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Twitter isn't law enforcement though, and it would be a tough sell to hold them up to the same standard.

According to the screenshot, the author is free to have his account unlocked after the tweet is removed.

If we replaced Sarah Palin with some left-wing politician, I'm not sure this article would get any traction. People would be saying "their platform, their rules", "freedom of speech only applies to the government" and calling out author for his sexist slurs and throwing around the "hate speech" label.

I'm not sure what the solution is, even recent articles on proposed social media legislation[1] led to comments that Trump is trying to "censor the internet".

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20669477

Yes, not all conspiracy theories are just theories. It's relatively easy to disprove something like flat earth by getting on an airplane, but something like Epstein required time to collect evidence, make arrests, etc.

This statement implies 75% of federal judges haven't, so the odds are good.

I like the concept of Signal but Telegram has some great features like usernames and public chat groups. In the end, better encryption by itself (Telegram rolled their own) loses out over function.

Also, the owners of Telegram are not on good terms with the Russian government (its been banned before).

I frequently recommend Brave to non-technical people who would have problems installing browser extensions. Everything works out of the box without configuration.

Just looking at the title there appears to be some bias: "extremist", "lashes out" all have negative connotations.

Is the Guardian considered to be a reliable source with regard to this topic? The actual URL contains "8chan-owner-statement-jim-watkins" which I thought to be more impartial.

Some disposable email sites are blocked on The Information's login wall, even blah@aol.com was rejected (which I found amusing).

But it's easy to think of a random email of letters and numbers, and no further validation is required.

I like these changes. Some of my friends hate Facebook for various reasons, and making Facebook's ownership very clear (as opposed to buried in some terms and conditions) may encourage them to choose alternative chat software.

> Also I already signed up for the $125 (when there was ZERO mention it might not be paid out) so what am I supposed to do?

From the FAQ, they'll send out an email to everyone who already filed allowing people to switch to credit monitoring.

I agree, this is ridiculous. Even credit monitoring for life (from the other agencies) would have been better than this.

The "flag" button works for spammy submissions.

I've tried a few apps on your list.

Agree that Zim lacks polish, and that the Windows version is a few versions behind the Linux version. However it's really easy to import a bunch of plain text or markdown files (with .txt extension...just dump it in the data folder and restart)

Standard Notes puts a lot of emphasis on security but doesn't yet have native support for inline images.

Tagspaces seemed more like a file organizer that had word processing features tacked on.

OneNote...I wish they'd restore the ability to use notebooks locally, the newer version wants everything on OneDrive.

I used to love Evernote. The thing that killed my enthusiasm for them was the constant upselling, even for paid accounts.

I paid for a Plus monthly subscription (a lower tier) and there were constant advertisements within the app to upgrade to Premium. Upgrade buttons that would reappear even when I remove them, notices on the bottom of the note UI, etc.

I could understand the constant advertising for free accounts, but for paid accounts it was infuriating.

Slightly off-topic, but does anyone use this app as an ebook manager?

I'm looking to switch away from Calibre (which has a cluttered user interface) and if Polar supports common ebook formats it might be worth trying.

I had this problem when creating a new Twitter account last month. Within minutes after setting up an account via iOS app, was locked out for "suspicious behavior". Didn't even tweet once. Residential IP. They wanted me to add a phone number.

I went to the help section and wrote a pissed off message to customer support...if they wanted my phone # they should have asked for it instead of accusing me. Shortly after, my account started working again.

For anyone else with this issue, try: https://help.twitter.com/forms/signin