This is not about law, and you should know this.
you lead with
"vindicating a website designer’s ability to refuse to build a website celebrating gay marriage, may seem at first glance to be a blow to gay rights. And maybe that’s what some or all of the six justices in the majority intended for it to be. But that’s not the upshot to the decision"
And you are oh so cleverly right, their rights will still be there, all the time they are being violated, and this is an invitation extend that violation.
If I am building a website, it is for the speech of the person owning it, not the web head who wrote it
The case was brought, on a hypothetical basis, to advance hate, the supreme court blesses it, that is the real message
My understanding is the gap in recognition was acknowledged, and has narrowed over time, as companies try harder, and train more, however, I can find no evidence for your claim that this "has not been true for many years", indeed, quite the contrary, recognition bias will always be a struggle to contain, on an ongoing basis
We would all love to see some exceptional evidence for your claims, as a solved issue, I am sure that must be easy for you
Clearly someone has improved on past usage of the term "algorithm", the one which has been commonly understood from around the 17th century, and used in the software industry for most of my lifetime, where everything, except a specific implementation, is an algorithm, just drawing text, algorithms, logging in, lots of algorithms, this reply, a gadzillion algorithms, you see the pattern. You cannot have software without algorithms, sorry. So, can someone define in terms a software engineer could understand, what "algorithm" means in this particular context? Is it a bit like "woke", as in, "it means whatever I want it to mean"? ;-)
This is just one example of one I have seen repeated over and over, and at all scales.
What harm can X do whether X be satellites, mines, big tobacco, thalidomide, fentanyl, plastic waste, fossil fuels, overfishing, dams, carbon emissions, on and on, it is always the same damn story. Lie about impact, prevaricate over remediation and run away from the problem.
Companies are just like Elon, selfish amoral liars, assigning no value to truth and decency. Government has a role policing that psychopathic behavior through rules and regulations, a role it has dismally failed to fulfill, mainly through lack of effective investment in the apparatus needed, and the absence of law underpinning the mechanisms of enforcement
Based on this I'm gonna guess the "What is in violation of this policy" section is going to get much longer over time. I suggest changing it to the more accurate "anything that gets under Musks thin skin" then never have to change it again, just trying to help.
So DuckDuckGo should be take off the list, or at least classified as a search integrator, they claim many sources, but the mainly use a bing and yahoo back end. Result, poor results.
Yep has a back end and no front end, try it, no images, very little added value, just a raw results browser for traditional text results, they have a ways to go.
Bing itself produces inferior results, for the sorts of technical searches I do. Bing is dying. Yahoo is garbage.
Bad in itself, this is about more than simple DRM and an outage of a couple of weeks, this is about representing a game as one thing, pre-release, and then post-release, just because you are always connected, the game is will be updated and fundamentally changed, and it becomes less fun, and a lot more expensive to play. You suddenly realize you paid a lot of money to buy a "game", only to have to pay even more to progress in the game.
DRM is the enforcement arm of something much worse.
As any sequence of code, even "random" selection, is an algorithm, and almost all content on such a site is "user created" this effectively means, a social media site with no social media
This is unless you are an "adult", something the authors of this bill clearly are not
Normally when I choose to auth on techdirt I use https://www.techdirt.com/my-account/ which looks like any other Techdirt page, but if I try to reply to a posting when I am not authenticated, when I click the login link I get forwarded to a wordpress branded login page (with some ungodly URL), which encourages me to link my Techdirt and Wordpress accounts, is this intended, and what advantage is there to linking accounts?
I don't think it any coincidence that the restrictions on Huawai happened just as their equipment was becoming much more popular. We know China doesn't believe in fair competition, but it seem neither does the US. Maybe it's a draw.
I see no evidence of planted back doors in Huawai equipment.
These actions will in the short term profit US based companies like Intel and AMD, that is why this was done. The spying stuff is, in my opinion, simply a pretext.
These cases of blatant corporate control are just one example that democracy in the US is dying, and that it has become the worlds best example of a corporatocracy.
The founders could not have anticipated this, so whereas some safeguards were built in to prevent other corrupted forms of government, such as a theocracies, we seem to have no guards against corporations running the government, especially as the supreme court thinks corporate personhood is a good thing.
I have no idea how this can be reversed, I fear we lost control somewhere along the way, and now it may be too late.
You said: "Massively profitable medical organizations routinely underfund their privacy and security IT infrastructure"
Close, but I think we can broaden that to: Massively profitable medical organizations routinely underfund anything important to actual "healthcare", as profits come before all else.
I am ashamed to say I have worked in Healthcare IT, and I was shocked at the inadequate security reviews (threat analysis) of 3rd party software systems. The "epic fails" (pun intended) are a consequence. There is a lack of strong common standards, due to the fragmentation within the industry, so it is all too easy for weaknesses to be engineered in, and there is an almost complete lack of accountability when the fails occur, as they almost inevitably do.
Ah, the old, because "China has an authoritarian regime, that bans a whole bunch of stuff, so the USA should become an authoritarian regime..." argument?
How about, "the USA is a bastion of free speech that the rest of the world looks up to, which makes China look bad in comparison" approach? Oh, I forgot, Trump burnt that boat a while back.
I think you nailed it, whatever lame excuse they came up with, the REAL reason is to support a trade war that Trump seems to be convinced is such a bright idea.
Gotta pull out all the stops to protect Apple (repeatedly chant USA at this point, fellow patriots) against the yellow menace of OnePlus who have the audacity to try to compete.
If there is a Chris, and if he said these things (we just have to take your word for it, as you cite no sources) I dont see how that leads to a conclusion that "there are agitators who are hijacking the protests..." and even less of an implication that those agitators are antifa.
Your thesis seems to be if someone says something violent, they are guilty of such interference, if you feel that way (I don't) then I recommend you visit https://www.plainviewproject.org/ to view what police officers have been saying, perhaps some of them have a "violent agenda"?
Na, stupidity is its own reward, it means you never have to agonize over right or wrong, or deal with complexity, it means you can simply assume any batshit crazy idea you have is right and you always know best, it is a blessed relief. It's a feeling normal people can only get by excessive drinking.
See also https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/dunning-kruger-effect
That article, from Breitbart, well, I hardly needed to read it, being an propaganda outlet for the right, but just to humor you I did.
It does NOT, as you accuse "substantiate that Twitter is taking money from Mail-In Ballot groups", the article merely suggests that, and I quote, Twitter "...is an active “Premier Partner” of Vote Early Day 2020, an election advocacy group seeking to educate voters that they can cast their ballots prior to Election Day, including via the vote-by-mail option."
If anything this suggests (and there is no evidence presented, as one would expect from Breitbart) quite the opposite, that Twitter is helping fund a group performing actions to help increase participation in the voting process, something the right fears for obvious reasons. You already got a president in on a minority vote, heaven forbid more people participate in an election!
You miss the point
This is not about law, and you should know this. you lead with "vindicating a website designer’s ability to refuse to build a website celebrating gay marriage, may seem at first glance to be a blow to gay rights. And maybe that’s what some or all of the six justices in the majority intended for it to be. But that’s not the upshot to the decision" And you are oh so cleverly right, their rights will still be there, all the time they are being violated, and this is an invitation extend that violation. If I am building a website, it is for the speech of the person owning it, not the web head who wrote it The case was brought, on a hypothetical basis, to advance hate, the supreme court blesses it, that is the real message
Exceptional claims...
My understanding is the gap in recognition was acknowledged, and has narrowed over time, as companies try harder, and train more, however, I can find no evidence for your claim that this "has not been true for many years", indeed, quite the contrary, recognition bias will always be a struggle to contain, on an ongoing basis We would all love to see some exceptional evidence for your claims, as a solved issue, I am sure that must be easy for you
Religion found harmful to children
There seems to be an abundance of actual evidence for harm to children, brought to you by the Roman Catholic Church, somehow I doubt they will be subject to ban Widespread sexual abuse and cover ups by archdiocese of baltimore Sex abuse in the roman catholic church in New Orleans Meanwhile Drag Queens do not feature anywhere I can find
Definition of newspeak "algorithm" please?
Clearly someone has improved on past usage of the term "algorithm", the one which has been commonly understood from around the 17th century, and used in the software industry for most of my lifetime, where everything, except a specific implementation, is an algorithm, just drawing text, algorithms, logging in, lots of algorithms, this reply, a gadzillion algorithms, you see the pattern. You cannot have software without algorithms, sorry. So, can someone define in terms a software engineer could understand, what "algorithm" means in this particular context? Is it a bit like "woke", as in, "it means whatever I want it to mean"? ;-)
Not just Starlink or Musk
This is just one example of one I have seen repeated over and over, and at all scales. What harm can X do whether X be satellites, mines, big tobacco, thalidomide, fentanyl, plastic waste, fossil fuels, overfishing, dams, carbon emissions, on and on, it is always the same damn story. Lie about impact, prevaricate over remediation and run away from the problem. Companies are just like Elon, selfish amoral liars, assigning no value to truth and decency. Government has a role policing that psychopathic behavior through rules and regulations, a role it has dismally failed to fulfill, mainly through lack of effective investment in the apparatus needed, and the absence of law underpinning the mechanisms of enforcement
Constructive suggestion
Based on this I'm gonna guess the "What is in violation of this policy" section is going to get much longer over time. I suggest changing it to the more accurate "anything that gets under Musks thin skin" then never have to change it again, just trying to help.
Not really search engines
So DuckDuckGo should be take off the list, or at least classified as a search integrator, they claim many sources, but the mainly use a bing and yahoo back end. Result, poor results. Yep has a back end and no front end, try it, no images, very little added value, just a raw results browser for traditional text results, they have a ways to go. Bing itself produces inferior results, for the sorts of technical searches I do. Bing is dying. Yahoo is garbage.
More than DRM
Bad in itself, this is about more than simple DRM and an outage of a couple of weeks, this is about representing a game as one thing, pre-release, and then post-release, just because you are always connected, the game is will be updated and fundamentally changed, and it becomes less fun, and a lot more expensive to play. You suddenly realize you paid a lot of money to buy a "game", only to have to pay even more to progress in the game. DRM is the enforcement arm of something much worse.
Any bit of code is an algorithm so how do I code this without one?
As any sequence of code, even "random" selection, is an algorithm, and almost all content on such a site is "user created" this effectively means, a social media site with no social media This is unless you are an "adult", something the authors of this bill clearly are not
Weird auth flow
Normally when I choose to auth on techdirt I use https://www.techdirt.com/my-account/ which looks like any other Techdirt page, but if I try to reply to a posting when I am not authenticated, when I click the login link I get forwarded to a wordpress branded login page (with some ungodly URL), which encourages me to link my Techdirt and Wordpress accounts, is this intended, and what advantage is there to linking accounts?
Just part of the war
I don't think it any coincidence that the restrictions on Huawai happened just as their equipment was becoming much more popular. We know China doesn't believe in fair competition, but it seem neither does the US. Maybe it's a draw.
I see no evidence of planted back doors in Huawai equipment.
These actions will in the short term profit US based companies like Intel and AMD, that is why this was done. The spying stuff is, in my opinion, simply a pretext.
Neither are giraffes
Birds, ok, but who could possibly believe in giraffes? https://www.reddit.com/r/Giraffesdontexist/
I could have sworn you were talking about the USA there...
Corporatocracy trumps democracy
These cases of blatant corporate control are just one example that democracy in the US is dying, and that it has become the worlds best example of a corporatocracy.
The founders could not have anticipated this, so whereas some safeguards were built in to prevent other corrupted forms of government, such as a theocracies, we seem to have no guards against corporations running the government, especially as the supreme court thinks corporate personhood is a good thing.
I have no idea how this can be reversed, I fear we lost control somewhere along the way, and now it may be too late.
Making money out of misery
You said: "Massively profitable medical organizations routinely underfund their privacy and security IT infrastructure"
Close, but I think we can broaden that to: Massively profitable medical organizations routinely underfund anything important to actual "healthcare", as profits come before all else.
I am ashamed to say I have worked in Healthcare IT, and I was shocked at the inadequate security reviews (threat analysis) of 3rd party software systems. The "epic fails" (pun intended) are a consequence. There is a lack of strong common standards, due to the fragmentation within the industry, so it is all too easy for weaknesses to be engineered in, and there is an almost complete lack of accountability when the fails occur, as they almost inevitably do.
Re:
Ah, the old, because "China has an authoritarian regime, that bans a whole bunch of stuff, so the USA should become an authoritarian regime..." argument? How about, "the USA is a bastion of free speech that the rest of the world looks up to, which makes China look bad in comparison" approach? Oh, I forgot, Trump burnt that boat a while back.
Re: OnePlus is Chinese
I think you nailed it, whatever lame excuse they came up with, the REAL reason is to support a trade war that Trump seems to be convinced is such a bright idea. Gotta pull out all the stops to protect Apple (repeatedly chant USA at this point, fellow patriots) against the yellow menace of OnePlus who have the audacity to try to compete.
Re:
If there is a Chris, and if he said these things (we just have to take your word for it, as you cite no sources) I dont see how that leads to a conclusion that "there are agitators who are hijacking the protests..." and even less of an implication that those agitators are antifa. Your thesis seems to be if someone says something violent, they are guilty of such interference, if you feel that way (I don't) then I recommend you visit https://www.plainviewproject.org/ to view what police officers have been saying, perhaps some of them have a "violent agenda"?
Re: Re: Re: Daily Proof of Bias
Na, stupidity is its own reward, it means you never have to agonize over right or wrong, or deal with complexity, it means you can simply assume any batshit crazy idea you have is right and you always know best, it is a blessed relief. It's a feeling normal people can only get by excessive drinking. See also https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/dunning-kruger-effect
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
That article, from Breitbart, well, I hardly needed to read it, being an propaganda outlet for the right, but just to humor you I did. It does NOT, as you accuse "substantiate that Twitter is taking money from Mail-In Ballot groups", the article merely suggests that, and I quote, Twitter "...is an active “Premier Partner” of Vote Early Day 2020, an election advocacy group seeking to educate voters that they can cast their ballots prior to Election Day, including via the vote-by-mail option." If anything this suggests (and there is no evidence presented, as one would expect from Breitbart) quite the opposite, that Twitter is helping fund a group performing actions to help increase participation in the voting process, something the right fears for obvious reasons. You already got a president in on a minority vote, heaven forbid more people participate in an election!