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They didn’t ask to go viral

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Re: They didn’t ask to go viral

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Post by darepublic »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #64
dustincoates wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know I'm not saying anything new here, but I'm always shocked by just how vicious the Reddit community is, especially from a group who considers themselves highly intelligent (compared to those "other" people). Videos like you describe are there every time I visit, along with fight videos and comments making up a back story as to what the victim did to deserve it, etc. Sometimes I wonder why things like vigilanteis…

Here's the ironic part: Where are all the actually smart people? If the person is actually smart in a field, they probably have jobs in that field. A job that is often extremely mentally or physically involved, leaving little time for revisiting that job over recreational periods (no time to hang out arguing with strangers, life's tough enough). There might also be NDAs involved, or concerns from higher-ups that the…

Intelligence is not a spectrum you can place people along and then point to a dot and say "this is where stupid comments stop"

Re: They didn’t ask to go viral

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Post by Gud »

plagiarist wrote: post #148
SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #142

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Of course, this is what I expected to see when you claim far right content isn't a problem. You are severely biased to think that The Donald was anything other than a cesspool of radicalism. The dude has been a lifelong con man. He was an utter failure (and traitor) as a president, as was obvious from the start. Reddit is full of whatever a dogwhistle becomes when everyone can hear it. Just whistles, I suppose. It is…

the_donald was banned years ago, along with many other far right subs. Where are these far right wing subs?

Right or wrong, I don't really care. The far right has been effectively purged from Reddit.

Re: They didn’t ask to go viral

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Post by nonbirithm »

mvncleaninst wrote: post #122
dustincoates wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know I'm not saying anything new here, but I'm always shocked by just how vicious the Reddit community is, especially from a group who considers themselves highly intelligent (compared to those "other" people). Videos like you describe are there every time I visit, along with fight videos and comments making up a back story as to what the victim did to deserve it, etc. Sometimes I wonder why things like vigilanteis…

I kind of wish that some billionaire would just get mad, buy reddit, and run it into the ground. The world would be a much better place Or better yet, round the redditors up and send them to Siberia

Be careful what you wish for, this has already happened to The Social Network Formerly Known As Twitter.

I wonder if anyone who wished doom upon X in the past years is finally getting the satisfaction they wanted from watching its steady demise. Personally I don't see anything stopping someone from just making Twitter: The Sequel and starting the whole cycle all over again. There's nothing that outlaws the creation of an internet cesspool.

Re: They didn’t ask to go viral

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Post by rcme »

yosito wrote: post #140
rcme wrote: post #116

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Ok... I'm just taking your arguments (that you have no expectation of privacy in public) and showing you all the ways that you, personally, have an expectation of privacy in public. You have an expectation in a public shower. You have an expectation of privacy when your bits are in public. Why not in other situations?

You're switching the definition of public from publicly observable to publicly owned. Those are not the same thing.

It’s actually you who are making the distinction. The article doesn’t mention whether or not the filmed people were “in public” or whether they were only “publicly observable” (whatever that means). One of the videos I know for a fact occurred in a shopping mall, which is private property that is open to the public. I assume this means “publicly observable” in your definition.

But in either case, in regards to your original comment, how did you determine these people were "in public" instead of "publicly observable"?

Re: They didn’t ask to go viral

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Post by redfern314 »

ck425 wrote: post #138
yosito wrote: post #53

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> As in I'm obviously expecting to be seen by the people in my immediate vicinity but not by people who aren't nearby. If you're in a forest, maybe that's reasonable. But it would really be interesting to see some statistics about how many security cameras the average person is recorded on in a day, with the images broadcasted to servers around the world. I'd wager a guess that in modern cosmopolitan cities, it's pro…

The important difference though is that most security camera's aren't publicly posting the footage. I'd expect most people to be upset if a shop started live streaming everyone that went by the street.

That would just be a webcam, and there are tons of them out there that don't (to my knowledge) get any blowback.

Example I saw in person a couple years ago (Estes Park, CO): https://originaltaffyshop.com/taffy-cam.php

They had a sign out front saying something like "tell your mom to visit this website so you can wave to her". Nobody seemed to mind. Maybe the difference here is that it is clearly marked?

Re: They didn’t ask to go viral

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

plagiarist wrote: post #148
SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Of course, this is what I expected to see when you claim far right content isn't a problem. You are severely biased to think that The Donald was anything other than a cesspool of radicalism. The dude has been a lifelong con man. He was an utter failure (and traitor) as a president, as was obvious from the start. Reddit is full of whatever a dogwhistle becomes when everyone can hear it. Just whistles, I suppose. It is…

>racists commenting about IQ and 13/50 bullshit

I don’t know what you are saying. Explain?

Re: They didn’t ask to go viral

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Post by plagiarist »

Gud wrote: post #152
plagiarist wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course, this is what I expected to see when you claim far right content isn't a problem. You are severely biased to think that The Donald was anything other than a cesspool of radicalism. The dude has been a lifelong con man. He was an utter failure (and traitor) as a president, as was obvious from the start. Reddit is full of whatever a dogwhistle becomes when everyone can hear it. Just whistles, I suppose. It is…

the_donald was banned years ago, along with many other far right subs. Where are these far right wing subs? Right or wrong, I don't really care. The far right has been effectively purged from Reddit.

Maybe a single hive was removed after years of activity. The users from the Donald were not removed. They moved to other subreddits where they persist with the same behaviors. There has certainly not been any sort of purge.

Re: They didn’t ask to go viral

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Post by plagiarist »

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #156
plagiarist wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course, this is what I expected to see when you claim far right content isn't a problem. You are severely biased to think that The Donald was anything other than a cesspool of radicalism. The dude has been a lifelong con man. He was an utter failure (and traitor) as a president, as was obvious from the start. Reddit is full of whatever a dogwhistle becomes when everyone can hear it. Just whistles, I suppose. It is…

>racists commenting about IQ and 13/50 bullshit I don’t know what you are saying. Explain?

You've thoroughly proven you have no clue you would recognize far-right content when you used the Donald as a counter-example of it, no need to continue.

Re: They didn’t ask to go viral

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Post by FreshStart »

But this has beauty too. Hideous crimes go punished, for the world is watching. Surveillance by the many for the many prevents warcrimes, prevents police brutality, chills a uncivilized humanity, idealized by to many into a civilized humanity. If you aspire to see a unwatched world goto den Haag, travel to auschwitz, to Xinjiang and the Archipel gulag. When the world is not watching and authority story reigns supreme, monsters walk the earth. The cybernetic augmentation of society, the leviathan-cybernetics is a great societal achievement.
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