Particularly ironic given that DOGE is reported to be using Signal as its comms platform. [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42579873
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#312The US is playing with fire. Most of Wall Street's valuation is at stake.
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#313Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is that true? I’ve never used signal.
Telegram is overwhelmingly the app of choice for drug dealers with Whatsapp coming second, at least on a direct to customer level. No clue about CSAM but I'd really doubt it considering it requires a phone number.
Telegram is overwhelmingly the preferred messenger for CSAM distribution, a search can find you all the relevant articles.
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#314Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honestly,no.
So do you feel that people who disagree with what you think is right should be silenced and not allowed to express themselves?
I hate how the word "disagree" is used to strip all nuance out of political conversation.
If I said it was my political opinion that the gestapo should show up to your door, and drag you, your wife, and children to a death camp - we don't just have a "disagreement." Would you tolerate a discussion around somebody who said they personally wanted to do something like that to you?
There's a line somewhere around political opinions that involve using the state to inflict violence on another that I believe should be inexpressible in public, and I think it's fine for non-state actors to ensure that's the case.
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#315So much for Elons "Free Speech"! This may come as a shock to him: Free Speech means to allow people to say something that he disagree with. Something that may hurt his interests or even his ego. Free speech is not to allow people to say things he agree with or don't care about.
It certainly does not come as a shock to him. He knows what he is doing. The funny thing is if he was Russian he would be called an "oligarch" in every news piece. Since he's American he's an entrepreneur :)
Also how liberals were celebrating Elons "genius" just a decade ago will never not be funny to me, they also don't seem to mind Gates at all. I don't think they have much of a problem with oligarchy, they just want a liberal oligarchy instead.
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#316Everyone reading this -- sign up for Bluesky, help it build up a larger network effect, so it can outcompete X. It already has 30m users.
The secret to happiness is not to leave X and join Bluesky, but simply to leave X.
These platforms are massively net-negative for the vast majority of people.
Go outside!
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#317And Vance is lecturing the EU about free speech. The EU might be very happy with blocking encrypted services, just as Musk is.
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#318Earlier quoted context omitted.
Free speech doesn't allow you to say anything at all you know? Calling for the eradication of people with certain sexual preferences or skin color for example.
Free speech doesnt have asterisks. If certain people say things that are undesireable to other certain people, they have to power to ignore them.
I does, like any other fundamental rights. Absolutely none are absolute.
You clearly don't know anything about actual law and rights.
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#319Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Free speech doesnt have asterisks. Yeah it does, at least in America. You can't yell fire in a theatre and incite panic. Also there is the paradox of tolerance.
Well that isn't quite right. The original idiom came out of an earlier supreme court ruling that was partially overturned by later rulings on the matter: > Ultimately, whether it is legal in the United States to falsely shout "fire" in a theater depends on the circumstances in which it is done and the consequences of doing it. The act of shouting "fire" when there are no reasonable grounds for believing one exists is…
Even with the partial overturn, it is perfectly clear there are limits to freedom of expression. The poster before you clearly mistakes "a high bar" to "no bar at all".
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#320Remember the Arab Spring and how Twitter was hailed as a tool for the masses to fight against their oppressors? And remember how Elon bought Twitter, loudly proclaiming he was doing so to defend free speech? I'm mildly curious to see how X tries to justify this, but I suspect they've reached the stage where they don't even need to pretend to pay lip service to their notional values.
Look up “leggi fascistissime”.
It’s appalling how people don’t see the obvious playbook that’s unfolding here, down to the claims of “defending democracy”