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

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Post by bloak »

carlosjobim wrote: post #196
frollogaston wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There must be some book with actually banned content in it, right? Especially copyright violations. They could include a PDF of some Linux source code but with MIT license. Edit: per the other comment's Wikipedia link, the unredacted Operation Dark Heart seems banned in the US because it included classified info

Every book is banned by that line of reasoning, if you're distributing it without license. And every movie and every song.

Some stuff is public domain, though!

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Post by aarond0623 »

okeuro49 wrote: post #219

As expected, the book examples given were not "banned". They're usually school libraries that are removing books from their collection that contain explicit material, usually at the request of parents.

Almost the entire article is about turning a light bulb into a Wi-Fi hotspot/web server, and your takeaway was, well actually, _The Color Purple_ is not technically banned.

Unless I missed something I only spotted two book examples since that wasn't the focus of the article.

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Post by Am4TIfIsER0ppos »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

As a child I never liked the AI's strategy to plop cities down right next to each other. I should see if I can understand that as an adult. If I was designing a remake/remaster it wouldn't even have updated graphics just change the AI.

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Post by bilekas »

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.

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

We have an abundance of allowed information today, there is more restriction than ever of the distribution of information. Social media censoring, takedown requests, shadow banning, government censoring.

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

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Post by bloak »

NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #179
mystraline wrote: post #39

In the USA, the books that are banned are for public schools. They talk about topics like (gasp) LGBTQ and sex things! Now where the USA censors routinely is financial censorship. If you can afford the thing thats fincially banned, the sure, its not banned. But if you cant afford it, youre screwed. And, if you work for a company, they can fire you for any/no reason, INCLUDING your speech off work. In the USA, its "fr…

>In the USA, the books that are banned are for public schools. They talk about topics like (gasp) LGBTQ and sex things! The book that is commonly at the number one spot on "banned book" lists has what would always be called hardcore pornography in the middle of the book. It depicts fellatio literally (not just implying it). It has no educational value, and is meant, within its context, to be erotic/lewd. I can link d…

Are we talking about this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_for_Alaska#Author's_re...

(I've not read it, of course, and don't know whether I'd consider it inappropriate for school libraries. However, it sounds like it was not intended as pornography and therefore isn't pornography according to some narrow definitions of that term. In any case, school libraries have such tiny budgets and there are so many uncontroversial good books in the world I can see why they might want to give this one a miss.)

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Post by aarond0623 »

arrowsmith wrote: post #210
unselect5917 wrote: post #147

I'd be interested in the banned book list. A glance at the socials with the biggest one missing suggests there will be no interesting books on it. Just the ones you can find in "banned books" stands at mainstream bookstores. Absolute mediocrity of thought free of meaningful diversity.

It's here: https://codeberg.org/rickoooooo/BannedBookLibrary/src/branch... For the curious, the "banned" books are (it's a short list): - Call of the Wild - Jack London - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain - Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence Stunning and brave.

> This firmware comes pre-loaded with several books that are out of copyright and in the public domain, as an example.

These are just public domain books provided as examples. You can put whatever you want on it.

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Post by mlrtime »

aarond0623 wrote: post #222
okeuro49 wrote: post #219

As expected, the book examples given were not "banned". They're usually school libraries that are removing books from their collection that contain explicit material, usually at the request of parents.

Almost the entire article is about turning a light bulb into a Wi-Fi hotspot/web server, and your takeaway was, well actually, _The Color Purple_ is not technically banned. Unless I missed something I only spotted two book examples since that wasn't the focus of the article.

It's a needed comment since the first word in the title is 'Banned' and in typical online discourse the comments go down-hill into a rant against ideology/politics.

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

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Post by aarond0623 »

unselect5917 wrote: post #147

I'd be interested in the banned book list. A glance at the socials with the biggest one missing suggests there will be no interesting books on it. Just the ones you can find in "banned books" stands at mainstream bookstores. Absolute mediocrity of thought free of meaningful diversity.

Per the article, the bulb only had 4 MB storage and the idea is that each bulb's library would be a reflection of its creator. So there is no one list. Put whatever you want on it.

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Post by LudwigNagasena »

latexr wrote: post #217
LudwigNagasena wrote: post #215

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The discussions about intellectual property rights are quite recent, but the idea that "lies are also information and can travel even better using the same flow" was well-explored over 300 years of discussions about freedom of speech (and not only discussions, but also jailings, executions, witch hunts, etc).

I think it should be pretty obvious that dissemination of information and lies today—when you can’t even know if the person on the other side is real or from your own country—is much different than 300 years ago. The “information wants to be free” motivation is much closer to the world of today than the one in your distant past. More importantly, I don’t understand why you’re so hung up on that. What difference does…

> I think it should be pretty obvious that dissemination of information and lies today much different than 300 years ago.

Of course, so what? If your implication is that none of the arguments made over 300 years are relevant today, I would say it is pretty obviously completely wrong.

> when you can’t even know if the person on the other side is real or from your own country

Did people in England and France use to know the authors of seditious pamphlets that were produced in the Dutch Republic and smuggled into those countries? Most of them were anonymous. Not only they didn't know the authors, the authors 100% were enabled by foreign actors.

> it’s only distracting from the point

The point: we've seen recently how damaging the fast spread of lies is therefore only naive fools would be against information control. My rebuttal: we've seen how damaging lies are for 300 years, yet it is a deep ongoing debate that many great thinkers contributed to, therefore it is not just a matter of fools believing into something.

Or do you see "the point" to be something different?

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