I can only speak for the leftist circles I move in, but we are well aware that it's 4chan and right wing YouTube users. They discuss it quite openly, there is no need to guess.
Anyway, we have a better technique. Check out Operation Shiny Object. A guy called "Bearing" has been harassing small YouTube channels, with his mob of supporters. But he has a weakness: he can't resist responding to criticism. All we had to do was make a quick video or two every week and he couldn't resist making a long response, which stopped him having time to bother smaller channels and made him destroy his own channel with an endless series of boring nit picks.
Switzerland has some common market membership and crucially freedom of movement. There is no hard border, you can just walk/drive in, no passport needed.
I'm still ranking Apple Maps. How often can a bug in consumer software be bad enough to kill you? Bad enough that the police warn you not to use it.
Better yet, what prevented people from actually dying was Apple Maps overnight infamy as it became the worst disaster in tech since the iPhone 4 antenna.
Spain won't create a hard border with Catalonia. It would screw them just as much - jobs, financial services etc. based out of Catalonia that Spain relies on.
Same reason they ultimately won't close the border permanently with Gibraltar. Spain will use it as leverage, but no more.
Catalonia would get into the EU easily. They are already in so it would be more hassle to come out than to simply continue. Also, there will be huge pressure on Spain because the EU doesn't want a random hole of independence in the middle.
Spain will likely get something out of it, but won't be able to block it for long.
Nah, it's just standard Apple quality control. Remember when the alarm clock stopped working? Multiple times? Over multiple years?
Apple Maps, the iPhone 4 antenna, Macbook thermal paste... Apple is just as prone to fuck ups as everyone else, it's just that theirs tend to be hilarious for some reason.
There is a clear difference between handing out fliers promoting unpopular opinions, and publicly displaying distasteful or harmful images.
This is why laws typically do not try to enumerate all possible disallowed behaviours. It's a judgement call, with a legal system behind it for disputes.
Occasionally, and around here they are asked politely by police to remove them and then arrested. In fact I read that even in the US it looks like a ban on protesting outside clinics is constitutional, because free speech has to be balanced against other people's rights to access medical services.
I get it, they want people to see their important message about babies being murdered, but that has to be balanced against the rights of people to go about their lives without being subjected to disturbing imagery if they don't want to see it. You can't force people to listen to you just by turning you megaphone up and up until the whole town has no choice but to hear you, because it violates people's rights.
The signs in particular always seem to end up being only 5% into one square... so do I select it or not? Does the pole count as part of the sign? The store fronts one is hard too, sometimes it's really not clear what you are looking at.
This argument over the relative badness of one sub to another is just a distraction. It's one of the most common logical fallacies these days - "he is terrible, but she is worse," or "okay Nazis but what about these guys?"
It's not hypocrisy to not be omnipotent and capable of evaluating everything on a precisely calibrated scientific scale and then enacting a mass cull in one single hit for maximum fairness. It's just the nature of large web sites with limited resources to do a difficult job.
Reddit already gives you far more freedom than a typical town square. How long do you think you would get away with displaying pictures of corpses and remarking about how hot they are in real life?
The system as it stands is fine. There are sites like 8chan, Gab, even hidden sites on Tor where you can say literally anything. It might annoy you that those sites are not very popular like Twitter and Reddit, but that's how ideas work. If they have merit they spread, they become mainstream, if not then maybe you need to revise or articulate them better.
You can't force other people to listen if they choose to visit Reddit instead of 4chan. In fact, even on 4chan there is segregation between the various boards, enforced by moderators.
I think that's it. I've noticed it is worse when using remote desktop (RDP, VNC etc.), as if it can't track mouse movements so well or something like that. I know that the browser can't tell when it loses focus properly, for example. Plus my usual defences, including disabling WebGL and canvas fingerprinting.
You have unrealistic expectations of what a business will do to protect free speech. On the individual level it's likely that someone high up in the organization will decide they don't want to host that stuff, like someone high up at Cloudflare decided they didn't want to provide services to Nazi sites. On a corporate level they can't exist on their own, they need ad revenue, they need sales revenue, they need hosting and peering.
And the real kicker (for you) is that Reddit's purges work. They move most of the asshats over to the Voat cesspit and the majority of Reddit users find that there is less trolling and abuse on the 99.99% of boards that are not affected.
What you need is some billionaire to run a free speech site at a loss. But even then you won't be happy, because it will be like Gab or 8chan - small, few people pay any attention to it and it quickly becomes an echo chamber for extremists rather than a paradise of reasoned debate.
Some of what they post is illegal, so it's law enforcement's business. Some of it could open them up to being sued too, and in some countries the state can take an interest on behalf of citizens under certain circumstances.
For example, the subreddit posting pictures of corpses is likely breaking some privacy laws in Europe. Yes, dead people have some right to privacy too, as do their families who probably don't want Reddit users masturbating over images of their recently deceased relatives.
The bestiality board likely has posts discussing criminal activity, possibly conspiracy to harm animals or something.
Not saying that I agree with all this, merely that there are laws covering this sort of thing. I actually posted a story from the BBC about this sort of thing in the UK, but the submission system is broken and randomly marks stories as spam these days.
The Republicans lost too. Their party was infiltrated by the alt-right. They can't work with Trump. The fallout from his election is going to be hurting them for years.
Count me in that group. I get the "select squares with road signs" one regularly, and it usually takes 10-15 attempts before it will let me through. Either I'm really bad at it or the system is broken.
The French Revolution was far from perfect, just like the English Civil War, but it definitely changed things for better. Democracy doesn't just spring forth fully formed, it takes a long time to get right and guillotines are just the first step.
They weren't slaves, the systematic discrimination was not as bad, they were able to more effectively work their way out of poverty.
Black people have strong family ties too. The focus on education comes with wealth. It wasn't a big deal in China until people started to see how it helped the middle class, and we see the same thing happening in south Asia add Africa now. The issue for black people in America is access and systemic bias on a scale that no other group faces.
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Wait wait wait... The "old media" are far left activists? You mean like the Daily Mail and Fox News?
I can't think who else you could mean... It's the Morning Star still going?
I can only speak for the leftist circles I move in, but we are well aware that it's 4chan and right wing YouTube users. They discuss it quite openly, there is no need to guess.
Anyway, we have a better technique. Check out Operation Shiny Object. A guy called "Bearing" has been harassing small YouTube channels, with his mob of supporters. But he has a weakness: he can't resist responding to criticism. All we had to do was make a quick video or two every week and he couldn't resist making a long response, which stopped him having time to bother smaller channels and made him destroy his own channel with an endless series of boring nit picks.
Switzerland has some common market membership and crucially freedom of movement. There is no hard border, you can just walk/drive in, no passport needed.
A lot of advertisers would leave it. For them the damage of being on pro-Nazi videos, for example, would far outweigh any benefit.
I'm still ranking Apple Maps. How often can a bug in consumer software be bad enough to kill you? Bad enough that the police warn you not to use it.
Better yet, what prevented people from actually dying was Apple Maps overnight infamy as it became the worst disaster in tech since the iPhone 4 antenna.
Spain won't create a hard border with Catalonia. It would screw them just as much - jobs, financial services etc. based out of Catalonia that Spain relies on.
Same reason they ultimately won't close the border permanently with Gibraltar. Spain will use it as leverage, but no more.
Catalonia would get into the EU easily. They are already in so it would be more hassle to come out than to simply continue. Also, there will be huge pressure on Spain because the EU doesn't want a random hole of independence in the middle.
Spain will likely get something out of it, but won't be able to block it for long.
He means protection from hoards of African migrants he thinks are going there.
Nah, it's just standard Apple quality control. Remember when the alarm clock stopped working? Multiple times? Over multiple years?
Apple Maps, the iPhone 4 antenna, Macbook thermal paste... Apple is just as prone to fuck ups as everyone else, it's just that theirs tend to be hilarious for some reason.
There is a clear difference between handing out fliers promoting unpopular opinions, and publicly displaying distasteful or harmful images.
This is why laws typically do not try to enumerate all possible disallowed behaviours. It's a judgement call, with a legal system behind it for disputes.
Occasionally, and around here they are asked politely by police to remove them and then arrested. In fact I read that even in the US it looks like a ban on protesting outside clinics is constitutional, because free speech has to be balanced against other people's rights to access medical services.
I get it, they want people to see their important message about babies being murdered, but that has to be balanced against the rights of people to go about their lives without being subjected to disturbing imagery if they don't want to see it. You can't force people to listen to you just by turning you megaphone up and up until the whole town has no choice but to hear you, because it violates people's rights.
The signs in particular always seem to end up being only 5% into one square... so do I select it or not? Does the pole count as part of the sign? The store fronts one is hard too, sometimes it's really not clear what you are looking at.
Disagreement = flamebait
It's amazing how easily the Free Speech Warriors are triggered. -1 troll from someone who apparently was offended and finds that unacceptable.
This argument over the relative badness of one sub to another is just a distraction. It's one of the most common logical fallacies these days - "he is terrible, but she is worse," or "okay Nazis but what about these guys?"
It's not hypocrisy to not be omnipotent and capable of evaluating everything on a precisely calibrated scientific scale and then enacting a mass cull in one single hit for maximum fairness. It's just the nature of large web sites with limited resources to do a difficult job.
Reddit already gives you far more freedom than a typical town square. How long do you think you would get away with displaying pictures of corpses and remarking about how hot they are in real life?
The system as it stands is fine. There are sites like 8chan, Gab, even hidden sites on Tor where you can say literally anything. It might annoy you that those sites are not very popular like Twitter and Reddit, but that's how ideas work. If they have merit they spread, they become mainstream, if not then maybe you need to revise or articulate them better.
You can't force other people to listen if they choose to visit Reddit instead of 4chan. In fact, even on 4chan there is segregation between the various boards, enforced by moderators.
I think that's it. I've noticed it is worse when using remote desktop (RDP, VNC etc.), as if it can't track mouse movements so well or something like that. I know that the browser can't tell when it loses focus properly, for example. Plus my usual defences, including disabling WebGL and canvas fingerprinting.
You have unrealistic expectations of what a business will do to protect free speech. On the individual level it's likely that someone high up in the organization will decide they don't want to host that stuff, like someone high up at Cloudflare decided they didn't want to provide services to Nazi sites. On a corporate level they can't exist on their own, they need ad revenue, they need sales revenue, they need hosting and peering.
And the real kicker (for you) is that Reddit's purges work. They move most of the asshats over to the Voat cesspit and the majority of Reddit users find that there is less trolling and abuse on the 99.99% of boards that are not affected.
https://arstechnica.co.uk/scie...
What you need is some billionaire to run a free speech site at a loss. But even then you won't be happy, because it will be like Gab or 8chan - small, few people pay any attention to it and it quickly becomes an echo chamber for extremists rather than a paradise of reasoned debate.
Some of what they post is illegal, so it's law enforcement's business. Some of it could open them up to being sued too, and in some countries the state can take an interest on behalf of citizens under certain circumstances.
For example, the subreddit posting pictures of corpses is likely breaking some privacy laws in Europe. Yes, dead people have some right to privacy too, as do their families who probably don't want Reddit users masturbating over images of their recently deceased relatives.
The bestiality board likely has posts discussing criminal activity, possibly conspiracy to harm animals or something.
Not saying that I agree with all this, merely that there are laws covering this sort of thing. I actually posted a story from the BBC about this sort of thing in the UK, but the submission system is broken and randomly marks stories as spam these days.
The Republicans lost too. Their party was infiltrated by the alt-right. They can't work with Trump. The fallout from his election is going to be hurting them for years.
We tried to warn them.
Count me in that group. I get the "select squares with road signs" one regularly, and it usually takes 10-15 attempts before it will let me through. Either I'm really bad at it or the system is broken.
The French Revolution brought the metric system in, nearly managed to introduce decimal time.
Later efforts certainly learned from their mistakes.
The French Revolution was far from perfect, just like the English Civil War, but it definitely changed things for better. Democracy doesn't just spring forth fully formed, it takes a long time to get right and guillotines are just the first step.
They weren't slaves, the systematic discrimination was not as bad, they were able to more effectively work their way out of poverty.
Black people have strong family ties too. The focus on education comes with wealth. It wasn't a big deal in China until people started to see how it helped the middle class, and we see the same thing happening in south Asia add Africa now. The issue for black people in America is access and systemic bias on a scale that no other group faces.
LOL, quoting the summary is "flamebait"