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adamsea commented on Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support   bbc.co.uk/news/technology... · Posted by u/brobdingnagians
adamsea · 5 years ago
I love all the people who just want to ignore the attempted kidnapping / murder of the Vice President and Speaker of the house.
adamsea commented on Parler drops offline after Amazon pulls support   bbc.co.uk/news/technology... · Posted by u/brobdingnagians
jlkuester7 · 5 years ago
> not everything is a slippery slope

From a risk management perspective, this does not seem like a safe assumption to make. The DailyStormer got "canceled" by vendors for not even trying to moderate content that actively promoted violence (among other horrible things). Now Parlor gets "canceled" by vendors for not doing a good enough job trying to moderate content promoting violence. The bar for getting "canceled" is already moving down and honestly any company that is hosting user-driven content needs to have a plan for how to make sure they stay below that bar. Part of that plan should be projected scenarios about how low the bar will go....

Part of what is really dicey here too is that the result of getting this calculation wrong is basically annihilation for your service (unless you think you can operate without "every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers"). The stakes are really high!

(Edited to fix my 'raise-the-bar' analogy)

adamsea · 5 years ago
Why are you using quotes around the word “canceled” for the Daily Stormer.

It was literally a neo-nazi site.

Do you think the issues people had with it were somehow contrived, false, or overblown?

Why would you even bring that site up tbh?

Lol so far the bar is don’t let people plan a violent insurrection on your app.

adamsea commented on FBI warns of plans for nationwide armed protests next week   seattletimes.com/nation-w... · Posted by u/alihm
mod · 5 years ago
Breaking the law is a storied tradition for protesters. Not historically open-carry laws, granted.

Anyway I'm not sure why that means the state will have a rough time. It may mean they'll have an easier time, as they have a readily-available reason to arrest the protesters.

adamsea · 5 years ago
“Breaking the law nonviolently is a storied tradition for protestors. AKA civil disobedience.”

There, fixed that for ya :);)

adamsea commented on Ask HN: Anyone else see PG and Trump as foils?    · Posted by u/breck
adamsea · 5 years ago
Since Trump puts self over country/other people, in this case his foil would be country and other people over self, or at least trend that way. So IMHO it depends if PG is spending his time and money to oppose Trump, IMHO. At a moment like this genuine foils would be in active opposition to one another.
adamsea commented on Ask HN: What’s Something You Are Proud Of?    · Posted by u/adamsea
adamsea · 5 years ago
I’m proud of being intellectually honest while also doing my best not to be a dick.

And of writing maintainable and readable code that will last.

adamsea commented on Ask HN: What’s Something You Regret?    · Posted by u/adamsea
adamsea · 5 years ago
I regret sometimes when I cancel plans with friends. And getting sucked online so much.

u/adamsea

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