agiroth

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by agiroth 5y ago
The site says you're using Algorand. When everyone is using Ethereum, why go against the grain?
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by agiroth 6y ago
> You want to take that away from me while pretending to do it for the greater good, when in reality it’s just a selfish desire to impose your will on others. Let's call a spade, a spade. Your position appears to be "I don&#x27
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by agiroth 6y ago
> I do not want sideloading, I do not want alternative stores, I do not want the so-called “healthy competition”. Good. Don't use them. Do you use every single feature of your phone? Of course not. There are probably features you do
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by agiroth 6y ago
And what do you do when your webhost becomes your moderator and deplatforms your site, on the exact same day? We can take this all the way to fabricating wires to build computers to make our own servers; at some point we have to discuss the
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by agiroth 6y ago
For someone whose username is 'quotemstr' (quote master), that post is a great, short explanation of that idea and very.. quotable.
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by agiroth 6y ago
> But the thought of a government body deciding when a company may and may not enforce its rules is chilling. In general I agree with you; I only consider this kind of thinking valid at Twitter/FB/Google/AWS scale - where
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by agiroth 6y ago
In the short term, sure it would. If you tear up one field in the middle of planting and plant another, it'll hurt short term; 10 years later it'll be a funny story. Markets love a vacuum and it would be an opportunity for local p
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by agiroth 6y ago
> The slippery slope argument is generally regarded as a logical fallacy because the argument can be applied to anything. Can you expand on this? I've seen the claim several times, but given the fact that (in general, not referring
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by agiroth 6y ago
Not impossible at all, just an incredibly... very.. bad... scary.. idea.
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by agiroth 6y ago
I literally started asking around on the web for exactly this today. Seriously taking a look, this looks promising. We built an app on AppSync and Cognito and I want to get off AWS so I'm looking for alternatives, and this... fits the
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by agiroth 6y ago
Incognito won't help unfortunately. I've tried this on a few occasions and it still pollutes my suggestions. I've noticed that using Brave seems to blunt it -- I have to watch alot more to notice the pollution. Can't say
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by agiroth 6y ago
Free speech is not a right granted by the government, it is a principle and a natural right. We all have it. The government has nothing to do with it. Even if we all lived in anarchy, free speech would still be a thing.
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by agiroth 6y ago
I found their response underwhelming as well. I am tentatively willing to accept that these are simply applications of free speech and section 230, provided that the EFF prompt governments to write legal frameworks for what these platform
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by agiroth 6y ago
Would you like AWS to moderate every line you write on HN? Or how about this. Would you like the CEO of Parler to be telling you what you are allowed to write? That is the consequence of what you are saying. Parler moderating Parler; Twitte
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by agiroth 6y ago
This is an excellent point. I've been thinking about how to make it succinctly, I think this is as good a way as any.
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by agiroth 6y ago
Disclaimer: I have never used Parler. But I firmly believe in the principle of free speech and not stifling discourse. And no, not just over Parler. But maybe over Twitter bannings. And Facebook bannings. And Parler. And deplatforming. Even
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by agiroth 6y ago
You kicking someone out of your house doesn't change the fundamental balance of society. AWS, Apple and Google deciding on behalf of 3 billion people what they're allowed to read, most certainly does.
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by agiroth 6y ago
No it absolutely does not.
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by agiroth 6y ago
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/326/501/ The more people are involved, the more interest the state has in private property. This is why for example we have employment and health laws.
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by agiroth 6y ago
Exactly, so Parler gets to decide how Parler is moderated. AWS gets to decide if Parler is violating the law, and remove it for that reason. If you want to introduce other reasons... well, I'd wager you haven't thought through the
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by agiroth 6y ago
I haven't used Parler but I'd wager the vast majority of its content isn't. If you want to pick out content, I guarantee I can match post for post with something identical on Twitter. So why isn't Twitter being targeted?
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by agiroth 6y ago
You missed the point. Scale is what matters, not privacy. The Supreme Court has ruled that free speech on private property is still protected when questions of scale are introduced. There are circumscriptions on that, but it is still protec
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by agiroth 6y ago
> No, everybody is. In a democratic society, it is the responsibility of every citizen and corporation to act in accordance with democratic values. Exactly, everybody is. In a democratic society, everybody decides together what the rules
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by agiroth 6y ago
Exactly because right now, between Apple, Google and AWS, several billion people have had a decision made for them. That looks like government behavior to me.
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by agiroth 6y ago
You make some good points. I want to reply to a couple of them. I like the idea of a decentralized platform, but I agree that the solution has to be a legislative one. What's being lost is the "national conversation" on the s
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by agiroth 6y ago
This comment does not deserve to be downvoted. A decentralized platform ensuring people can communicate with who they want is a net positive for society. If this is something you're interested in, I am as well.
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by agiroth 6y ago
Amazon made the decision to change that calculation and in this case, whataboutism is perfectly valid.
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by agiroth 6y ago
Your house is not the same thing as Twitter or Parler or Amazon or Apple.
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by agiroth 6y ago
This is what the companies do who want to take down copyrighted content, and what governments do when they want to take down illegal content. Why should any other standard apply? Typically in such cases posts are placed in limbo - still pre
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by agiroth 6y ago
It's not their platform, they don't get to see how it is moderated. We do, the people. You know those things we pass called laws? Yeah that determines how moderation needs to happen. Not other companies.

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