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• On the post: It Turns Out Elon Is Speedrunning The Enshittification Learning Curve, Not The Content Moderation One

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 05 Jul, 2023 @ 10:43pm

  There was another theory floating around surrounding Twitter's new rate limits: it coincided with the end of the month and when Twitter's Google hosting bill was due. And if you know how Elon has treated Twitter's bills...

• On the post: It Turns Out Elon Is Speedrunning The Enshittification Learning Curve, Not The Content Moderation One

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 05 Jul, 2023 @ 10:40pm

  Specifically, Elon is a child of apartheid.

• On the post: It Turns Out Elon Is Speedrunning The Enshittification Learning Curve, Not The Content Moderation One

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 05 Jul, 2023 @ 10:37pm

  What sucks is that corporations are very efficient at becoming friends with politicians, especially in the American system which is practically designed to keep them from preventing it until it's too late, and using them to help normalize their sociopathy.

• On the post: Reddit CEO Triples Down, Insults Protesters, Whines About Not Making Enough Money From Reddit Users

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2023 @ 02:07am

  From the NBC interview:

  In the interview, Huffman also praised the cost-cutting by Twitter owner Elon Musk, calling the reduced headcount there an example of how a social media site can be profitable without the massive revenue of a company like Google.

  You're citing freaking Elon Musk's Twitter as your example of how a social media site can be profitable?!? That may be the biggest sign yet that Huffman should be fired.

• On the post: FCC ‘Fines’ Right Wing Bullshitters Wohl, Burkman $5 Million For Voter Robocall Scam

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2023 @ 06:58am

  "But the path forward was obvious for years, it just required shaking off corruption." Oh sure, so simple. If it was that easy to fix corruption in our government we'd be living in a utopia.

• On the post: Heritage Foundation Says That Of Course GOP Will Use KOSA To Censor LGBTQ Content

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 25 May, 2023 @ 03:07am

  Why are so many Democratic politicians so often shown to be so bad at their jobs and so willing to take right-wing think tank nonsense at face value? It can't possibly be that they're really Republicans or otherwise more interested in the appearance of resisting theocratic fascist oligarchy while actually greasing the path to it than actually resisting it, can it?

• On the post: The Stupidity Of Making Porn Filters Mandatory On Mobile Devices (And Other Musings On Reality)

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 25 May, 2023 @ 03:02am

  Even if pornography addiction was a thing, trying to "solve" it by banning pornography is like trying to "solve" alcoholism or drug addiction by banning alcohol or drugs. Wait...

• On the post: Twitter ‘Shadowbans’ Bellingcat After Musk Attacks Them, Then Tries To Retcon A Nonsense Explanation

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 16 May, 2023 @ 06:59pm

  (Psst, I think you start to refer to "Irwin" by last name without introducing her properly first, unless I'm missing something.)

• On the post: DeSantis May Be Learning What The Copyright World Has Always Known: Disney’s Lawyers Don’t Fuck Around

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2023 @ 03:33am

  Ah, so that's where they got the idea for how copyright law should be rigged in their favor!

• On the post: Square Enix Gets Twitch Strike For Streaming ‘Forspoken’ During Embargo, Thanks To Time Zones

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2023 @ 12:27pm

  My understanding is that British Summer Time is not the same as Greenwich Mean Time; GMT does not follow DST so GMT and UTC are effectively interchangeable. Which I suppose would mean, from your perspective, that there's no reason to use GMT at all.

• On the post: Elon Tries (Badly) To Defend The Banning Of Journalists As Twitter Starts Blocking Links & Mentions Of Mastodon

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2022 @ 11:38am

  They are members of the in-group, they should get to say whatever they want. Journalists and marginalized groups are part of the out-group, they should not get to say anything the in-group doesn't like. You can't get them to see the hypocrisy because at base level, the only thing that matters is whether the in-group is being bound or the out-group is being protected.

• On the post: Bad News For The Internet: Congress Looking To Sneak In Dangerous ‘Save The Kids!’ Internet Bill Into Year-End Omnibus

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 26 Nov, 2022 @ 01:13pm

  Also, from what I understand old-fashioned letters to the editor at local newspapers are still surprisingly effective at reaching congresscritters, maybe even more so than sending messages directly to them, at least if they get published.

• On the post: Bad News For The Internet: Congress Looking To Sneak In Dangerous ‘Save The Kids!’ Internet Bill Into Year-End Omnibus

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 26 Nov, 2022 @ 01:12pm

  What might help the most is to try to find some suicide prevention/"think of the children" groups that can be convinced that the bill could actually hurt children and can be galvanized to organize against it.

• On the post: Bad News For The Internet: Congress Looking To Sneak In Dangerous ‘Save The Kids!’ Internet Bill Into Year-End Omnibus

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 26 Nov, 2022 @ 01:10pm

  And of course, it took a freaking war to get the Thirteenth Amendment passed...

• On the post: Bad News For The Internet: Congress Looking To Sneak In Dangerous ‘Save The Kids!’ Internet Bill Into Year-End Omnibus

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 26 Nov, 2022 @ 01:09pm

  And they wonder why they struggle to win elections against waves at entire modern Republican Party...

• On the post: Bad News For The Internet: Congress Looking To Sneak In Dangerous ‘Save The Kids!’ Internet Bill Into Year-End Omnibus

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 26 Nov, 2022 @ 01:07pm

  But, of course, almost no one wants to speak out against KOSA, because the media and politicians trot out parents who went through a truly traumatic experience, and no one wants to be seen as the person who is said to be standing in the way of that. But the simple fact is that KOSA will not magically prevent suicides. It might actually lead to more.

  Seems like it should be simple enough to warn about KOSA potentially leading to more suicides rather than less? But of course, the problem isn't just the media's tendency for emotional appeals, but its almost willful cluelessness about the Internet and refusal to platform voices that know anything about it, almost like what they're really trying to do is tear down or subvert the technology that broke their twentieth-century business models...

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2022 @ 02:55pm

  Masnick makes an appearance presenting the top-comments post! I suppose with how "special" this week has been...

• On the post: Legacy News Orgs’ Hatred Of Google Runs So Deep They’re Willing To Give Up Fair Use To Punish Google

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2022 @ 03:53am

  To be fair, you assume they know anything whatsoever about Google and the Internet other than "Google bad".

• On the post: Twitter Shareholders Approve Sale Of The Company To Some Dude Who Still Doesn’t Understand He Signed A Binding Contract To Buy It

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2022 @ 03:47am

  At this point, I wonder if this ends with Musk saying that yes, he really didn't understand what he was signing, he would have been a fool and an idiot, or else not in his right mind, to sign it if he did, and that since he either didn't sign what he thought he was signing or wasn't fit to soberly and informedly sign it, the whole thing should be nullified. Elon gets out of the deal, Twitter gets out of being run by him and his weird ideas of how to run it (remember those?), Twitter shareholders don't get their $54.20 but don't have to worry about anything being wrong with the company that Elon could present as the reason for cancelling the sale and can tell themselves the whole thing happened because of how mercurial Elon is and nothing having to do with the value of the company itself, everyone wins. The only thing it would cost Elon is anyone having any trust in him being able to competently, rationally, and consistently run a company, anticipate the consequences of his actions, or avoid being taken advantage of by any potential business partners, ever again.

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2022 @ 06:51pm

  Regarding second place for insightful:

  Of course, the people with the real power in society either actually want hate movements to exist, or at least consider them an acceptable alternative to people being able to actually stand up to them. Keep them busy blaming the Jews, darkies, and bitches and they won't be blaming the people that's really to blame for their plight.

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