment they demand.
They tell themselves their enemies are so uniquely evil and dangerous - terrorists - that anything done in the name of fighting them is noble."
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Even better, here are the videos along with their locations: https://www.tommycarstensen.com/terrorism/index.html
That's hilarious. Some trumpian complaining about furniture in offices while people are homeless on the streets https://www.tommycarstensen.com/terrorism/pQf5uxtLtxH5.mp4 Neglating to remember his president has been in charge for 4 years The guy coughing at 1m34 too! Rioter 1: "They just hit that dude" Rioter 2: "Yeah because he was being a prick" https://www.tommycarstensen.com/terrorism/4wIDySD7tKxo.mp4 18 seconds…
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You can express opinions all you want, but you’re going to have to do a lot of work in order to justify compelling someone to do business with you after you say something they don’t like. Like, amazon isn’t actually the basic infrastructure of the internet. You can build web sites and apps without involving them. So why would a law force them to do business with you?
I didn't say anything about "forcing Amazon to do business" with me. If that's your solution, it's a non-starter. I don't have a solution, but Amazon + Apple + Google coordinating to shut down a platform for communication - even a platform that contains expression that I strongly disagree with, I might add - is a problem that requires a solution This is what I wish more people understood now rather than later, but at…
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Yes, it's as easy as those two commands, unless you want people to actually receive your emails.
It is not that simple yes, however it is not too hard, especially if you are mostly only sending to registered users. It is lot harder to setup a dc and get ISPs to peer with you than setup the app itself.
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Are they though? Maybe I just lack some knowledge but it seems there's a trend where these definitions are shifting so that right become far right, and sometimes even people who would have been left are suddenly being called right. That said I don't know much about these particular people.
Strange I have the feeling it's quite the opposite. The "progressive" democrats would just be center-right in my country (Germany).
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How much free speech do you have on this site? Why don't you try agitating for violence here and see what happens. After all, it's just speech right?
I would expect to be flagged, and then banned, and rightfully so. I was just pointing out that Parler is nowhere near as "free" as it claims to be.
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It is not that simple yes, however it is not too hard, especially if you are mostly only sending to registered users. It is lot harder to setup a dc and get ISPs to peer with you than setup the app itself.
Do you have some resource to share on this simple set up?
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Your home is not infrastructure. Internet service, banking and online payments are infrastructure just like water, gas and electricity and companies shouldn't have the right to cut you off on ideological grounds or because your spew out so called hate speech. Note I said internet service not a subscription to a social media service. Your internet provider may decline to provide you with email, hell the may even decli…
> gas and electricity and companies shouldn't have the right to cut you off on ideological grounds or because your spew out so called hate speech All of us here in the US are entitled and reserve the right to do business with whom we want as long as it doesn't violate discrimination laws, which focus on race, religion and things like that - not opinion about whether there are lizard people ruling the government or th…
When those oligopolies act in concert or along the same ideological lines what options do you have?
E.g. the authorities can seize cash from you as has happened to store owners who went to deposit it at the bank. If every bank refuses to serve you which you claim to be their right, then why do you have laws which to criminalize cash holdings if that forces you to withdraw your cash from them and hold it in the street or at your home?
One cannot criminalize large cash holdings arising from cash payments which is okay with many people while at the same time giving banks the right to deny service.