For one, it's called age discrimination. Like any other categorical discrimination based on traits, age is actually still one of them even though some people think that only the stage of cognitive decline, not cognitive development, deserves any sort of discrimination protection or rights.

What's detrimental to your value system might not be to someone else. In other words, focus on your own damn family.

Instagram should define "politics" is. Politics, in its broadest sense, encompasses the distribution of power and resources within a society, the relationships among individuals and groups, and the processes by which decisions are made in public and private spheres. From this perspective, many aspects of life can be seen as political because they involve power dynamics, social negotiations, and collective decision-making. How does that translate into an algorithm? Certain areas, such as science, education, art, and religion, are often subjects of debate regarding their political nature. Is that verboten, too?

There should be complete transparency in the algorithm that defines what politics is, among other algorithms that influence millions of users.

The antidote to disinformation is counter-information. The messy debates of determining truth are NOT through censoring one side because the information is deemed wrong, or a view ALSO shared by a foreign adversary, or inconvenient for the state, etc...

Bad ideas are countered by good ideas. The white house has a very large megaphone where they can bypass social media entirely.

Nothing justifies what they are doing. It's the most grave assault on the first amendment we've seen in the digital era, and even more frightening is the complete 180 liberals took on free speech in just 1 decade. To me, that propaganda which has turned people into such authoritarians and abandon civil liberties is beyond frightening and the control social media has over the populace. It's only amplified by censoring information the powers don't like.

Ironically, claiming that yelling fire in a crowded theater is illegal, is in fact dangerous misinformation that undermines our national security and integrity.

Must feel nice to have you idiotic comment stand and not automatically removed.

This entire generation is lost on the House Un-American Activities Committee under Truman and the era of McCarthyism. This is no different except the medium has changed, and they can't tell human from machine, foreign or domestic. So, all content is now potentially unamerican if it's declared, without any proof, russian, chinese or some other adversarial information. Can you imagine what will happen if we don't unilaterally address the danger that the first amendment and free speech poses? Dangerous russian and chinese thought might show up elsewhere, too! That russian/chinese influence might just pop out of the app store into bookshelves at your local library or bookstore, or somehow make it into newspapers! Better get burning those, too!

Anything can be attributed to be foreign content and banned on those grounds. Hunter Biden's laptop story, authenticated now by the FBI to be true, was declared at the time to be russian disinformation/malinformation and thus censored from the voter being aware of a corruption scandal involving the then-VP Biden. THAT in and of itself is election manipulation.

I wonder how quickly e-mail will be considered too dangerous. Does the content contain some sort of information? Maybe delivering and quarantining the message that helpless American exposed will be justified. Why not? It's already been done on social media, let's go straight for the protocols that enable it to still spread.

It's a little ironic that the OG system Slashdot is now polluted by users who have been trained on derivatives (Digg, Reddit) and fester in a culture that they know that points means visbility. Reddit's entire culture is trained on collective voting means visibility, and enough downvotes mean suppression. Forget the role of a moderator, it's about having the power stick for 15 whole points to express it. It's still better than Reddit, I'd be quarantined/shadowbanned for making a quip like that.

As we've all expected, algorithms covertly and now overtly are being shaped to form our opinions and limit access to information.
Information must be free. Any suggestion of misinformation is only an advocacy of censorship.

As if google's search results/algorithms are more representative of the truth than an LLM prompted to spit out search summaries under it's own secret proprietary criteria...

And people are still upset about a little J6 rally, and now they don't even have to hide what they did leading up to 2020, they're getting the public to accept and defend taking away their right to freedom of speech and categorical bans of whatever the government or their "fact checkers" to be disinformation/misinformation, or... my favorite, malinformation - information that's true but inconvenient.

Privacy rights are useless with a government that does not respect the right to speech and to transact.

Right, but for those one-off scenarios, it will give you some time to recover to hopefully at least capture a crime where the jamming is temporary.

There's beauty in having local SD cards in these puppies, if nothing else, they should have options to buffer there while offline. Would be nice if there was some standard to re-stream or push missed video back to a DVR while connectivity was blocked. To my knowledge there isn't one but I could be wrong.

Did you read the Apple Vision Pro terms of service?

Over 2.4% of our energy goes to video games: https://link.springer.com/arti...

You won't see propaganda attacking video games' energy consumption, not when video games can greatly influence content narratives and stories to train a whole generation to think and vote a certain way.

People who are obsessed with how computers are used only bellow cryptocurrency mining are typically censors and authoritarians.

This is mostly going to apply to psychological operations (propaganda) and info/cyber operations, which comprise a lot more of our military than conventional weapons/tanks do now.

We are so fucked.

I'm sorry, but fuck China's feelings about anger and humiliation over a weather balloon. The Wuhan Lab is the elephant in the room, and they haven't faced any consequences for it. Why? Well, because our government would be angry and humiliated too, because they were also involved. Angry and humiliated governments conquer, eliminate or imprison those who make them feel that way.