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Where are the comments about how awful it is for people's private messages to be leaked? Or is this okay because the media told me these guys are the bad guys.
Where does it say private messages are being leaked?
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If you report them they don’t get removed on Twitter? Without a Twitter account you claim that Twitter has the same vile content?
You can report, but it takes weeks sometimes for the content to get actioned.
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it's not surprising given that it's Mercer funded who basically make the Koch's look harmless. People shouldn't be fooled and take this notion of 'free-speech' that is being advocated by these platforms at face value. They're not about genuine free exchange, they're funded by and organised by very well networked organisations who use them to further extremist political causes.
Libertarian vs neoreactionary. Whereas the Kochs want to be in charge of government, the Mercers want to eliminate government.
Similar, generic libertarian: means handing over all power to the biggest corporation. Big corporations exercise so much power already that it is only where they disagree that any civil governance is even possible.
Principle is that a power vacuum is always immediately filled by the strongest party.
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Hacker News does start off many people with a shadowban–I know because I have vouched for many of these initial comments.
I believe that happens when HN suspects the account is from a person who was banned previously, based on IP's and/or some other heuristic. I've seen dang say something like "If you create new accounts to break the guidelines, eventually we just start banning your new accounts."
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No dog in this particular fight as I don't care either way but to answer your question: I've seen plenty of examples involving TERFs or questioning transgender women in women's sports where the ban hammer was brought out. Another example is being egalitarian instead of equitarian. Being strictly egalitarian gets you labeled racist pretty quickly in many online forums. Just this past week in my neighborhood Buy Nothin…
In both of the racial examples, people are attempting to correct past injustices. BIPOC people never received a court settlement for the injustices against them. Politicians left it up to citizens on how to repair the damage, so to do nothing seems far short of adequate, but it's a fair debate about how far to go. How many black people still alive today saw signs that said "No blacks allowed" back in the 60s? I guess…
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So because the owners claim the platform to be something other than it actually is, it is okay for this person to leak the Parler users' private images and videos?
Whether you like him or not, Zuckerberg has gotten in a lot of trouble over the years for resisting censorship pressure. His actions suggest it’s something he values
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>and naive engineers who are willingly ignorant in their security practices. Fairly sure we could replace algorithm and data structure whiteboard interviews with security interviews and we'd all be better off
Replace fizz buzz with spotting SQL injection issues.
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The person who did this calls themselves a hacker. It's just whoever wrote this article that decided to call them a "security researcher".
In other words, the media really is as liberal as is claimed by some? How does that change things? The article calls them security researchers. In the title ! Isn't that an example of something that HN is tacitly acknowledging to be true by leaving the title alone?
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I'm not sure I understand the question. In my mind, if you cannot reason through how to handle non-expected things in your code, I'm going to think twice about hiring you. Code being able to account for erroneous situations is as important as your golden path because as we know software should be predictable but regularly is not. Especially so in the world of micro-services where so many integration paths are changin…
I think you should hire for that skill. In practice, I do not think candidates are hired for that skill. I have never been asked about error handling in an interview.
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I think we have all unfortunately seen what unbridled free speech on the internet looks like. I think we have reached a good balance (for now). Government has to be hands off, and platforms can censor as they wish. It’s hard to say whether this will work long term, though.
Have you compared the unbridled free speech on the internet, which is (or was) available to US citizens, with that of bridled speech available to citizens of other places around the world? Which place has more violence as a result?