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  • On the post: As Elon Fires More Trust & Safety Staff, Twitter’s Moderation Efforts Fall Apart

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2023 @ 06:37pm

    Woke ideology must be stopped precisely because woke ideologues get so angry at people who point out truths they hate. We know where this leads - it starts with cancel culture and ends in the gulag. People who came to the US escaping communism know this. That's why Cubans in Florida and Russians in Brooklyn turn their districts red. That's why the "demographic inevitability" so anticipated by woke ideologues will come to naught.

  • On the post: As Elon Fires More Trust & Safety Staff, Twitter’s Moderation Efforts Fall Apart

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2023 @ 06:27pm

    Not everything can be characterized as being on a left-right political axis. If I have to call myself something, perhaps it's "truth-based socialist libertarian". People should be free to live their lives as they see fit as long as they do not force other people to behave in ways that those people object to. People should be allowed to express what they believe is the truth, and should not be able to compel other people to affirm those beliefs or to deny their own. The government should act for the common good of its citizens and not always seek to put its services in private hands.

  • On the post: If You Want A Summary Of All The Ways In Which Elon Is A Hypocrite In How He’s Running Twitter, Watch This Video

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2023 @ 06:56pm

    The government can moderate too

    https://reason.com/volokh/2022/11/03/government-entitys-excluding-off-topic-comments-on-social-media-posts-may-be-constitutional/

  • On the post: As Elon Fires More Trust & Safety Staff, Twitter’s Moderation Efforts Fall Apart

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2023 @ 05:29pm

    PeaceFire Redux

    provide information on how to connect on other internet platforms
    This always happens. The censors start by claiming they will only censor the "bad stuff". Inevitably, once people start discussing how to get around the censorship, the censors then start banning those discussions as well, even though those discussions don't have any of the bad stuff. We've lost the war on drugs, the war on climate change, the war on illegal aliens, the way on copyright piracy, and every other "war" that comes between people and what they want. It should come as no surprise that the war on kiddy porn is also failing, regardless of who owns the platforms.

  • On the post: As Elon Fires More Trust & Safety Staff, Twitter’s Moderation Efforts Fall Apart

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2023 @ 05:02pm

    I oppose copyright. Creators should get paid through subscription models; they get paid to create, and then their creations are public domain.

  • On the post: Arizona Government Thinks It Should Be Able To Decide What You Wear And When

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2023 @ 06:20pm

    I've been wanting to do a "drag is blackface" post for a while, and this was the perfect spot for it. This post is meant to be both true and teasing. Writing here is so much fun!

  • On the post: Serious Investors And A Web3 Takeover Have Come To The Mastodon World: Is That Good Or Bad?

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2023 @ 06:26pm

    Remember "the internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it"? If the local posts are sufficiently interesting, someone will program a service to copy the posts from the site where they're readable to places where they're not. Search engines will index them. Archive.org will back them up. Motivated opposition researchers will keep an eye out for damaging quotes. It is foolish and dangerous to believe that the scope of a message posted on the Internet can be limited.

  • On the post: New Year’s Message: The Opportunity To Build A Better Internet Is Here. Right Now.

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 01 Jan, 2023 @ 06:36am

    Thank you too

    TechDirt, even when wrong, is still an entertaining place to read and write. Thanks for all the work that goes into keeping it that way. Discussions open to all viewpoints are supremely important in ultimately determining the truth of things, and no matter how many people here yell and curse and flag and moderate, the fact that the discussions do remain mostly open is a hopeful sign.

  • On the post: It Took Just Four Days From Elon Gleefully Admitting He’d Unplugged A Server Rack For Twitter To Have A Major Outage

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 29 Dec, 2022 @ 11:07pm

    Whether I log in is somewhat arbitrary, skewed by whether I mind that a specific post will be stuck in the moderation queue for hours or days. My writing style seems to render me recognizable even when I don't log in, so it doesn't really matter. I don't care that woke ideologues don't welcome me. Unsurprisingly, wrong people don't welcome being told they're wrong.

  • On the post: It Took Just Four Days From Elon Gleefully Admitting He’d Unplugged A Server Rack For Twitter To Have A Major Outage

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 29 Dec, 2022 @ 07:52am

    When I was at Google, the company regularly ran tests where a data center was knocked out (often with an amusing story provided, like having been attacked by a UFO) in order to test the ability of redundant systems to take over. Programs running at Google are expected to be able to deal with random crashses, because with that many computers, hardware fails with some frequency. So "unplugging a server rack" is not an unreasonable thing to do per se for such a large platform.

  • On the post: Elon Appears To Admit That He’s Driven Away 40% Of Twitter’s Advertisers

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 29 Dec, 2022 @ 02:52am

    The funny thing is that I have never said that you shouldn't try all your social justice solutions. Maybe they'll help. Probably not, because woke ideologues have been trying them for about three generations now, but sure, why not, it's only money. (These solutions do not, however, include forcing people to affirm lies about history or anything else.) But meanwhile, people are being shot in New York and Chicago, stores are being ransacked and looted in Buffalo, and Jews and Asians are being punched in the streets. As I have said here before, woke ideologues care only for the worst dregs of humanity and not for the people they prey upon. Go and play social engineer as much as you want, but if you don't protect the citizens from the evil scum while you're trying to fix them, you're not going to be allowed to have any power at all. Really what has happened is that woke ideologues have given up on the people they're supposedly trying to help. Instead of getting their favored victim classes to behave like civilized people - marry and stay together to raise families, learn useful subjects in school, work for a living - they just define deviancy as normal behavior, focus on training everyone else to accept that deviancy, and then wonder why nothing they do works to lift their favored victim classes up. (And if they happen to pick a victim class that does begin to succeed, they are surprised when the former victims start voting for the other side.) No amount of your screeching spittle-flecked invective is going to make anyone but the willfully blind fail to see that the emperor is naked.

  • On the post: Elon Appears To Admit That He’s Driven Away 40% Of Twitter’s Advertisers

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2022 @ 08:35pm

    Woke ideologues ignore the evils of the criminals who prey on innocent citizens when those criminals are part of their favored victim groups, and use "root causes" and "systemic racism" as the excuse. But evil criminals are evil regardless of how they got that way, and the citizens they prey upon should not be expected to tolerate that evil out of some misguided sense of guilt. Your screeching "racist" only serves to emphasize that woke ideologues can never be trusted to be in charge of of keeping citizens safe and secure in their lives and property. When banks won't lend to buyers in high-crime neighborhoods because they fear property values won't be supported, they're accused of redlining. When banks do lend to buyers in high-crime neighborhoods, they're accused of gentrification. Woke race ideologues are best ignored or mocked. They should never be taken seriously.

  • On the post: Elon Appears To Admit That He’s Driven Away 40% Of Twitter’s Advertisers

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2022 @ 08:05am

    Woke ideologues always shout "racism" when confronted with harsh truths about their favorite victim groups. But hiding from the truth doesn't make truth go away. https://archive.jsonline.com/Services/include.ashx?domain=www.jsonline.com&file=hundreds-of-assault-cases-misreported-by-milwaukee-police-department-v44ce4p-152862135.html

  • On the post: Elon Appears To Admit That He’s Driven Away 40% Of Twitter’s Advertisers

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 26 Dec, 2022 @ 08:54pm

    Anyone is allowed to kick anyone else out of spaces they own. Large generic speech platforms, however, should not kick people out for stating opinions that differ in viewpoint from that of the owners.

  • On the post: Elon Appears To Admit That He’s Driven Away 40% Of Twitter’s Advertisers

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 26 Dec, 2022 @ 08:49pm

    It is a homonym. And it's ... nothing. I think one or two commenters here have deliberately misspelled my name, I suppose assuming it's some highly clever insult instead of childishness. Plenty of people have misspelled my name accidentally. Whatever. My name is an anglicized version of the Hebrew חיים (Chaim), and lots of people have it, some as given name, some as surname.

  • On the post: Elon Appears To Admit That He’s Driven Away 40% Of Twitter’s Advertisers

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 26 Dec, 2022 @ 07:02pm

    Even if your attempts to excuse criminals by nattering about systemic racism, as woke ideologues do, were correct, which they are not, you cannot fix crime now by changing causes; the criminals who have already been created, whether by systemic racism or by the failure of their parents to form stable families or some other reason, aren't going to stop criming just because you try to institute social justice reform. In any case, the woke ideologue response to crime by their favored victim groups is to define crime down (e.g., misdemeanor charges for "it's just an iPhone" robberies under $1000) and release arrested repeat offenders from jail. But by all means, blame the victims of crime for the creation of criminals. Make sure to teach the schoolchildren not to report crimes to the police if the criminals are Black. That will win you lots of elections.

  • On the post: Elon Appears To Admit That He’s Driven Away 40% Of Twitter’s Advertisers

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 25 Dec, 2022 @ 11:05am

    Before, you responded to the well-known fact that Black people commit crimes in numbers far higher than their share of the population with a Wikipedia brush-off. Woke ideologues cannot even abide plain, easily looked-up facts that point out problems with their favored victim groups. https://heyjackass.com/

  • On the post: Elon Appears To Admit That He’s Driven Away 40% Of Twitter’s Advertisers

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 25 Dec, 2022 @ 11:01am

    For example, I think you claim to believe that people don't think they can change their sex, despite the fact that people have themselves medically and surgically mutilated to try to resemble the sex that you think they don't believe they can transform into. So I think you're wrong, or dissembling, as woke ideologues tend to do when exposed to the light of day.

  • On the post: Elon Appears To Admit That He’s Driven Away 40% Of Twitter’s Advertisers

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 25 Dec, 2022 @ 10:57am

    People can only ever be the sex of their bodies. That is a truth that woke gender ideologues cannot countenance.

  • On the post: No, The FBI Is NOT ‘Paying Twitter To Censor’

    Hyman Rosen ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2022 @ 06:42pm

    The number of Black people killed by police is just as minuscule using that analysis. So those aren't important either, right?

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