juniper_strong

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by juniper_strong 6y ago
I've stopped caring about institutions' reputations because I don't need them to gatekeep for me anymore. If I want to read about finance, I can read Matt Levine. If I want to read about law I can read Eugene Volokh. If I wan
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
It is not just much more commonplace but obligatory for print magazines to exercise that control. A print magazine can't say, send me slander, send me libel, send me copyright violations, send me terrorist threats, if they agree with m
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
Why should someone running a website be able to moderate without fear of litigation when someone publishing a print magazine is not able to moderate without fear of litigation? Did 230 say anything about that or did the law have no stated r
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
Here's the Merriam-Webster definition of censored: "suppressed, altered, or deleted as objectionable : subjected to censorship". Government censorship is a subset of censorship. Private citizens of a private company are perfe
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
Here's an article by Eugene Volokh on the difference between publishers, distributors and platforms: https://reason.com/2020/05/28/47-u-s-c-%C2%A7-230-and-the-pu... . "Historically, American law has
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
Historically the term platform has meant just that, they have a legal requirement to allow all content. Think something like a phone network. There are rules about what constitutes spam on a phone network - laws limiting robocalls in some s
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
"Hypertension markedly increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases and overall mortality. Lifestyle modifications, such as increased levels of physical activity, are recommended as the first line of anti-hypertensive treatment. A rec
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
>> I'm not sure how new teams can be formed and new staff onboarded with zero human contact or office interaction The company laptop shows up at your front door and you get on the phone with the hiring manager who tells you how t
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
>> Laborers couldn't really ask for higher wages, because that was politically impossible Not just politically impossible, illegal: >> World War II disrupted those trends. As demand for everything — particularly labor — cl
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
That's an application-centric view of development, as indicated by the phrase "the application". If an application is successful, its data will likely end up being used by other new applications, and the data will survive the
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
Right on.
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
Publisher, distributor, and platform are legal definitions that have been worked out through case law over a long period of time. Blocking content on a political basis as a non-internet content provider would be more than enough to get you
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
If a poster printing company started making editorial decisions about which posters they printed, they would be at risk of being considered a publisher and as such being liable for the content of the posters they printed. That isn't tr
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
I use JIRA at home for side projects and every job I've had for the last decade used it at work. Personally, I will worry about replacing it in 2023. Professionally, it's not my problem to worry about. As for the replacement for p
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
Your only positive statements in that whole thing were "I think a job as a quant or something at a finance firm would be interesting" and "I'd really like to consider starting my own business". Everything else was I
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
To me, both Personal Jesus and Hurt are Johnny Cash songs now.
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
You've got 4 years. I'll worry about it in 2023.
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
Portland gets winter, but you can just stay inside that weekend.
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
>> I'm not keen on keeping suspects locked up on risk of re-offence, either; it seems a total violation of presumption of innocence So if you were making the laws, the trooper that pulled over Timothy McVeigh would have just giv
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
Wikipedia has Russia at 346 people incarcerated per 100,000 and the US at 655. El Salvador is at 590. So, highest in the world but not anywhere nearly double the second highest, and not an order of magnitude greater than Russia.
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
>> At no point does it create a category called "publisher" who is subject to different rules from a category called "platform." Section 230 does not need to create those categories because they already exist under
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
>> Yeah, it really does seem some times like what Section 230 abolitionists really want is better accomplished through antitrust law That's called false dichotomy.
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
>> But they then have to choose... Yes, that's correct. They have to choose what content to allow. That's called being a publisher. >> Telephones are not public communication I'm guessing that you are too young to
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
>> The world you propose gives more power to large site operators, not less, because they're the only ones that could possibly afford the requisite moderation resources Not true, someone running a small blog can read every single
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
>> "leave this problem alone, it's working just fine" You have the major internet networks 3 weeks before an election banning speech because if they allowed it it might hurt their preferred political candidate. I mean t
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
If the companies actions aren't advancing the stated policies for which the law was enacted, then the law should be strengthened so that it promotes those policies. Companies currently are acting in ways that are in direct opposition o
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
When they want the protections of section 230, they claim to be platforms, when they want to block content on a political basis, they act as publishers. I think they should have to decide on which they one want to be, and I think platforms
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
The "Findings" passage of section 230 itself called out the internet as "a forum for a true diversity of political discourse".
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
>> By using a different information provider. That doesn't work when network effects are involved. Just like there aren't going to be hundreds of cell phone networks, there aren't going to be hundreds of networks with t
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by juniper_strong 6y ago
>> You can't have platforms without moderation The cell phone network is a platform and it has no moderation. If you want to decide what is acceptable content, you're not a platform, you're a publisher. A stated rationa

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