Yeah, if I see another crypto being sold as 'One of the good ones' or 'Environmentally responsible' I'll scream. This still produces E-waste, still burns power as part of an inefficient database that exists to produce nothing but gambling tokens they may someday be able to exchange for money they can use in the real world, though they're more likely to be exit scammed. People can make all the claims of greenness they want, but these tokens still feed into an ecosystem that is most decidedly not green, not by any stretch of the imagination. It's just human greed finding new ways to make the world worse for others, while claiming it's all about the tech.
And this is why Conservatives want to block social media moderation, because if people actively have to put in effort to read what they have to say, they won't bother as there's little appetite for conservative victim complexes and racism among the general public. They want the retweets from elderly relatives you can't unfollow without family drama, they want armies of bots and broken algorithms signal boosting their every proclaimation, and they will scream until they get it and complete immunity from the rules of the platform that they agreed to follow when they signed up.
The mainstream press' relationship with the right reminds me of a child who believes that if they just laugh along with their bully in the schooland just hand over their lunch money each day, that they'll stop. They will never be your friend if you platform their bullsh*t, they'll just keep on pulling society further and further to the right with outright lies until it goes over the fascist cliff and people are burning down your offices.
Like Stadia, it's a great idea in theory, but the internet infrastructure is not up to it in the US, a mess of slow connections and capped broadband whose users won't be happy to find themselves exceeding because of a service they never agreed to.
Outside of the US, opt out is something that probably won't fly for them legally in many major markets so it won't be much use there either.
Silly Citizen, if you want to be the cops, you're only meant to 'accidentally' leak information after you've murdered an innocent party and you want the media and the right wing blogosphere to help you to smear their character.
'Okay Venture Capital guys, listen up, I've got an idea for the next big thing... Ask yourself, What if Blackwater were like Uber and operated on American soil?'
'A lot of people will die, but sold! I'll cut you a cheque!'
So that's three events in DECADES, while the US has so many people no longer bat an eye as they happen so often and you refuse to address the elephant with a pistol in the room. No other developed nation has the gun problem you do, and your only answer is MOAR GUNS, THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS! then you wonder why it keeps on happening.
Americans really need to stop getting their news from The Daily Mail and Paul Joseph Watson, official crime stats do not come close to backing up the fear the far right are trying to sell you.
See how Dennis L. Montgomery made millions pretending there were hidden messages in Al Jazeera broadcasts which only he could decode with his magic technology that nobody could look into. He'd still be at it if his false intel hadn't caused an international incident that slid under the radar during the Bush years. He's also one of the minds behind the right wing election conspiracy theories, the Hammer and Scorecard nonsense.
'Do you presume to criticize the Great Oz? You ungrateful creatures! Think yourselves lucky that I'm giving you an audience tomorrow, instead of twenty years from now! Oh! The Great Oz has spoken! Oh! Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. The Great, Powerful...
-- has spoken --'
We've seen time and time again that intelligence agencies and law enforcement are more than happy to pour money into unreliable tech and defend it to the death because admitting they bought into a lie would open them up to lawsuits and scrutiny. They'd rather a million people get unfairly thrown to the wolves than let others look behind the curtain to find there's a wolf there making guesses.
Don't worry, the baby will have a nice soft landing atop the heap of waste produced burning fossil fuels so crypto scammers can have their magical private gambling tokens that aren't actually much use as money.
The sooner the Tether scam is unravelled, the better.
You know the US murder rate is four times that of the Uk, right? Nobody thought banning guns would end murder, but we thought one school shooting was one too many, changed the laws lo and behold, mass shootings stopped, meanwhile in the US it's always too soon after a tragedy to discuss reform, and the next shooting is never too far away.
Teachers unions don't vote for them, while police unions do so they'll be the only public service free from privatisation attempts.
Uber Vigilantes are a horrible idea, people will be murdered as a result of this, but douchebag libertarian tech bros don't care, venture capitalists don't care as they all know they'll never be held personally responsible for the inevitable results of their service.
Well, putting all that content in one place should make future demonetization and censorship easier, as well as brigading and harassment by incels, MRA's and other insane prudes.
You know the people controlling Maricopa county's elections were republicans, right? So in your mind, democrats pretended to be lifelong republicans, got elected as republicans and spent years doing thankless jobs so they could unseat a republican by making voters in a democratic area vote for a democrat... Talk about cunning!
Re: IF so easily corrupted, then WERE by "Democrats"!
So elections are corrupt until they prove otherwise? Republican justice in action. They don't support you, therefore guilty until proven innocent.
Funny how republicans scream to high heavens when democrats fight for recounts in close elections, or tell people like Stacy Abrams to 'get over it' after losing a race where the person she ran against was also overseeing the election and screwing with polling stations in areas that vote democrats, also funny how they fight all attempts to standardise voting laws because it would make it harder for republicans to disenfranchise communities that vote against them.
Who are the ones constantly pushing against positive media representation of minorities? Isn't the libs. Who spent much of the past half decade screeching because black athletes protest police brutality? Not the libs. Who are the ones keeping lists of professors they deem too liberal, targeting them for harassment? Not the libs. Who are attacking entire fields of academia because they discuss racism and oppression? Not the libs. Who tries to boycott an entire country for not supporting an illegal war? Not the libs. Who've organised letter writing campaigns and protests to attack social progress in pop culture as long as pop culture has been a thing? Not the libs. Who have passed laws making it illegal for the government to hire people for supporting boycotts of israel? Not the libs. Freedom fries? Not the libs...
Conservatives constantly use any power they get to attack, silence and disenfranchise their opponents, all the while screaming about how it's the libs silencing them as they can't go as far as they'd like.
On the post: Chia Cryptocurrency, Started By BitTorrent Creator Bram Cohen, Engaging In Obnoxiously Bogus Trademark Bullying
Re:
Yeah, if I see another crypto being sold as 'One of the good ones' or 'Environmentally responsible' I'll scream. This still produces E-waste, still burns power as part of an inefficient database that exists to produce nothing but gambling tokens they may someday be able to exchange for money they can use in the real world, though they're more likely to be exit scammed. People can make all the claims of greenness they want, but these tokens still feed into an ecosystem that is most decidedly not green, not by any stretch of the imagination. It's just human greed finding new ways to make the world worse for others, while claiming it's all about the tech.
On the post: Washington Post Runs Bizarrely Ignorant Opinion Piece Claiming Florida's Content Moderation Law Is Constitutional
Re: Re:
Laura Loomer tried and failed to run for office in Florida in the hopes of getting her twitter ban overturned so they were doing it already.
On the post: Trump Bans Himself From His Own Blog; Upset That Everyone Mocked Its Terrible Traffic
And this is why Conservatives want to block social media moderation, because if people actively have to put in effort to read what they have to say, they won't bother as there's little appetite for conservative victim complexes and racism among the general public. They want the retweets from elderly relatives you can't unfollow without family drama, they want armies of bots and broken algorithms signal boosting their every proclaimation, and they will scream until they get it and complete immunity from the rules of the platform that they agreed to follow when they signed up.
On the post: Washington Post Runs Bizarrely Ignorant Opinion Piece Claiming Florida's Content Moderation Law Is Constitutional
The mainstream press' relationship with the right reminds me of a child who believes that if they just laugh along with their bully in the schooland just hand over their lunch money each day, that they'll stop. They will never be your friend if you platform their bullsh*t, they'll just keep on pulling society further and further to the right with outright lies until it goes over the fascist cliff and people are burning down your offices.
On the post: Amazon's Idea For A Mesh Network Is Cool; Its Method Of Rolling It Out Is Not
Like Stadia, it's a great idea in theory, but the internet infrastructure is not up to it in the US, a mess of slow connections and capped broadband whose users won't be happy to find themselves exceeding because of a service they never agreed to.
Outside of the US, opt out is something that probably won't fly for them legally in many major markets so it won't be much use there either.
On the post: Citizen Continues Its Push To Become Cops-For-Hire By Leaking Sensitive Data... Twice
Silly Citizen, if you want to be the cops, you're only meant to 'accidentally' leak information after you've murdered an innocent party and you want the media and the right wing blogosphere to help you to smear their character.
On the post: Citizen -- The App That Wants To Be A Cop -- Offered A $30,000 Bounty For The Apprehension Of An Innocent Person
Re:
I wouldn't be at all surprised if sending drone 'officers' to deal with suspects is part of their long term plan. Human operated at first, then AI.
On the post: Citizen -- The App That Wants To Be A Cop -- Offered A $30,000 Bounty For The Apprehension Of An Innocent Person
Clearly they only chose Citizen as their replacement name as Lynchr was taken.
On the post: Private Security Company Thinks It Should Be Able To Take People To Jail Just Like Real Cops
'Okay Venture Capital guys, listen up, I've got an idea for the next big thing... Ask yourself, What if Blackwater were like Uber and operated on American soil?'
'A lot of people will die, but sold! I'll cut you a cheque!'
On the post: Babies & Bathwater: WSJ OpEd Suggests Banning Cryptocurrency Entirely To Stop Ransomware
Re: Re: Re:
So that's three events in DECADES, while the US has so many people no longer bat an eye as they happen so often and you refuse to address the elephant with a pistol in the room. No other developed nation has the gun problem you do, and your only answer is MOAR GUNS, THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS! then you wonder why it keeps on happening.
Americans really need to stop getting their news from The Daily Mail and Paul Joseph Watson, official crime stats do not come close to backing up the fear the far right are trying to sell you.
On the post: EFF Tells Court Defendants Must Be Allowed To Examine The DNA Software Used To Convict Them
Re:
See how Dennis L. Montgomery made millions pretending there were hidden messages in Al Jazeera broadcasts which only he could decode with his magic technology that nobody could look into. He'd still be at it if his false intel hadn't caused an international incident that slid under the radar during the Bush years. He's also one of the minds behind the right wing election conspiracy theories, the Hammer and Scorecard nonsense.
On the post: EFF Tells Court Defendants Must Be Allowed To Examine The DNA Software Used To Convict Them
'Do you presume to criticize the Great Oz? You ungrateful creatures! Think yourselves lucky that I'm giving you an audience tomorrow, instead of twenty years from now! Oh! The Great Oz has spoken! Oh! Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. The Great, Powerful...
-- has spoken --'
We've seen time and time again that intelligence agencies and law enforcement are more than happy to pour money into unreliable tech and defend it to the death because admitting they bought into a lie would open them up to lawsuits and scrutiny. They'd rather a million people get unfairly thrown to the wolves than let others look behind the curtain to find there's a wolf there making guesses.
On the post: Babies & Bathwater: WSJ OpEd Suggests Banning Cryptocurrency Entirely To Stop Ransomware
Don't worry, the baby will have a nice soft landing atop the heap of waste produced burning fossil fuels so crypto scammers can have their magical private gambling tokens that aren't actually much use as money.
The sooner the Tether scam is unravelled, the better.
On the post: Crime-Reporting App Citizen Apparently Attempting To Get Into The Law Enforcement Business
Re: Re: Re: Brilliant
Give red states time, there will be. There are plenty of 'murder protestors' laws being passed, giving QI to private lynch mobs has to be next.
On the post: Babies & Bathwater: WSJ OpEd Suggests Banning Cryptocurrency Entirely To Stop Ransomware
Re:
You know the US murder rate is four times that of the Uk, right? Nobody thought banning guns would end murder, but we thought one school shooting was one too many, changed the laws lo and behold, mass shootings stopped, meanwhile in the US it's always too soon after a tragedy to discuss reform, and the next shooting is never too far away.
On the post: Crime-Reporting App Citizen Apparently Attempting To Get Into The Law Enforcement Business
Re: Brilliant
Teachers unions don't vote for them, while police unions do so they'll be the only public service free from privatisation attempts.
Uber Vigilantes are a horrible idea, people will be murdered as a result of this, but douchebag libertarian tech bros don't care, venture capitalists don't care as they all know they'll never be held personally responsible for the inevitable results of their service.
On the post: Getting Absurd: Twitch Creates A 'Hot Tub' Channel, Says It Should Have Communicated With Streamers About Demonitization
Well, putting all that content in one place should make future demonetization and censorship easier, as well as brigading and harassment by incels, MRA's and other insane prudes.
On the post: Arizona County's Voting Machines Rendered Unusable By OAN-Financed Vote Auditors
Re:
You know the people controlling Maricopa county's elections were republicans, right? So in your mind, democrats pretended to be lifelong republicans, got elected as republicans and spent years doing thankless jobs so they could unseat a republican by making voters in a democratic area vote for a democrat... Talk about cunning!
On the post: Arizona County's Voting Machines Rendered Unusable By OAN-Financed Vote Auditors
Re: IF so easily corrupted, then WERE by "Democrats"!
So elections are corrupt until they prove otherwise? Republican justice in action. They don't support you, therefore guilty until proven innocent.
Funny how republicans scream to high heavens when democrats fight for recounts in close elections, or tell people like Stacy Abrams to 'get over it' after losing a race where the person she ran against was also overseeing the election and screwing with polling stations in areas that vote democrats, also funny how they fight all attempts to standardise voting laws because it would make it harder for republicans to disenfranchise communities that vote against them.
On the post: Florida Man Signs Blatantly Corrupt And Unconstitutional Social Media Bill, Cementing Florida As Tech Laughing Stock
Re: Re: Re: You Wish Government Could Do It Too
Who are the ones constantly pushing against positive media representation of minorities? Isn't the libs. Who spent much of the past half decade screeching because black athletes protest police brutality? Not the libs. Who are the ones keeping lists of professors they deem too liberal, targeting them for harassment? Not the libs. Who are attacking entire fields of academia because they discuss racism and oppression? Not the libs. Who tries to boycott an entire country for not supporting an illegal war? Not the libs. Who've organised letter writing campaigns and protests to attack social progress in pop culture as long as pop culture has been a thing? Not the libs. Who have passed laws making it illegal for the government to hire people for supporting boycotts of israel? Not the libs. Freedom fries? Not the libs...
Conservatives constantly use any power they get to attack, silence and disenfranchise their opponents, all the while screaming about how it's the libs silencing them as they can't go as far as they'd like.
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