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- Comment on AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism 2 days ago:
What is burnt toast, if not fascist propaganda?
- Comment on 25 arrested in global hit against AI-generated child sexual abuse material 3 days ago:
There have been controversies about that sort of thing.
I know the Oscar-winning movie The Tin Drum as an example. The book by Günter Grass is a very serious, highly celebrated piece of German post-war literature. It takes place around WW2. The protagonist has the mind of an adult in the body of a child. I guess the idea is that he is the other way around from most people?
The movie was banned in Ontario and Oklahoma, for a time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tin_Drum_(film)#Censors…
With European societies shifting right, I doubt such a movie could be made today, but we aren’t at a point where it would be outright illegal.
- Comment on 25 arrested in global hit against AI-generated child sexual abuse material 4 days ago:
It’s not a gray area at all. There’s an EU directive on the matter. If an image appears to depict someone under the age of 18 then it’s child porn. It doesn’t matter if any minor was exploited. That’s simply not what these laws are about.
Bear in mind, there are many countries where consenting adults are prosecuted for having sex the wrong way. It’s not so long ago that this was also the case in Europe, and a lot of people explicitly want that back. On the other hand, beating children has a lot of fans in the same demographic. Some people want to actually protect children, but a whole lot of people simply want to prosecute sexual minorities, and the difference shows.
17 year-olds who exchange nude selfies engage in child porn. I know there have been convictions in the US; not sure about Europe. I know that teachers have been prosecuted when minors sought help when their selfies were being passed around in school, because they sent the images in question to the teacher, and that’s possession. In Germany, the majority of suspects in child porn cases are minors. Valuable life lesson for them.
Anyway, what I’m saying is: We need harsher laws and more surveillance to deal with this epidemic of child porn. Only a creep would defend child porn and I am not a creep.
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- Comment on Henry Symeonis 1 week ago:
A while back I looked for a source for this. Apparently it never happened.
- Comment on Frogge 2 weeks ago:
But it isn’t Wednesday yet?
- Comment on Laws only matter if you're not rich. 3 weeks ago:
Oh please. A tech-bro is just a male nerd who the cool kids don’t like.
Here’s a blast from the past: Image
See anyone you recognize?
Next you’ll tell me that people like Shawn Presser or Christoph Schuhmann aren’t tech-bros.
- Comment on Laws only matter if you're not rich. 3 weeks ago:
Why not? Because he’s dead and can’t protest against the distortion of his views?
- Comment on Laws only matter if you're not rich. 3 weeks ago:
He’s a dead “tech bro”, so that makes him a good “tech bro”?
Perverting his memory to fight against everything he stood for is the most disgusting move yet, in the fight against fair use.
- Comment on 'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' * TorrentFreak 3 weeks ago:
When you’re shilling for copyright, at least pick a lane. Are they bad for “pirating” or bad for not supporting “piracy”?
I guess it doesn’t matter as long as the owners collect their rent.
- Comment on 'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' * TorrentFreak 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure I’m following you either, it appears to me that you don’t see a difference between tax and theft.
That’s an odd thing to write. Why do you believe that?
When Meta takes from everyone it’s a bully that takes from the weak who can’t fight back. Meta does it so that they become the biggest fish in the pond as an end goal.
When a state takes from everyone and rich in particular it’s because we don’t to have this kind of big fish in the pond. We just want to chill.
Ok, I think I get this now. You believe in far-reaching intellectual property, and that property is inviolable, except to limit inequality. So, you reject US-style Fair Use which has a public benefit in mind. Instead, copying only doesn’t require permission if the rights-owner is wealthier than oneself. So, most people could freely copy Taylor Swift songs but perhaps not songs by some street musician. Does that cover it?
- Comment on 'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' * TorrentFreak 3 weeks ago:
I’m trying to follow you. It would be ok if a soviet government did it, but if a private company does it, then it’s stealing. Because a soviet government is strong? Has control of the military and all that, unlike some start-up or even an established company?
- Comment on 'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' * TorrentFreak 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what you are trying to say here. Do you think that soviet states would have negotiated with owners of private property before using it for public benefit?
- Comment on 'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' * TorrentFreak 3 weeks ago:
Still sounds like Ayn Rand and not socialism.
- Comment on 'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' * TorrentFreak 3 weeks ago:
I assume you probably want to know how this kind of leftism is different from others or other ideologies calling themself leftist, rather than for me to write an essay on myself.
What confuses me is that you argue that property owners should be able to demand payment for the use of their property without any further consideration. That is a very conservative capitalist stance. It’s not compatible with any flavor of socialism that I am aware of. In fact, most pro-capitalists would reject it as too far right. The only ideologue, I can think of, that holds this stance even for copyrights is Ayn Rand. Your ideas seem compatible with hers. I don’t understand why you would think of that as socialist or even left.
- Comment on 'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' * TorrentFreak 3 weeks ago:
When you call yourself a socialist, what do you mean by that term?
- Comment on 'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' * TorrentFreak 3 weeks ago:
No. Seriously, why do you want to call yourself a socialist?
- Comment on 'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' * TorrentFreak 3 weeks ago:
Calling property labor, doesn’t make you a socialist.
- Comment on Assassination is a Leaky Abstraction 2 months ago:
Elvis Presley is able to answer that one, and he’s been dead for almost 50 years. Makes you understand why his fame is so lasting, unlike the teen heartthrobs of later decades.
- Comment on Just a little guy 3 months ago:
It’s not the inflexibility of your connecting body parts that kills you. It’s the insufficient tensile strength of the connecting tissue!
- Comment on Just a little guy 3 months ago:
It’s not the different times at which parts of you stop that kills you. It’s the different places they are in when they do.
(C’mon, y’all. Help me out. I’m trying to start a thing here!)
- Comment on Just a little guy 3 months ago:
It’s not the sudden stop at the end that kills you. It’s the different times at which parts of you stop.
- Comment on Haha SO TRUE! 3 months ago:
jabde.com/…/haha-so-true-reply-in-text-theory/
Alternatively, here’s a somewhat similar one: www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0378216616302594
- Comment on Just a little guy 3 months ago:
Ohh. Effing is a place!
I always thought… Never mind.
- Comment on Petrichor 3 months ago:
Hmm. Seems strangely on point that Ichor is the blood of the (greek) gods. (Petro- means stone, as in Petro-Oleum.)
Fee-fi-fo-fod
I smell the blood of a god
- Comment on It ain't much, but it's a livin' 3 months ago:
So they just… f*ck off and die.
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- Comment on Half as Hot 4 months ago:
Obviously we’d all die but I wonder how exactly. This would make a good question for Randall Munroe.
- Comment on Grindr be like 4 months ago:
What are you doing, step stool?
