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

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Post by wiml »

zuzululu wrote: post #19

I'm surprised there are banned books with 1st amendment exists in America? I'm curious as to what these are. I think its rather silly that books can be banned.

There's a certain amount of censorship of classified information published by (ex-)military, and that kind of thing, but it can be and is challenged in court.

Purely obscene material is also not protected by the 1st, but since the 1970s, the bar for that has been placed very, very high.

The closest I can think of offhand is that for about a year during the pandemic, Twitter suppressed gratuitous COVID misinformation posts, at the request of the government.

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

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Post by ShinyLeftPad »

rickoooooo wrote: post #68
ShinyLeftPad wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In oppressive places a CCTV will detect you installing the bulb.

Ah shoot. Back to the drawing board I guess!

Right on. Hate to be a downer but for someone wanting to solve actual censorship this is not exactly the most productive way to direct their energy.

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

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Post by ShinyLeftPad »

m-p-3 wrote: post #74
ShinyLeftPad wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In oppressive places a CCTV will detect you installing the bulb.

Install it at night with gloves, wipe it to avoid fingerprints, and this hoodie https://hackaday.com/2023/03/06/adversarial-ir-hoodie-lets-y...

CCTVs operate in networks and use gait recognition, those hoodies are snake oil. You suggest to just teleport out after the installation, I presume?

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

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Post by left-struck »

GreenSalem wrote: post #72

Some books deserve to be banned. I would put Kevin MacDonald's antisemitic trilogy The Culture of Critique, the Turner Diaries ( which calls for mass extermination of non-white groups in the USA ) and Mein Kampf in the realm of books that should be shunned.

If I, as a person who is firmly opposed to racism, wishes to read the Turner Diaries, why shouldn’t I be allowed to? Do you really think some stupid book by some racist wackjob is going to sway my deepest values? Can you not imagine a legitimate reason why I would want to read such a book? For example, to see what these people are thinking so I can be better prepared to answer their arguments if I’m ever forced to argue with one?

I understand your discomfort with these books, and I actually agree that they deserve to be banned, but banning is not what we should do.

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

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Post by like_any_other »

margalabargala wrote: post #80
like_any_other wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Books that are assigned reading in schools and universities, and promoted by libraries, are "under threat", while books nearly impossible to find, never on any reading lists, and whose promoters get their speeches shut down by French police [1], or get investigated by the FBI and kicked out of university [2], are to be considered widely available, got it. And your "historically banned" is just "occasionally removed f…

We've decided collectively as a society that some ideas are "good" and others are "bad". For example, racism and white supremacy have been decided to be "bad". There's an alternate reality where white supremacy is mainstream, where queer fiction is impossible to find, and that would be a different world. Instead, what's being preserved are the books written that celebrate the values that match our broad cultural valu…

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

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Post by frantathefranta »

ShinyLeftPad wrote: post #83
m-p-3 wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Install it at night with gloves, wipe it to avoid fingerprints, and this hoodie https://hackaday.com/2023/03/06/adversarial-ir-hoodie-lets-y...

CCTVs operate in networks and use gait recognition, those hoodies are snake oil. You suggest to just teleport out after the installation, I presume?

Wheelchair yourself in and out.

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

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Post by Pxtl »

dindunuf wrote: post #64
hydrogen7800 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When should it be reported, then?

when it's banned by the federal government.

So if a book is banned by a widespread movement of extremists taking control of local governing bodies and the federal government is not involved, that's okay then?

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

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Post by Pxtl »

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…

The "information wants to be free" discourse of just under 30 years ago feels so charmingly naive now that we've seen how lies are also information and can travel even better using the same flow.

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

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Post by ShinyLeftPad »

frantathefranta wrote: post #87
ShinyLeftPad wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CCTVs operate in networks and use gait recognition, those hoodies are snake oil. You suggest to just teleport out after the installation, I presume?

Wheelchair yourself in and out.

I get it's a joke but in case someone thinks it'ss serious, unless you install it literally in the middle of nowhere with no CCTVs and also no one to connect to it, you will only stand out more in the crowd as you make your escape...
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