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Comment Re:From free speech hero to big brother (Score -1, Troll) 115

In other words, they want to ramp up the censorship even more than they already have. As a user over there for a good while, moderator abuses have increasingly become commonplace all over the site, and now the admins are joining in the fun with their sinister-1984-themed name "Anti-evil Operations" (I'm not making this up), and are removing comments and banning or quarantining relatively innocent subs (not just dodgy ones). Permanent bans of users are common on even the popular default subs (such as r/politics, r/news, or r/pics) if you express remotely right-wing sentiments. As an example of notorious censorship, most users don't know when their comments are deleted (either by the automod or a real moderator), and often don't even know when their posts are removed. Even upvoting a comment or post that doesn't fit the agenda of the site admins can get you (automatically) warned and ultimately banned from the site. Many cases of such censorship are document in the so-called r/SubredditCancer and r/WatchRedditDie sub: https://www.reddit.com/r/watchredditdie. It's a wonder they have escaped the ban-hammer so far, though I don't expect that to last. The admins have been clearly shown to strongly bias Left (due to their left-wing only donations to politicians), and effectively banned the biggest right-wing forum on the site (The_Donald, who was also infamously guilty of censoring leftists within their sub, but at least they were never claiming to be neutral), and have also censored posts and comments that are 'anti-China' (which started when 10-cent bought/invested in part of Reddit), even if the criticism is directed at the government and not the people. Looks like they want to become Digg 2.0.

it's not anti-right wing. It's anti-rabid frothing racism. The fact that most of that is right wing just means right wing has a rabid frothing racism problem.

Comment Re:Freedom of Speech and the Right to Vote (Score 1) 682

So this is when Trump goes after our freedom of speech and our right to vote...

Fighting censorship is going after freedom of speech? You do realize Orwell's 1984 was not a manual? War is NOT peace.

not being able to tweet isn't censorship. anymore than newspapers refusing to report stories on you. And last I checked he's still tweeting.

Comment Antibodies don't mean anything (Score 3, Interesting) 389

Just 7.3% of Stockholm’s inhabitants had developed Covid-19 antibodies by the end of April, according to a study, raising concerns that the country’s light-touch approach to the coronavirus may not be helping it build up broad immunity.

We know scientifically a lot about influenza, how it spreads, how it infects and how to deal with it. We know that if you can get influenza antibodies you're effectively immune form infection for a period of time.Very pointedly we don't know the same thing about COVID19. While it's not unreasonable to assume that antibodies might prevent reinfection the science isn't in yet and thus we shouldn't be going against science for an unproven hypothesis.

Comment Re:herd immunity may not be possible (Score 4, Interesting) 389

Experiment over, natural immunity is not practical.

That isn't clear. A vaccine may be more than a year away. It implausible that any country can maintain a lockdown that long. When they open, Covid will likely resurge.

Sweden chose to pay up-front with a higher first-wave death count, and avoid some of the economic cost of locking down. Other countries will pay later with a higher second-wave death count, and pay a higher economic price.

The point isn't to remain in lockdown until the vaccine is out there. We were always going to open up and people were going to get infected. The point is to not overwhelm the hospitals and hospital supply. By locking down we in theory reduce the number of people who need to go to a hospital to a trickle that trickle is still overwhelming our ability to treat them. We need to be on lockdown for longer until our capacity is once again above our need then we can start opening up slowly because when we do it's going to increase our need again.

Comment Re:Joe Rogan? (Score -1, Flamebait) 146

He was pretty good as part of the NewsRadio ensemble. Does he make his own duct tape in real life, though?

If you've only known Rogan for NewsRadio where he was indeed excellent. I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that he's an MMA groupie drug double bro now who gets money by allowing literally anyone with a pulse on to his show where they can say whatever they want without any common sense push back. The good news is he's also great in FearFactor so you can watch that.

Comment how exclusive can an rss+mp3 be? (Score 1) 146

a podcast is just an mp3 + and rss feed. How exclusive can that be? I find it weird that people don't download their podcasts. I mean that's the whole point. if you're streaming it you only have limited control. Why do that when there are 1000 great podcast apps that will manage the files for you and will thus work everywhere and anywhere.

Comment Re:This isn't new for Disney (Score 1) 194

Is pretending these prejudices didn't exist healthy?

No. I was watching Quantum Leap recently on an OTA channel named Comet. They bleep out bad words and blur swimsuits and shirt-nipples. But the episode I was watching was the "Driving Miss Daisy" episode. And they were bleeping every other word in this conversation, and I was aghast, as I didn't remember that much use of the N word in that episode. Then the Old lady said "What's wrong with being called nBLEEP?" and Sam responded "Maybe it's just too close to nBLEEP." Then I realized they were bleeping "negro". Are they going to start bleeping "black" as a skin color descriptive term after a few years? Negro is not a word that was used as a pejorative when it was in common parlance. That's what the other N-word was used for. The bleeping bleepers at Comet ruined the crucial turning conversation of the episode by removing all meaning.

I had a similar realization one time. I was listening to Paul Wall on YouTube and I put on a PW video and for those who aren't in hip hop circles much less the niche genres in which you find Paul Wall he's a rapper who doesn't curse. I've been listening to him for ages so I was very familiar with his music I was surprised to hear that his music videos were muting words on his track and there are very few times I would have said that be necessary and some to realize they mute even casual slang words like "Green leaves" and "herb"

Comment Re:Sure, I'd rather see her bum (Score 1) 194

Canada's Government-Owned CBC Deletes Trump Scene From Home Alone 2 Broadcast

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...

There was NOTHING political, just a Trump cameo prior to becoming a politician. I honestly don't know if it would be MORE or LESS expected for them to alter Trump today.

A poor example because they trimmed it from a broadcast not a reprint, it was not the only scene and it was trimmed for time reasons not political reasons. If you buy Home Alone 2 on BluRay trump will still be in it.

Comment Re:Google out of resources ... (Score 0) 59

Oh I'm sorry, let me be more clear: Only a complete moron would design a system for a 700% workload increase as a result of an unforeseen global economic condition that business as we know it ceased operating.

Exactly. I have a LOT of issues with Nest but this isn't them being stupid not by a long shot. A lot of things aren't prepared for everyone to be online at once.

Comment Re:Why not buy a webcam? (Score 1) 41

It works with more software and does the same thing.

To be fair to the idiot consumer. The Portal would be more convenient. a guaranteed base level webcam and an easy "does one thing" interface.

I still think it's a bad idea personally but I see the appeal if you.... for whatever use facebook to talk to people. I have a hard enough time convincing my younger friends that maybe they shouldn't do all their group projects over Facetime of all things.

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