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jhiska··on Does anyone remember websites?
You want in-depth information. Books are the go-to media for that.

Try Google Books.

The Internet encapsulates all media.

jhiska··on Does anyone remember websites?
Voting is gamed by corporations and governments -- easy with a few thousand IP addresses.

Comments are manipulated by teams of paid "trolls", including in English, and including Hacker News (when the article is of interest to a particular corp or gov -- like the Tesla mass firing article on Hacker News recently, just to give an example I know of).

jhiska··on HPE unveils The Machine, a single-memory computer with 160 terabytes of memory
Neat press release. Bombastic, eye-catching, has people asking what it is.

But the product is just a high memory HPC cluster unit, 4TB per node. It's not "revolutionary", it won't "change everything", it's not a "technological breakthrough".

TL;DR: It's press-bait.

jhiska··on Man jailed 16 months, and counting, for refusing to decrypt hard drives
You can make the same argument for the adult porn industry, and that leads to one of two conclusions:

- That the viewer of adult porn shouldn't be prosecuted for viewing porn.

or

- That there is a societal / governmental acceptance of the exploitation of men and women, as long as they are adults.

The easy argument out of this hypocrisy is to claim that while children can never consent, adults can, but then that opens the can of worms of whether they're "consenting" under coercion, like under threat of not getting hired again to do work or if they're enslaved, and the answer to that is that it depends on the case.

At this point it turns political, with one side generalizing that most do consent, and another side also generalizing that most do not consent, and reaching an agreement is impossible because there is a half-truth to both sides, and after a lot of heated arguments, people get worn out, and nothing gets resolved.

So instead I'm just going to direct people to read up on the topic of victimology, which is a sub-genre of criminology, specifically how it affects human traffic (which are >90% women, and has a total volume of enslaved people higher than it was when slavery was legal) and get informed and then make up their own mind about it without bothering others.

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