taipan
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- Comment on Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ 1 day ago:
They’re referencing what the second protester (Vaniya Agrawl) mentioned in her email:
Know that Microsoft’s human rights statement prohibits retaliation against anyone who raises a human rights-related concern: Human rights statement | Microsoft CSR
The Microsoft Global Human Rights Statement has a “Foundational principles” section that says:
Our commitment to human rights defenders: Our commitment to respecting and advancing human rights includes respect and support for the work of human rights defenders around the world. Human rights defenders are people who, individually or with others, engage in activities and advocacy that contribute to the protection of human rights and the rule of law, good governance, tolerance, and diversity and inclusion. Human rights defenders face persistent physical, social, economic, and psychological threats. Microsoft does not tolerate threats, intimidation, retaliation, physical, legal or cyber-attacks against human rights defenders. This commitment extends to all human rights defenders, including those working on issues related to Microsoft and those exercising their rights of freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly, including to challenge or protest aspects of our own business.
Microsoft is clearly declining to fulfill its commitment as it is written in its statement.
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 1 week ago:
Exactly. Some of these vigilantes are using this act as a cover to conduct violence against LGBT people.
- Comment on How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To 2 weeks ago:
The difference between Wikipedia and Facebook is that Wikipedia content is under a Creative Commons license which allows the entire encyclopedia to be forked. The entire Wikipedia database is continuously mirrored to servers in countries outside of the US, so Wikipedia can be resurrected in any other country if the situation you describe happens. In contrast, any Facebook content would be lost due to adverse government action.
Asking people to stop using Wikipedia is like asking people to stop using Linux because the Linux Kernel Organization is based in the US (California). There’s no comparable alternative to either project, and the projects can be forked to different countries by their contributors without any action from the projects’ managing organizations. If you boycott Wikipedia, you also play into the hands of Elon Musk and other agitators who are attacking Wikipedia in an effort to redirect the public to right-wing US media sources.
Finally, part of my point was that Britannica is not an improvement over Wikipedia, because Britannica is also US-based. This is the reason I mentioned that Wikipedia editors are mostly from outside the US.
- Comment on How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To 2 weeks ago:
Britannica is headquartered in the US (Chicago) and most Wikipedia editors are not from the US, so I wouldn’t count out Wikipedia so quickly.
- Comment on My Fellow Republicans, It’s Time to Say Enough With Trump 5 months ago:
Actually, a recent Pew Research Center report shows that 24% of Republicans (and Republican leaners) use the NYT for political news. That percentage goes up to 45% for Republicans aged 18-29.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 5 months ago:
When you link a Wikipedia article, you can expect others to read it and call you out on it when it doesn’t say what you claim it says. Wikipedia is very consistent with labelling fascism as far-right.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 5 months ago:
Your quote describes the Third Position, not fascism in general. It does not say that fascism in general is neither left nor right. No need to get mad because you misread a Wikipedia article.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 5 months ago:
No, the article you linked says “The Third Position is a set of neo-fascist political ideologies”. It does not say that fascism in general is neither left or right.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 5 months ago:
Since you linked to another Wikipedia article, you should know that Wikipedia defines fascism as far-right:
Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.