I think we all know how this ends, another extension and quiet changes to terms of service implementing fines for exceeding use caps... And then the suspension ends without a word in the hopes of getting as much money from fines as possible.
Now let's watch as it's used to try and block sites using automated systems to block disinformation in the run up to the presidential election in the hope it'll gum up the works just a little.
If I wanted to get UNESCO defunded by turning people against it's very existence, raising 'ideas' like these would be a good start. The social media operator should be fired for giving Jean Michelle Jarre's crap ideas any sort of oxygene.
Kind of hilarious the conservative echo chamber focussing on Nancy Pelosi's fridge to try and paint her as an out of touch elitist while acting like a guy who was a millionaire before puberty thanks to inherited wealth, a man who lives in an honest to god gold plated tower is a man of the people.
The problem is in a lot if cases, the government are not acting in good faith, they are not doing this to try to prevent panic, they are doing their best to make people afraid to speak out because they are afraid it'll affect his re-election campaign. People needed to be made aware how serious this is, and they downplayed it, and now there are assholes in the streets protesting because they were told it was no worse than the flu.
There is something to be said about re-opening the economy eventually, not as soon as possible which is what they are going for. They have done nothing to justify giving them the benefit of the doubt over this, nothing about tweeting attacks on Democratic governors for not being willing to endanger lives, or for being angry about his incompetent and partisan handling of the allocation of essential resources says they are doing their best. They've played politics with this since day one, and have gone so far as to screen campaign adverts during press conferences so people's skepticism when it comes to their motives is entirely justified.
This is what happens when you put someone in a position of power whose only real skill in life is finding others willing to market him. Everything is a marketing exercise, everything is viewed through the media lens, how it would affect his TV ratings, as that's the only thing he's ever cared about aside from money. Anyone who isn't prepared to shill or say inconvenient truths out loud must go to set an example to others, consequences be damned.
Uh huh. Ballot harvesting and not laws put in place by republicans that benefit republican voters, polling place closures throughout democratic leaning districts, again, by republicans, republican officials overseeing elections they're running in, republican judges who've lost elections ploughing ahead with rulings on voter purges, republican gerrymandering states to such a degree halves blue districts are so carefully carved out they run through single properties so democrats can get 60% of the vote and still be in the minority in statehouses, republicans applying voter ID laws in ways designed to disenfranchise native Americans by requiring details that simply don't exist on native lands, republican dark money groups bombarding people with targeted lies, republicans designing laws intended to kill voter registration drives.. Oh but hey, VOTER FRAUD that has been proven by republicans on Trump's very own voter fraud task force not to be a real thing to the extent they claim... That non existent problem is the real problem.
Blocking this is win - win for red states, low voter turnout benefits republicans by and large, and if it doesn't pan out as they hope, they can call into question the validity of the results through the courts, and if that fails, they can shamelessly campaign for years accusing the democrat wins of being invalid, because of rules they put in place.
Cue Google giving them the finger, blocking results from France based news sources and offering french Canadian or machine translated international results instead. It will be worse than the status quo for French journalists and will be a PR nightmare, like most European content blocks. See the GEMA blockade of music content in Germany.
Xenophobia, leftist, maga, cursing for the sake of cursing, thoughts and prayers, hypocrisy (calling for non americans mot to comment while commenting on their nations affairs)... Just one accusation of cuckoldry away from completing my right wing idiot bingo card.
Oh but Trump would never, ever exploit his office and a crisis for personal gain, all the evidence of him doing just that are lies! Who are you going to believe, Donald or your lying eyes seeing Donald and his family using his role for self enrichment over and over and over and over and over?
'Absolutely. And over 300,000 deaths in the United States alone when all the figures were counted. And let me tell you something, this virus should be compared to the flu. Because at worst, at worst, worst case scenario it could be the flu.'
Dr. Marc Siegel on how dangerous the Coronavirus is.
But wait, there are other examples of him downplaying the virus, calling it overblown for political gain, calling the WHO alarmists, excusing failures...
I still remember when the performance rights folks in the UK started threatening shop workers for singing to themselves while they worked... Then quickly stepped back, not because they're in the wrong, but because journalists started reporting on it.
Well, it's just another in a long line of things the Trump Whitehouse have broken with little thought as to what will happen in a crisis. Right wing policy in general is built on breaking government through underfunding and outright sabotage so people don't fight so hard to stop them they slash, burn and sell to their rich patrons.
Meanwhile Trump is using an unencrypted cellphone to carry out government business, purging qualified people and appointing people who can't pass background checks to important whitehouse roles, announcing imminent military action to members of his club and running government business from there in full view of members... Man really cares about national security and draining that swamp.
I am shocked someone appointed to an endless array of government roles they are not qualified and can't get security clearance for is doing shady, hypocritical things.
When Trump is finally removed from power, the Whitehouse is going to be buried beneath a mountain of shredded documents that they were legally required to preserve, we're unlikely to know the true extent of the corruption and incompetence... But hey, but her emails, right?
The pro-plaguers can't kill kids with easily preventable diseases as easily with quarantines in place, so they're busy working out how best to pass coronavirus on to the elderly and those with weakened immune system.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Ad-Hoc Regulation Versus Systematic Regulation
You forgot Voat, the unmoderated alternative to reddit. Right wing Reddit subs kept trying to migrate there only to quickly back out as they found themselves faced with a parade of open neonazis mocking them for not being openly racist enough, and not being able to ban critics the way they could on Reddit so quickly returned with their tails between their legs.
These places generally go under the radar until tragedy strikes as they get a fraction of the traffic of the sites they were founded as 'free speech' alternatives to. Anyone with a shred of decency is repulsed by the open sewer of racism and bigotry these places tend to be, so the struggle to grow, even among the right as they are useless even as a recruitment tool or trolling platform so most of the right wing stick to reddit and twitter, making ample use of blocking critics while claiming oppression... That is when they're not tooting dogwhistles and claiming it's all a meme, bro.
Because the eternal patents some companies seem to have found ways to obtain over products like insulin has really driven research into diabetes. Big Pharma are pumping trillions into finding a cure and not just spending as little as they can working on getting a slightly different, only marginally better version of their current product they can patent and churn out once the patent on the current version expires, while piggybacking on publicly funded research when it comes to actual innovation... Oh wait.
On the post: Comcast Graciously Extends Suspension Of Completely Unnecessary Data Caps
I think we all know how this ends, another extension and quiet changes to terms of service implementing fines for exceeding use caps... And then the suspension ends without a word in the hopes of getting as much money from fines as possible.
On the post: We're Saved! Company Claims It's Patented 'Containing the Spread of Disinformation' And Will Stop COVID-19 Disinfo
Now let's watch as it's used to try and block sites using automated systems to block disinformation in the run up to the presidential election in the hope it'll gum up the works just a little.
On the post: UNESCO Suggests COVID-19 Is A Reason To Create... Eternal Copyright
If I wanted to get UNESCO defunded by turning people against it's very existence, raising 'ideas' like these would be a good start. The social media operator should be fired for giving Jean Michelle Jarre's crap ideas any sort of oxygene.
On the post: Censorship Kills: US Government's Focus On COVID-19 'Messaging' Over Actual Protection Did Real Damage
Re: Re: Re: the lawn is still green.
Kind of hilarious the conservative echo chamber focussing on Nancy Pelosi's fridge to try and paint her as an out of touch elitist while acting like a guy who was a millionaire before puberty thanks to inherited wealth, a man who lives in an honest to god gold plated tower is a man of the people.
On the post: Censorship Kills: US Government's Focus On COVID-19 'Messaging' Over Actual Protection Did Real Damage
Re:
"Trump is good, science is bad, conservatives are the real victims despite dominating most of the western world since the days of the new deal!'
This is why you shouldn't base your worldview on reddit posts and youtube videos, folks.
On the post: Censorship Kills: US Government's Focus On COVID-19 'Messaging' Over Actual Protection Did Real Damage
The problem is in a lot if cases, the government are not acting in good faith, they are not doing this to try to prevent panic, they are doing their best to make people afraid to speak out because they are afraid it'll affect his re-election campaign. People needed to be made aware how serious this is, and they downplayed it, and now there are assholes in the streets protesting because they were told it was no worse than the flu.
There is something to be said about re-opening the economy eventually, not as soon as possible which is what they are going for. They have done nothing to justify giving them the benefit of the doubt over this, nothing about tweeting attacks on Democratic governors for not being willing to endanger lives, or for being angry about his incompetent and partisan handling of the allocation of essential resources says they are doing their best. They've played politics with this since day one, and have gone so far as to screen campaign adverts during press conferences so people's skepticism when it comes to their motives is entirely justified.
On the post: Censorship Kills: US Government's Focus On COVID-19 'Messaging' Over Actual Protection Did Real Damage
This is what happens when you put someone in a position of power whose only real skill in life is finding others willing to market him. Everything is a marketing exercise, everything is viewed through the media lens, how it would affect his TV ratings, as that's the only thing he's ever cared about aside from money. Anyone who isn't prepared to shill or say inconvenient truths out loud must go to set an example to others, consequences be damned.
On the post: Texas Attorney General's Office Says It Can Toss People In Jail For Suggesting Coronavirus Fears Are A Legit Reason To Vote From Home
Re: Ballot harvesting
Uh huh. Ballot harvesting and not laws put in place by republicans that benefit republican voters, polling place closures throughout democratic leaning districts, again, by republicans, republican officials overseeing elections they're running in, republican judges who've lost elections ploughing ahead with rulings on voter purges, republican gerrymandering states to such a degree halves blue districts are so carefully carved out they run through single properties so democrats can get 60% of the vote and still be in the minority in statehouses, republicans applying voter ID laws in ways designed to disenfranchise native Americans by requiring details that simply don't exist on native lands, republican dark money groups bombarding people with targeted lies, republicans designing laws intended to kill voter registration drives.. Oh but hey, VOTER FRAUD that has been proven by republicans on Trump's very own voter fraud task force not to be a real thing to the extent they claim... That non existent problem is the real problem.
On the post: Texas Attorney General's Office Says It Can Toss People In Jail For Suggesting Coronavirus Fears Are A Legit Reason To Vote From Home
Blocking this is win - win for red states, low voter turnout benefits republicans by and large, and if it doesn't pan out as they hope, they can call into question the validity of the results through the courts, and if that fails, they can shamelessly campaign for years accusing the democrat wins of being invalid, because of rules they put in place.
On the post: French Government Says Google Must Pay French News Agencies For Sending Traffic Their Way
Cue Google giving them the finger, blocking results from France based news sources and offering french Canadian or machine translated international results instead. It will be worse than the status quo for French journalists and will be a PR nightmare, like most European content blocks. See the GEMA blockade of music content in Germany.
On the post: Maybe It's The Quarantine Talking, But NASCAR's Esports Takeover Is Hilarious Fun
Re: Re: Re:
Xenophobia, leftist, maga, cursing for the sake of cursing, thoughts and prayers, hypocrisy (calling for non americans mot to comment while commenting on their nations affairs)... Just one accusation of cuckoldry away from completing my right wing idiot bingo card.
On the post: Maybe It's The Quarantine Talking, But NASCAR's Esports Takeover Is Hilarious Fun
Re:
Oh but Trump would never, ever exploit his office and a crisis for personal gain, all the evidence of him doing just that are lies! Who are you going to believe, Donald or your lying eyes seeing Donald and his family using his role for self enrichment over and over and over and over and over?
On the post: Maybe It's The Quarantine Talking, But NASCAR's Esports Takeover Is Hilarious Fun
Re: Re:
'Absolutely. And over 300,000 deaths in the United States alone when all the figures were counted. And let me tell you something, this virus should be compared to the flu. Because at worst, at worst, worst case scenario it could be the flu.'
Dr. Marc Siegel on how dangerous the Coronavirus is.
https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/foxs-dr-marc-siegel-says-worse-case-scenario-coronavir us-it-could-be-flu
But wait, there are other examples of him downplaying the virus, calling it overblown for political gain, calling the WHO alarmists, excusing failures...
https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/heres-how-foxs-medical-commentators-ha ve-been-spreading-misinformation-during
But hey, he's a doctor, he can't possibly be full of crap and spouting the party line to keep himself on TV.
On the post: EU Says That, No, Rental Car Companies Don't Need To Pay A License To Rent Cars With Radios That Might Play Music
I still remember when the performance rights folks in the UK started threatening shop workers for singing to themselves while they worked... Then quickly stepped back, not because they're in the wrong, but because journalists started reporting on it.
On the post: Ex-FCC Staffer Says FCC Authority Given Up In Net Neutrality Repeal Sure Would Prove Handy In A Crisis
Well, it's just another in a long line of things the Trump Whitehouse have broken with little thought as to what will happen in a crisis. Right wing policy in general is built on breaking government through underfunding and outright sabotage so people don't fight so hard to stop them they slash, burn and sell to their rich patrons.
On the post: Jared Kushner's Coronavirus Task Force Is Using Private Email Accounts To Conduct Official Business
Re: What's good for the goose...
Meanwhile Trump is using an unencrypted cellphone to carry out government business, purging qualified people and appointing people who can't pass background checks to important whitehouse roles, announcing imminent military action to members of his club and running government business from there in full view of members... Man really cares about national security and draining that swamp.
On the post: Jared Kushner's Coronavirus Task Force Is Using Private Email Accounts To Conduct Official Business
I am shocked someone appointed to an endless array of government roles they are not qualified and can't get security clearance for is doing shady, hypocritical things.
When Trump is finally removed from power, the Whitehouse is going to be buried beneath a mountain of shredded documents that they were legally required to preserve, we're unlikely to know the true extent of the corruption and incompetence... But hey, but her emails, right?
On the post: Anti-Vaxxer Sues Facebook, In The Middle Of A Pandemic, For 'In Excess' Of $5 Billion For Shutting Down His Account
Re: Re: Re: Re:
The pro-plaguers can't kill kids with easily preventable diseases as easily with quarantines in place, so they're busy working out how best to pass coronavirus on to the elderly and those with weakened immune system.
On the post: Anti-Vaxxer Sues Facebook, In The Middle Of A Pandemic, For 'In Excess' Of $5 Billion For Shutting Down His Account
Re: Re: Re: Re: Ad-Hoc Regulation Versus Systematic Regulation
You forgot Voat, the unmoderated alternative to reddit. Right wing Reddit subs kept trying to migrate there only to quickly back out as they found themselves faced with a parade of open neonazis mocking them for not being openly racist enough, and not being able to ban critics the way they could on Reddit so quickly returned with their tails between their legs.
These places generally go under the radar until tragedy strikes as they get a fraction of the traffic of the sites they were founded as 'free speech' alternatives to. Anyone with a shred of decency is repulsed by the open sewer of racism and bigotry these places tend to be, so the struggle to grow, even among the right as they are useless even as a recruitment tool or trolling platform so most of the right wing stick to reddit and twitter, making ample use of blocking critics while claiming oppression... That is when they're not tooting dogwhistles and claiming it's all a meme, bro.
On the post: Everyone's Got A Pet Project: Patent Maximalist Says We Need Longer Patents To Incentivize Coronavirus Vaccines
Because the eternal patents some companies seem to have found ways to obtain over products like insulin has really driven research into diabetes. Big Pharma are pumping trillions into finding a cure and not just spending as little as they can working on getting a slightly different, only marginally better version of their current product they can patent and churn out once the patent on the current version expires, while piggybacking on publicly funded research when it comes to actual innovation... Oh wait.
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