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by disown 6y ago
A stronger element of the power structure is silencing another. It's simple as that. Look at the relentless pro-censorship brigading on most social media. Lots of money, power and influence is being applied here. If this was china or r
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by disown 6y ago
You claimed to be an absolutist though. And yes, you can be a free speech absolutist. Take a class in philosophy and educate yourself. There are plenty of free speech absolutists who believe any speech, including direct threats, should be p
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by disown 6y ago
> I'm a free speech absolutist No you are not. Why lie? A free speech absolutist means that you believe any speech is acceptable. You comments clearly show you believe in limits to speech. > but violent speech, "fighting wor
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by disown 6y ago
> As an EFF member I think they made the right call here. They didn't. They chickened out. The ACLU was more vocal in its opposition to censorship. That should show how cowardly the EFF is being right now. You falsely made it seem l
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by disown 6y ago
> I've lived in Taiwan for a short period of time. Are you the guy that keeps spamming blogs about "TSMC, chips and how taiwan is so important to the US" to HN? > Furthermore, the Taiwanese people deserve the right to s
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by disown 6y ago
> Here's an observation: people who've survived longer than most are quick to smile. I like checking out stories about them, because I know I'll see an energizing photo of an upbeat person. There is the other side. "
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by disown 6y ago
> Wikipedia is incredible. It's good for surface level stuff. The apolitical superficial knowledge is where wikipedia excels. > I find it frustrating when friends say it's unreliable/not to be trusted. In terms of depth
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by disown 6y ago
Censoring a president is far greater a threat to the republic than some silly protest. People like you exploiting a silly pathetic protest to justify censorship is the threat to the republic. I'd rather have the protests than censorshi
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by disown 6y ago
> An yet in 20 years, no one has presented any proof of actual election fraud. And yet the media, academics, politicians, etc all bring up over and over. I wonder why? > However there are tons and tons of evidence that foreign powers
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by disown 6y ago
> That's a mistatement of what many of us are saying. Actually I described you to the tee. > I certainly am not advocating that social media companies should have even more control over our lives So you are against censorship or
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by disown 6y ago
> Tone it down a bit. What was wrong with my tone? > You should inform yourself. I did and I am. "Wolfpacks are established according to a strict hierarchy, with a dominant male at the top and his mate not far behind." http
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by disown 6y ago
> And YT deletes content mentioning election fraud, and twitter permanent bans the president, all under the historically totalitarian guise of "safety" Also, really puts a dent into the anti-free speech argument that "you
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by disown 6y ago
Youtube, Google, Apple, FB, Twitter, etc... I've said it before and I'll say it again, we need to look into collusion/cartel behavior of these tech companies. I'm sure I'll be downvoted like before by the suddenly &
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by disown 6y ago
> I'm rather tired of the "both sides" rhetoric. That's what Republicans and Trump supporters say too. You are tired of it because it's true. > One candidate refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power
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by disown 6y ago
> As a person of logic and reason and based on multiple sources of information that I consider reputable Name it. What sources? Every major news source has been complaining about "election theft" for 4 years and warning about e
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by disown 6y ago
> a man who is a known fraud, morally bankrupt in business and personal life, and who has shown himself to be incompetent in office. Are you talking about donald trump or joe biden? > People who voted for Donald Trump should be asham
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by disown 6y ago
> Goes to show that the notion of "nation" has fuzzy borders. Or that these aren't nations but empires pretending to be nations.
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by disown 6y ago
> Wild wolves are social but not particularly hierarchichal. This is simply a lie. All wolf packs are strictly hierarchical. Meaning there is no wolf pack without a hierarchy. > A typical wolf pack is formed of a couple and their offs
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by disown 6y ago
> China's per capita emissions increased by 55% while those of the West have declined. Well that's because china was late to industrialization ( by 150 years ) has come from a low emission base. And even if ignore the fact that
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by disown 6y ago
> Coal is cheaper than solar in the same way that a house with no down payment is free. Except that rich europeans got the "house with no down payment" for centuries, but now expect poor africans to put down a down payment? Tha
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by disown 6y ago
> Science is built on consensus No it's not. It's built on hypothesis and experiments (empiricism). Just because the nazi party banned "jewish" physics doesn't mean that "jewish" science wasn't sci
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by disown 6y ago
> To cooperate on batteries and cars... Oh you mean it isn't about an acquisition like the title sneakily implied? > The title would be more helpful if it included that information Do you really expect any better from these peopl
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by disown 6y ago
I hope in addition to the antitrust lawsuits, congress and governments around the world look into collusion behavior between the big tech companies. It almost seems like they are part of a cartel acting together.
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by disown 6y ago
Did you even read the tweet? It's not youtube pushing back against government misinformation. It's about youtube punishing their users who express "misinformation" or wrongthink. Youtube is doing the opposite of what you
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by disown 6y ago
For the first few decades, any citizen could. You could literally go to the white house or congress and get an audience with the president or congressman. Of course you'd also pretty much have to be anglo-saxon protestant for that priv
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by disown 6y ago
> Who else feels like the TSLA price is a gigantic bubble at this point? It's close to being a TRILLION dollar company. Think about it. It's so mindboggling. But then again, I felt that amazon was a gigantic bubble forever too.
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by disown 6y ago
Even more interesting is the blatant support of zuckerburg and facebook here. Of all places, you'd think HN would support free speech, but yesterday, you got downvote brigaded for mentioning that facebook and tech companies shouldn&#x2
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by disown 6y ago
Good god, people like you are the real problem. I'd bet you cry and whine if you were banned. Also if you are right then we are fucked since 70+ million people voted for the "terrorist". But of course you don't really be
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by disown 6y ago
It's incredible that people here are celebrating tech companies censoring the president. You'd have to be extremely shortsighted or naive to think this is a good thing. Every day, many here are screaming zuckerburg is evil, twitte
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by disown 6y ago
Everything you wrote is pathetically false. Why not be honest because shitty propaganda harms your cause more than it helps.

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