DominikR

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by DominikR 10y ago
Who is "we Austrians"? I'm an Austrian and I have no problem with Facebook not censoring that video! Just so everybody here knows why the Austrian government wanted it banned: It showed how Muslim immigrants beat up a 16 year
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by DominikR 10y ago
> "good for business", which translates to "bad for consumers" I know it's trendy to be left leaning so you easily get away with such generalising statements but ask yourself these questions before hating on all
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by DominikR 10y ago
> It doesn't mean that I don't have a responsibility to my neighbors and community to provide upkeep to my house and ensure it's aesthetically pleasing. Can your neighbours sue you if you paint your house in an obnoxious c
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by DominikR 10y ago
I'm not going to answer such a question pretending you are a 3 year old that really doesn't know how media + government collude and operate to control society. You are incapable of seeing how it poses a threat to freedom of speech
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by DominikR 10y ago
> A private company censoring the content on their platform is not a violation of freedom of speech It's not, but a third party forcing FB to censor or me to shut up is censorship. > I believe that the point being argued is that
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by DominikR 10y ago
Well I would say that is up to Twitter, Facebook and Reddit shareholders to decide since it is their property. You don't get to cancel property rights because you don't like the reporting there. You also don't get to cancel f
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by DominikR 10y ago
This is the second NYT article I see here today that is calling for more censorship because of some unsubstantiated claims. These people must be completely out of their minds.
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by DominikR 10y ago
So what? That's what FB can do when they find an issue. You are free to sue them if you feel that you have lost money because of this. Go ahead, that's what courts are for. But I guess what many really want is for government to st
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by DominikR 10y ago
Look, I'm a Libertarian as I stated before, I do not even want a government to exist as they are oppressive by nature but I recognise that there's brutal geopolitical competition among world powers. I can't say with the littl
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by DominikR 10y ago
> They already have the passwords Which is a good reason to let them continue collecting them indefinitely? > Also, Russia doesn't and won't force any company to store users' data exclusively under their jurisdiction, a
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by DominikR 10y ago
That was my point. As a libertarian I would in general tend towards not having the government involved with this stuff, but Russia and the US are two countries which have bad relations at the moment and there's uncertainty if they migh
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by DominikR 10y ago
Why should Russia allow a US company to mine private data about its citizens on a large scale when it is known that the US government basically can force any US company to hand over any data it desires. That's why they have passed a la
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by DominikR 10y ago
I'm pretty sure now that this mass psychosis in the West will most definitely lead to civil war. There are just too many people who can't seem to accept democracy or liberty if it doesn't go their way.
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by DominikR 10y ago
This is _exactly_ how the Sowjets justified their own censorship. It's all falsehoods by ideological degenerates or by Western saboteurs and other collaborators with the enemy and therefore must be censored in order to protect society.
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by DominikR 10y ago
Sorry, but I never got the news that it is now considered a good idea in our Western societies to censor information you do not like for political reasons. I'm probably a racist homophobe bigot for writing these words and should be put
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by DominikR 10y ago
Strange to see how Google, a company that once refused to do business in China in order to not have to engage in censorship, now openly seeks to implement censorship in the West. And a bunch of "liberals" on a hacker news who in a
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by DominikR 10y ago
Well that's a hard one to answer for defenders of the politburo.
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by DominikR 10y ago
The notion that there should be no prisons at all is nuts in my view, there must be a way for people to protect themselves from others who repeatedly act violently. But the fact that prisoners frequently have to face rape is sick and shows
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by DominikR 10y ago
I have no issue with education and teaching without coercion, what you are proposing though is use of force to prevent spread of information you do not like or that might cause people to reject your ideology. This is the real issue here. Yo
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by DominikR 10y ago
> This has real effects that harm other people. That's why we have courts where you can claim damages. > None of the big bad movements you mention were genuinely trying to make humans into better thinkers. In fact, they all relie
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by DominikR 10y ago
It doesn't matter if I am rational or not, it is my freedom to consume information from whichever source I prefer just as it doesn't matter if it's justified to spend double the money on an Apple product over something from a
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by DominikR 10y ago
That's just pure speculation because you do not like Trump or his policies. Thiel is a very good person to advise on the tech sector and which direction technology might lead society to since he obviously called many major developments
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by DominikR 10y ago
Why exactly shouldn't it be beneficial if we let the market (the viewer) without any regulation decide which information should spread and which shouldn't? If people prefer seeing outrageous stuff then let them have it. The reason
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by DominikR 10y ago
I fully agree, though I didn't know that Fox News compared Obama to Hitler (I'm in the EU so I don't watch US TV) - which is equally unacceptable. But I'm a more of an optimist regarding the Internet and the availability
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by DominikR 10y ago
I agree that it is a normal (but nasty) part of politics to paint an unfavourable picture of an opponent (both candidates did that), but inciting violence is where it goes too far for me. I imagine how many people in the US are now fearing
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by DominikR 10y ago
This is true, she didn't make a strong positive case for what her policies would look like. And if she did then she didn't spend her time effectively trying to convey this. (can't actually remember even a single policy of her
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by DominikR 10y ago
Syria has been Russias client state for decades. We wouldn't have had Brexit, the flooding of the EU with migrants and now Trump if the US didn't decide at some point to try and flip Syria by supporting the most radical Syrian psy
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by DominikR 10y ago
Pardon me, but didn't the Pakistanis show quite aggressive Nationalism for decades now towards all their neighbours except for China? Hindu Nationalism sounds more like a reaction to me than anything else.
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by DominikR 10y ago
In my experience as an immigrant liberals are the only ones who have ever shown racism towards me in the West. Usually it's the type of patronising racism where someone subtly implies that immigrants are basically stupid children at be
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by DominikR 10y ago
Yes I know that many regulations are done on the state level and then there's gun free areas and so on, but I'd still say that this is something very unique about the US. I can't name even a single example where societies, ev

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