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Re: Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline

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Post by PhasmaFelis »

Robotuxin wrote: post #86
PhasmaFelis wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Based on all the twitter banning of right wing thinkers. I did some Googling to see what "right wing thinkers" Twitter has banned lately, and you appear to be talking about Alex Jones and a bunch of literal Nazis. > When it was allowed for twitter to silence people from their platform "Free speech" does not and has never meant "guaranteed access to private businesses and websites." And I'd bet money that you wouldn…

It must be refreshing to be on the right side of history with the likes of Louis Farrakhan, who is anti-white and anti-Semitic. See his tweet about being anti-termite. In your last sentence, are you admitting that Twitter doesn't yet ban far-left groups for cause? If so, shouldn't it be you explaining why you aren't saying a word about a double standard? Twitter claims to be a neutral platform, and eventually it may…

If you think I support Louis Farrakhan, or Twitter in general for that matter, you are confused. Twitter's current stance is wildly inconsistent, and there are plenty of people that they should have banned long ago but haven't, Farrakhan included. They've probably banned some people they shouldn't have, as well. I don't trust them much. But the gaggle of racists and Nazis they've already banned is a good start.

> In your last sentence, are you admitting that Twitter doesn't yet ban far-left groups for cause?

Nope! I'm saying that I think you don't actually care about free speech for all.

Re: Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline

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Post by chrisweekly »

hluska wrote: post #176
chrisweekly wrote: post #152

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effect (noun) -> affect (verb, in this intended usage) not nit-picking, rather trying to help correct a common error that distracts from an otherwise excellent comment

These types of corrections don't really add to the conversation. I used to have similar editor instincts, but most people who read HN make substitutions like that without being told.

Yeah; same probably goes for this conversation. FWIW it wasn't just a typo, it was a repeated use of the wrong word. I'm no "grammar nazi", but there are (thankfully) a large number of HN readers for whom English is a foreign language. I'm happy to absorb the occasional downvote in the process of helping teach and improve the quality of others' communication. As measured by upvotes and grateful replies, the community here agrees.

Re: Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline

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Post by defn »

corbold wrote: post #203
qwerty456127 wrote: post #193

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Cool. Nevertheless I feel like this should be upgraded to the 100%-offline-readable level (i.e. at least qblog.aaronsw.com should be mirrored too, so should be Twitter and Pinboard accounts preferably), converted to the epub format and distributed among commercial (for free or for charity), free and pirate ebook libraries. I'm actually surprised nobody has done this yet.

I made an epub out of his blog 2 years ago. It is not sorted or edited in any way though. https://github.com/C0rby/aaronsw-weblogToEpub

Thanks for this!

Re: Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline

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Post by davidivadavid »

reaperducer wrote: post #207
davidivadavid wrote: post #191

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I'm pretty sure none of those particular "news" would have been of any relevance to me, for example. I'm also pretty sure that when people talk about "news" they mean TV news bulletins or large press outlets — which wouldn't cover those things either. However, a newsletter or a status update on social media seem like they would cover that type of information. But they're not "news" in the common usage made of that wo…

Moving the goalposts doesn't help your argument. Local news is very much "news." Like politics, all news is local. It may not be local to you, but you're not the only person in the world. The reason it's called "journalism" is because newspapers started as daily journals of what ships were coming into port, and what cargo was expected. Boring, mundane, everyday, very local news .

You can keep calling it "news" until you're blue in the face.

The point was that people more and more disassociate these things with "news", and when they say they're not reading the news, that's not what they mean — regardless of the origin of the word "journalism".

The fact they don't refer to that as news might however have to do with the fact that information comes to them through apps that are not news apps. (Weather app, social media apps, etc.).

I'm also puzzled as to the statement that "all news is local." No, when you watch the news, most news is definitely remote and irrelevant to the life of the people who watch it. That's why they stop watching/reading it, usually.

Re: Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline

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Post by ViViDboarder »

tlrobinson wrote: post #190

I noticed a Bitcoin address was added to his website, it looks like in 2016 [1]. It would be nice to know who controls it and what it's for. 1. https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1AaronhQN1sfV24364mne...

Are those custom? Or is it a total coincidence it starts with 1Aaron?

Re: Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline

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Post by tlrobinson »

ViViDboarder wrote: post #215
tlrobinson wrote: post #190

I noticed a Bitcoin address was added to his website, it looks like in 2016 [1]. It would be nice to know who controls it and what it's for. 1. https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1AaronhQN1sfV24364mne...

Are those custom? Or is it a total coincidence it starts with 1Aaron?

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Vanitygen

Re: Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline

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Post by sundar4344 »

corbold wrote: post #203
qwerty456127 wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cool. Nevertheless I feel like this should be upgraded to the 100%-offline-readable level (i.e. at least qblog.aaronsw.com should be mirrored too, so should be Twitter and Pinboard accounts preferably), converted to the epub format and distributed among commercial (for free or for charity), free and pirate ebook libraries. I'm actually surprised nobody has done this yet.

I made an epub out of his blog 2 years ago. It is not sorted or edited in any way though. https://github.com/C0rby/aaronsw-weblogToEpub

Thanks very much

Re: Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline

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Post by Robotuxin »

PhasmaFelis wrote: post #211
Robotuxin wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It must be refreshing to be on the right side of history with the likes of Louis Farrakhan, who is anti-white and anti-Semitic. See his tweet about being anti-termite. In your last sentence, are you admitting that Twitter doesn't yet ban far-left groups for cause? If so, shouldn't it be you explaining why you aren't saying a word about a double standard? Twitter claims to be a neutral platform, and eventually it may…

If you think I support Louis Farrakhan, or Twitter in general for that matter, you are confused. Twitter's current stance is wildly inconsistent, and there are plenty of people that they should have banned long ago but haven't, Farrakhan included. They've probably banned some people they shouldn't have, as well. I don't trust them much. But the gaggle of racists and Nazis they've already banned is a good start. > In…

You and I aren't connecting on each other's points. FYI, this is only my second comment to you. There's not much to discuss if you don't recognize my previous post to you as a simple warning against the treacherous path that is being taken by Twitter. I didn't want to misstate where your support lied, but you spoke tersely and maybe glibly. Yet, it sounded like the usual talking points of the left so I was compelled to respond more generally.

I needed to put the political grandstanding into perspective because, even if there were a method to their madness, Twitter needs to stop, reassess and, hopefully, rethink its mandate. I already stated that Twitter is not banning extremist groups alone, so it's important not to get stuck on reaffirming who deserves to be banned the most. You should see that the _righteous_ banning of (purported) racists, Nazis, Russian bots, and whatever groups they highlight next is convenient cover for their inconsistent, biased actions. Simply put, you can only be sure you are on the right side of history if you are in league with propagandists. If I explicitly declare that they have every justification and are full of good intentions in some such action, it would still be a moot point when trying to address my previous statements.

Granted, you don't wholeheartedly approve of Twitter nor the far-left figure I mentioned, but I only name them for the following two reasons. The disgust of indefensible (historical) groups can be used to shift the moral high ground deceptively to the left. No double standard you might point to could possibly draw the main focus away from Twitter's political bias. Moreover, we proponents of free speech can't be said to not care about the inalienable rights of the far-left because we aren't the ones doing the banning nor calling for any bans. In our criticism, we can fairly ask for consistent action, and Twitter obviously fails the request when one of its policies isn't evenly enforced across the political spectrum.

Re: Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline

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Post by zaarn »

hayleox wrote: post #4
arcticwombat wrote: post #2

"Origin DNS Error" on the archive link.

Try this one: http://archive.fo/8uu5x

archive.fo gives me a SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP error, consistently from that latest Firefox release. Might be a good idea to enable TLS1.0 on that site?

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Post by YinglingLight »

pathseeker wrote: post #164
porpoisely wrote: post #105

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For someone who claims to like and respect Aaron, you are rather dismissive of him and his "rant". Your recommendation to find your news, local or otherwise, might have been valid 50 years ago, but it isn't today as most news ( local, national and international ) is owned by a handful of conglomerates who more or less share the same value. Your recommendation is like telling people who don't like facebook to use inst…

> For someone who claims to like and respect Aaron, you are rather dismissive of him and his "rant". People you like and respect can have very naive ideas. >but it isn't today as most news ( local, national and international ) is owned by a handful of conglomerates who more or less share the same value. You might be thinking of broadcast news? It's definitely not true of all local news sources. All journalism is full…

I'm curious as to which kind of non-broadcast local news you're talking about. Aside from a motley mix of small town newspapers, this kind of source doesn't exist anymore.
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