dillondoyle (u/dillondoyle)

dillondoyle commented on The internet wants to check your ID newyorker.com/culture/inf... · Posted by u/jbegley

Zealotux · 4 months ago

Is there any serious investigation or a good article that explain how these ID check laws got simultaneously rolled out in the UK, EU and Australia? As well as the main payment processors heavily restricting adult content? It seems like there are remarkably powerful groups pushing for these things, or maybe it really is just happenstance.

dillondoyle · 4 months ago

There is definitely a thread globally.

Plenty of these groups pushing these laws are already publicly linked via $ and staffer revolving door: DonorsTrust -> SPN -> ALEC -> CLI -> Heritage -> $ from Dunn & Wilks and other christian millionaires -> continue the circle etc. [6, 7]

Their playbook - which is sadly working:

- far right christian anti-porn, anti-lgbtq crusaders use 'child safety' or revenge porn to organize public outrage and direct that pressure on the choke point of payment processing. For example the writer of the viral pornhub article worked for anti-porn christian group that also helped pass extreme anti lgbtq laws in africa, such as Uganda's gays “should be castrated” insanity [1] - Recent Australian version of this same story. Again, the buried lede is going after queer content (not by accident) [2] - Same in the UK: ADF creates UK branch. CARE, Christin Concern, etc. Same anti-porn, anti-lgbt. Same tactics and messaging. Also throw in anti-abortion. [3, 4] - Groups like Heritage & ALEC & SPN put out the blueprint and write the actual laws. Copy paste across red states. For instance Project 2025 advocates sending porn producers to jail & again backdoors targeting of Trans and queer people [8]. Another example in Tennessee [5]: define drag as adult only. impose narrow worldview that any gender expression not assigned at birth is wrong and adult only (pornagraphic). Just throw away 1a and dare scotus to blink on law 'loopholes' with private right of action b.s.

It's all just to inflict their christian worldview and 'morals' on the rest of us.

You know the porn thing is just a b.s. excuse to get their foot in the door because only a couple of large companies like Aylo (formerly Mindgeek) comply. They are the only porn sites with the $ and morals to actually moderate in the first place.

Whilst the other 99% of the internet is just an open stream of content with no care & no humans in the loop.

Therefore it's all just virtue signaling at best, and personally I see a very organized sinister plot to impose christian rule. Could you imagine if it was a muslim group organizing at this scale? Sharia anyone?

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1 https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/30/us-far...

2 https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/steam-itch-takedowns-credit-ca...

3 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/02/us-anti-abor...

4 https://care.org.uk/cause/online-safety

5 https://time.com/6267962/tennessee-drag-bill-law-hold-friend...

6 https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/donorstrust/

7 https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/SPN_Ties_to_ALEC

8 https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/project-2025-por...

dillondoyle commented on Deferred resignation email to federal employees opm.gov/fork... · Posted by u/dnissley

andy_ppp · a year ago

Anyone else think it’s likely America ends up without being a meaningful democracy by the end of this? I am skeptical the stated goal is efficiency it’s loyalty to MAGA. Imagine how extreme they will get if you can never vote them out.

dillondoyle · a year ago

Yes. I sadly agree with obama: we can survive 4 years. I don't know we can survive 8.

“I think that four years is OK,” Obama said. “Take on some water, but we can kind of bail fast enough to be OK. Eight years would be a problem. I would be concerned about a sustained period in which some of these norms have broken down and started to corrode.”

We're already far beyond some norms breaking down...

Sadly I can't find a great source for that quote. just found it on scmp and jp. weird. I swear I have this memory of that being in politico or nytimes at the time. iirc was from an 'otr' towards the end of his term.

dillondoyle commented on Deferred resignation email to federal employees opm.gov/fork... · Posted by u/dnissley

spencerflem · a year ago

Genuinely, who are you expecting to stand up against it?

The Democrats in Congress? Massive public demonstration?

It feels all but inevitable to me

dillondoyle · a year ago

I doubt public demonstrations would do it. They'd have to start losing MAGA cult people for them to change course themselves.

But if we can hold out for 2 years (big if) there's a very strong chance we'll retake the house.

And if things continue down this path (i think it will get worse) we could maybe take back the senate. but the map is very hard.

That would give power to fight back.

If we get a once in a generation swing of seats we could think about getting rid of the filibuster / few remaining norms. Then we could rebalance judicial. But that's a big risk if not sure the power will endure beyond a handful of cycles.

dillondoyle commented on Apple and SpaceX link up to support Starlink satellite network on iPhones bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

wkat4242 · a year ago

Well AI is a trend in everything right now.

And sats for mobile aren't really a big thing. Qualcomm worked on it and killed it, Samsung did for a while and killed it, Bullitt had it and it was a fringe thing before they collapsed. Only Apple really stood by it. And it's really only their moat, they're still not selling subscriptions.

Starlink direct to cell is only available on a fraction of sats, even those launched now. They won't be able to launch a full direct to cell fleet until starship comes online due to the added size and weight of the sats.

As an android user I still don't have any replacement for my Garmin inreach which is really a pain because Garmin put the prices up considerably. I was hoping to be able to replace it by now. Also, Bullitt's service is kinda a no go for emergencies because it uses a geostationary network so it won't work from valleys with mountains to the south (in the Northern hemisphere that is). Starlink, globalstar (apple) and Iridium (qualcomm, until they killed the deal) don't have this issue being low earth orbit.

I guess the emergency service isn't the big selling point everyone thought it was and the capacity isn't there yet for much more than text messaging yet.

dillondoyle · a year ago

For backcountry I would love to have another option (and able to stream video and games lol). But I wouldn't drop the garmin for life saving reasons. I * might * if my garmin watch was able to use the garmin sos. Phone + very long lasting / hard to break watch might be enough for 90% of my nights out for me.

dillondoyle commented on Show HN: I'm making an AI scraper called FetchFox fetchfoxai.com/... · Posted by u/marcell

smcin · a year ago

Even the parsing of obfuscated HTML + CSS + dynamic JSON content?

dillondoyle · a year ago

Could go the google way, capture an image screenshot of state, ocr, then parse it.

They keep throwing it in my url bar. I refuse to click (big warning it sends to google's servers)

dillondoyle commented on The closure of a Methodist chapel on Tyneside newstatesman.com/politics... · Posted by u/infinate

tomrod · 2 years ago

We can build non-religious communities with good governance and inviting attendees. We desperately need it.

dillondoyle · 2 years ago

I've thought about 'secular Sabbath.' Low or no technology, community, food, being self sustaining outdoors.

There is a lot of appeal to some practices of the mountain Mennonite/amish in CO where I'm at.

But a lot of those things that appeal to me, and trying to organize something like that, could quickly turn into a prepper cult ;0

dillondoyle commented on Injunction issued in case about social media pressure from US Government arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/cm_silva

kyrra · 2 years ago

> at a minimum, is it too much to not publish outright provable lies?

I'd love to hear some examples. From what I can tell, they don't lie, but they will leave out details that may provide additional context (much like the NYT and WP opinion pages tend to do).

There is a careful line between opinions and facts. From what I can tell, the editorial board doesn't allow outright facts that can be disputed from being published. But things where there may be a disagreement on a given topic, they will allow it to be published.

dillondoyle · 2 years ago

this is my all time favorite. which i get is a while ago, but i think the nsa cyber will resonate on hn more than current 'hot topics' (gender. biden policies. the guate piece this week really rubbed me the wrong way. worse it was doing the same thing the author critiqued of u.s. insiders lying to support corrupt interests)

the piece: torture and spying is great and stops terrorists! trust me. because of reasons. damned the research saying this isn't true and lack of any proof i could provide as the ultimate insider. that tan suit wearing barack will kill us all!!!

also having the temerity to publish this during peak bush hate too. balls.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/0...

though true that what used to be taken as facts are contested now. and history will never be fully settled timestamped and logged.

it just feels like they are winning with purpose. the christian right has built up an entire infrastructure to churn out 'academic' research, opinion pieces, outright buying news media or creating outlets. all of which is then quoted in judicial opinions by their judges and then taken as the full stop truth; when often most other sources disagree or call it less severe and the source is at a minimum insanely biased

dillondoyle commented on Injunction issued in case about social media pressure from US Government arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/cm_silva

kyrra · 2 years ago

While I agree here, I want to add a caveat that the linked article is technically a "commentary" pieces, not a news-side piece (aka: it's published on the opinion pages). But even given that, the opinion pages of the WSJ is just as fact-filled as the news side, but just highlights that the person writing it may not be a disinterested party.

The Opinion Pages of the WSJ also tend to lean more conservative, while the news side leans liberal. Though they will happily publish people from the left, such as publishing President Biden: https://www.wsj.com/articles/never-bet-against-the-american-...

dillondoyle · 2 years ago

'lean' lol.

the wsj opinion section has gone wildly off the rails.

love their journalism. can't read half the crap they allow to be published in opeds.

at a minimum, is it too much to not publish outright provable lies?

it actually feels like a similar persecution complex vibe to these lawsuits and congressional hearings to me

that somehow if we aren't forced to listen to them, or that their megaphone isn't as loud as it once was, that they are being persecuted and censored with the most orwellian oppression in the history of our country! (i can think of a lot of truly terrible things our govt has done... literal internment camps and more! but that is besides the point)

no one has silenced them. we continue to hear it constantly.

i hear more anti gay slurs now - on traditional media and online - than i ever remember growing up as a very obviously gay boy ;0

if anything, whenever someone crows about being 'cancelled' their message is spread even farther.

there isn't a right to amplification.

the next door kook was never promised a full page column in the local paper. with a guaranteed readership of thousands or millions.

any truth filter or higher bar for discourse that might have existed in legacy news media has been smashed

news corp is the leader and biggest offender

the democratization of the megaphone (internet gives any random conspiracist opportunity to reach more than cronkite did), has given many the impression that they are owed this power to yell and be guaranteed a listening and receptive audience.

and anything less is cancelation or "censorship."

dillondoyle commented on Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists washingtonpost.com/media/... · Posted by u/prawn

Natsu · 3 years ago

There's no scale on that map, but the marker shown appears to be right next to Huntington Memorial Airport.

dillondoyle · 3 years ago

bottom right. looks about 2k.

I can't find the original, but from read it seems like the last tweet was a day before this.

On the insta this was closest i could find and it looks like was LAX not huntington

dillondoyle commented on Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists washingtonpost.com/media/... · Posted by u/prawn

somedude895 · 3 years ago

I knew he'd gone mad when he tweeted the Nancy Pelosi's husband conspiracy theory, but I was cautiously optimistic about Twitter up until ElonJet.

Our company had already stopped spending on Twitter ads back when the first (possibly false) reports about increased hatespeech on Twitter came out, where I was one of a few protesting the decision, since it seemed like giving in to the hysteria and just trying not to become the target of activist journalists. But now it's clear even to me that staying on Twitter is a brand safety issue.

dillondoyle · 3 years ago

The pedo thing didn't do it first?!

We don't do ads on twitter (politics). but no brand I know would want to be associated with the crazy-ness and tons of negative press.

Maybe good opportunity for click arbitragers and bottom barrel DTC though! low competition!

twitter is already showing me taboola level ads lmfao

I just can't with hn anymore. came back to specifically read this thread.

at least reddit is fun and has shit posting.

a significant chunk of active commenters on hn have gone off the deep end. a stew of insane, mean, and flat out wrong comments that have nothing to do with tech or cool nerd stuff. and everything to do with mean-spirited (often right wing) politics