Sure. For the fact that many jurisdictions outside of the US also consider freedom of speech and other human rights to apply between private parties: this is called “horizontal effect” and covered extensively in case law by e.g. the European Court of Human Rights. See also this chapter for an international comparison and this paper for a European perspective.

As for the specific rules in the EU for platforms: Article 17 of the Digital Services Act requires that users who are banned or shadowbanned from any platform are provided with specific information of what rule they broke, which they can then appeal internally or in court. Article 34 and 35 requires very large platforms (such as X) to take broad measures to protect i.a. the users’ freedom of speech.

More to the point, one person who was shadowbanned by X in a similar way used the DSA and won in court

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*in the US.

The EU recognizes that human right such as freedom of speech also should be protected against private parties. Platforms can’t ban or restrict you for arbitrary reasons here.

I’m of the opinion that having a lot of money shouldn’t, in fact, allow you to do what you want. No person should have this power to do mass censorship, not in the last place because manipulating online discourse means manipulating a fundamental aspect of democracy.

Musk specifically is meddling in elections, both in the EU and the US by e.g. bribing voters. Turning the dials of the algorithm lets him do this even more effectively.

But the whole point of the doomsday machine is lost… if you keep it a secret! Why didn’t you tell the world, eh?

I am aware. And usually that means crossposting the jokes or making fun of 4channers, not uncritically repeating their dogwhistles.

Just so you’re aware, the phrase “noticing things” or “being a noticer” is 4chan lingo for believing there is a Jewish conspiracy to run the world. That’s why I asked OP to clarify.

Hey OP, do you actually think Christians in the US are marginalized, or did you just cross-post that alt-right garbage here by accident?

Your comment perfectly represents the moral bankruptcy of the Democratic party. The obsession with elections and compromising, even when the midterms are almost two years away.

A proper opposition party would hammer the substance and put the institutional failures on full display. If you don’t have principles, there’s no point to winning power anyway.

NASA still foots the bill either way. In this arrangement, the cost of development is simply included in the price of the product plus a fixed profit margin. Such ‘cost-plus’ contracts are criticized because it eliminates competing for efficiency and incentivises contractors to make their solutions as complicated and expensive as possible.

And yet their infrastructure is hosted on AWS

if we take it as true that light speed is the same in every direction

This is the crucial assumption, that to my knowledge hasn’t been proven or disproven. Because the alternative, light goes faster in one particular direction, is also perfectly consistent with everything. And if you’re moving atomic clocks, correcting for time dilations requires you to make assumptions about the one-way speed of light (which we only know from measuring roundtrip times)

That’s just shifting the problem. There is no known way to reliably sync remote clocks except by sending packets and assuming the round-trip time is symmetrical. This is a known problem in physics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_speed_of_light

That would be a great follow-up joke.

Now if she chooses the dirty pickup line, you respond with “girl, are you a viking steel crucible? 'Cause I’d put a bone in you.”

What will the cops do, shoot them all?

His security detail might. Shooting civilians is their specialty.

You don’t get to declare that your body shaming is “conventionally funny” and everyone else is wrong. That is incredibly self-righteous.

Why do you think people get so insecure about their bodies? It’s precisely because of “jokes” like this that keep emphasizing certain body standards.

May you live in interesting times. What I wouldn’t give for a calmly moving trolley.

So what is the reason for doing it that way?

It’s the exact same argument as with cops, I don’t see how you can come to a different conclusion. Individually they might be courteous, but they choose to be part of a fundamentally unethical system and their very existence is an injustice.

The phone number link means forward security isn’t possible. If ever the encryption is hacked, all your messages could be forfeit by anyone who’s simply kept the encrypted data.

Can you elaborate on that? Obviously the phone number has privacy implications, but I don’t think it can be used to decrypt messages. In the signal protocol, encryption keys are exchanged using ECDH (so wiretapping doesn’t work) and periodically rotated (so even knowing the encryption keys at a certain point doesn’t let you decrypt messages after that).

Something my opponents always smugly point to right when I’ve found a mate in 15