ethics_gradient

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by ethics_gradient 8y ago
Thank you for being one of the few commenters on this thread who point out the HBD streak on that thread. The insistence that that is not reactionary has been a strong undercurrent in that forum, and so when people from there talk about the
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by ethics_gradient 8y ago
That is a great summary, thank you.
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by ethics_gradient 8y ago
I really, really wish I got a penny every time I get accused of wanting to censor conservatives simply because I criticized them.
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by ethics_gradient 8y ago
Not sure if there's more mocking or calling out, HBD and otherwise. The forum's focus on HBD seems something worth critiquing extensively.
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by ethics_gradient 8y ago
The thread wasn't banned off of reddit though, just his site and subreddit. So no such issues here. Otherwise I agree with worrying about the big platforms, though for I dont think stormfront would be the case to be upset about. We nee
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by ethics_gradient 8y ago
Signal did a version of that with the help of aclu.
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by ethics_gradient 8y ago
It's not that the author didn't get to chat about people's lunch on Facebook every morning. It's that the author wasn't invited to things he should have been invited to because to many people, "I invited everyo
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by ethics_gradient 9y ago
Considering they partnered with facebook, they don't quite see it that way, instead looking at it as a way to bring good e2e crypto to millions of people. It's a tradeoff.
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by ethics_gradient 9y ago
It is more that without centralized servers, if that's what you mean, you have a lot of ux disadvantages.
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by ethics_gradient 9y ago
Cooking the books with libor? What does cooking the books mean?
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by ethics_gradient 9y ago
Sure, in theory... In the end you either educate the users if you can, or try to make the big platforms more accepting of this, or both. There is no perfect solution. Being an "entertainment site" isn't a good excuse.
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by ethics_gradient 9y ago
The idea of tech-socialism is so dumb here, you would think the ad would have an opposite effect...
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by ethics_gradient 9y ago
Privacy really isn't transactional, it's a ecological issue. There's no way for you to make that decision without (as a group) impacting others. A choice to not use Google or Facebook can now be crippling for some people, and
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by ethics_gradient 9y ago
Is this sarcastic?
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by ethics_gradient 9y ago
Oh, I was thinking about this upon typing my message for the first time, but then forgot it upon retyping (my browser was being erratic). Thanks for the note. At least parts of the server are open for a long time though[1], and they also re
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by ethics_gradient 9y ago
Exactly this - it exists. It's just overblown, as states have forever recognized that they can use fear for conformity and submission. But we should be careful to not say it's fabricated unless in specific cases where there is goo
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by ethics_gradient 9y ago
>People don't just don't care that much. Well, it's not easy to understand. At times they've cared enough to extract meaningful change, so we shouldn't assume that that will never happen again. If you ask them pr
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by ethics_gradient 9y ago
It's not that they don't care, it's that they're conditioned to think it's too hopeless and complicated. The common people have the power, they only need to understand they do.
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by ethics_gradient 9y ago
Well, there is evidence to the contrary, at least: the lack of success of the NSA mass spying programmes, with experts like Schneier repeatedly showing why such programmes cannot in the near future even be useful for their stated purpose (a
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by ethics_gradient 9y ago
To get that data, governments may need a bunch of things: the company being under their jurisdiction in some legally relevant sense, laws allowing for such requests (those may or may not be needed, sadly), the company keeping the data. If t
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by ethics_gradient 10y ago
I believe there are two critical components of that that aren't simply natural result of the democratic nature of the internet, nor are necessary. First, WWW is relatively young, so people haven't learned how to use it well. Secon
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by ethics_gradient 10y ago
I agree that Google is worse in most of the ways you noted. However, I would note that the choice of not using Facebook is a somewhat-arbitrary one, due to the incredibly strong network effect and the huge userbase. Google is somewhat bette
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by ethics_gradient 10y ago
I concur. Parent's post was interesting, but if we narrow down to datamining and surveillance, it has gotten a whole lot worse to a degree that is beyond appreciable.
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by ethics_gradient 10y ago
Do you need the results to be personified? I use DDG / startpage to avoid it.