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dirasiebon Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras

oh, so now you care about what the law says again? remind me, what does the law say about destroying Flock cameras?

dirasiebon Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras

how did you jump from property damage and arson to speech? non sequitur much? financial damage absolutely can be violence, you can ruin someone's life if you take away their job by burning down the place they work at and it could lead to something horrific like them taking their own lives or not being able to pay for their medication or not be able to pay for their child's education, etc as a direct consequence of your act of destroying that place. destroying infrastructure people rely on to stay healthy/safe/economically stable/etc should be considered by civilized people as a violent attack on them, you cannot pretend that disrupting someone's livelihood is not at all related to attacking their liberty and/or life

a case where you can argue speech can be violence would be a verbal threat to hurt or kill someone, but that has nothing to do with what we're talking about, i don't know why you're bringing up speech, are you trying to say that destroying these cameras is a form of expressing freedom of speech? (not accusing you of this btw, just genuinely curious what you meant by that)

dirasiebon Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras

are you sure? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47129267 they seem to disagree

dirasiebon Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras

the person i replied to made a broad "destroying property is not violence" claim, the scope of the conversation is more than just that

also, i consider a security camera in a place i live to be security infrastructure, you should not be able to come into a place and do act like a vigilante imposing your view on what should and should not be recorded through force, if you have a problem with the way things work you should try to work within the law

again, this is what separates civilization from chaos

dirasiebon Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras

> Damaging or destruction of property is not violence.

you wouldn't consider someone vandalizing your home or the infrastructure in your neighborhood to be violence? of course it is violence, an attack on the place i live (whether that's limited to just my home or to the larger community i live in) is an attack on me

is it not violence to, for example, burn down a business where people work in if you do it at a time where no one is around to get immediately hurt as a consequence? can i not call the financial damage caused both to the workers and the owners of that place violence?

dirasiebon Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras

i've never found this type of "humans were left with no alternative" argument in defense of destruction of property convincing, some of the things that separates humans from other animals is the concept of private/public property, rule of law, etc, you know? there are alternatives, contrary to the alarmism found online the US is very far from actual dictatorships where people have close to 0 way of achieving change through the legal system, immediately jumping to violence without an imminent threat is something i'd expect from lower primates, not from homo sapiens.

dirasiebon Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras

i don't think the people destroying flock cameras are open to the idea of going through the legal process to replace them with alternatives that have better privacy, something (maybe the fact that they currently are vandalizing them) tells me that they are just interested in vandalizing them

dirasiebon Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras

ok so let's just put aside chinese companies! ring is an american company, should people's ring cameras be vandalized because ring might share their data with the american government?

dirasiebon Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents

What do you think a GPU is? A chip manufacturer absolutely has the ability to add their own bias in firmware and drivers.

dirasiebon Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI

15 missed calls from your local power company

dirasiebon US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

how about the ~12k arrests per year for social media posts? are you able to discuss a bit of that with your busy work schedule?

dirasiebon US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

>America-style "you can even yell bomb in an airport"

that's not even remotely close to reality, you have zero understanding of what the free speech laws in america are if you believe this is covered by the first amendment

dirasiebon US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

do you think being arrested for social media posts can lead to a chilling effect on those social media posts? why are we pretending that being "arrested but not convicted" is anywhere near acceptable for speech the government doesn't like?

dirasiebon US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

the UK is located in europe, this US plan is about pushing for more free speech in europe

whether or not 30 arrests per day for social media posts is exclusive to the UK it is relevant to the OP link

>harassment and death threats

we both know that this is not what's being discussed here

dirasiebon US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

lol ok https://archive.ph/bdEqK

dirasiebon US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

i'll take US mitm harvesting my data over the european alternative (man in the jail)

dirasiebon US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

...and collapse their own economies in the process

dirasiebon US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

12 thousand people arrested per year for social media posts is "balanced"? https://archive.ph/bdEqK

at this point it's the #1 principle of the UK government, everything else comes second after putting people in jail for saying the wrong things

dirasiebon US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

complaining about losing the freedom to watch porn without ID while in the same comment pushing for more people to face state action for social media posts

porn is ok, posts that hurt my fee fees and ideological bias bad :'( (both are ok in my opinion btw)

dirasiebon US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

https://archive.ph/bdEqK

>>Police make 30 arrests a day for offensive online messages

>The police are making more than 30 arrests a day over offensive posts on social media and other platforms.

>Thousands of people are being detained and questioned for sending messages that cause “annoyance”, “inconvenience” or “anxiety” to others via the internet, telephone or mail.

>Custody data obtained by The Times shows that officers are making about 12,000 arrests a year under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988.

dirasiebon Ghidra by NSA

you're the one trying to shame people about using software you don't like by setting an impossible standard, how can you get upset when someone does it back to you and points out you don't fit it either? could you be any denser?

dirasiebon BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs

it's so funny to watch the people who pearl clutch over AI expose that they don't even know the difference between LLVM and LLM rofl

dirasiebon Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox

you can have public transit without a totalitarian police state, i’d rather keep building up western civilization through our values than to throw it all away for your promise

dirasiebon Ghidra by NSA

so you browbeat people when they use “evil” software when you also do it? got it

dirasiebon Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

you've never looked at any of them but you have an opinion on how they should and shouldn't be?

dirasiebon Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox

on the other hand, communism is collapse at everyone's cost

dirasiebon Ghidra by NSA

do please share your "ethical" software stack that doesn't include contributions from "unethical" sources involved in spying, wars, human rights violations, etc

what sort of device did you type this comment from?

dirasiebon Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database

what if these “others” voluntarily apply to a position where they have regular contact and help take care of your children? is it ok then to be informed on whether or not they are a convicted child rapist?

dirasiebon Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database

https://x.com/MillennialWoes/status/1893134391322308918

dirasiebon Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database

next time you should read what the thread is about before commenting, this is not about "wanting the government to publish X", it's about the government ordering a private company to delete, from their own servers, data that the government had published

it's a clear cut free speech issue, you just don't want to admit it since certain data being available and spread to other people doesn't suit your political ideology