throwjd764glug

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   by throwjd764glug 5y ago

   If a lone clerk can compromise the machines, should we really be using them? Do we know and trust everyone who had (legitimate or otherwise) access to these machines, including the manufacturer? And what benefit do they offer over a hand co
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   by throwjd764glug 5y ago

   It's hard to decide which part to highlight, as every sentence is more farcical than the last, starting with the premise that the code that counts American's votes is kept secret from them, and the unquestioning trust placed by th
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   by throwjd764glug 5y ago

   One-to-one messaging is not "amplification". Without Facebook's network effects, they would probably be using a different messenger, so you can't even claim that Facebook is enabling a communication that would otherwise
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   by throwjd764glug 5y ago

   "It is better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war." Alternatively, I wear a seatbelt despite never having been in a car accident.
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   by throwjd764glug 5y ago

   Yes, proprietary systems are so accountable. It only took "the prosecution and conviction of hundreds of [innocent] sub-postmasters for alleged theft, false accounting and/or fraud, resulting in imprisonment, loss of reputation
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   by throwjd764glug 5y ago

   It affects more than just sex workers. Amren cannot accept Paypal or credit cards due to deplatforming (or even draw attention to this through Youtube or Facebook, as those also banned them), Wikileaks was also financially isolated, and don