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- Comment on Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss to launch ‘free speech’ social media platform 5 days ago:
“Lettuce Speak Freely”
- Comment on Did you know you can track elons jet from mastodon? 6 days ago:
I just follow exposés by his baby momma’s, it’s not as up-to-date but it’s good enough for me
- Comment on This is real 6 days ago:
You should see the other stuff they post now: xcancel.com/WhiteHouse/
- Comment on This is real 6 days ago:
Go see for yourself, op posted a link to the tweet: xcancel.com/WhiteHouse/…/1913241658579440126
- Comment on This is real 6 days ago:
On one hand you’re 100% right, but you cannot choose how others see you
- Comment on This is real 6 days ago:
Actually, dystopia is basically a ‘bad’ (dys-) ‘place’ (-topia). So the common view of what a dystopia looks like is not the only way it can look. Being ruled by dumb toddlers that break everything in their way is a very different dystopia than one with evil megacorps but it is still quite dystopian to me.
- Comment on This is real 6 days ago:
I’m afraid they might burn more than bridges if they are opposed by an actual effective check.
- Comment on This is real 6 days ago:
- Comment on Tesla speeds up odometers to avoid warranty repairs, U.S. lawsuit claims: Reuters 6 days ago:
I hope so, but if their intent is to commit fraud what is and isn’t legal might not prevent them from ending up with manipulated results
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
Yes, but in comparison to a federation only the information will survive because it was copied out of the central system, but the system will fail as soon as the company folds. I mean the reason the fact that you need a 3rd party mirror to save the data proves the flaws of the 1st party. This instance for example doesn’t need to be mirrored because it is built on a foundation that already has redundancy built in.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
I know that old tale, bunch of religious people voting for the religious nutcase but when you say ‘the turks’ you imply it’s at least the majority of people but that’s not the case here. Don’t put the blame on the people, if they haven’t been given the chance to vote for their leader in fair and free elections.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
Right, but if they feel they have enough pressure to someone in turkey banned, they probably would likely also use that pressure to ban someone outside of turkey I suppose.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
Yes totally true, if you want to be safe from all governments. But there are plenty countries you can safely host an instance without fearing censorship. On the one hand you have options in wealthy countries that want to defend their values, and on the other hand you have options in poor countries which do not have the resources to locate the actual server.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
should’ve put an /s there maybe, don’t want to curb your enthusiasm of writing 2 sentences to promote a platform some people may not have checked out in some time, if at all. Do your thing lol
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
Considering you say that I don’t think you’re up to date as to how voting ‘works’ in Turkey nowadays.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t say they ignore it, more they’re too naive or misinformed to understand it’s a problem.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
Which one? TurkmeniGovernmentNet or TurkmeniOppositionNet?
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
I believe those laws target the author, so their main goal wouldn’t be to take the content down but figure out who wrote it. I think when it comes to ‘real’ censorship you still want both to happen but it would be much more importent to get the content deleted.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
Which is not part of Bluesky, only proving the point having a central system controlling the data makes the data vulnerable.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
Decentralization isn’t done to hide the author, federating content works because the content is spread beyond a central owner. I don’t know if you ever used a peer-2-peer network like you do when you torrent a movie, but the concept is very similar. It is harder to censor something because you have more places you need to censor.
Imagine you are in a country where a lot of information is censored and you want to spread a message. Would you pick 1 giant billboard in the city center or would you make a bunch of leaflets you secretly hand out to someone you trust, hoping they will give the information along to someone they trust etc? Obviously, one giant billboard is easier to take down by the censoring government. That is why decentralisation does in fact work against censorship.
Anonymity or ‘layers of privacy’ are useful if you don’t want to be caught as the author of the message. In that case it is not about running the instance over Tor, but accessing the instance over Tor. You wouldn’t even need to use tor if you can trust your computer isn’t infected and you acces the instance through a VPN and remove all new data (e.g. cookies) from your pc before you disconnect your vpn.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
But Turkey blocking acces to certain content is not the same as removing the content (which is what Bluesky does when they honour a request).
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
But now they are not targeting the person posting it, they are targeting the platform it is posted to. If we let them they can censor
the whole internetBluesky. - Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
Can Turkey ask for any account/post to be banned regardless of where a post was written? For example, if I were to register than and called Erdogan a dictator who suppresses the Turks by breaking down the media and justice system and is taking political prisoners; could he then ask BlueSky to get my account removed because i’m breaking a law in Turkey even though I am not in Turkey? That sounds totally crazy. Like from now on you can make laws on your citizens, your lands and all of the internet? What the fu.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
No offense but I think your effort is wasted on the people (already) here.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
On the one hand it is crazy, on the other hand I suppose you don’t even need that many ‘policemen’ on the interwebs to clean it up compared to the amount of (secret) policemen you need to keep the physical country ‘clean’.
- Comment on Spoon knows what spoon must do 1 week ago:
I always thought it was the water freaking out, but this clarifies things.
- Comment on China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense 1 week ago:
Cool, I’m happy for you
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 1 week ago:
Imagine companies explicitly mentioning the year it was fda approved and people talking about it like they do about a vintage
- Comment on China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense 1 week ago:
So i guess you agree China should have diplomatic power over such crucial materials.
- Comment on can't beat the classics 1 week ago:
Not true in all cases, yes if you want to read a novel you will enjoy reading it way more than reading a computer generated summary. But if you want to source information it’s a whole other story. Also, you still need to use your brain to understand summaries