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• On the post: No One Has Any Clue How Texas’ Social Media Law Can Actually Work (Because It Can’t Work)

  

  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 05 Oct, 2022 @ 09:49pm

  Your failure to comprehend what you read is hardly my problem. I have said that platforms should not be forced to host content an endless number of times.

• On the post: No One Has Any Clue How Texas’ Social Media Law Can Actually Work (Because It Can’t Work)

  

  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2022 @ 09:26am

  Ideally, Twitter should not be forced to do anything. They should voluntarily stop censoring opinions based on their viewpoints. But then, yes, they should allow all of those categories you listed, most especially because whether an opinion falls into those categories should not be decided by people who disagree with the opinion.

• On the post: No One Has Any Clue How Texas’ Social Media Law Can Actually Work (Because It Can’t Work)

  

  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2022 @ 09:02am

  If you say that I am lying, do you mean that companies should not be criticized for polluting or depressing wages? Certainly such criticism exists and is widespread, especially on liberal sites. You seem to be criticizing companies for attempting to silence speech, yet you are in favor of the generic speech platforms censoring based on viewpoint when the silenced opinions are those you hate? Not surprising. Woke ideologues hate free speech, unless it is their own.

• On the post: ‘Central Park Karen’ Loses Defamation Suit Against Employer That Fired Her Following Viral Video Of Her Calling Cops On A Black Birdwatcher

  

  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2022 @ 10:16pm

  I wonder how many lawyers turned down this obvious loser of a case before she found one willing to go with it. An ethical lawyer would have told her that she could not win.

• On the post: Publishers Lose Their Shit After Authors Push Back On Their Attack On Libraries

  

  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2022 @ 10:34am

  You do not get to ascribe Daniel Handler's motivation from whole cloth in order to support your own point of view.

• On the post: No One Has Any Clue How Texas’ Social Media Law Can Actually Work (Because It Can’t Work)

  

  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2022 @ 07:40am

  The real problem is that generic speech platforms should not be censoring opinions based on viewpoint. The fact that Truth Social and similar platforms are biased and also censor to maintain an echo chamber is the reason why the large generic platforms should not be doing that. They should be the places where people can hold free and wide-ranging discussions, not be echo chambers themselves.

• On the post: No One Has Any Clue How Texas’ Social Media Law Can Actually Work (Because It Can’t Work)

  

  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2022 @ 07:36am

  It is a violation of the principles of free speech to censor opinions based on their viewpoints. If a company chooses to do that because it believes that censorship will make it more profitable, it is acting immorally and should be severely criticized for it, in the same way that a company who decides to pollute, or keep worker washes low.

• On the post: No One Has Any Clue How Texas’ Social Media Law Can Actually Work (Because It Can’t Work)

  

  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2022 @ 02:57pm

  Just because you want to have your opinions appear unopposed does not mean that the generic speech platforms are the places for that to happen. If you want that, then *you* go rent your own private soapbox and rant away. The generic speech platforms should be places where all opinions and discussions can be aired, not your own little woke echo chamber. And if they insist on not doing that, then they should be criticized to get them to change their rates. And if they don't, politicians will try to force them, likely in stupid and destructive ways.

• On the post: No One Has Any Clue How Texas’ Social Media Law Can Actually Work (Because It Can’t Work)

  

  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2022 @ 01:56am

  Heh. Nothing makes anti-Israel activists more angry than the realization that Israel does not care in the slightest what those activists think. Since the Yom Kippur War and then the second Intifada, Israel responds to Palestinian provocation with overwhelming force and retaliation, and no amount of squealing by people like you makes the slightest difference. No one is coming to rescue the Palestinians, the Palestinians will not be allowed to move into Israel, and they're not even going to be able to hold on to what they have without surrendering to the idea that Israel is there to stay.

• On the post: After Trying To Deny The Obvious, Google Announces It’s Shutting Down Stadia

  

  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2022 @ 06:13pm

  Companies need to stick with their products and also picks the right products. Google not supporting Stadia was pedicted; they should have proven naysayers false. On the other hand, Meta is wrong about VR and that will fail regardless of how much effort they put behind it.

• On the post: No One Has Any Clue How Texas’ Social Media Law Can Actually Work (Because It Can’t Work)

  

  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2022 @ 06:01pm

  Nothing? This law does. If you make enough people angry, you will provoke reactions. Maybe this law will fail on constitutional grounds, but maybe the next one won't. The government has many levels to press to get its way.

• On the post: No One Has Any Clue How Texas’ Social Media Law Can Actually Work (Because It Can’t Work)

  

  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2022 @ 05:57pm

  No, I am not worried that people will write criticisms of me.

• On the post: No One Has Any Clue How Texas’ Social Media Law Can Actually Work (Because It Can’t Work)

  

  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2022 @ 05:56pm

  Whether they have a legal right in fact depends on what the law is, so you need to hope that this law doesn't stand. Large generic speech platforms should not be censoring opinions based on viewpoint. Doing so is a violation of the principles of free speech, whether or not it is legally permitted. If they do, they should be criticized and if possible, punished, until they change their behavior.

• On the post: No One Has Any Clue How Texas’ Social Media Law Can Actually Work (Because It Can’t Work)

  

  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2022 @ 05:52pm

  Large generic speech platforms should not be censoring people based on their viewpoints. When people speak in the public square and you are there, you in fact cannot choose not to hear that speech if not hearing it means silencing the speakers.

• On the post: No One Has Any Clue How Texas’ Social Media Law Can Actually Work (Because It Can’t Work)

  

  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2022 @ 05:49pm

  You think you can silence people you hate and not suffer consequences for it. That's not how it works.

• On the post: No One Has Any Clue How Texas’ Social Media Law Can Actually Work (Because It Can’t Work)

  

  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2022 @ 05:47pm

  Performative grievance politics can still be effective. In fact, grievance motivates people like few other things can. Democrats are hoping that grievance over the Dobbs decision will help them in the midterms. Republicans are hoping that grievance over increases in crime and teaching woke gender ideology will help them. Grievance happens when people think things are very wrong.

• On the post: No One Has Any Clue How Texas’ Social Media Law Can Actually Work (Because It Can’t Work)

  

  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2022 @ 05:41pm

  They can do whatever they want. But when the premier generic speech platform bans a former president of the United States from speaking, and maybe a third of the nation still adores him, there are going to be adverse consequences. I wouldn't force the platforms to do anything, but not everyone is me.

• On the post: No One Has Any Clue How Texas’ Social Media Law Can Actually Work (Because It Can’t Work)

  

  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2022 @ 01:07pm

  You thought that the large generic speech platforms could engage in viewpoint-based censorship just because the 1st Amendment allows it. But, as you delight in saying when people you hate are silenced, actions have consequences. This law may be stupid, but the motivations behind it are that people have had enough of being told what they're allowed to say and having their statements deleted when they disagree.

• On the post: Adobe Really Wants To Help Netflix With Its Dumb Password Sharing Cash Grab

  

  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2022 @ 07:28am

  Before accepting this preduction of failure, look back at the million blog posts on TechDirt claiming that the New York Times paywall was doomed. It has, of course, been wildly successful: https://open.nytimes.com/how-the-new-york-times-uses-machine-learning-to-make-its-paywall-smarter-e5771d5f46f8 TechDirt sees what it wants to see, not reality.

• On the post: Colorado Residents Lose Control Of Their ‘Smart’ Thermostats, Swelter In 88 Degree Heat

  

  Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2022 @ 07:58am

  According to environmentalist claims, climate change is going to lead to heat waves that will require more capacity. So I'm principle, utility companies need more capacity now than that have needed before. Similarly, increasing drought might reduce hydropower capacity.

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