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>If I get banned from HN for violating it's ToS (By, say, personally attacking people, or posting links to pornography, or just engaging in insane off-topic ramblings), can I also describe that as being silenced for my beliefs?

That's completely unrelated to the issue at hand - whether or not you'd be able to ramble insanely or make personal attacks in a public park (you would).
This is from November 4, 2020 right after the election. She might have been suspended originally in 2017, but wasn't this time and furthermore wasn't banned for repeated breaking of the rules. You can click on the link and still see the tweet.

Imagine if Trump had tweeted a photo of any Democrat's decapitated head, do you think the reaction would have been the same?
The irony is that a few years ago everyone thought the telco's were going to be the ones to control what you see/do on the internet. lol

Has this become an anti-trust issue (assuming there is a way to tie it to the Sherman Act) based on monopoly power? Google and Apple have 99.83% market share, owning both the platforms and distribution? Is it time to break these up?

/s

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-sta...
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Having reread this comment now I realize I would love a reading list like this for the United States too :D
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Does Signal really not run on Android tablets? While you do need to receive an SMS to set up a Signal account, you can receive that SMS on any other device, even a dumbphone.
I believe the important distinction is between 'having access to phonebook for calls and chats' and 'datamining phonebook for the needs of Facebook'.

Signal (the foundation) does not get to use my phonebook even if Signal (the app) does.

Made the switch yesterday. Hope this will be a turning point for Facebook
... you say, as the OP links to a fully accessible social media post by Ron Paul.

From Techdirt:

Moderation is a platform/service owner or operator saying “we don’t do that here”. Personal discretion is an individual telling themselves “I won’t do that here”. Editorial discretion is an editor saying “we won’t print that here”, either to themselves or to a writer. Censorship is someone saying “you won’t do that anywhere” alongside threats or actions meant to suppress speech.
>Facebook employee decides what posts to show you

Here FB manually decide what constitute 'good' or 'bad' content.
For example: fb employee decide trump content is 'bad' thus not allowing it.

>Facebook employees write post engagement algorithm

Here depending on how the algorithm works, it may not make a judgment whether the content is 'good' or 'bad' as long as it drive engagement. So here 'good' and 'bad' content can spread equally.

Here if its algorithmic then trump content doesn't depend on whether someone decide its 'good' or 'bad' but merely the engagement metric.

I would support the later, even if the content that finally show up is something 'bad' because here fb is merely act as tools.
Yes, these situations are usually but not always tied to taking of species that are protected. This can be tied to poaching or recreational take.

Taking fish or invertebrates which are undersized is often a misdemeanor.
Repeat offense can turn into a felony and jail time. First time harassment or take of marine mammals can also be a felony.

Source: I had a run-in where I was charged with a misdemeanor which was dropped after hiring a lawyer and making a substantial donation to a charity of the Judge's choice, which was a condition of the plea. Really informed my view on the subject.
Excellent comment. I'd say there are at least three possible answers to the question you pose at the end of it:

1. As another commenter replied, Big Tech will have to start charging market prices for their services.

2. Big Tech will be unable to charge for their services, and the business relationship between them and their users will collapse, taking Big Tech with it.

3. The relationship between Big Tech and its customers will change from a business relationship to something else, where the truism you stated will no longer applies.

One might argue that (3) has already happened, and the "something else" is more like a manorial or totalitarian relationship, in which the interests of the users are irrelevant.
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Threema costs money which is a no go for almost everybody.
Have you ever seen anyone seriously defend what Judith Miller (et al.) actually did?
Lower-energy comment here to concur on first-time seeing that acronym, but also to iterate with the thought-network of: "GAFTA"
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Strange that Rob doesn't mention the possibility that the private key was compromised. What the DKIM signature really proves is the date the message was sent, not who composed the message.
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Please accept my apology. I had been perusing the crazy on Parler to get an idea of what is going around there, and it put me in a bit of a foul mood.
Sure, to a degree, but when hospitalization rates are < 5%[1], it's pretty hard to argue that medical science is preventing a 60% death rate.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/12/07/covid-hosp...
"near-overthrow"

A few hundred people stalled the counting of electoral votes for literally a few HOURS. Hardly a "near-overthrow" of anything other than Trump himself.
Even better is Wire: no phone number required, doesn't access your contacts, free personal accounts available, you can use it on a desktop machine with nothing more than a web browser, when using an installed app you can be logged into three Wire accounts at the same time, source code is open source and has been audited for security, you can set up your own locally hosted (or in your own cloud)... and more I'm probably forgetting.
Free like Signal?
> What about Element / Matrix ? It's ahead of Signal in usability, and much more future-proof.

If only it could be present-ready.

No, I am kidding :).

The way I see it Matrix and Signal have different short term and long term goals, some overlapping. And both could do way better in term of usability.
It's important to have content-neutral browsers. Several days ago Mozilla indicated their support of the Internet censorship regime: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-d...
Right, me too. It's like The case of the 500-mile email, it just never gets old.

https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

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I am not from China, but I am from Russia.

Western posturing and brinksmanship isn't going to bring about any meaningful change. It's been tried for seventy years against the USSR, with no effect [1]. All that a foreign enemy (that loudly proclaims their belligerence) does is unite people behind shitty leaders. (As we have seen in Western democracies when their governments are more concerned with blaming external enemies, rather than fixing internal problems.)

Change in the CCP will have to come from movements within China. These kinds of changes take generations, and will not always result in the kind of change you would like to see.

Even in an authoritarian country, there is still a feedback loop between public sentiment, and their ruling government. At the end of the day, no government can govern without the consent of its people. It's just a much slower feedback loop than what you see in countries that have regular elections [2].

Strong-man anti-China posturing will not do anything to China, and its architects know that. China is not the target of their behaviour - looking strong in front of domestic audiences is. In the 90s, tough-on-crime was popular in America, for the same reasons, to devastating consequences. Today, we've moved on to tough-on-China (which will result in devastating consequences if it ever moves past rhetoric, and into a shooting war.)

[1] The USSR imploded in a combination of incompetence, complacency, and a desire for its leaders (Gorbachev and his allies, who won a power struggle against Brezhnev's circle) to stop the worst of its repressive practices.

[2] Which in itself operates on a timeline of decades, if you look at how long it takes to go from public sentiment, to the primaries, to actual results in elections.
The internet is already decentralized, another layer of decentralization solves nothing. When the most popular nodes start banning people we're going to hear the exact same complaints from the usual suspects.
The left understands the complexity of free speech, the right weaponizes free speech. Huge difference.
Right now, the US military could side with Trump, launch a fascist coup, start rounding up enemy politicians for assassination, and eliminate any freedom at all for anybody who doesn't who enough MAGA support publicly. They haven't, but they could, and it's happened frequently enough in other countries.

Not only is this scenario 1000x worse for freedom than the very very worst that Amazon could do, it's also far more likely at the moment.

So my question is, why the F are we even talking about Amazon? Because it's just a BS distraction from the elephant in the room.

It's time to stop engaging with sophistry and fight back the fascists that are trying to take away all our freedoms. And this big fear of big tech is exactly the type of distraction that lets fascism flourish enough to gain a stronghold.
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All that just because some head of states visited him before the head of state.
> The violence is the issue, not the ideology.

If this was true,

- Twitter would be banned for hosting the heads of mass-murdering regimes

- Facebook would be banned for CSAM and violent content

- Reddit would be banned for the false Boston Bomber doxxing and subsequent murder
Amazon is not banning Republicans. Amazon is dropping a risky client after having more than reasonable doubts about that client's ability to operate in good faith. Republican views are not being censored. The fact that this site happens to cater to a lot of "Republicans" who feel marginalized by public discourse is merely a very telling correlation between a political view and a tendency towards violent tendencies and conspiratorial beliefs.
> It's ahead of Signal in usability

I like and use Element but it definitely isn't ahead in usability. Getting e2e set up for "average" people isn't trivial. Especially if they have multiple devices.

That being said it is the the best long term option in my opinion and I am donating to the organization. Hopefully they can work on polishing the e2e UX.
Here is the scenario I’m thinking of: suppose the violence scared enough legislators into going along with the efforts to throw out electoral slates from those five states. That seems like something that very well could have happened.
They tried that with televisions in California.

The result? Televisions are one of the most common forms of road trash now. Often on the way to/ from the dump. As soon as you charge someone to get rid of something, the temptation to just dump it on the side of the road increases.
Entirely possible, probably likely, that it's somewhere in the center. Not all propaganda and not all unbiased
No, not according to the lawsuit: "Parler has tried to find alternative companies to host it and they have fallen through. It has no other options. Without AWS, Parler is finished as it has no way to get online."
> I've followed Fauci's meandering diplomacy from time to time, as well as disagreements between federal and local responses.

It speaks volumes that you identified what country I'm from and the person I was really talking about just from a vague rant about "scientists."

My rant may have been aimed at one or two people who appear to be compulsive liars at this point, but the author of the post is complaining about a problem with science in general. And it's not something you can attribute to anti-intellectualism or the perception of science; it really is a 'dereliction of duty" on behalf of scientists, and the madness of 2020 exposed these problems to the general public. More on that problem here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7leWXMr3ayk

As an aside, I would ask those people (not you) who blamed me for feeling this way if they really think browbeating people who speak out will fix the issue. Why do we all have to keep blaming each other? Why not work together to hold our experts to a higher standard?
I don't know if this is the "right" thing to do, but I am certainly in favor of hearing more future-learning solutions versus pre-internet solutions that merely introduce friction to slow growth.
The article is worth reading and considering.

The tulip thing lasted a few months while bitcoin has been the best performing asset of the last 5 and 10 years. Very different.
I truly hope this thread generates at least half as many comments as the threads about the bans have managed to generate.
Clicky: https://github.com/MatteoGuadrini/fontpreview

Write a nice comparison of coding fonts using the library. It's easy way to farm some karma here, and get some discussion about your library.

It is weird how you add the "E" in the example of "FIRA CODE". I expected to you to add the "E" just after "FIRA COD".

PS: My preferred font in Consolas.
Nice work! I like the quick rendering too.

However, I don't believe any AI was used for this, so the actual TLD is a bit inappropriate here. A ".io" TLD would would have been more fitting.

Not every slice of bread needs to be spread with butter. Similarly, not every project requires AI.
I wholeheartedly agree with the "specialization" comment.

Unless you are in a position where you can entirely rely on managed tools that do the work for you and all effort is centered around managing the data, rather than the holistic view of your data pipelines (Talend ETL, Informatica - the "pre-Hadoop" world, if you will, and maybe some modern tools like Snowflake), then a good Data Engineer needs a deep understanding of programming languages, networking, some sysadmin stuff, distributed systems, containerization, statics, and of course a good "architect" view on the ever-growing zoo of tools and languages with different pros and cons.

Given that at the end of the day, most "Data Pipelines" run on distributed Linux machines, I've seen and solved endless issues with Kernel and OS configurations (noexec flags, ulimits, permissions, keyring limits ...), network bottlenecks, hotspotting (both in networks and databases), overflowing partitions, odd issues on odd file systems, bad partition schemes, a myriad of network issues, JVM flags, needs for auditing and other compliance topics, heavily multi-threaded custom implementations that don't use "standard" tools and rely on language features (goroutines, multiprocessing in Python, Threadpools in Java ...), encoding problems, various TLS and other security challenges, and of course, endless use of GNU tools and other CLI-fun and I would not necessarily expect for a pure SQL use case (not discounting the fact that SQL is, in fact, very important).

Not to mention that a lot of jobs / workflows Data Engineers design and write tend to be very, very expensive, especially on managed Clouds - generally a good idea to make sure everything works and your engineers understand what they are doing.
That's only because house and senate members were successfully evacuated - if they weren't, what exactly did you think the rioters were going to do? What do you think they had zip ties for? What was the gallows erected outside for?
Stock price isn't especially meaningful in the context of the current economic times. I'd say Jobs dying is more or less along the lines of what my worldview expectations are. Apple is fine. But its product offerings tend to be a lot shittier and generic.
From my experience T5 is currently the best publicly available model for NLG.
Only client is opensource right? If I remember right, the server code isn't opensource.
The CCP is walking a fine line between relaxing it’s hold over day to day things enough to make western businesses feel comfortable operating there, and maintaining the CCP as the ultimate source of authority over all aspects of society. Just from my knowledge, courts is an example. They’ve had western legal scholars come in and help reform their legal system. These days, it’s not lawless in the sense that arbitrary whims of party officials will decide court cases. But the courts are there to ultimately implement party will—it’s not like in the US where some federal judge will randomly enjoin something Trump does. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-policy-law/chinas-t...
Why do you suppose they chose to publish this hit piece as a blog post instead of going through the peer review process with a real journal article? Or at least a formal letter to PLoS Medicine?
To echo a sibling comment - an attorney once explained to me that, while it is illegal for background checking services to provide outdated/inaccurate data, there is no strict legal timeline requiring them to update their records. Meaning that, even post-expungement or post-sealing (and associated time + legal fees) there's still a non-insignificant chance that a potential employer might learn of your charge(s), even after taking legal action to clean up your record.

Incidentally, I've also once been told by a Hiring Manager family member of mine that for minor charges it might be best *not* to seal them, since that would leave a potential employer guessing and likely assuming that it was something serious as opposed to something small or common, e.g. a marijuana-related misdemeanor.

IANAL, obviously.
If Twitter wasn't willing to at least attempt to moderate then yes. What's going on here isn't new. Web hosting services have been dropping hate speech platforms and forums since the internet began.

The real problem is that is seems like the hate speech/Qanon wing of the right side of the political spectrum has the loudest voice and it's ruining it for actual conservatives.
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I see the opinion that more users will help make Signal reach feature parity but I don't understand why that follows. Unless there is a massive increase in donations but that is largely covered by the 0% interest rate funding from WA founder.
Pirate Taxi's have existed for decades, the mobile app for them did not yet exist.
i have tried Jami before and was very disappointed by the bad UX.

People use Telegram, because it has a fantastic UX and UI.

If you want people to even considering switching from WhatsApp, then the alternative must be 120% polished.
> Okay, so this is admittedly snarky but we've seen this sort of blog post so much that it has practically become an Onion article: Why Haskell Is Our Secret Weapon, by Startup You've Never Heard Of.

But occasionally it pays off in a really big way.

Like WhatsApp cashing out for $19 billion, on a product they never could have scaled with so few engineers without Erlang.

Like Viaweb and Common Lisp, where Paul Graham says the language allowed them to move much faster than their competitors. One anecdote was about talking on the phone to a customer reporting a bug, and actually fixing it on the live system and asking the customer to try again, and the customer was shocked to find it now worked.

Like ITA, who created the best in class flight search system in Lisp and then sold to Google.

Every once in a while, an unpopular but powerful technology really is the secret sauce for a winning product.
Every private company in the U.S. is compelled by law to offer goods and services regardless of race, religion, etc.

Adding political affiliation to the list of protected classes probably makes sense. It seems odd that it's not on the list, doesn't it?

The bans we're seeing here are very clearly political. Parler is not breaking laws. It seems obvious that if Parler was being used by BLM to organize violent riots they would not get banned.

As usual, one person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter. Anyone simplifying this whole thing into good vs bad is behaving like a member of a tribal mob.

One thing that is certain is that private companies should not be the ones deciding these major cultural issues. The Supreme Court should resolve these issues.
It is certainly an unresolvable conflict, my major concern is to what extent those that control the "Freedom From" internet will go to prevent the harm done by the "Freedom To" internet. Will my Verizon connection be shutdown if I have a node running?
Link to the original, in Latin and Italian (starts page 26): http://bdh-rd.bne.es/viewer.vm?id=0000056943 If I understand correctly, the manual's step 1 is to pray for mercy.
>Imagine spending most of your life building a massive business and then one day it is taken from you by force by an authoritarian ruler.

I don't think most of the people praising the CCP or (any other similar system where one's life work can easily be taken) know what it's like to be in business for one's self.
> private companies getting together and voluntarily enforcing the supremecy of the state

Your choice of words implies some sort of conspiracy here. The response has been widespread and quite frankly should be unsurprising. No coordination is necessary. Any sane CEO running a profit driven organization will not tolerate a group of people whose words of violence against the state cross beyond hyperbole and words and into actual action. If more actions take place and are more successful and these companies decided to stick their heads in the sand then the existence of these companies would be under threat.

This is about basic survival.
I remember when the US tried to overthrow Maduro recently, what do you mean?
It's amusing that people are simultaneously complaining that tech companies are censoring the president of the US and "enforcing the supremacy of the state" at the same time.

True "deep state" conspiracy material. After four years of running the country, they are still underdogs.
Please stop pretending that every other major social media platform does not or has not hosted users calling for - or actually committing - truly horrendous acts. Parler is hardly the first social media company that has had violent users.
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The two big issues that come to mind with this are DNS and SSL certs. AFIK both are really hard spaces to become a "provider", so you end up being reliant on the existing providers to do business with you. Sure there are decentralized solutions to these problems, but none of them really let you operate in the "normal" internet space...
Billionaires can be held more accountable than government because they must continually compete for people's dollars.

Movements like the Chick-Fil-A boycott and #deletefacebook do hurt companies and billionaires and can force a change in behavior quickly. There's no feedback loop like that with the CCP, and the US gives citizens more power but having to wait 4 years to vote on a change is a very slow feedback loop.
Looks like someone actually started doing some of this already: is https://stonecutters.law/
It's pretty easy to google that....not trying to be cheeky but here's the first hit I got for "Gas Subsidies":

https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-fossil-fuel-subs...
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