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plokiju21on Oppose the Earn IT Act

So imagine 230 is repealed. Facebook can now be sued for what crazy people say on their platform. Do you think this will be better or worse for free speech on the internet?

plokiju21on App Clips for iOS

Android actually already has something similar: https://developer.android.com/topic/google-play-instant

plokiju21on Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone

I mentioned the media. Fox News has tremendous influence on the mainstream conversations/narrative. Not full control, but I don't think that's a requirement for being "in power"

plokiju21on Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone

> If the right was in power (Congress, media, and so forth), they would be left.

How much power does the right need before they're considered "in power"? They controlled both branches of congress and the presidency until 2018, and have a majority on the supreme court. Fox news is the most popular media platform, and have tremendous (but not full) control over the mainstream narrative.

This as "in control" as a single party gets in the US.

plokiju21on DigitalOcean Introduces Kubernetes Product

Right now, GKE charges $18/month for a load balancer on top of node costs, which is costly for small scale/personal projects. Will DigitalOcean have anything similar?