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Re: Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb

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Post by rootlocus »

N_Lens wrote: post #34

“As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth’s final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to informatio…

We have abundant free flow of information today and yet I see a rise of tyranny.

"This is how democracy dies, with thunderous applause." feels more grounded in reality.

Re: Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb

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Post by Refreeze5224 »

unselect5917 wrote: post #156
Refreeze5224 wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're advocating for including white supremacist and Nazi books. And you're not the only one in this thread doing it. There is one reason someone would do that. You're a white supremacist and a Nazi. There's no in-between here. How about you fuck right off with all that? No tolerance for Nazis and racists.

Are there black, Asian, jewish supremacist, or zionist books that are banned? If so, which ones? >There is one reason someone would do that. You're a white supremacist and a Nazi. There's no in-between here. How about you fuck right off with all that? No tolerance for Nazis and racists. And good faith is straight out the window. Are you afraid because non-banned books and films told you they were bad, or because the…

Nazis don't get good faith or the benefit of the doubt. I'm not censoring anyone, I am pointing out that you and other commenters here decided, apropos of nothing, to advocate for including racist and genocidal propaganda.

>Are you afraid because non-banned books and films told you they were bad, or because the people who produced those were afraid they were right and didn't want you to know that they were right?

How about you be more explicit, instead of hiding? You're saying shit like The Turner Diaries, a book that advocates for race war, white supremacy, and adoration of Hitler. You're saying the people who wrote those books might be right. You're saying the Nazis were right.

I know what you're doing, and you know what you're doing. As I said, fuck off with all that, no tolerance for the intolerant.

Re: Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb

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Post by fedeb95 »

rootlocus wrote: post #181
N_Lens wrote: post #34

“As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth’s final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to informatio…

We have abundant free flow of information today and yet I see a rise of tyranny. "This is how democracy dies, with thunderous applause." feels more grounded in reality.

Not entirely true. Many science is gatekeeped, as well as other types of information. May books require illegal services to be obtained, or money (when available). Information about facts is buried in a lot of misinformation. Free flow is very hard to obtain!

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Post by rldjbpin »

quite interesting to find hackable hardware in commodity looking smart devices.

advice for the op: the images in the page took half a minute to load (on multigigabit internet not being stressed). might be a routing issue between the server and my isp, but the images could use some optimization.

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Post by a056e15e »

chaostheory wrote: post #148
iberator wrote: post #125

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GREATEST strategy and philosophical game I have witnessed in the past 30 years... Peak of complexity and maturism in games...

I wish they would release a remastered version of the game with updated graphics and movies, with nothing else changed. The game mechanics were great. Beyond Earth was not good in comparison.

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Re: Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb

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Post by subscribed »

like_any_other wrote: post #86
margalabargala wrote: post #80

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We've decided collectively as a society that some ideas are "good" and others are "bad". For example, racism and white supremacy have been decided to be "bad". There's an alternate reality where white supremacy is mainstream, where queer fiction is impossible to find, and that would be a different world. Instead, what's being preserved are the books written that celebrate the values that match our broad cultural valu…

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By God's, these are examples, artifacts for the repository you can use yourself.

What's so triggering in using, as examples, books that were once banned?

It's getting weird seeing how you're going on and on and on about that aftee the author has explained why these books.

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