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Notices by just an actual husbear (guizzy@pleroma.guizzyordi.info), page 60
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@roboneko @Hyolobrika @Moon @dave Or more succintly; you can't go "Noooo, government, you can't force us to control what people say on our platforms, that would force us to restrict their speech!"
And then turn around and go "FUCK your free speech, I'm a private company, not the government"
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@roboneko @dave @Hyolobrika @Moon In the US (which, let's be honest, is the only jurisdiction that matters in this case), these private public squares enjoy exemptions from liability for user-generated posts that were given to them because it was deemed that making them liable for these posts would have a chilling effect on the growth of the Internet as these service providers would have to enact draconian methods to avoid lawsuits (having to manually approve every post, for instance) or just give up entirely.
Now that it's made apparent that these companies have the means of curating speech and are perfectly fine with using them (in controversial ways, not just removing CP or snuff content), then I think it's clear they could also use these methods to remove speech that would expose them to lawsuits. It would follow that with all those tools at their disposal; speech that DOES remain on these platforms is tacitly endorsed by these companies. The laws should be updated so that applying non-neutral curation tools and methods exposes them to liability.
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@lain jesse_whatthefuckareyoutalkingabout.jpg
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@medli Congrats!
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@dave The more interesting question is where someone puts the line, in terms of how life changing the amount of money would have to be in order to acquiesce to it.
For me, I think it would have to be around 500 000$: enough to be able to buy outright a house I'd like to grow old in. Lower than that, I don't think I'd compromise; it's more of a self-respect stand than recreational drugs being worth X amount of money. But home ownership would increase my self-respect by an equivalent or higher amount.
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@Hyolobrika Operating at my level, my counterargument would be that ultimately the stronger arguments in his article are more an argument in favor of keeping a certain radical streak within the blockchain community rather than arguments against other blockchains; Bitcoin as a currency of last resort is not diminished by the existence of others, it can cling to its conceptual purity while others explore elsewhere, that purity has and will keep its demonstrable value unless something purer replaces it.
But at Vitalik's brain's power level, who knows what the arguments are.
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Vitalik Buterin's April 1st post (dunno if can be called April's Fools, and that's probably on purpose) still unsettles me.
Vitalik is someone whose intelligence I recognize is so much above mine that I believe he would be reliably able to model my thinking. So reading a convincing article, expressing points that are very resonant to me, from him defending a viewpoint I know he doesn't support is... I don't know. It's especially slightly demeaning because it doesn't read like the same level of braininess as his usual writing, as if he has to actually dumb himself down to be able to write it in a way that felt earnest. Makes me feel like a midwit being toyed with by a gigabrain.
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@sampo @hj I imagine it's to watch the iFixIt teardown video on Youtube for the bomb he's defusing.
"Here the manufacturer used epoxy to glue this wire in place, we're gonna have to dock repairability points for this bomb"
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@Moon Eh, I'm no expert (thankfully) on the matter but it must be quite an unpleasant act to do, and he had the magic equivalent of a gun instead. He didn't know it would blow him up.
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@Mitsu @avocatto :blobreachreverse:
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@lain @Mitsu In Quebec it's still mandatory indoors, the last place in North America to still require it, and while they were planning on dropping it April 15th, now they're preparing to push that back to the end of April.
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@Mitsu They were good enough
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@Mitsu When they're not, they're just 1,70$
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@Mitsu Now now, we found where to get 1$ baguettes, remember?
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@lain @Mitsu @piggo :blob_cry:
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@Mitsu @piggo @Stellar They are not, but we also don't have chronic 30%+ youth unemployment
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@Ricardus Tried them recently, was not a fan of how they turned out doing them sunny-side up. Very rubbery. I'll probably try scrambled next, might turn out better.
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@lain Now now, brothers shouldn't fight!
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@lain What do you mean, "getting a proper ending"? Monkey Island 2's ending was fine.
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@Effortless I love how it's supposed to be a "Take that!" post, but the guy posting it is not realizing he should be feeling uneasy thinking about how much of his "culture" is controlled by one company, and one that feels like it has a duty to meddle in politics at that.
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