It is funny to discuss free speech on hn where people want to downvote you because they do not like facts that contradict their opinions about India of which they know nothing about :)
Facebook ‘looking into’ hiding of posts calling for PM’s resignation in India
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So when democrats drag zuck in front of congress and ask why he isn't banning more right wingers, no government coercion?
No because it's just a friendly suggestion, kind of like the Indian government. Bottom line: Silicon Valley techies often suffer from a lack of education in civic matters and liberal democratic values in particular. They believe as long as Bad People have their, here's another term they often use, megaphones, taken away, then ethically it's a thumbs up. The lack of civic education and historical education becomes evi…
In the US, 'Wrongthinkery' is policed by the silicon valley techies who think hiding posts from anyone who they disagree with is the solution.
> OK, you support censorship and cleansing misinformation: now who decides?
'They' can't come up with an answer to this classic one since they already realised that down the line they're becoming an arbiter of truth.
The liberal left are never in short supply of whataboutism, hypocrisy, gaslighting and the best of all of them, ignoring anything that doesn't fit their narrative.
In summary: If it affects them and those who they agree with, its an issue, if it is someone who disagrees with them, its their funeral and I'll get my buddies from FAANMG, Twitter and Facebook to ban them all.
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That made me naïvely curious about 'Aladdin'; yep: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A1_%D... Seems unrelated to Hindi (via Sanskrit) दिन 'din' meaning 'day' though. (Not that I expected it because 'day' and 'religious' are similar in meaning, just curious because there is overlap, and borrowed terms (well, with Persian, but those in turn often derived or cognate with Arabic, at least in my idly…
That din has a short i. The one in Alaa’adin, (despite how Disney would have you say it) is a long i.
Ah! Ok, dīn, turns out it is borrowed into Hindi (दीन) with the same faith/religious meaning, I just wasn't aware of thag so didn't twig, and yes, thought 'Aladdin' had a short 'i'. (I suspect that predates Disney.)
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The US should consider itself lucky that its well armed neo-nazi lunatic fringe and the Orange Man were better at racist shitposting than pulling off a coup d'état. "Pretty good" sounds like a B, but I'd give this last election a C- at best.
Stealing two Supreme Court seats and meddling with the census were essentially a coup. GOP will remain the minority that runs the country for the foreseeable future.
“Stealing” two SC seats? Tell me which law was broken. Filling a vacancy in short order is a far cry from what Biden wants to do now, which is add seats to the SC. All this pearl clutching over breaking some supposedly sacred tradition of not filling a SC during some arbitrary number of months before an election and nary a peep about packing the court, how odd.
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Seems like a very caricaturish characterization of what people actually believe. That sort of broad contempt and unwillingness to understand the range of perspectives on the issues besides the "official" (read: oligarchic) narrative is unfortunate.
No, people actually do believe that - even people who are literally being treated for COVID-19 at the time they make those claims. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/11/a-wave-of-covid-pati... > He mentions hating “fake news”. He says, “I don’t think covids is really more than a flu.“ I clarified, “Now you think differently though?” > He replies, “No the same. I should just take vitamins for my immune system. They…
Some people believe flat earth theories. It's still unreasonable to paint that as a widely held belief of those who disagree with you.
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> They don't need bulk oxygen generated ad-hoc. They need medical grade oxygen delivered in standard medical equipment that they can use in a controlled manner right away. Right now, I believe from reports on the ground, that they need just any oxygen to hold on for 2-3 more weeks. First hand report I got is that LO2 tankers been all around on TV, but despite that all hospitals in the area been empty of oxygen for 3-…
Please, give the medical system in India at least a tiny bit of respect and stop trying to armchair quarterback their solutions with your chemistry knowledge. They know what they need better than you do. They're not going to MacGyver their solution by improvising an industrial chemical production process with welding equipment and random chemicals. Being able to make oxygen in a chemistry experiment is not equivalent…
You are so sarcastic, and pricky. You will not be getting more popular like this.
I advice you to come to India, and tell it to people dying on porches of hospitals. Tell it to doctors seeing people come, and die.
> give the medical system in India at least a tiny bit of respect and stop trying to armchair quarterback
Before demanding respect, one has to learn how to behave respectfully himself.
Please stop this.
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They don't need bulk oxygen generated ad-hoc. They need medical grade oxygen delivered in standard medical equipment that they can use in a controlled manner right away. Chemistry experiments won't solve this.
> They don't need bulk oxygen generated ad-hoc. They need medical grade oxygen delivered in standard medical equipment that they can use in a controlled manner right away. Right now, I believe from reports on the ground, that they need just any oxygen to hold on for 2-3 more weeks. First hand report I got is that LO2 tankers been all around on TV, but despite that all hospitals in the area been empty of oxygen for 3-…
The have sufficient industrial oxygen that can be repurposed. The problem is delivery to hospitals. They need more tankers and cylinders.
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#138I've always wanted to ask the HN community about this problem, what exactly can be done from a technology standpoint? I feel we're already at a point where tools are available to make a censorship resistant social network. The main challenges would be: - Kickstarting a network is a difficult problem - A way to ensure sane content moderation (child porn / abuse, etc) while still keeping the decision-making decentraliz…
What’s a “censorship resistant social network”? Would Trump be allowed on this platform? Would it be hosted on AWS? One person’s censorship is another person’s moderation.
Exactly, we already have the “censorship resistant social network” (gab), but for reasons completely unrelated to not restricting speech third parties seem hell bent on nuking it from orbit. Such is the fate of any similar social network.
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> They don't need bulk oxygen generated ad-hoc. They need medical grade oxygen delivered in standard medical equipment that they can use in a controlled manner right away. Right now, I believe from reports on the ground, that they need just any oxygen to hold on for 2-3 more weeks. First hand report I got is that LO2 tankers been all around on TV, but despite that all hospitals in the area been empty of oxygen for 3-…
The have sufficient industrial oxygen that can be repurposed. The problem is delivery to hospitals. They need more tankers and cylinders.
> The problem is delivery to hospitals. They need more tankers and cylinders.
If the number of tankers is as much as Indian media show, then the situation should've been resolved weeks ago.
Please read my comment below on what's actually happening. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26974630
All those sudden oxygen leaks, equipment failures, or massive amounts of stored O2 disappearing is all about O2 infrastructure being in a bad state long before the Covid, and it coming to surface now.
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I don't know why twitter does this. From https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/25/business/india-covid19-tw... One of the tweets removed from view was posted by Moloy Ghatak, a labor minister in the opposition-ruled West Bengal state, where Mr. Modi’s party hopes to make big gains in an ongoing election. Mr. Ghatak accused Mr. Modi of “mismanagement” and held him directly responsible for the deaths. His tweet included imag…
> I don't know why twitter does this. A reality of scaring social media companies with regulatory threats. People call for regulation and unsurprisingly their priority becomes keeping those who might regulate them happy with them.
I suspect that's the point.