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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28562772
Thanks. Honestly though I'm surprised, I would have thought blocking specific HTTPS websites wasn't so easy.
HTTPS reveals domain, only subdomain/folder is encrypted.
Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin
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I'm not from Scandinavia and the vast majority of US politicians look like interchangeable parts to me as well.
> I'm not from Scandinavia and the vast majority of US politicians look like interchangeable parts to me as well. USA citizen. What's hilarious is that 10 years ago, I would have readily agreed with you. Both parties were too deeply beholden to special interests and corporate interests. There were some policy differences, but not that much, really. In the last five years, however, one party has gone completely batshi…
Same here. I used to vote for a third party candidate in most elections since that was usually who my views aligned most closely with, but in recent years I've switched to voting for the least bad major party because of how awful and terrifying the opposing side has become.
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Define "authoritarian regime"
> Define "authoritarian regime" A simple rule of thumb definition (that could probably use some refinement) is regimes that are either explicitly anti-democratic or a sham democracy. Russia certainly falls into the latter category, as this very story demonstrates. In most cases, it's not that hard.
> as this very story demonstrates.
This story is sufficient to demonstrate that Russia is a "sham democracy"?
Does the fact that Twitter/Facebook/et al banned the NYPost in the run-up to the 2020 election as well as preventing people from sending links to NYPost articles in their DMs "demonstrate" anything about the US?
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"If I don't become complicit, somebody else will be. Might as well do it myself."
I haven't decided if I agree with the comment you're replying to, but this isn't a fair summary of it. Either engage with it or don't but posting a caricature doesn't exactly raise the level of debate around here.
Citing "cancel culture" as the final boss doesn't start us in a place of elevation.
Re: Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin
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If that’s what you’re worried about, then if people have physical control over your phone they could just upload CSAM to your FB or Google photos from it.
There's a world of difference between someone creating a NeuralHash collision and spamming people's iMessage with false positives and actually taking the device and uploading CSAM to the cloud.
Well yes, spamming your iMessages would be pointless.
Re: Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin
#496This is absolutely different from removing Parleur from AppStore and Google Play, of course. Completely different. Apple and Google should immediately pull out of Russia!
Totally different. That slippery slop is just a fallacy.
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What is "a huge any part"? Looks like too many determiners to me, so I'm not sure what you're saying there. > don't have a political representative at all That doesn't make a lot of sense, unless you live in a place like Puerto Rico. I'm not sure if Russia has similar places, but I assume it doesn't.
> What is "a huge any part"? HN doesn't support a strike-through markup. "~~a huge~~" means striked-through font here. I've written it first and then after some thought tried to show that actually the proper word there is "any". > That doesn't make a lot of sense, unless you live in a place like Puerto Rico. I'm not sure if Russia has similar places, but I assume it doesn't. You are so much disconnected from what is…
> You are so much disconnected from what is and how it's happening here.
How am I "disconnected" in thinking that Russia doesn't have US' federal structure that includes non-states?
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What is "a huge any part"? Looks like too many determiners to me, so I'm not sure what you're saying there. > don't have a political representative at all That doesn't make a lot of sense, unless you live in a place like Puerto Rico. I'm not sure if Russia has similar places, but I assume it doesn't.
All people allowed to take part in elections are sanctioned by Kremlin. Try to sign up as a candidate and best case you'll get rejected, worst case beaten, bullied, jailed or murdered.
I have no doubt that what you're saying is true. Still, that doesn't make the difference between lack of choice and illusion of choice any bigger.
Re: Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin
#499Earlier quoted context omitted.
Define "authoritarian regime"
> Define "authoritarian regime" A simple rule of thumb definition (that could probably use some refinement) is regimes that are either explicitly anti-democratic or a sham democracy. Russia certainly falls into the latter category, as this very story demonstrates. In most cases, it's not that hard.
Where does the US MSM and social media refusing to cover anything about Hunter Biden put us?
Re: Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin
#500Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Define "authoritarian regime" A simple rule of thumb definition (that could probably use some refinement) is regimes that are either explicitly anti-democratic or a sham democracy. Russia certainly falls into the latter category, as this very story demonstrates. In most cases, it's not that hard.
> as this very story demonstrates. This story is sufficient to demonstrate that Russia is a "sham democracy"? Does the fact that Twitter/Facebook/et al banned the NYPost in the run-up to the 2020 election as well as preventing people from sending links to NYPost articles in their DMs "demonstrate" anything about the US?
> This story is sufficient to demonstrate that Russia is a "sham democracy"?
It's just another example among many. Russia is a sham democracy because the government takes action to prevent opposition politicians from gaining power.
> Does the fact that Twitter/Facebook/et al banned the NYPost in the run-up to the 2020 election as well as preventing people from sending links to NYPost articles in their DMs "demonstrate" anything about the US?
I sense you think it shows some kind of equivalency, which is not true. Actually, if those organizations had to run the NY Post story, the US would be closer to a sham than it is.