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Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content

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Post by purpleblue »

unethical_ban wrote: post #249
purpleblue wrote: post #147

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It's only doomed to fail because we have a strong Supreme Court. All the efforts by the Democrats to undermine this will only make things easier for fascists to take over the US.

The Democrats are not trying to weaken the integrity of the Supreme Court.

They don't like the rulings that the Supreme Court has made, so now they are talking about limiting the term of justices, and packing the court with more judges. That is strengthening the integrity of the Supreme Court?

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Post by sangnoir »

alsetmusic wrote: post #365
hnpolicestate wrote: post #348

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The HN crowd is far right but they would never admit it. Most people are unaware of how political parties shift in composition and ideology over the decades. The contemporary American software engineer resembles the professional class Reagan Republicans who dominated the suburbs in the 80's and 90's.

Center-right, I'd argue, but that's true of the Democratic party. HN is very far from far-right in that bigotry and racism isn't tolerated here (nor should they be). But HN is USA in origin and USA politics are further right than most of Europe.

> HN is very far from far-right in that bigotry and racism isn't tolerated here (nor should they be).

As in no outright slurs, right? I've seen plenty of race realist comments, as well as "James Damore is right about women in tech".

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Post by swader999 »

rv3909i wrote: post #286
kjkjadksj wrote: post #246

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Well when you have over 100m in assets in your pile of gold in the dragon lair, its time to be extractive.

How do you know you have over 100m in assets? One never really knows the worth of something until it's sold. (i.e. try selling a used car. there's what you think it's worth and what you get...) And once the asset is sold, that's a taxable event.

Hunter Biden art comes to mind.

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Post by h3rsko »

somewhat_drunk wrote: post #359
subsubzero wrote: post #265

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Agree, Zuck has zero integrity and I think he sees the tea leaves in where things are headed in November and is trying to say he was bullied into making alot of disastrous decisions that he and he only ordered for an administration/party that he personally donated $400M+ to.

>he sees the tea leaves in where things are headed in November Things are headed strongly in the opposite direction you're implying.

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Post by kredd »

wodenokoto wrote: post #183
jpadkins wrote: post #176

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Elon was born in Africa and is not eligible to be president.

Zuckerberg vs trump, would also pretty much be Facebook vs x

Facebook has insane pull. Sometimes I forget about it, but it is used by majority of every single demographic base once you consider different portions of the FB app (markets, groups, messenger), Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads (don’t think it is that relevant yet). That being said, to my understanding, Meta has been trying to move itself away from political-adjacent conversations. While Twitter is completely the opposite, and thrives on poli-rage.

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Post by carlosjobim »

iamacyborg wrote: post #148
hintymad wrote: post #133

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I still remember that so many people cheered when legitimate doctors and scientists were banned from Twitter or Facebook, just for questioning either the lockdown or the effectiveness or risks of the vaccines. The doctors may not be correct, but shouldn't we allow people to question science? Our government can do what it does because the people embolden them.

The challenge is trying to determine who’s legitimately trying to question the science vs who’s a crank.

That is not the challenge, cranks have freedom of speech. There is no such thing as "legitimately" in this question.

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Post by kjkjadksj »

rv3909i wrote: post #286
kjkjadksj wrote: post #246

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well when you have over 100m in assets in your pile of gold in the dragon lair, its time to be extractive.

How do you know you have over 100m in assets? One never really knows the worth of something until it's sold. (i.e. try selling a used car. there's what you think it's worth and what you get...) And once the asset is sold, that's a taxable event.

Easy. Share price x number of shares.

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Post by thom »

AlbertCory wrote: post #248

If you want to see what's been "moderated" away from you on Hacker News: Click your username at the upper right: Turn on "showdead": showdead: yes. (defaults to "no") There are a number of dead posts in this thread. I'd post some here (some of which don't appear to violate any HN guidelines, I'll note), but probably those same moderators would kill this one, too.

Hacker News is the only online community that doesn't feel like it's actively driving me insane. Whatever censorship is being done, whether in good or bad faith, I'm all for it.

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Post by Gud »

silverquiet wrote: post #310
object-a wrote: post #184

It's funny because Facebook's news feed in the last couple years is unusable, filled with AI slop and clickbait. Twitter similarly requires aggressive use of block + mute to eliminate scams, clickbait, and other content I'm not interested in. I don't know if this is due to their changes in moderation policy, or if AI has overwhelmed them, but I vastly preferred the old news feeds

A few years back it started showing me obvious political ragebait. I ignored it and then it started showing me pictures of women whose nipples were obviously showing through their clothing, which was an improvement, but still not the reason I signed up for Facebook. I've always understood it as the algorithm is looking for engagement and will try some lowest common denominator tactics to engage in it. As someone who…

That Facebook would turn into a soft core porn site was pretty unexpected, at least for me.
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