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p49k commented on Supreme Court will hear challenge to legal immunity for tech sites businessinsider.com/supre... · Posted by u/pseudolus

xenospn · 3 years ago

This will be worse than citizens United.

What will end up happening is most big US websites will just relocate to Europe, or another country without such liability.

p49k · 3 years ago

That’s not what will happen, because the US is by far the most lucrative market for advertising, and serving ads to users in the US means that they will have to adhere to US laws, even if they’re not physically located there, just as Twitter is forced to censor content according to the laws of every other country where it does business (e.g. censoring Nazi material in Germany)

p49k commented on YouTube age-restriction quagmire exposed by 78-minute Mega Man documentary arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/dagenix

pbhjpbhj · 3 years ago

If they would accept the video with bleeps, why don't they just offer to bleep it. Then they could give uncensored versions to signed in adults who choose it?

p49k · 3 years ago

As I said, they already falsely banned it again, this time for nudity even though there is no nudity. Is that enough to just admit that the system is completely broken?

As he explained, he would have been more than happy to bleep those 3 seconds in the first place if that was the policy. But as he pointed out, the policy only gives more severe examples than what was contained in his video. The point is that there should have been a realistic way for him to know it would break policy.

In this case, the damage is done. He slaved away for months on this video only to have lost thousands of dollars in ad revenue that can’t be recovered.

p49k commented on YouTube age-restriction quagmire exposed by 78-minute Mega Man documentary arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/dagenix

ranger207 · 3 years ago

There's a lot of comments in here about the video being age restricted because of the cursing, but the real story here is the inconsistency in YouTube's moderation. SummoningSalt's video has one section where there's 6 f-bombs dropped in 3 seconds, which is what YouTube explicitly called out the second time the video was age-restricted. But the video was reinstated the first time: why did they reinstate it and then change their mind later? Furthermore, despite the density of cursing in that one segment, overall the video has less curse density than other comparable videos. Why is SummoningSalt's video age-restricted but not videos from the Angry Video Game Nerd, whose whole schtick is heavy use of profanity? Is the issue really just the use of so many curse words in such a short amount of time? That seems to be a really weird rule to have

p49k · 3 years ago

1. As he explains, YouTube's rules don't actually instruct creators to censor these types of outbursts, and he can site numerous examples of content by more well-known creators that are much more explicit than the 3-second clip.

2. After reversing their decision, Youtube has re-restricted the video because they now claim it contains nudity/sexual content. How does that tie into your argument, exactly?

p49k commented on Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022 twitter.com/techemails/st... · Posted by u/boulos

robswc · 3 years ago

How is "retaliating against criticism" contradictory to free speech?

I could certainly argue with someone on HN but also say their banning is unjust (if I felt that it was).

This has been a "solved" issue for centuries.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/06/01/defend-say/

p49k · 3 years ago

Retaliation with the intent to silence critics is acting to undermine free speech. He could, for example, welcome the criticism and respond with facts.

p49k commented on Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022 twitter.com/techemails/st... · Posted by u/boulos

hardnose · 3 years ago

>I was pretty firmly of the theory that his real motive re Twitter was basically narcissism, and I'm still not sure that's wrong.

Why is it so hard to believe that Musk genuinely believes in exactly the version of "freedom of speech" that everyone in his generation grew up with, that served as the impetus for much of the internet's creation, etc.?

p49k · 3 years ago

Because this viewpoint isn’t consistent with his actions; he has a long history of retaliating against anyone who criticizes him, including attacking journalists and threatening them with lawsuits as well as firing employees who raise issues within his companies.

p49k commented on Check Your IP Reputation Score ipdata.co... · Posted by u/jonathan-kosgei

anyfactor · 3 years ago

no.

Source: I work for IPinfo. We don't do "IP Reputation Score". We provide the attributes/insights related to an IP address, the user makes the decision of how to use that information.

p49k · 3 years ago

I thought IPinfo was just sourced from Maxmind, am I wrong? Is there any way to know who are the original sources of info in this space and who are reselling?

p49k commented on Ask HN: Discord banned me with no recourse · Posted by u/asdojasdosadsa

huhtenberg · 3 years ago

HN needs a separate section for this sort of "media shaming" posts.

I understand why they are being made, but it's getting a bit tiring to see these on the front page so frequently.

p49k · 3 years ago

When it happens to you and this is the only way you can get access to some urgently-needed account, you'll be thankful HN didn't create a special category to push these down and make them less visible.

p49k commented on Self-hosted email is the hardest it's ever been, but also the easiest vadosware.io/post/its-nev... · Posted by u/hardwaresofton

kristov · 3 years ago

It costs more or less the same amount of money to send one email as it does to send hundreds of thousands of emails. So spammers send hundreds of thousands of emails and they only need to fool one person to make it worthwhile financially. Is anyone doing work around "proof of work" email sending? Could a blockchain be used to make the cost of bulk email sending proportional to the volume?

p49k · 3 years ago

The original/first proof of work proposal, Hashcash, was in fact designed to solve email spam. It obviously served as the inspiration for Bitcoin’s proof of work component.