charonn0
@charonn0@startrek.website
- Comment on House Responds to Israeli-Iranian Missile Exchange by Taking Rights Away from Americans 1 week ago:
What a hyperbolic, heavy-handed headline.
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 1 week ago:
Not exactly the same problem. In the same way that gun control doesn’t address the problem of hostile foreign militaries. Yes, both involve guns, but the laws and policies that address one are inapplicable and inappropriate to the other.
The law in question addresses the problem of foreign adversaries having easy access to manipulate US public opinion. The law you suggest addresses the problem of advertisers having that access. Both are serious concerns, both need to be addressed, but they are not the same problem and the solutions are markedly different.
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 1 week ago:
require every company operating within the US to show users exactly what data is collected and allow them to delete any or all of it as desired
That would be a very different kind of law from the one we’re talking about, and it would almost certainly be unconstitutional.
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 1 week ago:
That’s a separate issue that could not be addressed with this kind of law anyway.
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 2 weeks ago:
Can you explain why you feel that would even be necessary?
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 2 weeks ago:
I’ve actually read the law, so no one has to tell me that it really, actually is about privacy. I know that it is.
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 2 weeks ago:
Chew responded to the latest moves in a video posted by the official TikTok account. “Make no mistake, this is a ban,” Chew said in the video. “A ban on TikTok and a ban on you and your voice.”
Narrator: it wasn’t.
- Comment on Author granted copyright over book with AI-generated text—with a twist 3 weeks ago:
Although Shupe’s limited copyright registration is notable, she originally asked the USCO to open a more significant path to copyright recognition for AI-generated material. “I seek to copyright the AI-assisted and AI-generated material under an ADA exemption for my many disabilities,” she wrote in her original copyright application.
Shupe believes fervently that she was only able to complete her book with the assistance of generative AI tools. She says she has been assessed as 100 percent disabled by the Department of Veterans Affairs and struggles to write due to cognitive impairment related to conditions including bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, and a brain stem malformation.
I’m sympathetic, but writing a book is not something most people do regardless of their disabilities. Writing is a talent, and most people don’t have it. So it makes no sense to invoke the ADA here.
- Comment on Off-campus UC Berkeley student housing bans white people from common areas 3 weeks ago:
Blatant violations of the federal Fair Housing Act and California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act.
Lawyer up and take the landlord for everything they’ve got.
- Comment on They're openly allowing illegal immigrants to vote in federal elections now in Arizona. 3 weeks ago:
I think you got it backwards.
- Comment on Biden bragged on twiiter about violating our inalienable rights, bypassing congress with executive orders 5 weeks ago:
What, specifically, do these order do?
- Comment on "Dangerous precedent that threatens human rights": Julian Assange campaign advisor says Australia "must work aggressively to ensure his release" 1 month ago:
Greg Barns claims that the case should be stopped because it represents an unprecedented attempt by the US to prosecute an individual who is not one of its citizens, and who was not in the US when the WikiLeaks material was published. This is called extraterritorial reach and generally the law frowns on it.
The US and the UK have an extradition treaty that permits this. The UK can withdraw from the treaty, but unless they do this line of argument is willfully dishonest.
- Comment on Jon Stewart found to have overvalued his NYC home by 829% after slamming Trump’s civil case as ‘not victimless’ 1 month ago:
He sold a property for more than its estimated market value.
Nice try.
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 month ago:
What an original and insightful thought. Thanks for sharing your best with us.
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 month ago:
How should I know? Or you, for that matter?
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 month ago:
Clearly he knew her name, though. He just didn’t know the woman he was speaking to was the woman whose work he was recommending.
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 month ago:
What I meant is that it’s derogatory to use the term “mansplain”. Sorry for confusing you.
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 month ago:
“Only white men do X” is absolutely racist and sexist. “Mansplain” is derogatory.
Either it’s OK to do that, or it’s not. The race and gender of your target doesn’t make a difference.
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 month ago:
Are Black trans women known for this kind of behaviour?
The question suggests that Black trans women are all alike. It’s exactly that kind of generalization that’s being criticized.
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 month ago:
When a given demographic is a dominant presence in a given area (not necessarily work, it can be anything), there is a tendency for they demographic to start making assumptions about other demographics.
Isn’t she the one making assumptions, though? Specifically, the “prejudice and stupidity of the person indirectly insulting her” part? I mean, is that really the only possible explanation?
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 month ago:
What privilege applies here?
- Comment on It Appears Users Are Getting Bored With TikTok 1 month ago:
Musk’s companies are already based in the US. The issues you raise, however valid, are not really relevant to a discussion of this bill.
- Comment on Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business 1 month ago:
I think there’s definitely a case to be made that recommendation algorithms, etc. constitute editorial control and thus the platform may not be immune to lawsuits based on user posts.
- Comment on It Appears Users Are Getting Bored With TikTok 1 month ago:
We’ve been covering many stories about a potential TikTok ban, including how unconstitutional it clearly is, how pointless it clearly is, and how even those who back it don’t seem to have a good explanation of why, beyond some vague handwaving about “China.”
The bill isn’t nearly as bad as they want you to think. It bans companies in Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran from operating social media apps in US markets, forcing them to sell if they already do. These four countries are already restricted from accessing sensitive parts of the US economy, with forced sale being a legal option. Really, the only novel part of the bill is applying these kinds of restrictions to software.
And the bill doesn’t actually punish or restrain users’ speech. It does restrain the social media company’s speech, but that may not be enough to overturn the bill on 1st amendment grounds. If you understand that social media exists to collect vast amounts of user data then you must also understand how the government has a legitimate interest in keeping that data out of an adversary’s hands. The only real question is whether the government has a compelling interest, because that’s the standard that a court would apply to this bill. And I daresay it might.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
What is a “Chairman of NATO”?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Perhaps. But that’s several leaps of faith away from anything we can know.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
According to the best current understanding of physics, atoms didn’t come into existence until several hundred thousand years after the Big Bang. That would seem to rule out an atom-based creator.
- Comment on Vulnerable man pleads with UK government to block extradition to U.S. 1 month ago:
I thought it was suspicious that the article doesn’t mention anything about what he’s been charged with. So I looked him up. Seems he made a lot of money from running a major hacking forum that traded in stolen credentials, credit card fraud, and other online crime. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RaidForums
- Comment on Best sidequests in the Fallout games? 1 month ago:
In New Vegas, completing Arcade Gannon’s companion sidequest gives you a suit of Enclave advanced power armor, and a squad of Enclave troops with a vertibird will back you up at Hoover Dam. It’s virtually impossible to trigger this quest by accident.
- Comment on A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco 2 months ago:
I wouldn’t hang my hat on that statistic until after autonomous cars make up a significant portion of cars on the road.