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Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled

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I, for one, don't make accounts on services with a hate speech rate as high as current Twitter. I'd consider an account an indirect endorsement.

What is wrong with respecting people's right to have opinions you don't like? Isn't that what everyone wanted?

no.

Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled

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What is wrong with respecting people's right to have opinions you don't like? Isn't that what everyone wanted?

Free speech is hate speech according to some Edit: I just committed hate speech!

Tech bros. Never change

Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled

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post #21

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What is wrong with respecting people's right to have opinions you don't like? Isn't that what everyone wanted?

Respect and endorsement are not the same thing. Also, when tolerance is the goal, there must be an intolerance against intolerance - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

The problem with that is that the definition of intolerance tends to get weasel-worded into whatever argument suits the trolls.

Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled

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In fairness, Strict Tracking Protection is not a Firefox problem; it is very clearly a Firefox feature. The problem is the sites. X is not really an important site anyway.

I don't think most people in the world would agree with your definition of important. Perhaps you believe that's a good thing anyways. Not sure where I was going with that.

The jury is still out, but there are a lot of articles that are claiming that social media is harmful. Adds stress, harms mood, contributes to anxiety and depression.

The threat to privacy is well documented.

It's enough for a some people to consider such websites as not important, at least to them.

Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled

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post #7

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I, for one, don't make accounts on services with a hate speech rate as high as current Twitter. I'd consider an account an indirect endorsement.

What is wrong with respecting people's right to have opinions you don't like? Isn't that what everyone wanted?

> What is wrong with respecting people's right to have opinions you don't like? Isn't that what everyone wanted?

To the first, the paradox of tolerance.

To the second, we can use traffic numbers as a proxy as to what "most people" want and if that is increasingly or decreasingly found on the platform.

Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I, for one, don't make accounts on services with a hate speech rate as high as current Twitter. I'd consider an account an indirect endorsement.

What is wrong with respecting people's right to have opinions you don't like? Isn't that what everyone wanted?

Are you suggesting that, in respecting people’s right to have opinions GP doesn’t like, GP must make an account and, in their view, endorse those opinions? Or are you suggesting that in merely not liking or endorsing those opinions, GP is somehow denying their right? Does this just apply to Twitter, or should GP also join every forum allowing public signup, to give fair and balanced attention to each of their respective viewpoints?

Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled

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post #10

A similar refusal is observed on Mobile Safari.

And the latest desktop Safari too.

That's great, most websites can afford to give the middle to finger to Firefox but not to all the Apple devices out there.
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