The main use of social media isn't just hosting, it's discovery. You can post whatever you want on your own site, but it's almost certainly going to remain unknown - social media matches up your content with people who might actually want to see it.
You want the ideal analogy? Archive.org probably just downloaded such a vast amount that the tumblr operators noticed it and classed it as some sort of DDoS or abuse.
So this is like an all-you-can-eat restaurant banning a customer because they have a stomach like a trash compactor.
It was enormously influential. Which is to say, everything it did well was copied a million times, and when someone today watches it for the first time they have already seen those same ideas in hundreds of more recent movies. Sometimes done better. To understand why Star Wars was so regarded just think what the state of sci-fi movies was in 1977: A joke. The domain of low-budget B-movies, cliche characters and wooden acting. What Star Wars has then was groundbreaking, but today it is just routine and unremarkable.
You can't blame this on SJWs. There are a number of factors which lead to the decision. Tumblr getting banned from the app store certainly hastened the implementation, but this has been in the planning stages for some time. There's been political pressure from left and right, as well as far more significant commercial pressure from advertisers.
Tumblr may be most famous for porn and fringe politics, but only because those are the blogs that draw the most attention. Most of it consists of just innoculous but not-overly-interesting things - personal diary blogs, crafts pages, family photos, cute animal pictures, gaming things, all the usual.
No, it's both! The puritans and the SJW crowd are actually in agreement in their anti-pornography efforts, but for every different reasons. Different enough to prevent them ever working together.
That makes no sense. Materials do not 'withstand' pressure. They have specified strengths - tensile strength being the important one in a pressure vessel. This material is simply not remotely practical for use in any type of engineering. Its real value comes from research - a better understanding of the mechanisms of superconductivity may lead to discovery of other materials, ones which are directly useful. Perhaps even the holy grail, a material that is superconductive at room temperature and standard pressure. Such a material really would be revolutionary.
I work in the hell of first-line tech support, and whenever I can't reproduce a problem, I have to walk across the site and go visit the user in person so I can view exactly what it is they are doing wrong. Sometimes they do things so strangely wrong that no technical user would ever think of it - like managing all their files via the MS Word open dialog, because they don't know how to open a file manager window. Or spending hours in frustration unable to find their emails because they accidentally clicked the little '-' and collapsed the tree view. Or pointing a remote at their projector and pressing buttons over and over, not noticing that the manufacturer logo on their projector and on their remote are not even remotely the same brand.
Legally difficult. Firstly because it can be hard to define porn, but mostly because it would be in violation of various binding international agreements.
Spending other people's money is also a bipartisan thing. They just disagree on where to spend it. Democrats love expansive social programs, but Republicans love to throw money into America's already-bloated military budget, and both love to subsidise influential industries such as media and agriculture.
Because I've spent the last fifteen years insulting organisations like theirs on the internet.
I started insulting them when I read an article which quoted an FRC representative calling for states to ban HPV vaccination as it encouraged underage sex, and I just never stopped. I read what they say, and I write comments against them. Sometimes detailed intellectual criticisms, sometimes crude trolling, whatever seems appropriate. I make sure I understand thoroughly those I intend to mock.
Let's see... OneNewsNow is run by the AFA, which is a major pressure group in the US, which makes it right-wing but not fringe. https://www.onenewsnow.com/cul... That's an article from 2016 which condemns Starbucks for ignoring demands to install filtering.
And here'a a Fox article from a similar time which explains how companies which provide unfiltered wifi are helping terrorists and child molesters: https://www.foxnews.com/opinio... Starbucks is specifically mentioned, though the focus is more on congratulating companies which do filter.
The Fox news article seems to imply that the internet is rife with child porn, and only filtering can save people from seeing it. Makes me wonder what sort of sites Fox writers look at.
The number of people actually looking at porn in starbucks is tiny, and easily dealt with by asking them to stop or kicking them out. This policy is more for PR reasons. A few anti-pornography pressure groups have been pushing for various companies to start blocking porn for years, and Starbucks is on their list. So Starbucks gets pestered with petitions and badmouthed in opinion columns all over right-leaning media. Eventually Starbucks board notices this and thinks 'Why not? It'll shut them up, doesn't cost us anything, and we can even spin it to look socially responsible.'
And when the very rare incidents of people looking at porn in Starbucks continue - because all filters can be broken, and because people can just download it at home for viewing later, and because mobile internet is a thing - then Starbucks can still kick the offender out just as before.
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Where's the wiki? Might be able to throw in my tiny contribution.
On closer look, it's a list alone... where's the actual data?
Nice find. I managed to archive a couple-thousand images myself, but that's a drop in the ocean.
The main use of social media isn't just hosting, it's discovery. You can post whatever you want on your own site, but it's almost certainly going to remain unknown - social media matches up your content with people who might actually want to see it.
You want the ideal analogy? Archive.org probably just downloaded such a vast amount that the tumblr operators noticed it and classed it as some sort of DDoS or abuse.
So this is like an all-you-can-eat restaurant banning a customer because they have a stomach like a trash compactor.
It was enormously influential. Which is to say, everything it did well was copied a million times, and when someone today watches it for the first time they have already seen those same ideas in hundreds of more recent movies. Sometimes done better. To understand why Star Wars was so regarded just think what the state of sci-fi movies was in 1977: A joke. The domain of low-budget B-movies, cliche characters and wooden acting. What Star Wars has then was groundbreaking, but today it is just routine and unremarkable.
Have you looked at some of the good furry art? Those characters are cool. And some of them are hot.
You can't blame this on SJWs. There are a number of factors which lead to the decision. Tumblr getting banned from the app store certainly hastened the implementation, but this has been in the planning stages for some time. There's been political pressure from left and right, as well as far more significant commercial pressure from advertisers.
Tumblr may be most famous for porn and fringe politics, but only because those are the blogs that draw the most attention. Most of it consists of just innoculous but not-overly-interesting things - personal diary blogs, crafts pages, family photos, cute animal pictures, gaming things, all the usual.
The more they are forbidden, the more desirable they become.
Furry artists who used tumblr have been migrating to other sites. Even the non-adult ones, knowing they might get caught up by association.
No, it's both! The puritans and the SJW crowd are actually in agreement in their anti-pornography efforts, but for every different reasons. Different enough to prevent them ever working together.
Start with this:
http://www.visipics.info/index...
Might eliminate a couple of hundred to start with.
That makes no sense. Materials do not 'withstand' pressure. They have specified strengths - tensile strength being the important one in a pressure vessel. This material is simply not remotely practical for use in any type of engineering. Its real value comes from research - a better understanding of the mechanisms of superconductivity may lead to discovery of other materials, ones which are directly useful. Perhaps even the holy grail, a material that is superconductive at room temperature and standard pressure. Such a material really would be revolutionary.
This is Russian robot. Power supply is ethanol fuel cell, runs on Vodka.
You underestimate just how much pressure that is. Air does not merely liquify at room temperature: It solidifies.
Total apathy. The users cannot irritate me, because I have not a single fuck to give about any of them.
I work in the hell of first-line tech support, and whenever I can't reproduce a problem, I have to walk across the site and go visit the user in person so I can view exactly what it is they are doing wrong. Sometimes they do things so strangely wrong that no technical user would ever think of it - like managing all their files via the MS Word open dialog, because they don't know how to open a file manager window. Or spending hours in frustration unable to find their emails because they accidentally clicked the little '-' and collapsed the tree view. Or pointing a remote at their projector and pressing buttons over and over, not noticing that the manufacturer logo on their projector and on their remote are not even remotely the same brand.
Same goal, but for very different reasons.
Legally difficult. Firstly because it can be hard to define porn, but mostly because it would be in violation of various binding international agreements.
Spending other people's money is also a bipartisan thing. They just disagree on where to spend it. Democrats love expansive social programs, but Republicans love to throw money into America's already-bloated military budget, and both love to subsidise influential industries such as media and agriculture.
No, but a balloon plus a parachute would.
Because I've spent the last fifteen years insulting organisations like theirs on the internet.
I started insulting them when I read an article which quoted an FRC representative calling for states to ban HPV vaccination as it encouraged underage sex, and I just never stopped. I read what they say, and I write comments against them. Sometimes detailed intellectual criticisms, sometimes crude trolling, whatever seems appropriate. I make sure I understand thoroughly those I intend to mock.
Let's see... OneNewsNow is run by the AFA, which is a major pressure group in the US, which makes it right-wing but not fringe.
https://www.onenewsnow.com/cul...
That's an article from 2016 which condemns Starbucks for ignoring demands to install filtering.
And here'a a Fox article from a similar time which explains how companies which provide unfiltered wifi are helping terrorists and child molesters:
https://www.foxnews.com/opinio...
Starbucks is specifically mentioned, though the focus is more on congratulating companies which do filter.
The Fox news article seems to imply that the internet is rife with child porn, and only filtering can save people from seeing it. Makes me wonder what sort of sites Fox writers look at.
They don't.
The number of people actually looking at porn in starbucks is tiny, and easily dealt with by asking them to stop or kicking them out. This policy is more for PR reasons. A few anti-pornography pressure groups have been pushing for various companies to start blocking porn for years, and Starbucks is on their list. So Starbucks gets pestered with petitions and badmouthed in opinion columns all over right-leaning media. Eventually Starbucks board notices this and thinks 'Why not? It'll shut them up, doesn't cost us anything, and we can even spin it to look socially responsible.'
And when the very rare incidents of people looking at porn in Starbucks continue - because all filters can be broken, and because people can just download it at home for viewing later, and because mobile internet is a thing - then Starbucks can still kick the offender out just as before.