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Mike Wuerthele said:

The existing section 230 disagrees with you. Twitter does not generate its own content which is the requirement to be a publisher, and even if it did, only the content that Twitter staff generated or paid would count to make it a publisher. Fact-checking, editing, or deleting user-generated content doesn't make it a publisher, and "moderation" is, in fact, required by section 230 now, and in the proposed reforms. We'll see how it goes.

Except ... that ‘fact checking’ has become more than ‘moderation’. Surely you’re intelligent enough to see this? Or perhaps you’re just not aware of what’s going on.

As one example among many, a friend of mine had his Facebook post ‘fact checked’ (i.e. censored) and the only thing it had was a link to a CDC page giving statistics on the effectiveness of mask wearing in a specific study of coronavirus cases. The CDC website, the CDC’s data itself, was considered dangerous enough to warrant censoring. If that’s not questionable enough, the idea that masks (of the type that the majority of people wear) are effective in stopping the spread of the coronavirus is not conclusively supported by any science right now.  So Facebook is censoring data from the CDC because they say it could be misleading even though how they claim it’s misleading isn’t scientifically proven. That’s called imposing an unproven opinion upon millions of people.

When a service provider is imposing their own opinions on what users post—which is absolutely what’s going on—then they become publishers. By controlling the content to fit a specific perspective they are effectively publishing content. Hiding behind ‘independent fact checkers’ doesn’t mean that’s not what’s going on. They should be neutral, all voices heard equally (according to what is legal, at least).

Interested read but such naivety…

“Governments can't tell Apple to include terrorist content into the CSAM database.”

Right now. But that is being pushed step by step. Is the author unaware of the pressure the current government has put on private companies to censor content? Does the author not understand that the obsession with ‘misinformation’ is little more than a means to inject that government control?

Is the author unaware that ‘misinformation’ has been going on forever and that it’s not a new phenomenon? I watched a TV show on a reputable TV network decades ago on the moon landing being fake. Back then exploring a wide range of ideas, no matter how ridiculous, was considered valuable for mature humans.

The only thing that has changed is people in society are increasingly immoral, and therefore people are increasingly unable to express self-responsibility and think critically. 

The more we take the power away from the people the more likely it will end up in the governments’ hands. The government is not an altruistic benign organisation.

I’m quite pleased this firm developed this product. It shows the fuss the FBI and other law enforcement agencies is unfounded, that it’s the responsibility of others to work out solutions to get at the data rather than ask the manufacturers to solve law enforcement’s problems.

It also shows the lack of willingness of the FBI and other law enforcements agencies to sacrifice security for freedom (which is very shortsighted because it solves an immediate problem while creating a much bigger one) is even more problematic, because the problem can be solved.

This attitude of ‘I deserve better’ is literally ruining our societies. I’m not saying they do or don’t deserve better, I don’t know. What I do know is that ungratefulness, jealousy, and entitled attitudes lead to things falling apart. Not building things up.

It’s not even that long ago that people were grateful for their jobs, even if they weren’t ideal. Working is a privilege, but our culture looks at how other people have it better or just that we think we deserve better. Most people don’t understand that attitude breaks down the culture. A lack of appreciation ruins everything.

That is amazing news that I’d never support. An app subscription from Apple?!

I’ve always felt that subscription-only apps are cheap manipulation, but I did sort of understand it from desperate developers who are wanting to stay in business for longer.

When a company like Apple does this that’s basically the beginning of the end of personal ownership in computing. And this won’t stop with software.

seanj said:

Biggest issue with Facebook is that it is slow to react against people spreading anti-vaccine disinformation. This literally causes deaths due to people actually believing this nonsense.

It shouldn’t be difficult to preemptively spot these either. A significant proportion of anti-vaxx lies is generated by the Internet Research Agency in St Petersburg, Russia, working for Putin.

Why is Facebook’s responsibility to ‘stop’ vaccine misinformation by moderating the discourse of mass quantities of people?

Are you going to vote next to disallow vaccine misinformation from being texted? And then to disallow it from being spoken about in person in federal buildings? Etc. Etc.

People like you don’t really understand what you’re saying. Our founders knew that we can’t always tell who is doing good, even ourselves. That’s the entire reason for separation of powers and free speech, and it is absolutely worth dying for. Don’t be short sighted, or else you will be serving the next ‘benevolent’ dictator willingly so that you can feel safe from the scary world. 

Power must be diluted. Not given into the hands of a few ‘trustworthy’ people who more than likely are just good at lying. 

iGlowEarth said:

FAA is a fucking idiot. I’ve been wait for Verizon to add 5G for like 2-3 years. I’m tired of FAA bullshit. Look at other countries, they have no problem with 5G around the airports! I refused join T-Mobile AND AT&T. I prefer Verizon because their network and signal is more stronger and cover more area that AT&T and T-Mobile cannot. There’s 5G at like 10-15 miles from where I live! 6 months?! FML!! 

Well, I’ve been on T-Mobile since 2013 and was satisfied with their coverage even back then—there were of course spots with no coverage, particularly in rural parts of Virginia, or central Pennsylvania, but I can recall other spots where T-Mobile had coverage but Verizon didn’t.

But T-Mobile’s coverage has improved a lot since then and currently there isn’t anywhere I go where Verizon has coverage and T-Mobile doesn’t. And with T-Mobile’s 5G ‘UC’ I’ve gotten Speedtest results as high as 648Mbps on my iPhone 12 Pro in the suburbs. Not that I ever need that kind of speed, but T-Mobile is doing very well.

mknelson said:

jdgaz said:

Now I completely understand why England left the EU. 

The con by Nigel Farage and his buddies? In the UK today Brexit is widely considered to be a failure. Even Nigel has said that.

If Brexit is a failure it’s not because it is a failure, it would be because people who didn’t want it made it a failure. If the country had just embraced it and gone along with it, whether they wanted it or not, it would have been quite a success and the UK would be reaping the benefits already and the EU would be less powerful. But the stupid games of globalist politicians and their manipulation of the public has made it a lot worse.

Still workable though, but the public can’t keep rejecting it.

wonkothesane said:

Dear Thierry, can I have a BMW engine in my Mercedes, please? And I should be able to put any headlights in my car well well, thank you. And while you’re at it, I want to control my Bosch appliance with the Samsung app, buy competitors’ products in my supermarket of choice and run iOS on Android phones. No biggie for you, I suppose. Cheers. 

Perfect analogies. People have come to see phones as a service sort of like electricity. But their entitled attitudes blind them to the obvious that there are already competitors and choice, and insisting Apple or whoever open up their product is like telling Mercedes to do the work to develop a mechanism which allow customers to put a BMW engine in their car.

If someone wants to offer a payment service or easier app access, they should develop their own phones to do that. 

CheeseFreeze said:

So the EU has now declared that USB-C is the be-all, end-all of ports. New, advanced technology need not apply.

Like the Lightning port is ‘innovation’ in 2021 🙄

Your attempt to feel clever bashing Apple has inadvertently proven the point.

Connectors eventually become obsolete. By requiring a connector be standardised, which could very well become limiting by the time this EU mandate would become a requirement, it inherently becomes about holding technology back.

I don’t want USBC or lightning to be a required port on my devices for the next however many years because who knows what technology will emerge. They’ve been fine so far, but that doesn’t mean they will continue to be for an artificially prescribed amount of time.