Elon was more or less made in environments where the informational flow was free. I'm not sure what he thinks he's doing with all this.
It's likely not him directly, but the big legal teams of lawyers that need things to do.
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#542Middle powers should heed Cory Doctorow's advice [0] and start offering legal protection in their jurisdictions for precisely this type of projects. America is a hostile nation, who has sought to align everyone with its interests, under a false pretense of mutual benefit, while instead its tech sector has caused much harm at a global scale. America is now doubling down on value extraction, at an obvious expense to ev…
Brazil is trying that and getting a bad look from the USA. Can you imagine a smaller nation doing the same? What would the USA do?
Exactly, what are we going to do? Impose sanctions? Tarriffs? We do that anyways without recourse. Bomb you? We might do that anyways without reasonable impetus. Y'all have no reason to temper your actions for fear of retribution; our President is threatening to rename a lake to Lake America because we "won't be doing business with Ontario anymore". Why? Does it matter? Could anyone have done anything that wasn't just abject groveling? No.
To hell with us. The rest of the world needs to move on from giving a crap what our government thinks of you.
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#543Earlier quoted context omitted.
It goes against the whole “global town square" declaration. Only if you're part of the club. If not, fuck off! I choose to fuck off.
Want to come to the free town square ? Gotta show ID first to the guard at the wall
(the guard will also sell you a loudspeaker and an "official" badge for a modest fee)
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#544On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel. The service XCancel is stopped until further notice. We are seeking legal advice and won't share more details for now. Thank you for the trust you have put in these two years of XCancel.
Have you considered reaching out to users who actually create and own the material published on Twitter to work out a deal whereby xcancel.com would be permitted to publish their posts (regardless of what the cease and desist says)?
Sorry, I’m not the owner of the website
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#545A real shame. Even if you put all the political arguments aside it sucks when a site requires you to log in before you can read content on it. For me that’ll mean I just don’t read content on there any more. Which I realise X doesn’t care about, I’m not monetisable anyway. But a shame nonetheless.
Nice to see everyone taking a break from their day jobs at Google of continually breaking yt-dlp so it's impossible to use, to comment how this is an injustice. To the aggrieved I say: 403 Forbidden. In their defense, you're not getting the full YouTube experience without ads of an AI doctor selling you suppositories.
Most people on HN don't work at Google. And most would probably agree that both Google and Twitter are being user-hostile.
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#547Did we ever figure out fully decentralized hosting? I.e. nodes so small they cannot sustainably cease and desist?
The fediverse and at protocol come to mind but every fediverse server has unique content
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#550It's hardly unique to Twitter but it's so frustrating how much "content" online requires an account. Whenever my friends send me something on Instagram or TikTok or a restaurant puts their menu on Instagram, I'm barraged with a thousand dark patterns forcing me to log in. Even Reddit is doing it now. I do wonder how much of this is to boost engagement versus another "wonderful" side effect from LLMs since they need t…
> Whenever my friends send me something on Instagram or TikTok Reply with a screenshot showing that you can’t view the content. > a restaurant puts their menu on Instagram Don’t go there. Plenty of other restaurants to choose from. They just lost a customer due to their hostility.
That customer is the exception because most are signed in all the time