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His political actions. Views are just beliefs.

Mozilla is a private organization where Brendan Eich served at the pleasure of its body. What if he was pushing to rescind suffrage for women or to re-instate Jim Crow? Pushing for the legalization of child cannibalism by funding legislative efforts in that direction?
They called him on this potentially happening too during the pitch.

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> Banning "fetus" and "transgender" is completely indefensible as they're fairly neutral words with no obvious replacement.

There's always "transexual", the older word for exactly the same concept.
Business models like NiceHash (putting aside their security issues) have elevated the price of bitcoin by letting miners mine the most profitable currency and then immediately selling it for BTC. This moves the demand off the best alt currencies onto BTC; so the more block chains the merrier as long as this kinds of business model persists, and i think it will.

Also; "People have this bizarre idea that cryptocurrency tokens are ‘rare’." the belief in value is basically the foundation of all currency, why would cryptocurrency be any different?
That's always been the case.
I agree with your overall point, but this tactic seems almost as disingenuous as the other side. I don't think we should be equating speech with body counts, even if it was the same view that brought about both. Though this is a good example of why the argument for hate speech laws doesn't make sense, I think it's important to preface it as such or else your comment comes across as the same kind of attack that Sam A is criticizing.
Actually this is just restoring what was already lost. For instance, at least in my school district, if one gives any kind of sex talk or parenting talk to students they are informed by higher faculty to not use the term "baby" unless you are talking about a child that is already born. This is of course to defend the position that a fetus is not a baby and thus not a human. There are laws against killing humans you know, but if something is "sub-human"[0] the game is still on.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untermensch
I feel like it’ll take another dozen years before some people are ready to admit that “Liberal McCarthyism” is exactly what emerged around 2017.

And in the meantime, as someone who’s not interested in waiting on the current power-brokers in SV to admit to it, I think it makes sense for those who are the primary target of this new McCarthyism to engineer a way to preseve their rights.

Depending on SV’s prevailing power structure is obviously a terrible idea.
It's pretty clear you didn't actually read it. I didn't at first either because I trusted the sources I was reading to give me a fair summary. That was a mistake. I didn't necessarily agree with what he said, but it was nowhere near as bad as what 90% of sources were reporting.
Well FF did just get caught with their pants down, installing a Mr.Robot (tv show tie-in) Add-on(extension) to FF users, without their consent.
Since it was an Add-On that was pushed after a debian install, Debian devs wouldn't have been able catch it before it reached end-users.

That said, I still use FF, but I do make sure I keep all the opt-in telemetry and stuff off, since it was one of these settings that "let them" get away with installing the add-on without consent.

Granted the add-on by default didn't do anything unless you enabled it, but still.....
I don't feel like I can say this around my office (big 4 bank, Melbourne).
they dont have content neutrality yet. France has the same issues with public media.
It has something to do with being flooded with American content and perspectives. You see, it's been understood here for some time what kind of effect media can have on a population. This seems to be something America is just coming to terms with, regarding organizations like Sinclair.

It's been Canada's struggle for some time to maintain an identity in the face of some kind of ideological imperialism. Manifest Destiny is still fresh on Canadian minds, and non-points like this implying some kind of tyranny are grossly mal-informed. Our CRTC who made that ruling is the same CRTC who is ensuring net neutrality and mandating performant broadband internet as a basic telecom service. Things the FCC just thought not worth protecting for Americans.

edit: To clarify myself a bit: This is an impassioned subject for me. I think the US is a great nation—but implying something nefarious about Canadians' attempt at self-preservation, while residing next to a federation like the US, is incomprehensible.
Do you have a 20-ft screen at home?
How is transgender in any way related to science? Furthering the Obama agenda of promoting mental illness is not in the best interest of society. Helping the mentally ill get the help they deserve is. A banana can declare it is an apple all it wants, but it is still a banana.
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im sure you dont care how correct i think the statements you make in your piece are, so ill just address the larger point you seem to be ignoring: there is no shortage of things to say that are correct, but serve no purpose. are you really shocked that people would not like you if you went around calling every fat and ugly person "fat and ugly"? given that our attention is a finite resource, the choice of where to focus it itself carries significant meaning. i suspect that many of those statements, when contextualized, imply things beyond their literal meaning. you are acting like its unfair to make this interpretation, and im sure there are many cases where it is. but you are pretty dumb if you really dont understand why saying "diversity of thought is more important than diversity of skin color" can sound like "im racist" depending on the context.
Half of America lives in places like Monroe, Iowa.
> If San Francisco residents really believed that sea levels were rising, they’d have all sold their homes by now.

What an absurd argument. Is it possible instead that people are capable of believing that sea levels are rising and the US government wouldn't allow $500B worth of GDP to sink into the Bay?
I would argue that in a biological context the primary problem with neutral uses of "diversity" is vagueness. If a report indicates that they "collected a diverse range of bacteria for study", what is it that's different about them? Why not say "collected bacteria with various tolerances to extracellular ethanol concentration across three genera"? But like I said, an outright ban is silly, there are certainly places where it's the right word to use.
Weirdly, that doesn't seem to have been a problem for those whose president was Charlton Heston.
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You’re confusing the state with a private actor. Yes, private actors have a lot of power in this world, but that’s not what the law is about. The law is about the government, not private actors.

If you don’t allow businesses to fire people, then you’re compelling speech. Think about it. Say you’re a restaurant and you have a waiter that habitually refers to guests with a constant stream of expitives that would make a sailor blush. It gets to the point that it hurts your business. Patrons stop coming in. You can’t recruit. Do you fire him? Of course not! You’d be impugning his free speech and that’s horrible.

So the restaurant closes, and you start another. And guess who shows up for a job? Sailor Blusher. Do you hire him? Of course! You have to because if you didn’t, you’d be infringing in his right to get paid to berate strangers!

This story isn’t an exaggeration. This is the logical outcome.
> a black woman in charge of Inclusion and Diversity at a most socially progressive company would blow into that dog whistle.

So she is Uncle Tom's wife and is secretly dog whistling to the white supremacists.

That's part of the reason people are not speaking what they think -- because they end up getting responses like that, which are completely indistinguishable from a comedy skit or an article from The Onion.

It's like talking to someone and hearing them try to convince you about contrails or lizard people. You can't argue at that point, because you realize it's way beyond that, so you just kind of keep quiet an nod. Especially if that person is your boss or coworker.
On the contrary, silencing voices is a necessary thing. All societies have to determine what speech is allowed and what isn't. There are lots of things you can say in general American society that will get you censured. Claiming that black people are biologically inferior to white people, for example. Claiming that women are biologically inferior to men, though? Some still seem fond of that one.

This all boils down to the fact one group is trying to add a number of new entries to the list of censurable topics. It's fine to disagree with that, but then you have to state a) what topics you think shouldn't be added to the list and b). why. When people walk around loudly complaining about how they can't say anything anymore without being specific as to what they want to say, it suggests that perhaps they know that those positions are not really defensible.

[EDIT: To explain things a little more. Societies must limit some forms of speech because some speech limits who can be a member of a society. "We should murder all Asian people" is not compatible with a society that contains Asian people. And no, it is not fair to expect Asian people to have to constantly defend their humanity to others who have nothing to lose in the argument. Much as it's nice to think about abstractly entertaining every possible idea, when some of those ideas actively push out or dehumanize members, the society is forced to choose between accepting debate on the idea or excluding those members. So yes, if you want to complain about how SV society shuns people for not wanting to experiment on human embryos or whatever, go ahead. But assuming that all ideas should be up for debate is ignoring the fact that some ideas are incompatible with your fellow society members. And you get to choose between debating those ideas or having those people in your society as equals. You do have a choice, but you can't have both.]
Population growth doesn’t remain static. It’s not going to double in the time frame you’ve projected. In fact, it’s not going to reach that figure for much longer, if at all.

Hans Rosling’s talks (on TED and YouTube) throw a lot of light on the peak population we’d likely reach, the reasons for those and also what we can do to control it (the key is educating girls). He died some months ago, but his talks and work are engaging and illuminating.
What if a woman pushed for the disenfranchisement of men believing that society would be better for it? I'd at least like to hear her out, maybe I'd even support it but I can't know if I can't even hear the view. I have no problem personally with hearing political views because I believe that over time and through discourse human society converges on better outcomes. Someone could state that they would like the return of Jim Crow but I'm confident that the people who hold those views in the long run will be outnumbered.
I don't believe so. And I think SF has some real problems too.
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And if someone were to say the reverse, that diversity of skin color is more important than diversity of thought, what would you call that? Virtue signal?
I find it troubling that views based deeply in religious beliefs (gay people are unnatural and somehow should be sidelined for their differences makes sense only inside of a highly religious context) or just pure unscientific opinion are somehow being taken as a political view.

Back in the days, skin colour was a political view. That was a dumb idea. And the effects of that is still felt up to today. These days sexual orientation and climate change are political views.

This isn't ok. And we shouldn't treat it as such. Bigotry and un-science don't deserve a seat as a "reasonable voice" at the table of progress no matter who you are.
I'm not nit-picking. I'm arguing that most uses of the phrase are incoherent, yours included.
> Voices are being silenced.

I think we've got to be cautious in defining what "being silenced" means. Because I see a world in which people are saying all sorts of things out loud. There was a protest with a bunch of people waving Nazi flags in a public park in Virginia a few months ago.

I don't think people are being silenced.

I think community norms are shifting quickly in many parts of the country and, again, it's disorienting for certain people who have held certain views without problem for most of their lives. Suddenly they're being told it's not okay to say something and it feels like they're being silenced. They're not, of course. But I understand that it can feel like it.

[Edit: This is in response to your original comment, which you edited.]
Of course there will be backlash. There already is. That doesn't mean it doesn't lead to progress overall. The rights of black people were meaningfully better in 1930 than in 1830, even though they were better still in 1870, before the Redeemers took control and the backlash went into full gear.
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I want to be clear: it's bad to fire people just for expressing a different opinion. But that's not what my comment was about -- it was about how, as a society, we've learned to detect and avoid conversations that are probably faithless.
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Wouldn’t it be far more effective (and safe) to defeat bad ideas with evidence and reason?
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Comments saying some of these words could be used inappropriately are missing the point.

Fuck, rat bastard, and many other words may not be appropriate for use either. We don’t start surgically censoring non-elected, non-party affiliated, government staff for theoretical transgressions.

Let’s be evidenced based (sorry), and ask how many times in the past this approach would have helped a CDC situation? At least, a situation that does not divide along political lines.
Maybe those words were identified as most likely to be used in manipulating others to get bigger budget and moving towards emotional response "one with a good heart" can't deny, so it's a nice playground for sociopaths to force their way through by shaming/guilt/etc.? So commonly used technique, one would laugh if it weren't so dangerous not to play along, risking mob lynching?

Frankly, I'd love to know what is the best defense technique for the scenario I outlined. Any ideas?
But it does prevent a business trying to run off of free supercharger power from just buying up used Teslas...
I was going to comment on this one too. There are lots of projections of which sections of SF will be underwater, and those are the cheapest places to live. It is already priced into the market.
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Maybe I'm letting my own bias seep in now, but I consider "transgender" fairly neutral and "transsexual" overtly negative and likely intentionally used to agitate.
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> On the contrary, silencing voices is a necessary thing.

Couldn't disagree with you more.

The best antidote for bad ideas is sunshine.

The alternative is totalitarianism.
i dont know, i dont see alot of damage from the pendulum swinging "too far"? i guess some of the speaker harassment on college campuses and some calling for some prof's heads is bs... what else? probably jeffery lord (despite sucking super hard) shouldn't have been fired. i dont know, maybe im missing some, but it seems like this is not sufficient grounds to feel so aggrieved.
As an average HN reader, that's probably not a big problem. Surely, you're accustomed to researching and learning to use new pieces of software that do the things you'd like?
Doesn't make it okay. It used to be considered a left position to believe that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. We also used to argue in favor of freedom of speech. One thing hasn't changed, which is that the people in power want to suppress any speech they disagree with.
If I answer truthfully I'm going to be down voted and shamed, so I won't answer.

Instead, I'm going to continue to be part of the silent majority that supports him, but doesn't speak out because we are often falsely labeled as deplorables or worse.

Edit: people like me are what you get when society stifles free speech: unwilling to engage and so continuing in our beliefs silently. maybe you coastal elitists should stop shaming people for having different opinions and mental models of how the world works.

And if you dummies think that speech isn't being stifled, look no further than James Demore being fired for trying to figure out root cause analysis of why there aren't more women in tech

Edit 2: someone is going through my post history and downvoting. Good job, ladies, you're proving my point.

Edit 3: and now I'm not allowed to respond to people because I'm posting "too fast". Great.
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