Banning hate speech from major platforms won't end hatred, but it will deny hatred the ability to reach widest possible audience and that will hinder those attempting to normalise such things. Normal people aren't going to start using Gab en masse if Twitter starts making serious attempts to ban Nazis.
Will it stop it hate entirely? Of course not, but something not being a panacea doesn't mean that it isn't worth trying.
Juan, Juan, if you want to kill a social media platform, why not just ask your boss Rupert Murdoch to buy them? He did a hell of a job euthanising Myspace.
I wish I were as censored and mistreated by Google and the universe as conservatives like Prager U. I'd be thrilled to be given $10 million a year by conservative billionaires to spend my time alternating between peddling misinformation and whinging in the press because I can't peddle misinformation as easily as I'd like.
Has anyone ever been kicked off social media for supporting lower taxes, smaller government, looser labour laws, deregulation, privatisation and corporate subsidies? No?
It's not conservatives being kicked off social media for being conservatives, it's bigots being kicked off for being bigots who then turn around and cry out about bias because they enjoy being victims and they're incapable of any sort of introspection. It can't be their fault, it has to be the fault of the people they persecute somehow or some other enemy.
I think everyone involved knew this was going to be the outcome of this deal. It was a bunch of republican politicians throwing a handful of shiny pennies to the serfs ahead of an election so they can say 'Look what we've done for you! New jobs! Bright future! Vote for us, though it doesn't matter all that much if you do because we've gerrymandered Wisconsin to such a degree we'll lose and still win the majority of seats, and if we somehow lose a race we'll change laws on the way out to make sure the democrats can't do anything.'
It's the same vague threats they make against all their enemies at this point. Surrender or we will weaponise the machinery of the state against you, wider consequences be damned.
Oh no! Without Nielsen who will sign the deathwarrants for the rare few shows on American mainstream TV that actually attempt to be creative? Who will keep the vaseline porridge of crime/military/medical dramas/comedies featuring people who 'play by their own rules, damnit!' appropriately lukewarm? What will become of middle of the road actors like Ted Danson and Scott Bakula who aren't quite handsome enough for Hollywood? Who will think of the advertisers how will they know what shows to run ads during? They might have to gamble on shows with genuine buzz! The horror1
Won't someone please think of the mediocre and save them?!
Kick off and report people who promote violence against minorities and those who're likely to commit said acts? They're doing that, and he's screeching about it, calling it bias against conservatives.
Conservatives and bullies in general prey on the sense of fair play of others, they know if they scream bias loudly and often enough, people on the left, or 'centrists' will feel guilty and go 'Well, maybe they have a point, people do keep deplatforming them' without ever stopping to look at why they keep getting kicked off.
You have a right to a point of view, you have a right to state it, you do not have the right to a venue of your choosing for that statement, you don't have the right to an audience and you do not have the right to say hateful things without any consequences. If you took it upon yourself to stand on a table in McDonalds and start yelling at people about how the gays and 'globalists' are causing white genocide, you would be removed from the table, removed from McDonalds and banned, the same goes for Twitter, Youtube, Facebook... Their platform, their rules, if you don't agree, there are alternatives, which granted, don't have the same reach, because most of humanity don't wish to be bombarded by htespeech and alt-right sewage, funny that.
This sort of idiotic trademark grabbing nonsense is the natural progression of the English Premier League becoming corporatized, beyond what it was even a decade ago. Trademark everything, wall off as much as possible and drain out as much cash as possible before the whole thing collapses under the slagheap style debt mountains... And hope the local community will foot the bill afterward to save clubs that stopped being part of the community a long, long time ago.
Hawley knows none of his horrendous ideas will get passed even if the Republicans manage to retake both houses somehow. This is basically a pitch to set himself up as Josh Hawley: Internet 'expert' lawyer/lobbyist when he's voted out of office, no doubt planning to soak up right wing billionaire money, attacking internet companies in states without SLAPP laws to get criticism removed, or to attempt to force them to host hate speech.
I love that the people who claim to be the most in favour of freedom and liberty love nothing more than to move to gated communities and hand over control of much of their lives to the neighbourhood busybodies and their private little surveillance states. Freedom from freedom!
The global education system needs to kick companies like these and Elsevier to the curb as soon as possible. They're a disease laden tick on the neck of the higher education system and no matter how much blood they get from universities and students, it will never, ever be enough.
I love how any news outlet that the alt right disagree with becomes 'the mainstream media', no matter how small, no matter how niche. 'Reality disagrees with me and anything that reminds me of that is part of some cabal.'
Also love how youtube is censoring the right, while bombarding people with recommendations for garbage like Dave Rubin, Joe Rogan and Prager U whenever they watch anything even slightly related to politics or current affairs. Truly they are the masters of censorship.
Can we stop downplaying what he's suing over? This isn't a Devin Nunes situation where he's offended people call him a poopyhead, he's upset because he's being linked to an international pedophile ring that only exists in the syphilis riddled brains of internet conspiracy theorists. The allegations are bad enough, but he's getting death threats from the kind of people who have proven to be stupid and dangerous enough to act on it, having shot up pizza parlours based on this lunacy.
Is suing Twitter the best way to handle it? Of course not, but don't pretend he has no cause to be angry and afraid about thus situation.
The developer knew this was the likely outcome to creating an unauthorised clone. Like it or not, Nintendo have to defend their IP when they're made aware of infringement even if it's just a fan game. If they don't they'll have a harder time doing so against more serious commercial infringement.
It's a broken system, but here we are... Boo Nintendo for not wanting to jeopardise their properties that are in constant use that provide most of their income, right?
On the post: Pushing For Facebook, YouTube And Twitter To Ban Hate Speech Won't Stop It From Migrating Elsewhere
Banning hate speech from major platforms won't end hatred, but it will deny hatred the ability to reach widest possible audience and that will hinder those attempting to normalise such things. Normal people aren't going to start using Gab en masse if Twitter starts making serious attempts to ban Nazis.
Will it stop it hate entirely? Of course not, but something not being a panacea doesn't mean that it isn't worth trying.
On the post: Fox News Commentator Calls For A 'Backlash' Against Big Tech... Because Wikileaks Released His Phone Number
Juan, Juan, if you want to kill a social media platform, why not just ask your boss Rupert Murdoch to buy them? He did a hell of a job euthanising Myspace.
On the post: With Tumblr Sale, Verizon Continues To Stumble In Bungled Pivot Away From Telecom
The moral of the Tumblr story is banning furry porn will cost you nearly a billion dollars.
On the post: Dennis Prager Peddles Complete Nonsense About 'Google Censorship' In The WSJ
I wish I were as censored and mistreated by Google and the universe as conservatives like Prager U. I'd be thrilled to be given $10 million a year by conservative billionaires to spend my time alternating between peddling misinformation and whinging in the press because I can't peddle misinformation as easily as I'd like.
On the post: Ex-Googler Recently Held Up As A 'Whistleblower' And 'Proof' Of Anti-Conservative Bias At Google, Actually Supported Richard Spencer, Racist Skinheads
Has anyone ever been kicked off social media for supporting lower taxes, smaller government, looser labour laws, deregulation, privatisation and corporate subsidies? No?
It's not conservatives being kicked off social media for being conservatives, it's bigots being kicked off for being bigots who then turn around and cry out about bias because they enjoy being victims and they're incapable of any sort of introspection. It can't be their fault, it has to be the fault of the people they persecute somehow or some other enemy.
On the post: New Report Further Clarifies Foxconn's Wisconsin Deal Was An Unsustainable Joke
I think everyone involved knew this was going to be the outcome of this deal. It was a bunch of republican politicians throwing a handful of shiny pennies to the serfs ahead of an election so they can say 'Look what we've done for you! New jobs! Bright future! Vote for us, though it doesn't matter all that much if you do because we've gerrymandered Wisconsin to such a degree we'll lose and still win the majority of seats, and if we somehow lose a race we'll change laws on the way out to make sure the democrats can't do anything.'
On the post: White House Once Again Circulating A Draft Executive Order On Social Media Bias
It's the same vague threats they make against all their enemies at this point. Surrender or we will weaponise the machinery of the state against you, wider consequences be damned.
On the post: After Missing Cord Cutting Trend, Nielsen Falls Apart
Oh no! Without Nielsen who will sign the deathwarrants for the rare few shows on American mainstream TV that actually attempt to be creative? Who will keep the vaseline porridge of crime/military/medical dramas/comedies featuring people who 'play by their own rules, damnit!' appropriately lukewarm? What will become of middle of the road actors like Ted Danson and Scott Bakula who aren't quite handsome enough for Hollywood? Who will think of the advertisers how will they know what shows to run ads during? They might have to gamble on shows with genuine buzz! The horror1
Won't someone please think of the mediocre and save them?!
On the post: Trump Calls On Social Media Companies To Become Pre-Crime Agents
Kick off and report people who promote violence against minorities and those who're likely to commit said acts? They're doing that, and he's screeching about it, calling it bias against conservatives.
On the post: Enough With The Myth That Big Tech Is 'Censoring' Conservatives AND That The Law Requires Them To Be Neutral
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'I want the right to try and deny other people their rights and anything that hinders me in that goal is oppression!'
Conservative values in a nutshell.
On the post: Enough With The Myth That Big Tech Is 'Censoring' Conservatives AND That The Law Requires Them To Be Neutral
Conservatives and bullies in general prey on the sense of fair play of others, they know if they scream bias loudly and often enough, people on the left, or 'centrists' will feel guilty and go 'Well, maybe they have a point, people do keep deplatforming them' without ever stopping to look at why they keep getting kicked off.
You have a right to a point of view, you have a right to state it, you do not have the right to a venue of your choosing for that statement, you don't have the right to an audience and you do not have the right to say hateful things without any consequences. If you took it upon yourself to stand on a table in McDonalds and start yelling at people about how the gays and 'globalists' are causing white genocide, you would be removed from the table, removed from McDonalds and banned, the same goes for Twitter, Youtube, Facebook... Their platform, their rules, if you don't agree, there are alternatives, which granted, don't have the same reach, because most of humanity don't wish to be bombarded by htespeech and alt-right sewage, funny that.
On the post: Liverpool FC Also Apparently Attempted To Trademark Widely Used Chant By Football Fans
This sort of idiotic trademark grabbing nonsense is the natural progression of the English Premier League becoming corporatized, beyond what it was even a decade ago. Trademark everything, wall off as much as possible and drain out as much cash as possible before the whole thing collapses under the slagheap style debt mountains... And hope the local community will foot the bill afterward to save clubs that stopped being part of the community a long, long time ago.
On the post: Josh Hawley Wants To Appoint Himself Product Manager For The Internet
Hawley knows none of his horrendous ideas will get passed even if the Republicans manage to retake both houses somehow. This is basically a pitch to set himself up as Josh Hawley: Internet 'expert' lawyer/lobbyist when he's voted out of office, no doubt planning to soak up right wing billionaire money, attacking internet companies in states without SLAPP laws to get criticism removed, or to attempt to force them to host hate speech.
On the post: The Newest Growth Market For License Plate Readers Is Those Assholes Running The Local Homeowners Association
I love that the people who claim to be the most in favour of freedom and liberty love nothing more than to move to gated communities and hand over control of much of their lives to the neighbourhood busybodies and their private little surveillance states. Freedom from freedom!
On the post: The Death Of Ownership: Educational Publishing Giant Pearson To Do Away With Print Textbooks (That Can Be Resold)
The global education system needs to kick companies like these and Elsevier to the curb as soon as possible. They're a disease laden tick on the neck of the higher education system and no matter how much blood they get from universities and students, it will never, ever be enough.
On the post: Court Tosses Lawsuit Claiming Muting A Runescape Character Violates The First Amendment
Another dreadful case of left wing internet companies silencing Runescapertive voices! Won't someone please think of the free speech?!
On the post: For All Of Trump's Complaints About Social Media 'Censorship', The White House Itself Moderates Content Similarly To Social Media Sites
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I love how any news outlet that the alt right disagree with becomes 'the mainstream media', no matter how small, no matter how niche. 'Reality disagrees with me and anything that reminds me of that is part of some cabal.'
Also love how youtube is censoring the right, while bombarding people with recommendations for garbage like Dave Rubin, Joe Rogan and Prager U whenever they watch anything even slightly related to politics or current affairs. Truly they are the masters of censorship.
On the post: One Year Into The GDPR: Can We Declare It A Total Failure Yet?
Ah, something isn't a flawless panacea, therefore it should be written off as a failure. Good to know.
Meanwhile I'll be over here enjoying the countless sites and services, big and small that have had no problem complying with the law.
On the post: Canadian Billionaire Sues Twitter For Nasty Things Twitter Users Said About Him
Something nasty?
Can we stop downplaying what he's suing over? This isn't a Devin Nunes situation where he's offended people call him a poopyhead, he's upset because he's being linked to an international pedophile ring that only exists in the syphilis riddled brains of internet conspiracy theorists. The allegations are bad enough, but he's getting death threats from the kind of people who have proven to be stupid and dangerous enough to act on it, having shot up pizza parlours based on this lunacy.
Is suing Twitter the best way to handle it? Of course not, but don't pretend he has no cause to be angry and afraid about thus situation.
On the post: Nintendo Slays The Threat From Modded Nintendo Games For The Commodore 64
The developer knew this was the likely outcome to creating an unauthorised clone. Like it or not, Nintendo have to defend their IP when they're made aware of infringement even if it's just a fan game. If they don't they'll have a harder time doing so against more serious commercial infringement.
It's a broken system, but here we are... Boo Nintendo for not wanting to jeopardise their properties that are in constant use that provide most of their income, right?
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