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  • On the post: Platforms, Speech And Truth: Policy, Policing And Impossible Choices

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2018 @ 07:01pm

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    Oh yeah I am a whitey ... may i take seat at the counter? Please sir I will not do anything bad ...

  • On the post: Platforms, Speech And Truth: Policy, Policing And Impossible Choices

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2018 @ 06:58pm

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    "Regulation does not necessarily mean “banning people”, you know."

    Of course it does, to answer your original post. Any regulation is a ban. Because regulating any speech, no matter how hateful, is a ban on free speech. And ....

    niger, spik, whitey, kike ... etc, etc, etc,

    which will get me banned here?

    Which one will not get me banned here?

    Double standard anyone?

  • On the post: Platforms, Speech And Truth: Policy, Policing And Impossible Choices

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2018 @ 06:48pm

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    But regulation always mean government has control. And the words we are with the government, we are here to help always end poorly.

    Lets start chanting one word, one nation, one goal for our great nation, we want to be like ... Venezuela, Venezuela, Venezuela, follow along with me.

    Oh come chant it to me, it will be fun... sing it to the tune we are the champions of the world by Queen, with a broken record player ...

  • On the post: Platforms, Speech And Truth: Policy, Policing And Impossible Choices

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2018 @ 12:30am

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    you = your

  • On the post: Platforms, Speech And Truth: Policy, Policing And Impossible Choices

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2018 @ 12:28am

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    Okay, being slightly autistic, I need to say you two (1,2) sentences together do not make sense. Translation follows

    s 1) Yeah the government threatened suspensions, regulation, and retaliation ... but ....

    s 2) The government did not want to ban people ...but ... yeah look at the first sentence.

  • On the post: Platforms, Speech And Truth: Policy, Policing And Impossible Choices

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2018 @ 09:41pm

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    It has been a while since I posted here. The way this is headed concerns me very much, so I thought it might be fun to play Advocatus Diaboli (devils advocate) along many, many paths... But... seeing as I know that I'm not the one putting together the list of what content will be allowed and what won't be, I'm a bit concerned about who WILL be making that determination And right you should, you speak out about copyright issues, limitations on copyright and corporate greed ... how soon until you are on the receiving end of being shadow banned on search engines, social media, and have your accounts deleted online? We have already seen what government agencies are capable of when left unchecked. There is this thing called the Streisand Effect maybe you have heard of it (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)? Since, Alex Jones was banned from Facebook, his app has become the most downloaded on Googles Play store (see NYT). He has added followers on Twitter 100 times faster than before. And he has become bigger than CNN, what am I saying I have more followers than CNN, so that is nothing, never mind. Banning him will make him disappear 400 years ago the catholic church had this list called the "Index Librorum Prohibitorum" (Index Of Banned Books). I believe every book on that list can be found today. You ban something people wonder what am I missing? what secrets are they trying to hide? ... well maybe I should take a look. This also goes to the Streisand Effect section. We are a private company and the first amendment doesn't apply It does if you banned certain people because the government pressured you to do so. Remind me again, how many hearings have the social media companies testified in front of? What was the implied threat, oh yeah regulation. We are a publicly traded company, we have lawyers, and nothing can happen to us, we have a EULA that allows us to ban anyone we want Until it comes out, that as a publicly traded company, you have alienated half your subscriber base, and made them wonder if they are being shadow banned because of their views or thoughts. Leading to your delete account pages being so swamped they no longer work. It is as if people had changed their names to Elvis and decide to leave the building. Which in the end causes investor lawsuits, because your job was to make money and not do politics. I could go on for hours on this. I will leave you with one final thought. Since Mason Wheeler already broke Godwin's law. First they came for (insert your least favorite group, racial, political, religious, sexual orientation, annoying neighbor, mother/father in-law, etc) I said nothing. Then they came for (insert your second favorite here, then third, then forth...) Then with no one left to speak for me ... they came for me. This is how this crap starts. Learn from history people.

  • On the post: Facebook Derangement Syndrome: The Company Has Problems, But Must We Read The Worst Into Absolutely Everything?

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2018 @ 09:57am

    An external group to decide what is censored, how do we solve the problem of who can we trust to do that editing of the national conversation for us. The answer to that being the depressing “no one”. As we cannot trust anyone to do that, we’d better not have anyone trying.

  • On the post: DOJ Asks Supreme Court To Dump Microsoft Case, Let It Use New CLOUD Act To Demand Overseas Data

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2018 @ 08:19am

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    My personal ROFLMAO moment is going to be when another nation, using a foreign law like this, subpoenas the information on politicians in the United States ...

  • On the post: Just As Everyone's Starting To Worry About 'Deepfake' Porn Videos, SESTA Will Make The Problem Worse

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2018 @ 10:50am

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    Look away if you do not wish to have an image in your head that will never go away.

    For a video of a politician like Hillary doing a Katherine the great video ...

  • On the post: Just As Everyone's Starting To Worry About 'Deepfake' Porn Videos, SESTA Will Make The Problem Worse

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2018 @ 10:47am

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    To name a few reasons parody, political satire, and the first amendment it would be successfully challenged.

  • On the post: UK's Terrorism Law Reviewer Says Tech Companies Shouldn't Offer Encryption To Anonymous Users

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 06 Sep, 2017 @ 04:45am

    The UK seems to be leaning towards running their section of the internet in a very Chinese manner.

  • On the post: Well, Duh: Facebook's System To Stop 'Fake News' Isn't Working — Because Facebook Isn't The Problem

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 18 May, 2017 @ 06:12am

    Funny how obvious this is ...

    What was self evident from the beginning of this attempt to stifle speech, was that "Fake News" would be the new version of the Catholic "Index Librorum Prohibitorum" ....

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum

  • On the post: Syrian Migrant Says He's Tired Of Being The Subject Of 'Fake News,' Sues Facebook For Posts Linking Him To Terrorism

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2017 @ 06:36am

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    What I find amusing is, that "Fake News" is something called free speech and has been around since gossip and later the printing press.

    What I find amusing is, that Fake News is a fear phrase, designed to make you give up more of your rights.

    What I find amusing is, this is being promoted by every news organization in the West at the same time.

    What I find seriously amusing is, the Chinese do the same thing to cause companies to self (over) censor.

    What I find amusing is, the sheer quantity of Fake News the large media companies published this election cycle.

    What I find amusing is, Fake New is Fake News.

  • On the post: White House Kicks Russian Diplomats Out Of The Country, Releases Preliminary Report On Russian Hacking With More To Come

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2016 @ 05:35am

    FYI

    http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/30/507525510/russia-plans-to-expel-u-s-diplomats-in-response-to-u-s-sanctions

    Also the only relevant line is this one

    "The U.S. Government assesses that information was leaked to the press and publicly disclosed."

    Which does not come close to saying that Russia did anything.

  • On the post: Appeals Court To Cops: If You 'Don't Have Time' For 'Constitutional Bullshit,' You Don't Get Immunity

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 17 Nov, 2016 @ 09:24am

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    You are right, it is more like a war crime or terrorism. I mean if some foreign government flew drones over the US and blew up a couple hospitals that is what we would be calling it.

  • On the post: Long Time Mass Surveillance Defenders Freak Out Now That Trump Will Have Control

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2016 @ 12:30pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Again, I told you so!

    "He can't act like a king, okay? Settle down."

    Actually he can, or haven't you been watching for the past 8 years. Once the laws are written it is up to the agencies to implement them.

    Who, by the way, can order the agencies to do things?

  • On the post: US Admits TPP Is Dead, TTIP On Life Support… But Beware Of What Comes Next

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2016 @ 09:26am

    Stick a fork in it, its done ... for now

    "... he's ready and willing to jack up tariffs and basically set off trade wars with some of our largest trading partners. That's bad, and will likely cause a lot more harm than good."

    In the short run it will cause issues. In the longer run manufacturing will come back to the US, but all manufacturing will be done by robots and not humans. We are already seeing this in China/Taiwan with Foxconn replacing 100,000 workers with 100k robots.

    Pretty much everything Trump can do over the next 4 years to bring back the good ole days is already obsolete due to the trends. Solar on rooftops and storage, will be cheaper than nat gas and coal in ~6 years. Manufacturing is slowly being brought back to the US due to automation being cheaper than shipping and labor in third world nations. And the cost will only go down as more automation is used.

  • On the post: In The Rush To Blame Facebook, Come The Calls To Suppress Ideas People Disagree With

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2016 @ 09:16am

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    What I was saying was, on both sides, people have isolated themselves in groups of like minded individuals. They have sand boxed themselves into groups that believe, because everyone in their group is for a certain thing, that everyone is for that same thing.

    On both sides of the isle, they have a distorted version of reality because all their friends think the same way, and they chase off anyone that doesn't think that way.

    And to quote you "I love the way people think stupidity and insularity falls along ideological lines. What a hoot."

  • On the post: In The Rush To Blame Facebook, Come The Calls To Suppress Ideas People Disagree With

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2016 @ 08:57am

    These people should blame themselves. They associate with like minded individuals, do not go outside of their comfort zone of ideas, and harp on the same things over and over. They have isolated themselves from anything that goes against their world view, and react with verbal violence, against anyone with a non politically correct view (in their opinion).

  • On the post: UK's GCHQ Takes A Page From China, Plans To Build A Great British Firewall

    Hephaestus ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2016 @ 03:37pm

    Re: This needs a name

    Great historical reference

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