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Comment Re:Getting caught with one can mean death (Score 1) 135

Nowhere in my comment did I mention America or Trump or any "conservative" view. It's a quote from the UN regarding the Iranian theocracy arresting, torturing, and murdering their own people for the crime of talking about what's happening there.

Iran was murdering their own people by the tens of thousands long before this conflict with America started. Perhaps your focus should be on the atrocities being committed there rather than trying to blame them on the US?

Comment Getting caught with one can mean death (Score 1, Informative) 135

> The UNâ(TM)s top human rights official warned on Wednesday that Iraniansâ(TM) rights are being eroded in âoeharsh and brutal ways,â citing a surge in executions, mass arrests and alleged abuses amid a widening crackdown on dissent

https://news.un.org/en/story/2...

Iran is not the innocent place the media portrays it as.

Comment It's the NDA's that bother me (Score 5, Insightful) 120

"Gerger was also frustrated by the proliferation of non-disclosure agreements between big tech companies and local officials"

There should never be a situation where local officials can hide their negotiations behind NDA's. They are PUBLIC officials and the public has the right to know what decisions they are making on behalf of the community (as opposed to the officials enriching themselves or pocketing huge campaign donations).

Comment Re: And who monitors this for abuse? (Score 2) 43

The solution isn't to censor, it's to clearly label it.

Community notes on X are a good example of how to expose deceitful content without the need for outright censorship, a similar solution would be appropriate here.

If you allow politicians and government officials to decide what the public can or cannot see you can 100% guarantee that system will be abused.

And I would wager these same officials would hire, at taxpayer expense, teams to make sure any negative content would be removed. The public would be paying to have their own voices silenced.

Comment And who monitors this for abuse? (Score 5, Insightful) 43

Just being AI based doesn't mean it's intention is to deceive. In most cases it's parody or protected free speech.

I have no issue with slapping a big "AI Deepfake" label on identified deepfake content, but when you start talking about giving politicians and government officials the ability to prevent you from even being heard, that's not ok.

Comment They can point to AI - but not for productivity (Score 1) 28

AI has another function beyond "increasing employee productivity". It can also find the employees who are under performing or not needed by the company.

So really there are three compounding reasons:

1) AI making some workers more productive

2) AI identifying workers who poor performers or not needed

3) AI recommending restructuring to cut costs

Completely legit to point to AI for these job cuts for any and all the above reasons.

Comment Warming or commercial fishing? (Score 2) 30

China has been massively trawling the oceans across the globe for years now to feed a billion fish hungry mouths. China consumes fish like the US consumes beef.

I have to believe the "staggering loses" are due in no small part to the massive commercial over fishing from China and other nations.

Comment Censorship by any other name (Score 1) 14

"Think about the children" has been a rallying cry for draconian laws, censorship, and erosion of privacy for decades. And that's because it works - it's a legitimate desire to keep kids away from the trash the internet has become.

But the target is wrong - the target needs to be holding the PARENTS responsible for their children's upbringing. Any parent that allowed their child to wander down Skid Row would be arrested for child endangerment - the same should apply to parents who don't restrict their children's access to adult sections of the internet.

Give parents the tools and the education to keep their kids "off the streets" and you'll have a much better result than trying to child proof the net.

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