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Post by jjulius »

jlawson wrote: post #293
afthonos wrote: post #282

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Years ago, Bill Kristol accused the lawyers representing Guantanamo Bay detainees of being anti-American for doing so. Up until that point, Bill Kristol has been a pundit I read semi-regularly as a reasonable voice I disagreed with. From that point on, I have never read anything else he had to say. Ever. If an article mentions him, I stop reading. If I accidentally end up on a column of his, I immediately hit the bac…

They posted the full unedited video. It doesn't reveal anything deceptive about the editing of the first edited-for-time video. EDIT: Going to the substance - you really think Google employees don't want to prevent Trump's re-election? Because every possible indicator (campaign donations, personal speech, company policy) says that they do. The Veritas video is part of a massive pattern of evidence pointing to the sam…

>They posted the full unedited video.

Got a link?

>Another question - If this isn't enough evidence to convince you, what would be? What's the standard or proof?

Where's your evidence and standard of proof? Please read the full dumped documents provided by PV[1] and show me where the anti-Trump/Conservative/right-wing bias is. Beyond a video with an edited interview (I honestly can't find the "full unedited video" on their site or Twitter), all PV has is some shadowy "anonymous" source whose entire credibility is called into question by PV's lengthy history of fraudulent claims. PV and you have no proof, so please don't ask us for ours - Hitchens's Razor[2] should apply here.

[1]https://www.projectveritas.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/SS...

[2]"What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence."

Re: YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”

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Post by munk-a »

dageshi wrote: post #245
munk-a wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The US is weird in that a lot of commonly expected services aren't supplied by the government, if there was a wewillhostyourvideos.gov site out there then I'd definitely agree with you - I still _mostly_ agree with you since youtube now has semi-legitimate competition from vimeo - vimeo fails hard as a browsing platform but is fine as a place to host your video. This sort of censorship by a private company is only ac…

Is there any government in the world providing a wewillhostyourvideos.gov? More to the point, video is not the only form of speech, web pages exist, podcasts exist, I am not sure why freedom of speech now equals video and why people insist that the ability to post video to a privately owned platform is now a right just because that platform happens to be popular.

I am unaware of any governments that provide wewillhostyourvideos.gov, as to the question of mediums... it's a delicate balance. It is very logical that the government doesn't need to support everyone's ability to paint their opinions on a forty foot canvas with premium oil paints, but I think video based (and even more specifically that vlog/video essay form that has emerged recently) is a way that people feel naturally suites their self expression, if it isn't heinously expensive to support them expressing in that manner then I think we (as a society) benefit a lot from supporting their expression in that form.

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Post by elliottcarlson »

aphextim wrote: post #93

I can't wait for all the videos showing you how to repair your own stuff gets outlawed. Right now it's 'hacking' or possibly circumventing proprietary systems that are trying to get you to purchase a new device or contact them directly rather than fix it yourself if you have the technical know how. Today it's Software/Hardware and computer systems. How long until looking up a you-tube video on how to repair your John…

Considering John Deer does not want their users to perform self repairs, it might be more realistic than you think.

https://theamericangenius.com/business-news/farmers-cant-leg...

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Post by BearsAreCool »

jeena wrote: post #36
sarcasmatwork wrote: post #7

Youtube updating its policy to ban videos they have already monetized from, while the creators get nothing. Youtube is a monopoly. Creators need to get off YT, and onto something else if it exists.

Host yourself with PeerTube: https://joinpeertube.org/en/

I went on peertube and I get the feeling half the links would have gotten my ISP angry with me. Bit too much piracy for me.

EDIT: Update, they aren't even real full movies. They're just baits that tell you to click some link in the description.

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Post by taurath »

Liquix wrote: post #117

Emperor G built a beautiful walled city, inviting everyone in, encouraging them to paint their houses whatever color they like. A year later, Big G banned blue houses. If you didn't like the rules, you were more than welcome to build your house outside the city and paint it whatever color you like. Only most people don't leave - blue is just one color and they weren't very interested in it anyway. Besides, the city i…

It'd be real nice if we could make an expeditionary force and start setting up more cities outside, to continue the analogy. At the moment, most groups wanting to leave the city contain too many undesirables, but eventually there'll be enough critical mass. What does that look like? At first - an ecosystem of services, packaged together, rather than piecemeal. Firefox, duckduckgo, an open calendar. I don't think it means linux per say, but maybe a privacy-focused android distro and an overlay for windows. The OS doesn't matter as much anymore.

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Post by root_axis »

jquery wrote: post #258
deanCommie wrote: post #230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that's unnecessarily alarmist. Nobody is saying "Free Speech is a racist idea. However, Free Speech OF racist ideas is a racist idea.

In the age where people like Ben Shapiro are identified as "alt-right white supremacists" I don't have much confidence in the ability of people to identify racist content. Here's a post where I go into more thinking on the matter that doesn't need to be repeated here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20184914

> Israelis like to build. Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage. This is not a difficult issue.

That sounds pretty racist to me.

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Post by jammygit »

chrshawkes wrote: post #138
Liquix wrote: post #117

Emperor G built a beautiful walled city, inviting everyone in, encouraging them to paint their houses whatever color they like. A year later, Big G banned blue houses. If you didn't like the rules, you were more than welcome to build your house outside the city and paint it whatever color you like. Only most people don't leave - blue is just one color and they weren't very interested in it anyway. Besides, the city i…

While Google created that walled city, they also destroyed every other city into a pile of rubble after tapping into endless resources from a completely unrelated industry. YouTube had an unfair advantage over just about any other company trying to build something similar. Google is famous for making things free until they are not, than your screwed. I like when they arbitrarily change rules about SEO, AMP's and such…

Is there a way to disable amp in my browser? It’s hard to get to the real sites
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