sdwa

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by sdwa 6y ago
I understand and broadly sympathise with the sort of ~absolute freedom of speech outlined in the US constitution, but I am completely baffled by this recent push seen here on Hacker News and elsewhere that this freedom should be extended to
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by sdwa 6y ago
OK, most charitably, some of the people protesting unwittingly supported and took part in a fascist coup. Sucks for them I suppose, it's of course an easy mistake to make. People have sat by and watched for 4 years and did nothing whi
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by sdwa 6y ago
I don't agree with this at all and I am tired of seeing "sensible" people here explain how it's important to reach out to fascists and make them feel loved. You're only advocating further normalisation of fascism,
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by sdwa 6y ago
If you can't ban a fascist for instigating violence and a coup attempt then your ToS are worthless and all moderation on every website must be made illegal.
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by sdwa 6y ago
The simple truth is that these knuckle-draggers plotting for Mike Pence to be executed by firing squad would have at every point in the past never been able to reach a "public forum" of any kind. For all the complaints that we nee
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by sdwa 6y ago
But that person is right. Most of the arguments against private companies banning companies/individuals violating their ToS boil down to something along the lines of "this is a slippery slope, we're on our way to tyranny&quo
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by sdwa 6y ago
I don't even have a pitchfork, I was just genuinely surprised by the prospect of someone having no opinion on Donald Trump. That has literally nothing to do with technology whatsoever, if we were cavemen and Donald Trump was a caveman
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by sdwa 6y ago
I don't think there's any remotely plausible prospect of America becoming a Marxist state. Your paranoia is noted, however, and it is typical of Americans, and probably in part why your society is so often so unwell (at least, th
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by sdwa 6y ago
> I think people from at least some countries of the world would disagree with you about communism being dead Possibly, but to me in the West I don't feel like there's any remotely plausible threat of communists coming to power
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by sdwa 6y ago
Well China isn't really communist any more, it sort of began to abandon that with Deng Xiaoping, but regardless, my point is there's truly minimal risk of communists coming to power in any Western country that I know of. I percei
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by sdwa 6y ago
It is specifically baffling to have no opinion on Donald Trump, yes, and that is precisely orthogonal to one's opinions on the internet, Twitter, "tribes", technology, or anything that you mentioned in your comment, for that
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by sdwa 6y ago
Sure, but the threat of fascism in any given Western nation that I know of is far greater than the threat of communism, which is rather dead.
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by sdwa 6y ago
Ummm maybe I'm mistaken but censorship was widespread throughout Europe during the enlightenment and yet the enlightenment still happened. The paranoid American style where anything but free speech in the most absolute and extreme ter
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by sdwa 6y ago
It's not the responsibility of normal people to indulge the crazy satanic paedophile conspiracy theories of total lunatics so that said lunatics won't behave like total animals. They stormed the capitol because they believed comp
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by sdwa 6y ago
The trespassing and sacking of the capitol is precisely a sign of backsliding on traditionally liberal ideas from the enlightenment, much more so than Twitter banning the number one inciter of the aforementioned insurrection.
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by sdwa 6y ago
>I am loving people who don't understand that they are literally supporting billionaires while claiming to be anti-corporate resistance. The billionaire in question is Trump, isn't it? >Definition of Liberal used to be: &quo
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by sdwa 6y ago
>I hold no opinion on Trump Utterly baffling and genuinely inconceivable. My imagination is running wild trying to imagine what sort of person you might be, assuming you are being honest here.
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by sdwa 6y ago
>I described specifically what the difference is. The difference between them is that one is more effective than the other. Do you at all recognize how different methods of censorship can be more or less effective than others? Of course
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by sdwa 6y ago
No, the government banning something is meaningful because they have the monopoly on violence. Reddit admins banning a sub and reddit mods banning a user is the exact same thing, it's just moderation of a private forum. Forcing priva
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by sdwa 6y ago
Do you honestly believe that, for example, the Economist is just as partial as RT, Sputnik, Telesur, or Xinhua? If not, then what point are you actually making? Your comment is purely surface level and relies heavily on cherry picking the
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by sdwa 6y ago
There's no chance of Biden going easy on China, that would be political suicide. What might change is that Biden will lean more on multilateralism to build a coalition of democracies against China in contrast to Trump's reality T
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by sdwa 6y ago
You need help.
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by sdwa 6y ago
> I count such statements as personality characteristics The problem is if you're going to move the goalposts so that lie means something else then what is there to say? The idea that Trump hasn't told a single lie in 5 year
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by sdwa 6y ago
>I will grant that maybe Trump (1) exaggerates and (2) says things to gauge reactions You mean lies? They're called lies. This is the crux of the issue and why Google's action are sadly necessary: The stereotype regarding Ame
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by sdwa 6y ago
Ironically the Electoral College was designed in part to protect against populist lunatics like Trump, but it's he who has benefited from it.
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by sdwa 6y ago
>Why is it worthy of respect to go against your own interest? Isn't this like a basic human principle? That we are taught as children? That sacrificing one's own interests for the commonwealth is typically considered virtuous
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by sdwa 6y ago
The CCP has been colonising its western territories for decades. Your defence and denial of genocide throughout this thread is pretty vile all things considered.
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by sdwa 6y ago
I am not well-versed in the details of Macron is doing regards Islam in France, but I am certain that he is not committing genocide, which is what the CCP is doing, and what the OP is defending. Like arguing that the Nazis were doing the j
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by sdwa 6y ago
Crows absolutely could build a jumbo jet, they just have no need to because they can already fly.
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by sdwa 6y ago
There's this article that I just read this morning. It suggests there are some valid ways to distinguish growth changes in plants caused by dead bodies and those caused by dead animals. Regarding your point, decaying dead bodies in t

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