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• On the post: It's Time To Start Dismantling One Of The Nation's Oldest Racist Institutions: Law Enforcement

  

  NaBUru38 ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2020 @ 07:38pm

  Jacob Blake while unarmed tried to get into his car, and the police shot him 7 times on his back.

  Kyle Rittenhouse shot multiple people, and the police did not arrest him.

  Calling American cops racist is an understatement.

• On the post: Australian Tech Giant Says Country's Anti-Encryption Laws Are Harming Local Tech Companies

  

  NaBUru38 ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2020 @ 07:18pm

  Re:

  It has an annual revenue of 1 billion. That's peanuts versus Google, Microsoft or Amazon, but still a pretty important company. Also, TIL Atlassian is Australian.

• On the post: DOJ And Florida Officials Announce Arrests Relating To Twitter Hack

  

  NaBUru38 ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2020 @ 07:01pm

  Twitter is an asynchronous messaging website. How can it implement end-to-end encryption, when messages are stored in servers until the recepient opens the browser and logs in?

• On the post: We Shouldn't Call Michelle Obama's (And Joe Rogan's) Proprietary Exclusive Audio From Spotify A 'Podcast' Any More

  

  NaBUru38 ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2020 @ 07:47am

  Dear Mike, podcasts are called so because of the iPod, whose integration with iTunes popularized the format. So your rant is 15 years late.

• On the post: As Predicted: Parler Is Banning Users It Doesn't Like

  

  NaBUru38 ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2020 @ 12:10pm

  Brandenburg and Miller cases

  Oh America, the land where obscenity is not protected as free speech, but calling to violence is protected as free speech except if it's imminent.

• On the post: I'd Bet Ted Cruz Will Start Supporting Section 230 Once He Realizes He's On The Hook For Parler's Legal Expenses

  

  NaBUru38 ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2020 @ 12:16pm

  Excuse my lack of understanding. Are you sure that Section 230 protects website users? I thought that it protected websites from users, not viceversa.

• On the post: Mixer Shuts Down, Showing Again Why You Don't Need To Freak Out By Copycat Competitors

  

  NaBUru38 ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2020 @ 01:18pm

  Re:

  YouTube is not the only video website, but it does have a huge market share.

• On the post: Senator Loeffler's New Section 230 Reform Bill Would Threaten Encryption And Pressure Websites To Keep Spam & Porn

  

  NaBUru38 ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2020 @ 01:22pm

  Requiring "viewpoint-neutral" moderation is restricting the freedom of speech.

• On the post: No, Twitter Fact Checking The President Is Not Evidence Of Anti-Conservative Bias

  

  NaBUru38 ( profile ), 30 May, 2020 @ 10:58am

  I'm sure that if any other president wrote tweets glorifying violence or misinforming, Twitter would fact check them too.

• On the post: Local Broadcasters Forget Journalism Ethics, Air Amazon PR Fluff Instead

  

  NaBUru38 ( profile ), 28 May, 2020 @ 06:29pm

  Re: Corporations, shareholders, and public companies

  Shareholders get representation at the company's board. They can certainly decide what the company does or doesn't.

• On the post: Local Broadcasters Forget Journalism Ethics, Air Amazon PR Fluff Instead

  

  NaBUru38 ( profile ), 28 May, 2020 @ 06:25pm

  Re:

  No need to buy journalists, they do it at no extra charge.

• On the post: When The Problem Isn't Twitter But President Trump

  

  NaBUru38 ( profile ), 28 May, 2020 @ 06:20pm

  Re: Journalism vs. Reporting

  Journalism has become entertainment. The term "newsworthy" has lost any meaning.

• On the post: In Search Of A Grand Unified Theory Of Free Expression And Privacy

  

  NaBUru38 ( profile ), 28 May, 2020 @ 05:58pm

  We saw the case where Google was told by France and Canadato censor and not censor search results simultaneously. Likewise, we wouldnt like Russia or Saudi Arabia to tell companies to censor gay parades or political dissenters worldwide.

  The internet is worldwide, but laws are territorial. International treaties could be an option, but as already said, authoritarian countries are well represented in the United Nations. On the other hand, multistakeholder organizations usually have an overrepresentation of corporations.

  The European Union's GDPR has good points and bad points. It certainly has the power of law. It certainly protects privacy, even of politicians who should be transparent.

• On the post: Trump, Twitter, And Free Speech

  

  NaBUru38 ( profile ), 28 May, 2020 @ 05:20pm

  I agree with Mike that deleting Trump's tweets would be a tertible idea, and that fighting speech with speech was an excellent decision by Twitter.

  Now, I disagree with nearly everything that Trump says. However, I do think that mail voting isn't fail safe. There's no way to guaranteethat a mail vote was sent by the person who is supposed to, just like with internet voting.

• On the post: Say It With Me Now, Australia: Beer And Wine Are Not The Same Thing, Not Even For Trademarks

  

  NaBUru38 ( profile ), 15 May, 2020 @ 11:34am

  I disagree with the article's opinion. The point isn't confusion between wine and beer, but between the manufacturers of wine and beer.

  Companies like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, AB InBev, Heineken, Diageo, Pernod-Ricard, Suntory and Asahi. They produce a wide range of beverages.

  Therefore if a customer sees Wine Drop and Beer Drop, or Wildcat Beer and Wildcat Vodka, they may assume that both products are from the same company.

• On the post: DirectTV Forgot To Stop Charging Customers For Channels That Were Blacked Out

  

  NaBUru38 ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2019 @ 04:21am

  These carriage conflicts and fees happen to major local stations and sports channels for a very clear reason: those channels are the most desired and most expensive ones.

  Of course companies shouldn't charge fees for channels they don't offer. Of course the advertised cost should include all fees.

  Yet, its good that companies show the cost of specific channels (especially the expensive ones), as this case shows.

• On the post: Sony Using Copyright To Take Down Its Own Anti-Piracy Propaganda

  

  NaBUru38 ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2019 @ 04:19am

  In the good old days, organizations freely distributed propaganda to reach the masses.

  Now they only let you see propaganda if you sign up and pay a subscription.

• On the post: The Splinters Of Our Discontent: A Review Of Network Propaganda

  

  NaBUru38 ( profile ), 22 Jan, 2019 @ 03:49am

  Re: You played yourself.

  I agree that mainstream media is also to blame.
  
  These conglomerates search quick profit from clickbait headlines. They spread the disinformation that comes from the far right, because it gets larger audiences that moderate, reasonable pieces.

• On the post: The 'Choose Your Own Adventure' People Are Suing Netflix Over 'Bandersnatch'

  

  NaBUru38 ( profile ), 21 Jan, 2019 @ 02:42pm

  In fact, most endings of Choose Your Own Adventure books result in the death of the main character. That was the point of the adventures.

• On the post: Our Bipolar Free-Speech Disorder And How To Fix It (Part 3)

  

  NaBUru38 ( profile ), 02 Dec, 2018 @ 07:07am

  I'm very interested in the concept of information fiduciary. Can you explain it more thoroughly?

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