What a bizarre doomer set of goalposts. One, we literally had an election and now Facebook’s no longer doing this, thats a win for a start. We also shut down USAID and I got to read an article crying about how a bunch of people no longer get paid $300,000yr running nonprofits to bring in immigrants and spread propaganda, so thats cool. Some of the stuff coming out of the current supreme court has been good.
I can’t find it now but a while ago I read a very interesting article about a guy who worked for the Chinese censorship service, tried to blow the whistle on them violating their own laws and eventually fled the country.
I also read about the wallbleed hack that exposed the sort of data China gathers from internet users as well as how their DNS interception system works to stop users from accessing forbidden domain names.
I think there are definitely many in the UK who WANT China’s level of censorship. But even as the situation in the UK is becoming dire, the scale of internet policing, scope of topics that are censored by the government, and the severity of punishment dealt out are still well behind that of China.
(I remember the guy who fled China being at risk of a 15+ year sentence, for example. Worst I have seen in UK is 4 years… Which is still insane enough to start a riot, but not equal to China).
I’m dead sick of hearing this argument. One, it’s completely legalistic. The holocaust was legal too. Two, it’s incorrect. The government has been in trouble for coercing private entities like this before. I’m sure it would not pass in the current supreme court. They only got away with it for so long because they did it secretly from the public.
Given the choice, this is obviously behavior that should be stopped by legal intervention or possibly green Mario. There was no punishment because the worst of it passed before it was made public, much like nobody got imprisoned for various CIA crimes or whatever. Thats it.
Facebook, twitter, YouTube, Google Search, and Amazon Books accepted a vast quantity of secret, backdoor censorship “requests” from the US government, mostly during Biden’s administration. Facebook had a private web portal for requests and bragged about handling millions of requests per year. Private emails with Mark Zuckerberg lament that they have been processing requests that are very clear free speech, and are not even misinformation, such as statements of opinion. Facebook in particular, closed this portal before Trump took office. Reddit is not named in this document but I am personally certain they took similar requests.
We are not even close
“Sorry, I meant have more babies AND stay around as a father.”
I dunno, I just feel like there might be some catch to this coming from.the country that can’t even copy a modern fighter jet to save their lives.
Fun fact: It’s based directly on the implementation seen in “DDOS Retarding by Kiwi Farms” which wasn’t absolutely the original idea for cryptographic ddos filtering but the first to popularize and seriously rely on it live service.
Also I think it might be a wolf girl because it’s called “Anubis” but I dunno. Anyway, I think it would be a lot funnier if everyone called it “DDOS retarding” but that’s just me.
Pretty sure suicide bombing or driving a truck into a Christmas festival is terrorism, and enforcing your country’s border law by removing people who cross the border illegally is not terrorism.
recognize him by the picture
“I dont know or care who he is”
Tsundere ass mf
I honestly am not sure where I’d stand on the EU as a good example of privacy. Unfortunately I don’t think the GDPR has been effective in retrospect. They’re at times hostile towards corporate spying, which is good. But, they’re extremely bullish on state spying and policing social media. They’re willing to outsource this to corporations sometimes too. It’s pretty good, or some countries are, if you want to stay private from US corporate interests but when it comes to themselves the EU seems to think your right to privacy online is an obstacle for them.
Dont hold up California as a good example of privacy when they’re leading the charge in demanding OS level age verification…
Twitter, for all its faults, proved that a lot of people online with strong opinions about US politics are located in India, Pakistan, and southeast Asia. In my opinion one of these is the likely origin.
It says $4 million per hour. It’s from one of those places that uses dots instead of commas.
But I do like to imagine someone in a really low CoL area like the Philippines wearing a tuxedo and laughing about how wealthy they are making $4/hr.
Okay but what armed conflict ever do you sit and wait for them to pick up ammo.
Iran’s military would NEVER attack a defenseless target!
How about we destroy all of their military assets and if the soldiers don’t want to get killed, they can desert?
Remember the guy at Autozone who stood there insisting your car needs four spark plugs, even after you told him you have a V6? Because “the computer says so right here”?
I wonder what even the non-schizophrenic ones will do with AI.
One person downvoted… “Don’t you DARE put a staple through a floppy disk!” Lmao
Yeah they’re cheaper than raw chickens. The store tends to buy too much chicken and some expires and would have to be thrown out… Or they can roast it right away. It’s kind of a famous economic parable at this point.
Also, it sounds like Trump is just destroying our economy less than your guys are lmao.
To keep it short, I agree, I just dont like to see people trying to trick teenagers on here that China isnt worse than the west is right now.