MundaneMatt Just had 2 of his videos false flagged by Sony of all people. Mind you, Sony is merely distributing the PS4 version of the game, so their right to DMCA mere discussion of the game before launch -- especially when it doesn't contain in game footage -- is a bit odd at best.
But yeah, this suppression of pre-release footage is worrying. Combine that with an apparent Review Embargo and, well... I haven't been on the hype train for this one, but I do hope it's good.
The strong-arm bully tactics strongly suggest that it's not good, otherwise it would be allowed to stand on its own merits and no publicity would be bad publicity, you dolt.
Well no friggin' duh. I'm hoping it turns out not to suck.
MundaneMatt Just had 2 of his videos false flagged by Sony of all people. Mind you, Sony is merely distributing the PS4 version of the game, so their right to DMCA mere discussion of the game before launch -- especially when it doesn't contain in game footage -- is a bit odd at best.
But yeah, this suppression of pre-release footage is worrying. Combine that with an apparent Review Embargo and, well... I haven't been on the hype train for this one, but I do hope it's good.
But should we support state laws that require employees to pay union dues? Isn't private ownership but strong government control over the means of production an aspect of fascist economies?
Yes, we should oppose Right to Mooch (aka Right to Work -- for less money) states whenever possible. Unions built the middle class and ever since the social engineering attack on them the middle class has steadily shrunk in the US.
And no, that's not an aspect of fascist economies. There is no such term.
Do the math first. 400MM twinkies, 22,000 people. That is an output of about 9 twinkies per hour per employee. Even if back in the day they produced twice as many, the efficiency is abysmal and there is no way that a Twinkie has sufficient value to sustain all those people on a liveable wage.
Well, yeah? That's why the workers didn't just make Twinkies -- they also made a shitload of different types of pastries (chocodiles, ho hos, etc) and breads. Stuff like Wonder Bread, the Nature's Pride line, etc etc. And the 22,000 people probably weren't all making Twinkies to begin with.
Hostess -- under their name Interstate Bakeries Corporation -- was pretty damned huge before the Vultures got to them. Hell, before the health food kick of the past decade or so Wonder Bread was probably one of the most popular breads in the US.
While the Automation kick is an interesting angle, lets not forget what actually killed Hostess -- vulture capitalists. These are Mitt Romney style assholes who swooped in, loaded the company up with debt, then pawned it off after leeching all the money out. Somehow though, it's not embezzlement when an investment company does it.
But it gets worse. The unions that took the blame? They were having their workers give upwards of a THIRD of their paychecks just to try and save the company they helped build. And that just caused the vultures to trade the company around more and more.
That leaves the unions in one corner and the hedge funds and Hostess management in the other. Management ordered the company to stop contributing to the union pension funds, ignoring their obligations under collective bargaining agreements. They have demanded a new round of concessions, which would have doubled insurance premiums, negated all pension obligations, and slashed pay by 27 to 32 percent. Again, the 14-year Hostess bakery veteran: “Remember how I said I made $48,000 in 2005 and $34,000 last year? I would make $25,000 in five years if I took their offer. It will be hard to replace the job I had, but it will be easy to replace the job they were trying to give me.”
So yeah, the automation is interesting, but lets not forget what brought us to this point. Vultures bought the company, embezzeled a shitload by loading on bad debt and pawning the company of as well as flat out stealing from the pension fund, and passing the buck to the next leech until they couldn't pass it any further. And now instead of having good quality Wonder Bread and tasty, if not exactly healthy, sweets like the Twinkie, we get mass produced automated crap.
The local Hostess bakery re-branded as a Franz, and the quality is really good. They also have a direct-from-the-baker storefront that you can go in and get bread at a huge discount. Oh, and they're union and pay their workers a good wage -- around $17 an hour starting.
Yes there were ways to do this already, but most people, especially in rural areas of a developing country, are simply not aware of such options, much less how to implement them.
More importantly this gives Google's legal team ammunition to shut down those other ways.
"We implemented a way for poor dirt farmers in India to download vids at night for watching in the morning, so your download service no longer has a legit purpose."
"But Quest Diagnostics, which has compiled employer-testing data since 1988, documented a 10% increase in one year in the percentage of American workers who tested positive for illicit drugs -- up to 4.7 percent in 2014 from 4.3 percent in 2013."
It's written to make it sound at first glance that it's 10%. But it's actually 0.4%.
But then again, the scare headlines proudly exclaiming "0.4% more Druggies in the US Workforce, are YOU at risk?" wouldn't be as impactful.
These people aren't thinking big picture. Forget a fleet of self owned self-driving cars. Yes, self-car ownership is a staple of American life right now, but it's death knell has been sounded.
Imagine a fleet of hundreds of self driving buses, vans, et cetera. Now cross that with Uber -- request a ride, and you get put on a list of stops where the bus is going to go. Picture having to wait no more than 15 minutes for a self-driving public transportation vehicle to take you anywhere in your city, with algorithms picking the most efficient route to get who needs a ride, when they need it. Who is going to buy their own car when you can just get a public transportation pass and go anywhere?
Hell, what government is going to allow people to drive their own cars when self-driving vehicles can drive for them? And when even self-driving self-owned cars turn out to be a detriment to the self-driving public transportation, welp...
We don't consider horses when designing modern roadways, outside of some very specific scenarios. We're entering an era where considering manually driven cars are going to become a similar relic of the past.
Perhaps, I don't know, the FBI's job is SUPPOSED to be hard. Whenever they use that as an excuse to shit over everyone's rights I get more than a little wary.
For quite a while the public ballots worked, but where a group decides to undermine the process by intentionally stacking the vote, well yes, it gets undermined. All these right wing goons are doing is destroying the Hugos.
Oh boy, you're in for a treat.
1. The Regressive Left have been doing this very thing for decades. They're just pissed that some plebs who aren't "true fans" with rightthink are doing it back -- and better than them, to be honest. 2. Yes, they're destroying the Hugos. But don't misunderstand -- this is a mercy killing. The Regressive Left are going to No-Award everything out of spite, and the Rabid Puppies are going to No-Award everything just to make sure the Hugos don't get given out this year. Maybe then Worldcon will fix them.
"Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort."
Developing a measure with the explicit intended goal to deny the US Government Legal access to any random State enemy's communications device by demanding brute-force decryption software through lawful order by making an alteration solely intended to render that as impossible could be argued as an act with the sole intention of "giving aid and comfort".
Oh, I love this game. Let me try!
And by demanding we give up our rights in the name of fighting terror, they're giving aid to our enemies. Ergo, the FBI agents pushing for this are treasonous monsters and we should ignore them.
That's a false analogy. The police want help from the local locksmith to get into this house, which he made the lock for, because they have a warrant to search the premises. And the tenant is dead. And the property owner consents.
Except that they're not asking for a key to that house. They're asking for a Master Key to 38.58% of the Houses in the country, along with the legal authority to demand a custom built master key for the other 60%.
In a perfect world maybe, but you're not considering the real world where few lives will be saved, but the vulnerability will be abused constantly.
Especially since they immediately demanded to violate those rights 12 additional times in order to break the encryption of 12 more iPhones -- none of which had anything to do with the bogyman of the week, terrorism.
This has nothing to do with fighting terrorism or protecting Americans. The FBI decided us using our right to privacy was making their jobs annoyingly difficult, so our right to privacy, in this situation, simply has to go.
"Twitter employees read every one of the 250 million tweets per day that some shitcock somewhere whined about for some reason and agree with the content of them all."
Either/or fallacy -- and doesn't match Twitter's current policy. They claim to have rules, they're mostly secret and vague rules and won't explain when you break them, but will ban you outright when you cross them. But only if you don't have the right friends.
Disagree with a sociopath who happens to have the right politics? Ban. Point out a con artist doing "good things" is lying and openly scamming people out of thousands? Ban. Point out a troll who is harassing hundreds of people is a self admitted pedophile and child pornography producer? Ban.
Run the official PR campaign of a group of religious fundamentalists waging open war on non-theocratic civilization?... *Crickets*
1) Twitter employees read every one of the 500 million tweets per day that get posted and agree with the content of them all.
2) You're making accusations despite having both a complete lack of evidence and a complete lack of understanding of the subject.
BZZT. That's a 10 yard penalty for a False Dilemma fallacy. Try again.
3) People have reported the offending content and Twitter left it up in the name of free speech -- while punishing people who disagree with fake feminist con artists like Zoe Quin or Brianna Wu, because "freeze peach" is so 1990s.
Deadnaming is when you use someone's birth name when they have legally changed it. It's usually used in the context of transgendered people who have transitioned and legally changed their names, although idiotic coddled children on Social Media also use it to mean "you called me my old alias I'm not DarkRavenBloodyAngel anymore I'm PreciousPrincessPatriarchySmasher now, get it right!"
But yeah, actually deadnaming a real transgendered person is kinda a hateful dickish thing to do, but like all things these social justice warriors latch on to that one little bit of socially unacceptable behavior (deadnaming a transgendered person) and embrace and extend it for their own use (deadnaming a transgendered person becomes "using an unapproved name that can change at any time for anyone, anywhere"). They also try to dishonestly conflate deadnaming with doxing or outing people as transgender, which are not the same thing, at all.
There's also the fact that the people deadnaming her are in arguments with Sarah Nyberg, and the normal rules of decorum don't necessarily apply. For example, is it hateful to call Sarah Nyberg as her deadname if you're doing so not to be bigoted, but because it pisses her off and you're arguing with her?
And if there is a magical list of things that are just off limits to say, how come it's only the one side that get to add to that ever growing list? How come I can't say "ok, attacking someone based on (them being on the autistic spectrum / a person's race (even if it's white) / their having social anxiety / etc) isn't ok" and get it taken seriously, but the other side gets their constantly changing list enforced by Twitter / Facebook / Tumblr / etc?
But yeah, to put it a more succinct way: Sarah Nyberg is a disgusting, vile racist pedophile, and that's bad enough. Trying to conflate her gender dysphoria as just as bad as that or what have you is probably going too far. But she's a vile piece of shit who spends her day trolling on the Internet, so maybe she reaps what she sows?
if you cant post your "dissenting opinion" without "threatening people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability or disease", then you have some issues you need to work on.
Ok, lets talk about what they claim, and how this will go down in reality. Because Twitter has a really bad track record of saying one thing and enforcing another.
For example. There is a delightful young transwoman named Sarah Nyberg who has been harassing gamers on twitter for months now. (But that's ok, because harassing neuroatypical white males is socially acceptable. Especially if they're overweight and straight, too.)
Sarah Nyberg is a pedophile. She openly admits this. She also openly admits that she took photos of her 8 year old niece in her underwear and shared them online. She openly admits that doing so gave her an erection.
She admits all of this, but that it was ok because some people were rude to her and that's somehow worse.
TALKING about this, due to Sarah Nyberg being part of the SJW clique, results in you being mass-reported by a botnet and your account auto-locked by Twitter's algorithms until you delete the "harassing" posts.
The people doing this openly brag about doing this. Twitter does not care.
Twitter can post all the fluff pieces about how this is going to combat trolls and harassers they want. People who have been the victim of this passive agressive "crybullying" know that the authoritarian nutjobs involved claim any disagreement with their socio-political views is "harassment" or "Cyberviolence" and that Twitter apparently agrees with them.
Oh, wow, so no more "Kill All Men" hashtag or "I Drink Male Tears" images? Because those are pretty damned hateful, even though it's apparently socially acceptable to hate men in a way that it's not for women...
Huh. Well, ok, then at least they're going to block ISIS accounts and the people perpetuating the fake "Max Temkin is a Rapist" hate-crime posts, right? Because the former is a ltieral terrorist organization and the latter is a discredited hoax that people are using to try and destroy someone whose only crime is he's young, male, and heterosexu... 0000%#N$! NO CARRIER
You have been blocked for Thoughtcrime against the Party, please delete your posts to be allowed back in.
All this is going to do is give the psychotic misandric and racist losers (the so called "Social Justice Warriors," the left-wing authoritarian hate-mob that has infested the Liberals in the US) an in so they can continue to use bots to mass-report dissenting opinions and get them banned. They're already doing so, this just codifies it as official Twitter policy.
Wrong. It didn't make the front page. Someone's attempt to shoehorn it into an interview on being a woman in tech made the front page, with ESR's post mentioned as a weird random aside -- a month after the fact.
ESR's claims were the story.
Instead, Slashdot went for an interview with someone about what they felt about that story.
Because remember, when the founder of Linux and arguably one of the most important figures in Open Source is apparently the target of a misandric hate-hob attempting to frame him for attempted rape, accusations of which are brought forth by one of the other most important figures in Open Source, the important thing to do is not report on that, and instead ask someone what they think about it instead.
Lets also not forget that Sarah Sharp, one of the people on the board of the Feminist group apparently attempting to frame Linus, was the one who had a very public (and very faked) fainting couch moment when Linus apparently blocked their attempts to frame him by never being alone, claiming he was mean on the LKML and being mean on a mailing list is the same as physical violence. At which point it stops being just "Oh look ESR is crazy" and more "Oh look, there's an organized effort to drive Linus off the project."
You didn't pay attention. Try to do better next time.
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Not just preinstalled, but fraudulently flagged system so you can't uninstall them. Similar to Facebook and a host of other crapware on my Samsung.
MundaneMatt Just had 2 of his videos false flagged by Sony of all people. Mind you, Sony is merely distributing the PS4 version of the game, so their right to DMCA mere discussion of the game before launch -- especially when it doesn't contain in game footage -- is a bit odd at best.
But yeah, this suppression of pre-release footage is worrying. Combine that with an apparent Review Embargo and, well... I haven't been on the hype train for this one, but I do hope it's good.
The strong-arm bully tactics strongly suggest that it's not good, otherwise it would be allowed to stand on its own merits and no publicity would be bad publicity, you dolt.
Well no friggin' duh. I'm hoping it turns out not to suck.
This is more a FUD technique than EEE -- and a classic variant by Microsoft, to be sure. Remember when they threw a fake error message for DR-DOS users who wanted to use Windows? Same sort of thing.
MundaneMatt Just had 2 of his videos false flagged by Sony of all people. Mind you, Sony is merely distributing the PS4 version of the game, so their right to DMCA mere discussion of the game before launch -- especially when it doesn't contain in game footage -- is a bit odd at best.
But yeah, this suppression of pre-release footage is worrying. Combine that with an apparent Review Embargo and, well... I haven't been on the hype train for this one, but I do hope it's good.
So she chose an anti-gun, pro-globalism, anti-women's civil rights, pro-collectivism candidate. Basically an Anti-Bernie Sanders.
Yet she still expects Sanders' supporters to fall in line and kiss the ring in November.
... That's a bold play, lets see how it works out for her.
But should we support state laws that require employees to pay union dues? Isn't private ownership but strong government control over the means of production an aspect of fascist economies?
Yes, we should oppose Right to Mooch (aka Right to Work -- for less money) states whenever possible. Unions built the middle class and ever since the social engineering attack on them the middle class has steadily shrunk in the US.
And no, that's not an aspect of fascist economies. There is no such term.
Do the math first. 400MM twinkies, 22,000 people. That is an output of about 9 twinkies per hour per employee. Even if back in the day they produced twice as many, the efficiency is abysmal and there is no way that a Twinkie has sufficient value to sustain all those people on a liveable wage.
Well, yeah? That's why the workers didn't just make Twinkies -- they also made a shitload of different types of pastries (chocodiles, ho hos, etc) and breads. Stuff like Wonder Bread, the Nature's Pride line, etc etc. And the 22,000 people probably weren't all making Twinkies to begin with.
Hostess -- under their name Interstate Bakeries Corporation -- was pretty damned huge before the Vultures got to them. Hell, before the health food kick of the past decade or so Wonder Bread was probably one of the most popular breads in the US.
While the Automation kick is an interesting angle, lets not forget what actually killed Hostess -- vulture capitalists. These are Mitt Romney style assholes who swooped in, loaded the company up with debt, then pawned it off after leeching all the money out. Somehow though, it's not embezzlement when an investment company does it.
But it gets worse. The unions that took the blame? They were having their workers give upwards of a THIRD of their paychecks just to try and save the company they helped build. And that just caused the vultures to trade the company around more and more.
So yeah, the automation is interesting, but lets not forget what brought us to this point. Vultures bought the company, embezzeled a shitload by loading on bad debt and pawning the company of as well as flat out stealing from the pension fund, and passing the buck to the next leech until they couldn't pass it any further. And now instead of having good quality Wonder Bread and tasty, if not exactly healthy, sweets like the Twinkie, we get mass produced automated crap.
The local Hostess bakery re-branded as a Franz, and the quality is really good. They also have a direct-from-the-baker storefront that you can go in and get bread at a huge discount. Oh, and they're union and pay their workers a good wage -- around $17 an hour starting.
As I said the last time this came up, no American should EVER support Union Busting. Hostess is dead to me, and besides You can clone a twinkie pretty easily, which lets you do stuff like a fresh baked chocolate twinkie with cherry filling.
pornographers have a larger audience?
"Won't someone think of the children?"
Yes there were ways to do this already, but most people, especially in rural areas of a developing country, are simply not aware of such options, much less how to implement them.
More importantly this gives Google's legal team ammunition to shut down those other ways.
"We implemented a way for poor dirt farmers in India to download vids at night for watching in the morning, so your download service no longer has a legit purpose."
To be fair, at least NewScientist was better, subject-matter wise, than the more recent love affair with Forbes.com
One of the things we learned during the last few months of Gamergate is that Forbes is now a glorified blogging network that pays per click. So you have a serious economic incentive to get your article out there for clicks... and tailoring a pitch for it for Slashdot is a great way to do so.
Also, that means that Forbes.com is about as newsworthy as Wordpress.com.
Clickbait: The More You Know (TM)
But then again, the scare headlines proudly exclaiming "0.4% more Druggies in the US Workforce, are YOU at risk?" wouldn't be as impactful.
True. It would be more intellectually honest, less full-of-shit, less "i've-got-a-fucking-agenda". But definitely less impactful.
And ultimately, isn't that the real point of the news? To maximize clicks and thus advertiser and shareholder value?
"But Quest Diagnostics, which has compiled employer-testing data since 1988, documented a 10% increase in one year in the percentage of American workers who tested positive for illicit drugs -- up to 4.7 percent in 2014 from 4.3 percent in 2013."
It's written to make it sound at first glance that it's 10%. But it's actually 0.4%.
But then again, the scare headlines proudly exclaiming "0.4% more Druggies in the US Workforce, are YOU at risk?" wouldn't be as impactful.
These people aren't thinking big picture. Forget a fleet of self owned self-driving cars. Yes, self-car ownership is a staple of American life right now, but it's death knell has been sounded.
Imagine a fleet of hundreds of self driving buses, vans, et cetera. Now cross that with Uber -- request a ride, and you get put on a list of stops where the bus is going to go. Picture having to wait no more than 15 minutes for a self-driving public transportation vehicle to take you anywhere in your city, with algorithms picking the most efficient route to get who needs a ride, when they need it. Who is going to buy their own car when you can just get a public transportation pass and go anywhere?
Hell, what government is going to allow people to drive their own cars when self-driving vehicles can drive for them? And when even self-driving self-owned cars turn out to be a detriment to the self-driving public transportation, welp...
We don't consider horses when designing modern roadways, outside of some very specific scenarios. We're entering an era where considering manually driven cars are going to become a similar relic of the past.
Slipperly slope nothing, they're leaping off the cliff. Their latest argument is that part time traffic court judges in bumfuck Nebraska should be allowed to authorize hacks to literally any/every computer everywhere.
Perhaps, I don't know, the FBI's job is SUPPOSED to be hard. Whenever they use that as an excuse to shit over everyone's rights I get more than a little wary.
For quite a while the public ballots worked, but where a group decides to undermine the process by intentionally stacking the vote, well yes, it gets undermined. All these right wing goons are doing is destroying the Hugos.
Oh boy, you're in for a treat.
1. The Regressive Left have been doing this very thing for decades. They're just pissed that some plebs who aren't "true fans" with rightthink are doing it back -- and better than them, to be honest.
2. Yes, they're destroying the Hugos. But don't misunderstand -- this is a mercy killing. The Regressive Left are going to No-Award everything out of spite, and the Rabid Puppies are going to No-Award everything just to make sure the Hugos don't get given out this year. Maybe then Worldcon will fix them.
"Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. "
Developing a measure with the explicit intended goal to deny the US Government Legal access to any random State enemy's communications device by demanding brute-force decryption software through lawful order by making an alteration solely intended to render that as impossible could be argued as an act with the sole intention of "giving aid and comfort".
Oh, I love this game. Let me try!
And by demanding we give up our rights in the name of fighting terror, they're giving aid to our enemies. Ergo, the FBI agents pushing for this are treasonous monsters and we should ignore them.
That's a false analogy. The police want help from the local locksmith to get into this house, which he made the lock for, because they have a warrant to search the premises. And the tenant is dead. And the property owner consents.
Except that they're not asking for a key to that house. They're asking for a Master Key to 38.58% of the Houses in the country, along with the legal authority to demand a custom built master key for the other 60%.
In a perfect world maybe, but you're not considering the real world where few lives will be saved, but the vulnerability will be abused constantly.
Especially since they immediately demanded to violate those rights 12 additional times in order to break the encryption of 12 more iPhones -- none of which had anything to do with the bogyman of the week, terrorism.
This has nothing to do with fighting terrorism or protecting Americans. The FBI decided us using our right to privacy was making their jobs annoyingly difficult, so our right to privacy, in this situation, simply has to go.
OK, rewrite the first one as:
"Twitter employees read every one of the 250 million tweets per day that some shitcock somewhere whined about for some reason and agree with the content of them all."
Either/or fallacy -- and doesn't match Twitter's current policy. They claim to have rules, they're mostly secret and vague rules and won't explain when you break them, but will ban you outright when you cross them. But only if you don't have the right friends.
Disagree with a sociopath who happens to have the right politics? Ban.
Point out a con artist doing "good things" is lying and openly scamming people out of thousands? Ban.
Point out a troll who is harassing hundreds of people is a self admitted pedophile and child pornography producer? Ban.
Run the official PR campaign of a group of religious fundamentalists waging open war on non-theocratic civilization? ... *Crickets*
One of these is true:
1) Twitter employees read every one of the 500 million tweets per day that get posted and agree with the content of them all.
2) You're making accusations despite having both a complete lack of evidence and a complete lack of understanding of the subject.
BZZT. That's a 10 yard penalty for a False Dilemma fallacy. Try again.
3) People have reported the offending content and Twitter left it up in the name of free speech -- while punishing people who disagree with fake feminist con artists like Zoe Quin or Brianna Wu, because "freeze peach" is so 1990s.
Deadnaming is when you use someone's birth name when they have legally changed it. It's usually used in the context of transgendered people who have transitioned and legally changed their names, although idiotic coddled children on Social Media also use it to mean "you called me my old alias I'm not DarkRavenBloodyAngel anymore I'm PreciousPrincessPatriarchySmasher now, get it right!"
But yeah, actually deadnaming a real transgendered person is kinda a hateful dickish thing to do, but like all things these social justice warriors latch on to that one little bit of socially unacceptable behavior (deadnaming a transgendered person) and embrace and extend it for their own use (deadnaming a transgendered person becomes "using an unapproved name that can change at any time for anyone, anywhere"). They also try to dishonestly conflate deadnaming with doxing or outing people as transgender, which are not the same thing, at all.
There's also the fact that the people deadnaming her are in arguments with Sarah Nyberg, and the normal rules of decorum don't necessarily apply. For example, is it hateful to call Sarah Nyberg as her deadname if you're doing so not to be bigoted, but because it pisses her off and you're arguing with her?
And if there is a magical list of things that are just off limits to say, how come it's only the one side that get to add to that ever growing list? How come I can't say "ok, attacking someone based on (them being on the autistic spectrum / a person's race (even if it's white) / their having social anxiety / etc) isn't ok" and get it taken seriously, but the other side gets their constantly changing list enforced by Twitter / Facebook / Tumblr / etc?
But yeah, to put it a more succinct way: Sarah Nyberg is a disgusting, vile racist pedophile, and that's bad enough. Trying to conflate her gender dysphoria as just as bad as that or what have you is probably going too far. But she's a vile piece of shit who spends her day trolling on the Internet, so maybe she reaps what she sows?
if you cant post your "dissenting opinion" without "threatening people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability or disease", then you have some issues you need to work on.
Ok, lets talk about what they claim, and how this will go down in reality. Because Twitter has a really bad track record of saying one thing and enforcing another.
For example. There is a delightful young transwoman named Sarah Nyberg who has been harassing gamers on twitter for months now. (But that's ok, because harassing neuroatypical white males is socially acceptable. Especially if they're overweight and straight, too.)
Sarah Nyberg is a pedophile. She openly admits this. She also openly admits that she took photos of her 8 year old niece in her underwear and shared them online. She openly admits that doing so gave her an erection.
She admits all of this, but that it was ok because some people were rude to her and that's somehow worse.
TALKING about this, due to Sarah Nyberg being part of the SJW clique, results in you being mass-reported by a botnet and your account auto-locked by Twitter's algorithms until you delete the "harassing" posts.
The people doing this openly brag about doing this. Twitter does not care.
Twitter can post all the fluff pieces about how this is going to combat trolls and harassers they want. People who have been the victim of this passive agressive "crybullying" know that the authoritarian nutjobs involved claim any disagreement with their socio-political views is "harassment" or "Cyberviolence" and that Twitter apparently agrees with them.
Oh, wow, so no more "Kill All Men" hashtag or "I Drink Male Tears" images? Because those are pretty damned hateful, even though it's apparently socially acceptable to hate men in a way that it's not for women...
(Whisper, Whisper)
Oh, that's still ok? Huh. Well, at least, no more "Men are the source of all school shootings in the world" type posts, right? Because that's a bigoted, ignorant, statement that ignores...
(Whisper, Whisper)
Huh. Well, ok, then at least they're going to block ISIS accounts and the people perpetuating the fake "Max Temkin is a Rapist" hate-crime posts, right? Because the former is a ltieral terrorist organization and the latter is a discredited hoax that people are using to try and destroy someone whose only crime is he's young, male, and heterosexu... 0000%#N$! NO CARRIER
You have been blocked for Thoughtcrime against the Party, please delete your posts to be allowed back in.
All this is going to do is give the psychotic misandric and racist losers (the so called "Social Justice Warriors," the left-wing authoritarian hate-mob that has infested the Liberals in the US) an in so they can continue to use bots to mass-report dissenting opinions and get them banned. They're already doing so, this just codifies it as official Twitter policy.
One would think that would make the front page, but nope. Went into submission limbo.
It made the front page, you didn't pay attention. Try to do better next time.
Wrong. It didn't make the front page. Someone's attempt to shoehorn it into an interview on being a woman in tech made the front page, with ESR's post mentioned as a weird random aside -- a month after the fact.
ESR's claims were the story.
Instead, Slashdot went for an interview with someone about what they felt about that story.
Because remember, when the founder of Linux and arguably one of the most important figures in Open Source is apparently the target of a misandric hate-hob attempting to frame him for attempted rape, accusations of which are brought forth by one of the other most important figures in Open Source, the important thing to do is not report on that, and instead ask someone what they think about it instead.
Lets also not forget that Sarah Sharp, one of the people on the board of the Feminist group apparently attempting to frame Linus, was the one who had a very public (and very faked) fainting couch moment when Linus apparently blocked their attempts to frame him by never being alone, claiming he was mean on the LKML and being mean on a mailing list is the same as physical violence. At which point it stops being just "Oh look ESR is crazy" and more "Oh look, there's an organized effort to drive Linus off the project."
You didn't pay attention. Try to do better next time.