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dc2k08··on China censors online Ukraine debate, bars calls for peace
Meanwhile youtube has banned Channel 1, NTV, TNT, RT, Moscow 24 and even "Spas", and are banning users that post ''misinformation'' about Russia's actions in Ukraine.
dc2k08··on Russia is abandoning SSL certs in favor of their own
Have you ever been to San Francisco?
dc2k08··on Open Letter to Visa and Mastercard from IT Specialists Fleeing Russia
Putin's demands seem reasonable. he wants ethnic Russians in the east of the country to stop being terrorised and murdered and he wants to be assured NATO can't create a security threat for Russia in Ukraine. Is there much public support in Ukraine to end the invasion by agreeing to his terms?
dc2k08··on Open Letter to Visa and Mastercard from IT Specialists Fleeing Russia
The point of the service denial is to agitate precisely this kind of reaction from the public with the desire that they revolt against Putin. Of course if they do, many will die or get locked up in a dark cell somewhere up but it will complicate things for Putin.

The other tactic the western powers have is to try and get as many Ukrainian civilians killed as possible for the propaganda effort. This is why they promote lobbing molotovs against tanks etc. Putin desires to kill as few civilians as possible as he can easily win the war. Winning the peace will be more difficult and they need to make it as difficult as possible.

dc2k08··on Belgian frigate with cabin boy crew banned from NATO exercises
People join the military out of patriotism.

54.3% of under 18s in Belgium have a migrant background and any sense of national pride in the native population is maligned to accommodate them.

The Belgians I talk to want to leave. They don't recognise their neighbourhoods any more.

Belgium and many countries in western Europe are going to struggle attracting recruits in the years ahead.

dc2k08··on The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini
She wasn't Irish. She was British but born in Ireland. This is part of Ireland's attempt to cobble together some sort of anti fascist history as nationalism rises due to the displacement levels of immigration seeing numbers greater than the historical plantations of her kind, the legacy of which still causes trouble to this day.
dc2k08··on Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
He does that too.
dc2k08··on Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
It's the best review of the book I've read. It's not conspiratorial to acknowledge the over-representation of Jewish authors listed in the bibliography.
dc2k08··on Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
Amazon have been doing this for a couple of years now. They removed all of Greg Johnson's books for example. VISA and Mastercard have also blacklisted him meaning he can't use any payment processor to sell his books on his counter currents website. He can only accept money orders or cheques. There is nothing illegal in his books.
dc2k08··on Visa May Add Cryptocurrencies to Its Payments Network, Says CEO
Don't trust visa/mastercard as they've used their muscle to censor views they dislike.
dc2k08··on Security professionals often warn against Telegram
I didn't move to telegram because I want to secretly plan an insurgency. I moved there because of the threat of censorship from big tech. It's way more than a messaging app and incredibly feature rich.
dc2k08··on Facebook shuts down the Socialist Workers Party in Britain
More to do with certain people with disproportionate influence deciding what isn't allowed to be discussed.

A partial list:

The displacement of European peoples. Holocaust revisionism. Boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel.

dc2k08··on Twitter suspends the account of Venezuela's new National Assembly
No solution. Internet infrastructure has been politicised now too and credit card processors.
dc2k08··on Turkey imposes advertising bans on Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest
Why was AMREN banned from youtube then?
dc2k08··on Parler partially reappears with support from Russian technology firm
Widespread vandalism and looting during BLM protests cost the insurance industry and estimated $2 BILLION. Hardly small potatoes.

Seeing as organising the set up of autonomous states within American cities is allowed on twitter on facebook, the tiny number of Trump supporters who entered the capitol and could just say they wanted to set up an an autonomous state there.

dc2k08··on Parler partially reappears with support from Russian technology firm
Twitter didn't ban a former prime minister of Malaysia for stating "Muslims have the right to be angry and kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past" in the wake of a school teacher being beheaded by a Muslim parent, angered that pupils were being taught freedom of speech includes freedom to offend.
dc2k08··on Parler partially reappears with support from Russian technology firm
Twitter and facebook both enabled the spreading of a fake news conspiracy in 2020 that the death of drug-addled criminal during the course of a difficult arrest in which a multiethnic police crew applied the protocol that had been signed off on by a black police chief was the result of anti-black racism.

Consequently sections of cities were burned, stores were looted, people were attacked and killed.

These riots, we were instructed to believe, were "mostly peaceful" and helped lessen the impact of covid19.

When is big tech and the mainstream media industry going to be held responsible?

dc2k08··on Parler partially reappears with support from Russian technology firm
Twitter and facebook tolerate the use of their apps to set up autonomous zones within american cities and incite users to riot, loot, commit arson and murder cops so why doesn't parler just use a similar hosting infrastructure to whatever they use?
dc2k08··on Parler's home page is back online, but app still not in stores
twitter didn't remove it initially and must have done so only after backlash pointing out their hypocrisy. Opponents of Trump have had free reign the last four years to incite violence against him and his supporters. Once you label your opponents nazis you can say what you like as far as the tech giants are concerned.
dc2k08··on Parler's home page is back online, but app still not in stores
They didn't ban a former prime minister of Malaysia for stating "Muslims have the right to be angry and kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past". They wouldn't even remove the tweet. This was his response to a French school teacher being beheaded in Paris by a Muslim parent, angry that he was teaching freedom of expression includes freedom to offend.

They didn't ban Kathy Griffith for holding up Trump's decapitated head either. You wouldn't get away with doing that to Biden's head.

dc2k08··on Economists agree: Raising the minimum wage reduces poverty
No it wouldn't. The amount of dollars you would need to exchange for goods and services would just increase while the exchange rate for dollars would decrease.
dc2k08··on Petition against forced Google+ integration on YouTube hits 112,000
Highjacking top-comment to link mirrors:

http://rorr.im/reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1qtk69/

http://web.archive.org/web/20131114164356/http://www.zdnet.c...

dc2k08··on Show HN: Pix.pe – Easily sharable pixel art
you should post this on r/pixelart
dc2k08··on ShowHN:Reddit-Style Comment Collapse for HN
On a related note, I'd pay money for an extension that compresses any forum thread to reddit/HN style comments and scraps avatars and signatures.
dc2k08··on Piracy: are we being conned?
I think this was it. They also allowed you to change the key of the piece before you printed so this is where a digital score is shown to be far superior to a piece of paper but if you want it in every key then they want you to pay them twelve times. No thanks.
dc2k08··on Piracy: are we being conned?
Sheet music is the worst. I was told, using an online sheet music service, that I was allowed to print the sheet music I had purchased once only and using software I had to install which was developed especially to force this. If the print job failed I would have to repurchase the sheet music. I could not buy a digital copy and print it as often as I liked. When I questioned this policy I was told it was out of their hands, that it was the only model of online distribution that the sheet music cartel or whoever it was would agree to.
dc2k08··on U.S. Government Starts New Round of ‘Pirate’ Domain Seizures
One of the biggest and oldest swapped everything out to the Isle of Man TLD recently: .im
dc2k08··on How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy
I found an email in my inbox today from a competitor who are taking advantage of the PR disaster by offering a discount and a charitable contribution to anyone wishing to transfer their domains to them over this. Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/za7G6.png
dc2k08··on Samsung installs keylogger on its laptop computers
It's a popular mantra made by politicians any time they want to introduce a new anti-privacy measure. This mantra and his version especially is so farcical, I think it's obvious to the majority of readers that his tongue is firmly in his cheek.
dc2k08··on Facebook Disconnect - chrome extension to disable Facebook tracking
So this is just a version of Disconnect that only blocks facebook? Does Disconnet do all this anyway? I discovered at the weekend that Disconnect blocks results on a Google custom search I made where analytics is running also. Seems a little overzealous.
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