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The speed at which enshitification is being unleashed surprises me each and every day.
Enshitification is different. It’s when companies destroy a product with hundreds of changes that prioritise internal politics above what end users want. This is something else - just the ego of one rich guy petulantly satisfying his inner demons.
I thought it was about increasing short-term revenue.
> Selective downtime, where the troll finds that the website is down (or really slow) quite often. Not all of the time, because that would tip them off. Trolls are impatient by nature, so they eventually find a more reliable forum to troll.
https://ask.metafilter.com/117775/What-was-the-first-website...
I think that HN itself also shadow flags submissions from a list of domains it doesn't like. Try submitting a URL from the following domains, and it will be automatically flagged (but you can't see it's flagged unless you log out): - archive.is - watcher.guru - stacker.news - zerohedge.com - freebeacon.com - thefederalist.com - breitbart.com
Well, yes, many sites are banned on HN. Others are penalized (see e.g. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... ). None of this is secret, though we don't publish the lists themselves. Edit: about 67k sites are banned on HN. Here's a random selection of 10 of them: vodlockertv.com biggboss.org infoocode.com newyorkpersonalinjuryattorneyblog.com moringajuice.wordpress.com surrogacymumbai.com max…
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The word censorship has so many meanings that I have to ask what you mean by it before I can say whether I see it that way. Is it censorship that the rules of chess say you can't poke someone's queen off the board? We're trying to play a particular game here.
> The word censorship has so many meanings that I have to ask what you mean by it before I can say whether I see it that way. Perhaps its one of those things that are hard to define. [1] But that doesn't mean clear cases don't exist. > Is it censorship that the rules of chess say you can't poke someone's queen off the board? We're trying to play a particular game here. No, but it is clearly political censorship if yo…
I remember some words that succinctly express something I often observe. To paraphrase:
> Left-wing and Right-wing are terms which make a lot of people falsely believe that they disagree with each other.
It is worth trying to find common ground with people “on the other side”.
I can confirm. NYT shows a five-second redirect delay: "wget https://t.co/4fs609qwWt ". It redirects to gov.uk immediately: "wget https://t.co/iigzas6QBx "
Oddly enough the delay is reduced to 1 second by using curl's useragent string (wget --user-agent='curl/8.2.1' https://t.co/4fs609qwWt )
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Test yourself, they link to their site from their profile and it's definitely delayed. https://twitter.com/nytimes
A good test might include a bunch of domains. And checking the timing on each. Could we demonstrate the delay is on t.co and not on NYT?
I also tried 5 NYT links. All had a very consistent 5 second delay through wget.
I could do more, but I don't care to. Everyone knows Elon has gone redpill, so it wouldn't surprise me if he's "owning the libs", but there also could be a dozen other reasons Twitter might do something like this (including plenty that are not nefarious). I just don't care to dig more...
Edit: I suppose I could have given the specific URLs, but I don't know if/how much t.co links leak info, so I'm not keen to do that. But the delay is absolutely on t.co and not the destination sites, at least as far as external users are concerned. It's possible that t.co queries the sites first before redirecting, and if e.g. the NYT is throttling their traffic that's what's delaying things. I don't know how to disambiguate that, but it's definitely a theory worth considering...
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How's archive.is "weird propaganda"?
It isn't banned in comments - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... , https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... , etc. We probably banned it for submissions because we want original sources at the top level.
Then why web.archive.org isn't also banned? [1] And what about things which aren't available from the original source anymore?
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The word censorship has so many meanings that I have to ask what you mean by it before I can say whether I see it that way. Is it censorship that the rules of chess say you can't poke someone's queen off the board? We're trying to play a particular game here.
> The word censorship has so many meanings that I have to ask what you mean by it before I can say whether I see it that way. Perhaps its one of those things that are hard to define. [1] But that doesn't mean clear cases don't exist. > Is it censorship that the rules of chess say you can't poke someone's queen off the board? We're trying to play a particular game here. No, but it is clearly political censorship if yo…
I mostly agree. I argued in an article [1] that it's only censorship if the author of the content is not told about the action taken against the content.
These days though, mods and platforms will generally argue that they're being transparent by telling you that it happens. When it happens is another story altogether that is often not shared.
[1] https://www.removednews.com/p/twitters-throttling-of-what-is...
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Net neutrality was repealed in 2018.
And then reinstated again at the state level. It never went away, this just doesn't apply because Twitter isn't an ISP (in that sense).