"things that happen" is for sure... extremist terrorist disgruntled white dudes is apparently what happens.
Agriculture, manufacturing, etc in the US needs to fend for itself on its merits and/or support by a majority, not based on an inflated influence of rural populations. A strong case could be made that could inspire urban people to be in favor of uplifting these segments also. For example, I would gladly pay more for food or goods made in the US if the case was made to me that it was helping more rural population of my country, just like how I gladly accept paying higher taxes that benefit the unemployed and poor.
You don't have to give an artificial amplification of power to make sure good things happen for everyone. Sadly, that is where my argument falls apart, people are selfish.
"Why would lower-population states reduce their own representation power?"
To do the right thing, that is why. Not doing it implies that they know that have an over-representation and would only be against it to maintain that over-representation for their own selfish goals.
> He also managed to ruin the lives of many people
^ this part. The sad thing for me is that is we set all this technology stuff and free speech issues that we all go around in circles about.... Trump did poison the critical thinking skills of many people with straight up lies and gaslighting. Ultimately that is the part I am most depressed about in all this.
Yea, "right to exist" is too black & white. That is a bad term to use. I agree that free speech can exist, but if it is so unpopular that no one wants to help you get your hate speech out there, well that is your problem to find a solution to.
Parler has to find a private company willing to accept money to build and maintain a soapbox for you to speak that hate from. AWS is not obligated to that.
The speech is free, the soapbox is not (unless it is not privately owned).
"Do we have evidence" - seems the answer is "yes", have you read the AWS letter?
Yes, please, do that or at least moderate the content.
It didn't happen, there are consequences.
Imagine a site that regularly ignored content posted that was illegal, and you just sit back and say "prosecute them then"... but they never do. What happens next in your world?
Well of course, but as a percentage of the content posted on other platforms it isn't even close. You can't just dismiss this on that argument, "it depends" is a thing and it is real
We're never gonna get anywhere unless we come to terms with the fact that some things do not have a right to exist.
Parler itself can exist, but some of the content on it cannot because it is straight up illegal (plots of murder for example).
There are tons of examples of things that society has decided cannot exist, this isn't new, Parler seems to think it is though.
"our lawyers all ditched us"
That pretty much should tell you this is not a free speech issue... your service is just a shit business no one wants to be associated with. BYEE
In what world do you think this it is OK not take action?
Set aside what ever you think about China
"The takedowns come amid a crackdown on unlicensed games by Chinese authorities."
unlicensed, plain and simple for ya there
if they cared about being on the right side of history, which apparently they do, if only for a "inadvertently limited" amount of time, they would forget about the traffic. That traffic is from mostly people people better off not being (a part of you engagement)
The author did type "Swift" but it applies to Obj-C also, obviously. I wouldn't discount the whole post because of that slip-up. The optimizations made to reference counting are more than "gossip". David Smith posted about this weeks ago also, if you need more reference/confirmation than that I'm not sure what to tell you.