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OCASM··on Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store
It's always easy to willfully misconstrue what opposition says to justify their silencing. It's exactly what we're seeing at a large scale.
OCASM··on Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store
So dissenting is now considered doing political flamewar? Ok.
OCASM··on Google suspending Parler from the Google Play store
In those cases it's the business owner who decides. What happens when the decision comes after a mob puts pressure on the owner to drop that costumer or else?
OCASM··on Apple threatens to ban Parler unless they start censoring content
Sure enough, they outright banned it.
OCASM··on Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
If the Left didn't want the Right to be mean to them maybe they shouldn't have called them nazis and deplorables.
OCASM··on Hundreds of Twitter employees sign letter to permanently suspend Trump’s account
What unpersoning looks like in the 21st century.
OCASM··on Apple threatens to ban Parler unless they start censoring content
Probably won't be long before Google starts applying similar pressure.
OCASM··on U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
So none were actually used?
OCASM··on U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
Obstacles to get in, as opposed to BLM's/Antifa's indiscriminate violence and destruction against anything and anybody nearby.
OCASM··on U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
Were they destroying property and throwing molotov cocktails at them like Antifa/BLM did over the summer?
OCASM··on Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
Islam is a religion, not a race.
OCASM··on Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
The left is on the side of critical race theory, the most racist ideology on the planet today.
OCASM··on Apple blocks game streaming services unless individual games are approved
Apple ties Webkit versions to iOS versions. Once they stop supporting your iOS device every browser on it becomes obsolete.
OCASM··on Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims
Leftist totalitarianism.
OCASM··on Boys lag behind: How teachers’ gender biases affect student achievement
That sounds reasonable but you don't see mainstream feminism even acknowledge men being disadvantaged against women in certain contexts (family courts, homelessness, etc) and if they do they just blame men for it and continue to advocate for women and minorities only.
OCASM··on Re-Thinking the Desktop OS
Sandboxie is a good option. Development stopped but on the flipside it's fully free now.
OCASM··on Boys lag behind: How teachers’ gender biases affect student achievement
So women need a wheelchair but not men? Doesn't seem like sex/gender is a good criteria here. Socioeconomic background would be far more applicable.
OCASM··on Boys lag behind: How teachers’ gender biases affect student achievement
Also, to modern feminism equality doesn't mean treating everyone the same but rather to give advantages to what they consider "historically oppressed minorities".
OCASM··on The Cement of Society Is...
Because people who support these measures are all about the intentions and never care about the results. 60 years of welfare and things are worse off now than before.

We know the solution to poverty, here and everywhere else in the world, is to teach, help and allow people to generate wealth. Instead, programs like welfare only make people completely dependent (for generations) on stealing money from others to the benefit of politicians.

OCASM··on Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for app store changes
Is the macOS ecosystem filled with malware?
OCASM··on Tim Sweeney on Apple and Google
It is in fact those three things. Different stores compete with each other providing different value, both users and devs having the freedom to choose to support one or the other (or all) based on their personal criteria.
OCASM··on The Fed now owns nearly 1/3 of all U.S. mortgages
Government messing with the housing market is what caused the 2008 recession. I think that's a very good reason not to want that.
OCASM··on The Fed now owns nearly 1/3 of all U.S. mortgages
There are alternative, cheaper, forms of education. There's nothing wrong with somebody having to pay more for a better quality product or service. Using government to game the system just makes things worse for everyone (government debt, inflated prices, worthless degrees and indenture servants).
OCASM··on Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19
Mothers and extended families used to cover that role.
OCASM··on Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19
Division of labor works. Moving away from it is the real cause of the drama. Stay at home parents are becoming a dying breed (staying at home because of covid notwithstanding).
OCASM··on Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge grants emergency stay
No shortage of healthy, yet poor people. Then again we go back to the problem of defining "healthy". Not even the ultra-wealthy are completely illness-free.
OCASM··on Rideshare operations are being suspended in California
Or fines for people who litter. An improvement that actually punishes the people who caused the problem and not those who did nothing wrong.
OCASM··on Rideshare operations are being suspended in California
Those people stopped working because California's government prevented them from doing so. They're entitled to be compensated.
OCASM··on Rideshare operations are being suspended in California
And there's plenty who are fine with this setup. Why should they get screwed over? Calling the removal of worker choice a right is truly perverse.
OCASM··on Rideshare operations are being suspended in California
I'm pretty sure the people you want to help would consider having a job a better treatment than being unemployed.

If California's jobs suck, move. Yes, it's hard but it beats the alternative of destroying more jobs through misguided regulations.

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