Noone is going to buy it simply because guns are a mechanical thing and adding batteries to them is a bad idea. Just look at how many people can't keep their cellphone charged and that's the obvious reason not to do this. But more seriously - who decides between a band of rapists and their would be victim? Is it ok for the rape to happen because the victims life wasn't in danger? Is that somehow the "best" outcome? Is it a mass shooting if some young woman shoots three rapists? And how is the AI going to judge the intent of the people not holding the gun? Skynet sometime soon?

Yeah so their side of the story is that the guy was being selfish and trying to get sweet sweet movie and media deals while leaving the rest of the moderation team out of it. when the mod team formed a corporation to hold the intellectual property jointly, he refused to join it and held onto the domain. In response to him being a greedy fuck, they created https://patriots.win/ He did end up getting some media attention, but he's pretty much the Simpsons Comic Book Guy: https://patriots.win/p/12hR7Ve...

Either the mainstream media is wrong about this post or it's extremely likely to anyone with two braincells to rub together that the election was stolen.

Got it.

It wasn't a siege, it was a costume party. And there wasn't any real property destruction or violence comparatively speaking to places like portland. Best of all: The people unhappy with the government took their problems to the government and protested there instead of looting and setting random businesses and cars on fire. Their anger was directed at the thing they were angry at. The real problem isn't parler's moderation, it's the inability of big tech to interact with people they disagree with in any meaningful way.

Incidentally I'm opening up an internet bakery, and I'm going to pick and choose who to make cakes for. It's the same thing, right?

There's two ways to approach it - I think that it's fair to say, "This platform is moderated" at which point censorship is expected for both topic and tone. And I think it's also fair to say "This platform is a free speech zone" where there is no moderation for topic or tone. I think users will prefer one or the other and pick one to call home. The only sin, from a platform perspective, is to do one or the other and then say they're doing the opposite. I don't expect twitter (or facebook, or slashdot...) to be a free speech zone. I accept the fact that they're not free speech zone and they freely censor posts and topics which would hurt their advertising dollars. I think being a true free speech zone is really hard on the internet these days. I think Amazon shouldn't have gotten involved with Parler. Parler did not claim to be amazon, it was clear that they were separate business entities, and if Amazon is saying that they are responsible for the content on their platform it creates some real nasty antitrust and anti-competition situations. It's why Walmart, for instance, refuses to be hosted on Amazon, because they compete. Anyway, yes, moderation is censorship. By saying something like "but the robots did it!" like Twitter and facebook tried to say for years, or "the users did it" like slashdot does - that doesn't make it somehow "not censorship". At best it's misrepresentation of that censorship, at worst it's passing the responsibility. It's censorship.

Someone please invite him?

Google's problems are well under the hood. I think the gcloud experience in general tends to be plagued with poor support for terraform. When the last time anyone tried to configure stackdriver or identity provider with TF? It's a mess. I hope their internal APIs become good enough at some point to compete with AWS and hopefully the applications will follow.

So first off it looks like some of them were remote wiped per some policy somewhere. Everyone I've ever worked for has said they're either going to wipe the phone when asked to turn it in and if I don't like it, I can request a device. Which they're going to wipe when I leave anyway, so this doesn't strike me as malicious as much as the normal level of government incompetence. But the real problem is mails and resources aren't stored on the phone except as a cache. Your android device, your iphone, whatever - it's talking to some server somewhere in the cloud. The whole problem with Clinton doing it was the server was wiped and they physically destroyed the phones and attempted to tamper with the server. Why isn't anyone just going after the server here?

Uh, yeah. "Stereotypes aren't archetypes"? Where are they going with this? It's like they forgot why archetypes exist for people to role play.

How are you going to prevent violence? Not only from the neo-nazis but black-on-white violence? Is vice just writing to troll slashdot or do they have a solution to preventing this domestic abuse?

after voting to have the FBI able to check your browsing history without a warrant they need to give the FBI something to actually look at.

They managed to produce less than 50% of the votes, let alone the required 2/3rds. The real question is - why is Romney's family also involved in Ukrainian politics and what do they know?

Is this really 8chan's problem though? Are they going to deplatform all the major newspapers who hosted the manifestos, in part or parcel? Why is it different when 8chan posts the manifesto as opposed to a "reputable news outlet"?

We live in the age of little cardboard robots being sold at Walmart for STEM projects and cute little knit cases for raspberry pis being sold on etsy. RC Aircraft made out of commodity servos and single chip flight controllers are housed in dollar store foam board. No-one really cares about the case in this day and age. I can buy a "gaming PC" from any number of vendors, I don't really want to build one myself. I think I'm more likely to buy a videocard to upgrade an existing PC rather than buy a new PC from parts and eat the shipping. PC Gaming is maybe 25% of the market, these guys were just in the wrong segment and looking to blame anything but their industry and failure to adapt.