You cannot have true freedom of speech without anonymous speech.
As long as you have access to anonymous speech elsewhere, there is no property of freedom that is infringed if you require real identity on a commercial website.
You can always print pamphlets in the basement and anonymously distribute them, you just don't get to be anonymous in the public square. That's always been the case.
banning The Daily Stormer is bad as they are political group. They are extreme but starting there is a nice way to make the 1st amendment go away and after the 1st is gone the 2st will be as well.
First, Joe, Facebook banning The Daily Stormer has absolutely nothing to do with the First Amendment. Not even in the most remote, tangential way. Nothing at all.
Second, people who are trying to stop nazis will never be as bad as the nazis. It's an immutable truth. If you are a "political group" that promotes genocide, being thrown off Facebook should not be your biggest worry. Your biggest worry should be that the Bear Jew is going to bring his 36" Hank Greenberg model Louisville slugger into sudden contact with your head and that you will fill your briefs with shit.
The problem is not that these sites should be policing hate speech. The problem is that they're a mass media platform where the people who use the platform are not the customers. As long as social media focuses on this business model, it will be a conduit for the worst people in society, because the only measure of success is clicks and eyeballs. Nobody is accountable for what is said. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from responsibility or consequences.
You can fix this a couple of ways: First, you could actually charge the users of the platform instead of the advertisers. Second, you could require a real identity to participate. You'd be surprised how people all of a sudden start behaving like human beings when they know other people will be able to recognize them doing so. Finally, you could absolutely ban bots. All bots. You want to participate in this social media platform? Then prove you're human. This isn't because bots are responsible for hate speech, but because they amplify it, to the gratification of the person (or group) who originally posted.
This is only for the election. After the election, the White House will just go back to getting their tech workers from Russia, Israel, and Saudi Arabia.
The original content is the only thing that makes Netflix worthwhile. Everything else I can watch for free on Amazon Prime.
Not everything, Bill. For example, the Marvel picture, BLACK PANTHER is free on Netflix, but you'll have to pay above and beyond your Amazon Prime membership to watch it there. There are actually lots of examples of non-original programming on Netflix that you'd have to pay for on Amazon or isn't available there at all.
I understood the # of minutes you need to exercise per week to reap cardiovascular benefits, for instance, was pretty large.
The term "welsher" used to identify someone who makes a bet and doesn't pay off, like say a million-dollar wager which is supposed to go to charity, has absolutely nothing to do with Wales or the Welsh people. The origin of the word had nothing whatsoever to do with the Welsh, who are basically the hillbillies of the UK. Thus, this is not a racist term.
Kind of opposite. There's nothing to do during winter but drink and fuck. And while you can do both at once, it's generally not very productive at least on the male side with all the erection issues.
Yes, but sex in Finland occupies maybe five, six minutes, which still leaves 22 hours of darkness for drinking.
The tango is huge in Finland. They're actually known for other strange dance crazes, too, including the Letkajenkka (or, "Letkiss"). It's done to this weird hybrid ska/polka. Imagine a cross between the pogo and a conga line.
I'm serious, you have to see this weirdness that the Finns are getting up to.
The truth is that humans drink a lot of alcohol, all over the world.
Have you ever been to Finland? It's a whole 'nuther level. It's dark for half a year and they can pack away booze like nobody I've ever seen. I thought Australians could drink, but i've never seen anything like the Finns. It was not uncommon for me to be with two or three Finnish friends and watch them work through a bottle of vodka in one sitting, while I'm nursing a beer.
All the AC posters are russian trolls, and if they delete the post., the underlying comments get fucked.
I no longer post to AC's.
ShanghaiBill is OK. He's a crusty old fuck and wrong about everything, but he's not horrible and usually argues in good faith (though from a misinformed viewpoint). I don't mind him. When the revolution comes, I don't want to see him put up against the wall. He can work at the Workers' Golf Course as the ball washer until he finishes reeducation camp. [Just joking, Bill. You and me are cool.]
IRS: 1.2 Million Illegal Aliens Committed Identity Theft in FY 2017 [numbersusa.com]
If you follow that link to its source at the right-wing CNS ("right news, right now"), you will find that the answers from the IRS about identity theft have nothing to do with immigrants or illegal aliens, and make no mention of them. You took a story about one thing and made it about something else to fit your purposes.
You have to learn to use higher-quality fake news sites.
The entire thing is bullshit to keep this Russia soap opera on the front page. It's pure DNC all the way, still covering their own ass and their own corrupt machine politics.
Will someone please inform this AC that it's the Trump Justice Department that brought these charges?
The only difference is they are funded by idiots in this country instead of the governments of others.
Well, that's a pretty big goddamn difference, isn't it?
When an American or American organization tries to sway and election, it's called "campaigning". When a foreign government tries to do it, it's called espionage, treason, invasion.
One is legal. The other can get you bombed, at least if we had a President instead of a punk like Trump who foreign dictators use like a woman.
Another PopeCrapso post where he whines about Trump, who lives in his head rent free. Poor butthurt lil lib.
I'm having the time of my life. My Trump posts have revitalized Slashdot's comments section and I continue to be the most popular Slashdot commenter, and it's moral soul. If you didn't have me, you'd have to invent me.
"You have scientists on both sides of it. My uncle was a great professor at MIT for many years, Dr. John Trump," the president said. "And I didn’t talk to him about this particular subject, but I have a natural instinct for science, and I will say that you have scientists on both sides of the picture."
I don't know about the rest of you, but that's good enough for me.
chicago is changing to leds now. people are crying about the loss of the yellow glow.
LEDs are pretty ugly at night and probably unhealthy because they are known to disrupt people's sleep. In a big city, you're going to have to have blackout curtains on the windows to get a good night's rest.
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As long as you have access to anonymous speech elsewhere, there is no property of freedom that is infringed if you require real identity on a commercial website.
You can always print pamphlets in the basement and anonymously distribute them, you just don't get to be anonymous in the public square. That's always been the case.
First, Joe, Facebook banning The Daily Stormer has absolutely nothing to do with the First Amendment. Not even in the most remote, tangential way. Nothing at all.
Second, people who are trying to stop nazis will never be as bad as the nazis. It's an immutable truth. If you are a "political group" that promotes genocide, being thrown off Facebook should not be your biggest worry. Your biggest worry should be that the Bear Jew is going to bring his 36" Hank Greenberg model Louisville slugger into sudden contact with your head and that you will fill your briefs with shit.
The problem is not that these sites should be policing hate speech. The problem is that they're a mass media platform where the people who use the platform are not the customers. As long as social media focuses on this business model, it will be a conduit for the worst people in society, because the only measure of success is clicks and eyeballs. Nobody is accountable for what is said. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from responsibility or consequences.
You can fix this a couple of ways: First, you could actually charge the users of the platform instead of the advertisers. Second, you could require a real identity to participate. You'd be surprised how people all of a sudden start behaving like human beings when they know other people will be able to recognize them doing so. Finally, you could absolutely ban bots. All bots. You want to participate in this social media platform? Then prove you're human. This isn't because bots are responsible for hate speech, but because they amplify it, to the gratification of the person (or group) who originally posted.
This is only for the election. After the election, the White House will just go back to getting their tech workers from Russia, Israel, and Saudi Arabia.
Not everything, Bill. For example, the Marvel picture, BLACK PANTHER is free on Netflix, but you'll have to pay above and beyond your Amazon Prime membership to watch it there. There are actually lots of examples of non-original programming on Netflix that you'd have to pay for on Amazon or isn't available there at all.
That is correct. DId someone say otherwise?
I, for one, welcome our new Pewtie Pie overlords.
The term "welsher" used to identify someone who makes a bet and doesn't pay off, like say a million-dollar wager which is supposed to go to charity, has absolutely nothing to do with Wales or the Welsh people. The origin of the word had nothing whatsoever to do with the Welsh, who are basically the hillbillies of the UK. Thus, this is not a racist term.
Finnish girls are crazy good-looking, too.
Yes, but sex in Finland occupies maybe five, six minutes, which still leaves 22 hours of darkness for drinking.
The tango is huge in Finland. They're actually known for other strange dance crazes, too, including the Letkajenkka (or, "Letkiss"). It's done to this weird hybrid ska/polka. Imagine a cross between the pogo and a conga line.
I'm serious, you have to see this weirdness that the Finns are getting up to.
https://youtu.be/y2NvAn7ujjw
Have you ever been to Finland? It's a whole 'nuther level. It's dark for half a year and they can pack away booze like nobody I've ever seen. I thought Australians could drink, but i've never seen anything like the Finns. It was not uncommon for me to be with two or three Finnish friends and watch them work through a bottle of vodka in one sitting, while I'm nursing a beer.
They drink. A lot.
ShanghaiBill is OK. He's a crusty old fuck and wrong about everything, but he's not horrible and usually argues in good faith (though from a misinformed viewpoint). I don't mind him. When the revolution comes, I don't want to see him put up against the wall. He can work at the Workers' Golf Course as the ball washer until he finishes reeducation camp. [Just joking, Bill. You and me are cool.]
So why the fuck should we care about your anecdote?
Oh, I see. You're one of those jackoffs.
This is the age of the welsher, Bill. It goes all the way up to the top.
If you follow that link to its source at the right-wing CNS ("right news, right now"), you will find that the answers from the IRS about identity theft have nothing to do with immigrants or illegal aliens, and make no mention of them. You took a story about one thing and made it about something else to fit your purposes.
You have to learn to use higher-quality fake news sites.
He has the authority to fire them all.
Will someone please inform this AC that it's the Trump Justice Department that brought these charges?
As a show of solidarity with Julian Assange, I will be suing my mother for violating my rights by insisting that I get a job and move out.
It's a literary reference.
Well, that's a pretty big goddamn difference, isn't it?
When an American or American organization tries to sway and election, it's called "campaigning". When a foreign government tries to do it, it's called espionage, treason, invasion.
One is legal. The other can get you bombed, at least if we had a President instead of a punk like Trump who foreign dictators use like a woman.
I'm having the time of my life. My Trump posts have revitalized Slashdot's comments section and I continue to be the most popular Slashdot commenter, and it's moral soul. If you didn't have me, you'd have to invent me.
May Trump reign another 50 years. Vivat Rex!
Don't laugh. It could happen, according to our big, wet, President. We just have to wait it out.
https://www.theguardian.com/us...
And we know for sure that he knows what he's talking about, because he says he has a "natural instinct for science".
https://www.politico.com/story...
I don't know about the rest of you, but that's good enough for me.
LEDs are pretty ugly at night and probably unhealthy because they are known to disrupt people's sleep. In a big city, you're going to have to have blackout curtains on the windows to get a good night's rest.