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It disregards editorial control, which was part of how Twitter used to decide this.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230404115255/https:/help.twitt...

"State-financed media organizations with editorial independence, like the BBC in the UK or NPR in the US for example, are not defined as state-affiliated media for the purposes of this policy."

Twitter themselves had a guide that explained why NPR and BBC were not labelled as such, which has been revised since, but is still archived.

"State-financed media organizations with editorial independence, like the BBC in the UK or NPR in the US for example, are not defined as state-affiliated media for the purposes of this policy."

https://web.archive.org/web/20230404115255/https:/help.twitt...

It wasn't a mistake, it was intentional. Musk verified this, and even if we disregard his ramblings, they intentionally removed NPR as an example of who wouldn't be marked as state-affiliated from their description of how the label is applied, which gives the game away.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230404115255/https:/help.twitt...

I'm not going to apologize that they're no longer allowed to beat and murder people with impunity...as much/as frequently/as blatantly.

because they took the job

Would love to hear what you think about the Ars Technica article linked in another reply to GP, and how it relates to what you and GP said.

Many people already think that power is mis-used and/or abused and would want to see it pared back rather than extended, myself included.

If that was legally required of T-Mobile, don't you think it would be likely be legally required of all carriers? If that was true, don't you think there'd be a lot of people here confirming that Verizon and AT&T do the same thing? I am incredibly suspicious of the idea that this is a legal requirement, not a choice.

trusted execution is also a thing, just largely unused/underutilized. in my opinion hardware/software platforms can be designed such that the only real exploit would be for someone to insert an attack vector into the hardware (IC) itself, which is nation-state level work. again, possible but not used in practice because of the perceived risk-reward tradeoff at the moment.

you said: "This sort of technology literally makes it impossible to trust anything electronic."

we said: "No, because there is also technology that makes it possible to trust anything electronic with very nearly 100% reliability. But no one uses it"

I think your first statement is both technically wrong and generally wrong. Electronic trust is a solved problem...it's just that right now, it's really not as big a deal as some people are worried about it being, so we haven't generally implemented the solution. We could make electronic cars for long time before other things made them commercially viable.

not really the point. a PGP-style tech could easily exist for phone or video tomorrow, if it doesn't already. but PGP-style tech for email (called "PGP") has existed for 32 years and basically no one uses it. whether or not the tech exists doesn't matter nearly as much as whether or not people actually use it.

> filtered out by the moderator

If that's what he left in and responded to, what do you think he's taking out?

> wondering if the people that leave those comments would send an email instead

The evidence presented is that he gets abusive emails with a comment section...why would he get less emails if he closed the comment section?

The death of the comment section has been greatly exaggerated...one comment, that the moderator didn't even see fit to remove. Ain't much.

Also funny that you wonder if people would take the hurdle to send an email instead. In this particular case, the author has in fact written about the torrent of email abuse he faces on multiple occasions, for example here [1]. Is his 2021 post evidence that email is a thing of the past?

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/02/19/i-will-slaughter-you/

Wouldn't expect that to change until/unless we find some natural resources worth exploiting down there.

The Heinlein novel "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" also features pressurized living spaces on the moon heavily.

trash, unfit for this site

There are entire Wikipedia articles on the history of Labour's issues with anti-Semitism- I know, because my link to one was posted before your reply was. The issue is much more nuanced than what you or the person you're replying to are implying.

Look, I don't really wanna get bogged down in Tory-Labour, Republican-Democrat, "is being opposed to certain issues and members of the Irsaeli government anti-Semitic" conversation. I really don't. But as a US citizen who follows US news closely and world news incidentally, I'm aware this is an entire topic of discussion. I expected it to be a section of Corbyn's page- and it was- but there's a whole Wikipedia article about it, so you can judge for yourself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_UK_Labour_...

My personal read is, it ain't much different from some stuff in US politics. A bit of horseshoe theory stuff, not that I buy into that at large. But on the right you have politicians making alliances with neo-Nazis, on the left you have fervently pro-Palestine politicians. Both sides are or can be partially motivated by xenophobia, neither side is immune to having a theoretically defensible view possibly motivated by actual prejudice. I myself have been called an anti-Semite over disagreements that I believe to have little to do with religion and much to do with the actions of government agents. So it goes.

If you take out the sarcastic "all" implied in your tweet it's not really that far off from what has been suggested many times over with regards to a wealth tax, no?

they said elsewhere they meant tyre nichols

Oh ok, so not only were you talking about a completely different police killing than the one you originally brought up, but you were using a completely different definition of black/white supremacy than what anyone else here would too.

Edit: I wasn't incorrect, I can't see your post anymore but I don't remember you specifying metro in it. Additionally, I can process the not-new idea just fine, I just think you're applying it entirely incorrectly. I'm done here.

I've been using a blank Das Keyboard [1] at work for years. Besides all of the benefits you've listed, I've also found that it's the most effective deterrent for keeping people off my desk/off my computer that I've ever deployed.

[1] https://www.daskeyboard.com/daskeyboard-4-ultimate/

I was coming here to say this- one of those, "everything old is new again" moments.

That was not what I specifically asked for. And of course I haven't had time to do a google search on it, you just brought it up after me and multiple other people pointed out what you said made no sense. But I might later- can't say I have high hopes given the first run round, afraid to say.

You know that we can all very easily check Google Images for "george floyd murder" and see the white guy with his knee on Floyd's neck, right? Multiple people have pointed out that your statements on the racial makeup of the people who killed George Floyd have been- and this is being generous- extremely misleading.

i was willing to ignore the pun

i was even willing to pass the thread of puns without commenting, just doling out up and down votes as necessary

but "very clever" is a bridge too far, i don't think this even crosses into "a little clever" territory

The US's police force, like the country at large, is only 10% black, so unless you have some data to suggest some pretty extreme differences in white and black police participation rates in supremacist groups, it seems fairly unreasonable to be equally concerned about two groups when we can estimate one being nearly ten times the size of the other.

The article being discussed here is "less than half of California students reading at grade level", so my opinion on "one third of fourth grade students reading at substandard level" is basically the same as my opinion on that, because they're not very different statements.

One simple explanation would be that the problem just isn't as bad as you think it is.

conspiracy theories and conspiracy theorists existed long before social media did.