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I have the same feelings. When I ran a single-line BBS from my bedroom as a kid, I would get excited every time someone would dial in and I'd see activity.

Actually, it's considered legislating when stare decisis is abandoned.

It's truly baffling to me how the people that lambasted the idea of corporate personhood after Citizens United seem to now be obsessed with defending the so-called constitutional rights of said entities, of all things, to censor speech. When it comes to matters of all things censorship and restricting speech, I've never seen a steonger embrace of discrimination via privatization

Decriminalization is different than legalization. It likely will not help any US or scientific research.

This growing fad of partial "psychedelic decriminalization" initiatives covers only plant-based ones, which is ridiculous.

Ingesting shrooms are harder to dose than a hit or two of acid. Eating the weight equivalent of one cap or stem can be a completely different experience, from the same spores. This will make the gradual path to full legalization even harder because people aren't trying things that are more easier to dose.

There is no good reason why non plant based drugs like LSD, MDMA and Ketamine are not included so we could really call this a true psychedelic decriminalization measure.

You were given a screenshot with quoted text from an article that returned completely buried results in your search engine from the same rt.com article. You first replied by giving a person a URL to the RT.com article to search in the engine which brought up a result. Then when someone called you out on it you then said you'd get back to them.

Now today since I've linked this thread, you have now changed who could reply.

It's pretty clear that you will say or do anything to try to save your tanking company.

You still haven't convinced me, or many others who used your service to the contrary, and your explanation like in this thread here doesn't match what you are preaching.

https://twitter.com/pkm_inc/status/1515677462251945986

Hatred of the elites is just simply populism. Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are populists, two sides of the same anti establishment coin.

Populist sentiment is only growing.

It still blows my mind that these guys weren't Southern boys but from California.

Ramble Tamble remains one of my most earliest memories listening to my dad play CCR's Cosmos Factory from a cassette tape as a kid, and still one of my favorite rock songs and albums.

I for one, like being able to print content in the privacy of my own home without letting private companies like Fedex/Kinkos see it, and potentially filter/share it with third parties.

We're already shifting towards a society where things that offer a traditional offline, anonymous way of transacting information or currency is being construed as a threat because "terrorism", aka it cannot be monitored and controlled. Easily justifiable to still have one.

My dad still uses a Laserjet 4L daily to print ebay stuff and refuses to replace it because it works, and my 14 year old brother mfc, with an ipv6 stack(!) still works as good as the day I bought it. These things last generations.

There is no "libertarian left" and "libertarian right". Libertarians decided to create a political compass website as a recruiting tool and now think their axes model represents reality. That's what's incoherent.

Ironically these categorical definitions which you have accepted have as much validity as a website quiz saying how much of a Hufflepuff or Gryffindor one is.

Who cares. The point is the left isn't fighting it. They used to defend free speech on principle. Now they pick and choose what speech is ok, just like the right wingers they believe they're above.

https://www.dwt.com/insights/2019/10/california-deepfakes-la...

Because not every detail and every case makes the news.

You're conflating the right of free speech with the first amendment. They are not one in the same thing at all. Free speech is an inalienable human right deeper than any government's declaration or lack thereof.

In any case the Biden White House has already created a disinformation board and has coerced and pressured private social media companies to censor for them or face penalties and regulation.

Yes, it is a partisan issue, actually a bipartisan one, where you have left/right authoritarians who defend property rights or hide behind a narrow definition of free speech in the first Amendment, over fundamental human rights. Companies like Twitter are now the de facto Town square which have replaced newspaper editorials and other mediums traditionally propagated ideas to a large audience.

A private company could purchase every piece of public land, control all access points to the internet, and effectively been anyone from speaking, and you apparently would be okay with that because "it's not the government".

> I think an enormous percentage of people in their early and mid 20s are largely clueless about predatory business practices and how they can be impacted

And yet the same stereotype is said for elderly people being susceptible to scams, etc. Jokes about limiting granny porn aside, it's still generally viewed as a preposterous thing to suggest for elderly people to limit what they can do based on age.

As you pointed out, wisdom about X/Y doesn't come with age, it comes with experience, and there's many variables to determine what you get to exposed to when and what one's needs/desires are.

The only constant is they are all authoritarians

My great grandmother was married at 17 and was having kids immediately after.

Kids are sure responsible when we charge them as adults, but can't be trusted with other adult decisions that aren't crimes?

There shouldn't be an age gap where you stop needing to listen to your parents and you now are an adult to find income, shelter, be on your own and be forbidden to certain vices or activities. Yet we charge minors as adults, even young ones, when they commit serious crimes. If exceptions can be made for bad actions that indicate a child had reached adult maturity at the decision of a prosecutor, then that makes any age based delimiter arbitrary and ultimately unfair.

The definitions and timelines of maturity in general are too arbitrary to apply a constant age as a fair and just measure against all of society. That's why protections against Ageism exists, and there are states where there's no distinction between young and old ageism. Cognitive ability waxes and wanes throughout life.

Someone who uploads videos of others who didn't know the people were all 18 didn't take the necessary precautions. Sites make one declare and certify everyone is 18 in the videos.

And for standards, that's exactly how it works for cp victims, the doj will take steps to notify the victim anytime they catch someone who posted or possessed it, so there can be civil damages in addition to criminal.

With deepfakes and plenty of ways to obfuscate videos to get around detection via editing, there's NO recourse and it isn't the fault of Pornhub, Youtube or any other website who takes good faith measures to identify the users who upload the content. The victims have recourse in court - with those who uploaded it.

Beyond that, all roads lead to users can't be trusted with cameras or the ability to upload digital content.

This - and combine it with key+paraphrase, keep the key local to your devices and your keepass file in the cloud. I've used this setup for years backed by a webdav share on multiple platforms. It's incredibly robust especially synchronizing changes

A quarter century later, statute of limitations expired, systems long gone and replaced with entirely different vendors/technology, nobody cares except you.

Never been an issue for me. I was never charged with anything state or federal.

Debian even back then did protect the passwd files appropriately out of the box, but in this server's case, they did an import from an older system where it wasn't protected, and they couldn't figure out how/bothered to convert it to shadow.

My FBI file was for hacking into my school district's AS/400 that handled my school's attendance and grading system. Somehow using a public IP address with no access restrictions allowed a clear telnet path in from home. Compounding username and passwords that were all the same for every employee. I didn't change a thing, just LOLed and told someone. Bad mistake. This was the late 90s.

Oh well, 2 week suspension and kicked off the computers for less than a year. A nice conference with FBI, police, my parents, IT and school administration. Fun times.

I learned my lesson to not talk about such things because their egoes were too fragile.

When they decided to give students in their website design class ftp accounts on the district wide web/email server running an ancient version of Debian, they didn't disable the shell, just added a login script to a menu for pine, etc. for people who telnetted in, which I'm sure the sysadmin was proud of. However, a few fast CTRL-C's broke out of his script menu loop and got me a shell, and they didn't shadow protect their password files. Ran it through john the ripper and had half the district's e-mail passwords in a default dictionary file including the root pw in a few minutes. LOLed and never told anyone about that.

Good times, the 90s....

Imagine thinking this...

>"Propaganda is information (delivered through any medium) designed to persuade, manipulate emotion, and change opinion rather than to inform using logical truths and facts. The aim of propaganda is to change minds via the use of emotion, misinformation, disinformation, truths, half-truths, and cleverly selected facts; not to enlighten (although one can technically propagandize true information, using emotion to sell truth, this generally isn’t what we are talking about when we use the term “propaganda”

Then saying this...

>Propaganda isn’t bad by its nature (after-all, almost any content that relays information can be considered a form of propaganda).

What the fuck. No, any content that relays information is NOT a form of propaganda.

Role reversal: If a US antivirus company's heuristic and file analysis uploaded a trove of russian zero-day exploits they are using against their adversaries, you better damn well believe they're going to hand that over to the CIA/NSA and the CIA/NSA may weaponize them against our adversaries.

When it comes to US crafted malware, I trust the Russians in detecting it and telling the world more than I would any US-based company.