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> Now a red line has been crossed

Now we crossed a red line? I thought Trump crossed it when he tried to overthrow the government?

> This guy is a Napoleon or Caesar in the making,

Did Napoleon or Caesar also try to overthrow the democratically elected government when they lost the election?

> outstanding returns compared to others.

Like this? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/03/twitter-s...

> As a commercial entity in the western world they have to appease the social justice warriors or face getting deplatformed and hit with a smear campaign.

Nobody is forcing them to operate from western world.

> The unrestricted models will come from China.

China doesn't even allow unrestricted access to Internet.

CBDC = What is central bank digital currency? see https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/research/digital-currencies

> I've read a load of stuff recently talking about how SpaceX and Tesla survive when he's in charge there too, and apparently SpaceX have a load of people who basically are a buffer between Musk and the bits of the company that actually get the job done.

https://twitter.com/cestperdu/status/1595778031481942016

Alex Stamos thoughts on this: https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1581357030576574465

> The claim that there has been some “dangerous escalation” in the past 2 weeks is nonsense.

I believe the final push for Cloudflare to drop them was this forum thread where users were organizing a bomb threat & armed confrontation against several members of the Drop Kiwi Farms campaign.

(copied from https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/x56mot/cloudfla...)

> and the constitution should worry about you?

Yes.

> extraneous information

How is this extraneous? Aren't we talking about election fraud?

> in order to antagonize people

How is this antagonizing people? I'm just stating facts. Trump tried to manipulate election and there is evidence to support this.

> What evidence? An accurate statement might have read, "Despite the lack of conclusive evidence, nearly one-third of Americans still believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen".

An even more accurate statement would be, "Despite Donald Trump's blatant attempt to change the outcome of election results[1] [2] his followers still believe he has won the 2020 election"

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/03/us/politics/trump-raffens... [2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/06/fake-trum...

> He didn't breach any law

No. https://www.npr.org/2022/02/10/1079835695/how-trump-sought-t... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump/in-rec...

> Glenn Greenwald believed in the story, and was later proven right

mind sharing this proof?

He is probably trying to take down the flight-tracking bot (https://www.protocol.com/elon-musk-flight-tracker). Funny how he talks about Free speech on twitter while actively trying to take down a twitter account.

> Some of them might be, but SOO many people are in their spots due to the accident of their birth and other random processes that happened afterwards.

Disagree. If you are not smart, you wouldn't last long in those positions.

From reddit

"There's a good bit about this in the World War Z book. India and Pakistan have been on the brink of nuclear war for so long that there's tons and tons of tools and deterrents in place to prevent war. There's a nuclear hotline between states, all kinds of spies, well known procedures, etc that exist to prevent accidental or hasty all-out war. That's why in the book there's a nuclear exchange between Iran and Pakistan instead of Pakistan and India, because that diplomatic infrastructure doesn't exist between those two countries."

https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/tbqmq8/india_s...

> If consumers were sufficiently upset at the increased cost of apps on the Apple Store, wouldn't they change platforms?

Consumers are not aware of this problem. Apple doesn't allow apps to inform users about the 30% tax.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/28/21405140/apple-rejects-fa...

"Apple blocked Facebook from informing users that Apple would collect 30 percent of in-app purchases made through a planned new feature, Facebook tells Reuters. Apple said the update violated an App Store rule that doesn’t let developers show “irrelevant” information to users."

> You're right that unity wasn't a great example though. A better example would be the xbox, playstation, switch, etc.

Not really. Gaming consoles are usually sold at loss.

"The reason game consoles end up being profitable is through a combination of software, service, and accessory sales, but it's still surprising to find Microsoft has never achieved hardware profitability"

https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-says-xbox-consoles-have...

> say what you want there are stickers all over Hamburg asking you to join telegram channels if you need drugs, if you are racist or a so called "querdenker

if those stickers contained email address rather than telegram channel then would we consider banning email services? Blocking Telegram because it is being used for drugs is absurd. Telegram is a messenger and if people are using it for drugs then what do you expect Telegram to do?

> I'm not saying who's worse, I'm saying we need to do better before we critic others.

why can't we do both at the same time?

> It's his code to break if he wants

> I don't understand why

If he can break his code because he is the owner then shouldn't the same reasoning apply for Github suspending the account?. It is their website and their rules. Keep in mind Github owns npm and the author has published a malicious package to npm which has 20 millions of downloads so I'm not surprised.

can you name some of those apps?

> this is simply not true

No. I work for a FAANG company at the moment and Microsoft was my previous employer and i can confirm that Microsoft significantly underpays when compared with FAANG.

> Users tolerating such bullshit is the reason why it exists and keeps on existing.

Come on. This is bullshit.

https://www.businessinsider.com/unredacted-google-lawsuit-do...

"When Google tested versions of its Android operating system that made privacy settings easier to find, users took advantage of them, which Google viewed as a "problem," according to the documents. To solve that problem, Google then sought to bury those settings deeper within the settings menu."

Ivanka Trump won China trademarks days before her father's reversal on ZTE

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/28/ivanka-trump...

> but it's exactly like how the war on terror is actually about war on human freedom

No, it is not. Without these algorithms Youtube will be flooded with comments from bots.

> Those algorithms are used to control discussions and censor things as well. This is completely obvious if you pay attention to what is removed.

May be I'm not paying attention but this is not obvious to me. Care to share evidence for your claims?

> To me it is rather the demand that certain beliefs may not be questioned that enables things like fascists rising to power

Holocaust is not a belief, it is a historical event that has already happened.

> It's like a virus scanner that you voluntarily installed

Not really. Virus scanners don't snitch on users to governments.

> Users can't make an informed choice about what browser engine they use. They don't understand what a browser engine is, and what impact it has on their security, battery performance and so on.

why do they have to make this choice, why can't they just use safari?

> What changed?

Hololens price is $3,500 where as Quest 2 price is 300$. Quest 2 has the potential to become a mainstream device with that price.