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Post by sanderjd »

throwaway316943 wrote: post #219
sanderjd wrote: post #186

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The privilege to broadcast thoughts to billions of people at no cost is one that we just invented in the last twenty years. It is not a right.

In that case lets apply your principal evenly to all rights. Freedom of movement: heading somewhere we don’t agree with, ok but you aren’t allowed to use public roads since we own those. Good luck getting to the voting station. Freedom of assembly: we don’t support your protests cause, stay off public property, go hold your protest at your own house. Freedom of conscience: fine think whatever you want but if you atte…

Your examples are public places. My comment was about private entities.

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by sanderjd »

teakettle42 wrote: post #226
sanderjd wrote: post #183

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People have a right to speak, but they don't have a right to have their speech amplified by others. There is no right to broadcast. Mill would agree with this, assuming you could explain to him how broadcast media works, which didn't exist in his time.

Mill wasn’t talking about rights ; he was talking about the propensity to suppress unpopular speech, why that’s dangerous, and accordingly, and the moral necessity (and implications) of open discourse.

Yes. And he's right about that. But I'm also right that private entities shouldn't be forced to broadcast things they don't want to.

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by burnished »

corobo wrote: post #239
burnished wrote: post #151

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I see you are getting a lot of pushback and I think its unwarranted. I agree with you, the phrase is becoming tainted. I would like a way to differentiate between places that are wary of the whims of power and places where opinions are so appalling they can't be a part of polite society. We currently talk about them the same, and there has been an uptick of the latter recently that makes being able to differentiate m…

I'd rather say the wrong thing and have a discussion than say nothing and remain ignorant! I did appreciate the irony haha Downvotes are kinda tedious but I understand the original idea behind them. Such is life :) Can't reply to the entire wasps nest I kicked over but I've read, agreed, disagreed, learned. Decent result overall!

I gotta say thats something I really enjoy, being publicly wrong about something and getting educated, or some one else doing it for me and getting the chance to read some thoughtful stuff.

Normally I wouldn't consider downvotes to be worth mentioning, but I thought the irony here was special and worth observing :D

so, thanks!

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by int_19h »

anigbrowl wrote: post #329
int_19h wrote: post #301

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You might continue to watch Netflix because the shows you do like are exclusively available there, and just ignore the rest of the library. It's not that there hasn't been a need for other stuff to be published - it's that there hasn't been a proportional need. Which is exactly what I meant: any alternatives to established platforms are going to have the preponderance of content banished from those established platfo…

You can nearly always find some other route to a given piece of content, or just lose interest in consuming it. Very little content is sooooo compelling that it overcomes all other considerations. Otherwise people who had problems with YT would just set up on a big porn site, which tend to have good infrastructure and long-term viability (at least for as long as people want to keep watching porn, which is probably fo…

> Otherwise people who had problems with YT would just set up on a big porn site

That's exactly what they did. Quite a lot of contents that was banned on YT moved over to PornHub; until the latter started removing them also.

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by int_19h »

morganvachon wrote: post #394
int_19h wrote: post #301

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You might continue to watch Netflix because the shows you do like are exclusively available there, and just ignore the rest of the library. It's not that there hasn't been a need for other stuff to be published - it's that there hasn't been a proportional need. Which is exactly what I meant: any alternatives to established platforms are going to have the preponderance of content banished from those established platfo…

The difference is that Netflix isn’t promoting and profiting off of hate speech and disinformation. Odysee apparently is. I’m sure there is content on the service that I would enjoy, but having to wade through the garbage to find the gold doesn’t appeal to me.

But you don't have to wade through anything. With the service being there, somebody can send you a direct link to the video, and it'll play. In this scenario, you don't interact with their catalog at all, but you still rely on the service for the video to be available in the first place.

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Post by kragen »

jessaustin wrote: post #430
giardini wrote: post #412

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I've used the "pour-on" version of IVM which is used on livestock. I could hardly avoid it: we were deworming and branding a herd of cattle; the method of application was to pour IVM on each critter's back and spread it with your hands. Doing so probably put enough ivermectin in my system to kill any parasites I had 50 times over. Never suffered any consequences AFAICT. I have noticed that the guys who regularly do t…

When we use pour-on we just pour it on. I've never seen any instructions to rub it on with your hands. Liquid that gets stuck to your hands is liquid that isn't still on the animal's skin where it will have therapeutic effect. But sure, it's completely safe for human beings to be exposed to ivermectin. WHO wouldn't recommend it otherwise.

The dose makes the poison; nothing is completely safe to be exposed to. The lethal dose of ivermectin is about 10 mg/kg orally, so it's about 250 times more poisonous than table salt, which from my point of view puts it in the "dangerous poisons" category. But that's about 30 times the standard therapeutic dose, so it's pretty unlikely to happen by accident.

However, that's the standard therapeutic dose for parasites. To work as an antiviral it needs to interfere with viral replication somehow, and since viruses replicate using normal somatic-cell metabolic processes, you'd probably have to take a high enough dose of ivermectin for it to interfere with normal somatic-cell metabolic processes. That, in turn, means you're going to see side effects you wouldn't see at the normal antiparasitic doses.

Nevertheless, there isn't in fact an epidemic of serious ivermectin poisoning, horse dewormers or no. Maybe one in ten million people in the US, less elsewhere.

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by rg111 »

kbenson wrote: post #341
rg111 wrote: post #326

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I found only this video to be slightly political: Is Success Luck or Hard Work? ( https://youtu.be/3LopI4YeC4I ) I don't know about any other video that has any politics in them.

Maybe, inasmuch as it's espousing an idea that is generally more associated with one party than the other, but the focus is really that idea, and it's supporting evidence, not how it related to politics or the parties and how they view it. I would hope people try to asses it on the merits of the arguments and examples, and not how they perceive it related to a specific political agenda they are for or against.

Absolutely agree.

But this is political in current situation, which I don't like.

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Post by int_19h »

a0-prw wrote: post #421
int_19h wrote: post #203

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"Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban. Anyone who has lived long in a foreign country will know of instances of sensational items of news—things which on their own merits would get the big headlines—being kept right out of the British press, not because the Government intervened but because of a general tacit agreement that ‘it wouldn’t do’ to mentio…

Yes, exactly. The outrage and cognitive dissonance that people experience when they see the censorship happening these days can only happen because they actually believed the propaganda about free speech.

Propaganda does not preclude very real variability over time. It's certainly quite true that, for a while now, we have been retreating from "peak free speech" in the Western world. This doesn't imply that said peak was perfect freedom - of course not! But the trend is towards less speech overall, and even more specifically, towards privatized censorship (so as to dodge legal constraints).

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Post by asddubs »

iotku wrote: post #402
strainer wrote: post #390

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> if the worst thing you can say about it is that a guy that refuses to say “damn” or “shit” or “fuck,” is morally offended by some of the legal content But that's not what I described. Its not the content Lunduke had an issue with, it was the marketting decision to promote it with an exclusive spotlight, and then the following unprofessional communications revealing something really dodgy about the company. Conversa…

Yeah, it's not a great look. I'm plenty fine with content I'm not a fan of being on a platform, but it's pretty abhorrent to be promoting it from official channels. What he's referencing, not work appropriate: https://odysee.com/@Odysee:8/axxl-on-odysee:c Their marketing strategy seems to miss the mark and if the company can't understand that it's a huge mistake which will probably not get better.

I mean that's an unfunny off brand pewdiepie, but like, who cares? It's not morally reprehensible or anything, not even really particularly controversial I'd say. It's vulgar in sort of a bland way
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