And thank god that there's no government control of farming, everyone knows farmers are amazingly responsible, never overusing fertiliser, pesticide or antibiotics and they're always super careful when it comes to the handling of chemicals and waste. Everything would be perfect if we just ran everything like the farmers, there wouldn't be any worry about water pollution as they're all just so responsible. ( https://www.nrdc.org/stories/industrial-agricultural-pollution-101 )
Re: I'll take why Section 230 is under attack for $1000
BLM/antifa are so cunning they spent years infiltrating groups like the proud boys and oathkeepers and supporting Trump and his brand of racism for years on end, even living entire lives as real estate agents in Texas to throw people off their trail. They're so cunning they tricked right wing groups like TPUSA bussing them in and bragging about it on social media. They were so clever, they managed to trick people from Infowars and The Blaze to be at the heart of the mob, actively participating in things and livestreaming without getting caught on camera doing anything. They did such a good job at covering their tracks they managed to be part of organising on Parler without giving away location and other personal information, unlike all their other users. After the riot, they managed to slip away into the night without arrests, almost like they were never there at all except in the minds of people trying to excuse right wing violence, the same top minds who invent drug overdoses as the cause of deaths at the hands of police, or claim people hit by cars died of heart attacks... Anything is better than the truth.
The democrats have been thr adults in the room for generations, meeting republicans half way nearly every time and all it has done is make the republicans demand more. Every decade of my life the republicans have stepped further and further to the right, and meeting them halfway has resulted in the democrats achieving nothing but drifting further right themselves, in a situation where they get called Marxist for proposing laws first suggested by republicans. Look at the ACA, changes first proposed as a compromise by republicans, basically as a means to stop the Democrats passing more meaningful healthcare reforms, and even that is too far left for them and they moved heaven and earth to try and kill it, not because they had a better idea, but because they're governed by spite and greed. Trying to compromise with republicans sabotaged the Obama administration and led to something far worse.
America has been pulled toward a cliff edge, one party takes two steps towards it each year, the other meeting them halfway and viewing the republicans taking one step forward as a victory, ignoring they're both closer to the cliff than they were. It's time fir the democrats to dig their heels in and let the republicans go over that cliff alone. They've proven they can't be trusted, any further concessions and they'll use that olive branch to pull them to their death.
After a decade of obstructionism and lawmaking designed to target and harm people who don't vote for them, the response to all republican requests should be the raising of a middle finger. After all the years of partisanship and outright cruelty, they have no right whatsoever to turn around and make requests and pretend to care about fairness.
And the videos will be reuploaded with the sound muted and a disclaimer that the cops are playing music. If you're caught on video doing crimes, getting the uploader a copyright strike won't make it go away, and copyright won't save you when that footage is brought before a judge as part of a lawsuit.
Rupert Murdoch does not give a damn about newspaper culture, or journalism, he wants to produce propaganda and to get others to pay for it. If he could he would fire every single journalist on his payroll and replace them with the racist madlibs of Breitbart. The Australian law is designed simply to protect his fortune and his political power, print media is dying and all he cares about is getting someone else to pay him to fill that gap because the flood of rightwing propagandists on facebook have proven that just about anyone on the internet can do what he does.
The illusion of growth will keep the stock price climbing, the pockets of board members and investors will grow fuller and when the fake growth slows, they can fire a bunch of people to keep the number going up. When it all goes pear-shaped, the people behind it will flee on golden parachutes, knowing nothing they did was illegal so they will suffer no repercussions.
It's important to teach kids the purpose of art and creativity is to be money grubbing. If you can suck all the joy out of it for them, you can end their dreams early and get them on the same path of drudgery as everyone else.
More proof if any were needed that the right wing cry of states rights is nothing but a means to try to let red states keep on abusing minorities. Blue states being able to create exemptions from the death of net neutrality would render the whole thing meaningless as they're where the money is, AT&T, Comcast and their ilk can't exactly charge more for red state broadband services when they refuse to provide them to many areas in the first place, or let others do so. You can't persuade people to pay more for a fast lane when all you're offering is a dirt track.
If the system was as good as they say, they could eliminate the Canadians from their system in a Thanos-like snap. In reality though, if their efforts for law enforcement are anything to go by, they'll just end up purging 30 million African Americans instead.
I like to imagine him roaming the halls of Mar-a-Lago in his pyjamas, writing spelling mistake filled insults on post-it notes and sticking them on every screen he can find to try and fill the void.
'Oh no, wallstreet and Silicon Valley are filled with amoral asshats, I guess I better support the republicans turning the internet into a completely unfiltered stream of far right bull***t, racism, homophobia and misogyny, that'll show them!'
As we all know, republicans are so totally anti corporation. They sure do love sticking it to wallstreet with their checks notes endless deregulation, tax cuts, subsidies, union busting, privatisation...
Looks like Section 230 is the new abortion, lots of state level republicans trying to pass laws to kill it that they know will never survive any sort of challenge. What it will do is get the attention of Fox, Newsmax and OANN which they hope will aid them in climbing up the republican dungheap and get them considered for higher office.
Of course, it's a bit harder to get that attention when they all do it at once, but republicans don't really think these things through.
You do realise that a LOT of high profile conservatives would be banned from most of social media if rules were enforced consistently, right? All the delightful misogyny, homophobia, racism, conspiracy theories and lies that make up most of their output would result in them being gone virtually overnight.
Consistency is not what you want, you want the rules changed to make it impossible to ban conservatives for anything, no matter how abhorrent their behaviour, you want to turn the self styled 'silent majority' into protected class based on nothing but their political leanings. You don't want a level playingfield, you know full well that would not benefit you but it makes a nice fairytale to tell centrists while you try to get them onside, you want the freedom to punch down and freedom from consequences with the end goal of rolling back a century's worth of social progress to claw back what little power the right have lost in that time,
On the post: Hacked Florida Water Plant Found To Have Been Using Unsupported Windows 7 Machines And Shared Passwords
Re: Re: people of Oldsmar were lucky
As everyone knows, the security in private companies is always flawless, this sort of thing never, ever happens when there's a profit motive. ( https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201215/13203045893/security-researcher-reveals-solarwinds-update -server-was-secured-with-password-solarwinds123.shtml ) Private companies always run the tightest ships when it comes to safety, they never decide that paying fines is cheaper than fixing problems, even if they cost human lives ( https://www.spokesman.com/blogs/autos/2008/oct/17/pinto-memo-its-cheaper-let-them-burn/ ), and there sure aren't any cases of corporate entities causing massive environmental disasters and used legal loopholes to walk away without suffering any consequences, having shoved the cleanup costs onto the public. ( https://cen.acs.org/environment/persistent-pollutants/Chemical-companies-spar-over-PFAS/97/i36 ) EPA Superfund sites? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfund ) All the fault of the public sector.
And thank god that there's no government control of farming, everyone knows farmers are amazingly responsible, never overusing fertiliser, pesticide or antibiotics and they're always super careful when it comes to the handling of chemicals and waste. Everything would be perfect if we just ran everything like the farmers, there wouldn't be any worry about water pollution as they're all just so responsible. ( https://www.nrdc.org/stories/industrial-agricultural-pollution-101 )
On the post: The Copia Institute To The Oversight Board Regarding Facebook's Trump Suspension: There Was No Wrong Decision
Re: I'll take why Section 230 is under attack for $1000
BLM/antifa are so cunning they spent years infiltrating groups like the proud boys and oathkeepers and supporting Trump and his brand of racism for years on end, even living entire lives as real estate agents in Texas to throw people off their trail. They're so cunning they tricked right wing groups like TPUSA bussing them in and bragging about it on social media. They were so clever, they managed to trick people from Infowars and The Blaze to be at the heart of the mob, actively participating in things and livestreaming without getting caught on camera doing anything. They did such a good job at covering their tracks they managed to be part of organising on Parler without giving away location and other personal information, unlike all their other users. After the riot, they managed to slip away into the night without arrests, almost like they were never there at all except in the minds of people trying to excuse right wing violence, the same top minds who invent drug overdoses as the cause of deaths at the hands of police, or claim people hit by cars died of heart attacks... Anything is better than the truth.
On the post: Annoyance Builds At Elon Musk Getting A Billion In Subsidies For Starlink Broadband
Fantastic, now he's got another billion he doesn't need that he can piss away on accelerating the destruction of the planet with Bitcoin.
On the post: Dumb New GOP Talking Point: If You Restore Net Neutrality, You HAVE To Kill Section 230. Just Because!
Re: Re:
The democrats have been thr adults in the room for generations, meeting republicans half way nearly every time and all it has done is make the republicans demand more. Every decade of my life the republicans have stepped further and further to the right, and meeting them halfway has resulted in the democrats achieving nothing but drifting further right themselves, in a situation where they get called Marxist for proposing laws first suggested by republicans. Look at the ACA, changes first proposed as a compromise by republicans, basically as a means to stop the Democrats passing more meaningful healthcare reforms, and even that is too far left for them and they moved heaven and earth to try and kill it, not because they had a better idea, but because they're governed by spite and greed. Trying to compromise with republicans sabotaged the Obama administration and led to something far worse.
America has been pulled toward a cliff edge, one party takes two steps towards it each year, the other meeting them halfway and viewing the republicans taking one step forward as a victory, ignoring they're both closer to the cliff than they were. It's time fir the democrats to dig their heels in and let the republicans go over that cliff alone. They've proven they can't be trusted, any further concessions and they'll use that olive branch to pull them to their death.
On the post: Dumb New GOP Talking Point: If You Restore Net Neutrality, You HAVE To Kill Section 230. Just Because!
After a decade of obstructionism and lawmaking designed to target and harm people who don't vote for them, the response to all republican requests should be the raising of a middle finger. After all the years of partisanship and outright cruelty, they have no right whatsoever to turn around and make requests and pretend to care about fairness.
On the post: Latest Anti-Accountability Move By Cops Involves Playing Music While Being Recorded In Hopes Of Triggering Copyright Takedowns
And the videos will be reuploaded with the sound muted and a disclaimer that the cops are playing music. If you're caught on video doing crimes, getting the uploader a copyright strike won't make it go away, and copyright won't save you when that footage is brought before a judge as part of a lawsuit.
On the post: Snippet Taxes Not Only Violate The Berne Convention, But Also Betray The Deepest Roots Of Newspaper Culture
Rupert Murdoch does not give a damn about newspaper culture, or journalism, he wants to produce propaganda and to get others to pay for it. If he could he would fire every single journalist on his payroll and replace them with the racist madlibs of Breitbart. The Australian law is designed simply to protect his fortune and his political power, print media is dying and all he cares about is getting someone else to pay him to fill that gap because the flood of rightwing propagandists on facebook have proven that just about anyone on the internet can do what he does.
On the post: 16 States Ask The FCC What The Hell Is The Point Of The Verizon Tracfone Merger
Re:
The illusion of growth will keep the stock price climbing, the pockets of board members and investors will grow fuller and when the fake growth slows, they can fire a bunch of people to keep the number going up. When it all goes pear-shaped, the people behind it will flee on golden parachutes, knowing nothing they did was illegal so they will suffer no repercussions.
On the post: Why Is Congress Pushing For Locking Up More Culture?
It's important to teach kids the purpose of art and creativity is to be money grubbing. If you can suck all the joy out of it for them, you can end their dreams early and get them on the same path of drudgery as everyone else.
On the post: DOJ Drops Ridiculous Trump-Era Lawsuit Against California For Passing Net Neutrality Rules
More proof if any were needed that the right wing cry of states rights is nothing but a means to try to let red states keep on abusing minorities. Blue states being able to create exemptions from the death of net neutrality would render the whole thing meaningless as they're where the money is, AT&T, Comcast and their ilk can't exactly charge more for red state broadband services when they refuse to provide them to many areas in the first place, or let others do so. You can't persuade people to pay more for a fast lane when all you're offering is a dirt track.
On the post: Canadian Privacy Commission Says Clearview's App Is Illegal, Tells It To Pack Its Things And Leave
If the system was as good as they say, they could eliminate the Canadians from their system in a Thanos-like snap. In reality though, if their efforts for law enforcement are anything to go by, they'll just end up purging 30 million African Americans instead.
On the post: Without Twitter, Trump Is Left To Write Tweets He Would Have Said On Paper
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That and they'll no longer be able to hear the content of his classified briefings or get to run the VA.
On the post: Without Twitter, Trump Is Left To Write Tweets He Would Have Said On Paper
I like to imagine him roaming the halls of Mar-a-Lago in his pyjamas, writing spelling mistake filled insults on post-it notes and sticking them on every screen he can find to try and fill the void.
On the post: Smartmatic Sues Two Trump Lawyers And Three Fox News Hosts For $2.7 Billion-Worth Of Defamation
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One of the few times they'll be upset about courts siding with corporations.
On the post: Huawei Attempts To Rebuild Trust By Using... Fake Twitter Telecom Experts
Should have hired former Trump trade advisor and expert on China, Ron Vara to aid them in their social media effort.
On the post: Can A Community Approach To Disinformation Help Twitter?
Re: Good for the Gander
'Don't have trusted sources call people out for lying and people won't be able to tell as many lies.'
Republicans are now attempting to apply deregulation and trickle down economics logic to truth and reality itself... Got to love it.
On the post: Various States All Pile On To Push Blatantly Unconstitutional Laws That Say Social Media Can't Moderate
Re: Re:
'Oh no, wallstreet and Silicon Valley are filled with amoral asshats, I guess I better support the republicans turning the internet into a completely unfiltered stream of far right bull***t, racism, homophobia and misogyny, that'll show them!'
On the post: Various States All Pile On To Push Blatantly Unconstitutional Laws That Say Social Media Can't Moderate
Re: Re: Re: Consistent Rules
As we all know, republicans are so totally anti corporation. They sure do love sticking it to wallstreet with their checks notes endless deregulation, tax cuts, subsidies, union busting, privatisation...
On the post: Various States All Pile On To Push Blatantly Unconstitutional Laws That Say Social Media Can't Moderate
Looks like Section 230 is the new abortion, lots of state level republicans trying to pass laws to kill it that they know will never survive any sort of challenge. What it will do is get the attention of Fox, Newsmax and OANN which they hope will aid them in climbing up the republican dungheap and get them considered for higher office.
Of course, it's a bit harder to get that attention when they all do it at once, but republicans don't really think these things through.
On the post: Various States All Pile On To Push Blatantly Unconstitutional Laws That Say Social Media Can't Moderate
Re: Consistent Rules
You do realise that a LOT of high profile conservatives would be banned from most of social media if rules were enforced consistently, right? All the delightful misogyny, homophobia, racism, conspiracy theories and lies that make up most of their output would result in them being gone virtually overnight.
Consistency is not what you want, you want the rules changed to make it impossible to ban conservatives for anything, no matter how abhorrent their behaviour, you want to turn the self styled 'silent majority' into protected class based on nothing but their political leanings. You don't want a level playingfield, you know full well that would not benefit you but it makes a nice fairytale to tell centrists while you try to get them onside, you want the freedom to punch down and freedom from consequences with the end goal of rolling back a century's worth of social progress to claw back what little power the right have lost in that time,
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