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Under that interpretation, companies will certainly want to keep a public moderation log for court documentation then.

Being transparent as possible will be best for the user and the courts to determine whether or not there is selective bias in moderation.

I see you chose to attack the person, not the proposal.

You are wrong. The bill does not designate a political board, it requires tech companies that have over $30 million U.S. users per month and an annual income of over $1.5 billion, to publish all of their content moderation policies. Users who charge that the companies are not implementing content moderation policies fairly would be able to sue for $5,000 plus attorney fees.

I think it's reasonable for these social media behemoths to post their mod logs.

I'd even like to see sites like HNs do it. Lobsters does: https://lobste.rs/moderations

If you have a specific gripe with this, let's discuss the legal.

I really don't see how GP is currently top comment.

Forcing giant social media companies to publish their content moderation is transferring power from the tech ELITE to the public. No political committee is in charge, the company will be forced to be published their logs, the courts can be used when users think companies are still acting in bad faith and not properly publishing their moderation logs.

PSA: READ THE BILL, IT'S SIX PAGES!!!

https://www.hawley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2020-06/Li...

Direct link to the bill:

https://www.hawley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2020-06/Li...

They tried with Google+, there's was nothing stopping people from using Google to socialize, no-one wants to.

After going to 1440p, I cannot use 1080p monitors for programming as the text is too blurry.

Honestly I don't see the need of 2160p on a monitor, it usually just causes display issues and it's a performance drain.

For gaming/everyday use, 2k w/ a high refresh rate is the sweet spot imo.

Wow, Hacker News loves ads all of a sudden.

Hilarious to see people try to spin why allowing someone to personally block ads is a bad thing.

I see uBlock touted here everyday, so blocking all ads okay, but we HAVE to force people to see political ads?

Letting them do whatever they want is not a valid choice, no matter how they feel.

I do disagree, and it is for their safety, many of them are getting hurt.

I don't care if they want it or not, if they don't, they don't know what's good for them.

I don't think this is exactly what you want, but you might be interested in it:

https://github.com/microsoft/winrt-rs

I bet he didn't read the piece, if he had he would have known it would have pissed off their base.

Notice how they didn't say HOW the OPINION piece didn't meet their standard.

It wasn't just property damage, and insurance isn't magic.

David Dorn, a black ex-police officer, and 14 other people died due to the unhandled looting.

If they would have sent National Guard in to protect storefronts those deaths would have never happened.

Those peaceful protesters deserve protection from the looters as well btw.

I don't see in the study linked in the article where it attributes light mode to more eye strain.

I found where blue light causes eye strain, and it most certainly does, I immediately notice the difference when using a blue light filter on my monitor, but you can have both dark mode and a blue light filter enabled.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6020759/

Anecdotally, dark mode causes my eyes and my partner's eyes less strain.

You can notice by how dry and red they get, as well as the headaches, it's not rocket science.

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@shawnz: No, the light physically hurts. It's immediate. It's not because of the aesthetics.

Seeing as we're talking about something that relates to eyestrain, I don't think we can discount how the GP feels.

If you don't feel well you likely aren't going to perform well. If your eyes hurt, you are going to want to stop working. If I had to stare at a bright white screen all day, I wouldn't get the task done because it hurts my eyes. Common sense.

Yet another study where it's trying to trump opinion with a study. You can't be wrong if you prefer dark mode/light mode, it's subjective. A study is going to have a real hard time proving one is "better" than the other and we certainly shouldn't take the results on faith.

1. Use dark mode

2. Filter blue light

3. Have ambient lighting

4. Your retinas will thank you

I didn't realize Taylor Swift's social media uses bots to manipulate other people's feeds.

I figured it was a normal situation where they blocked people and tweeted for her, do you have evidence otherwise?

The GP didn't call anyone a shill, he called the group of bots shills. I don't see why we're talking about the word he chose to call the bots, not the bots themselves. He didn't attack anyone, he was referencing the high number of CCP bots found by Twitter.

Well, the article is about the discovered government propaganda by mainly the CCP.

If you have other reports about services finding bots that shilled government propaganda from other state actors you're welcome to share them.

I certainly don't like the mainstream media in the US and I do believe they peddle domestic propaganda, that doesn't mean we divulge in whataboutism and distract from this specific article we are all discussing though, definitely not without specific evidence or events.

I agree with the paid part adding an extra amount of bad connotation, that was an oversight in my analogy.

Regardless, being called any form of a shill should not be censored and the root of it's usage comes from a legitimate cause, especially when you're not using the phrase at a specific person, just an event like the GP did.

Using the phrase the way he did, he didn't target anyone but the CCP.

The essence of my analogy was both are terms that denote the ideology of a person, something they CHOOSE, not are born into like race.

If you believed your government was good, why would you care about a label that targeted you as a supporter for them?

We're all replying to the article about the Chinese propaganda Twitter has evidence of, do you have evidence of US propaganda to submit into the discussion?

Regardless, I don't see how more wrong it is to call someone a "WuMao" than it is to call them a "trump supporter", they should both be allowed.

After viewing your other reply, I do not believe you are supporting the CCP, but I also disagree with your stance.

I believe we should stand up against dictatorships and challenge them even when we have ties to them.

Being able to say anything and challenge anything is the foundation of freedom, ANY form of censorship threatens that.

People in the U.S. appreciate being able to call out their government leaders I'm sure.

Imagine if you were hauled off at night because of what you posted online.

We should all be standing with Hongkongers on this one.

tldr: the answer to government censorship is not more censorship of phrases ("五毛”) that call them out

Exactly, my question essentially is, why do you think the CCP needs propaganda?

Because if many people thought they were good and supported them they could win on merit alone, not propaganda.

Why do you think the Chinese government needs sponsored online moderators?

I don't see a need for moderators if many people believe they are good and support them.

It certainly seems like they use them to censor people who object to them and keep themselves in power.

To suggest censoring of the phrase that calls them out is comical.

You can apply that to literally every recreational activity/hobby.

Entertainment is subjective and I doubt you stare a blank wall all day so we could make fun of how you spend your time.

The football stadium is like the colosseum down here. It brings a lot of revenue to the towns and something to do.

Sports helps keeps kids out of trouble as well.

Unfortunately, not. Parts of the game I may open-source, but it won't be fully open and it's nowhere near ready.

I'm making a mobile mmorpg using this engine.

We're currently in the early spriting & game mechanic planning phases but Grid has been a perfect starting point.

It's the sweet spot in-between LÖVE (Grid extends LÖVE) and a heavier engine like Defold, the multiplayer features are killer.

If you're wanting to make a tile-based multiplayer game, I highly recommend it.

Whataboutism, I simply stated ongoing actions by the CCP that probably influence people to view them as evil.

It's up for people to decide what they view as acceptable, the history of every country is for the most part transparent these days.

Laundry listing things other countries do (I disagree they come close to the atrocities committed by the CCP) is not a great defense.

I listed CURRENT atrocities being committed by the CCP right now, you picked from our entire history that we as Americans have already expressed outrage (WMD's, etc)

I even left out surveillance because all countries seem to be spying on their citizens, though the CCP goes a lot further with no accountability because it's a dictatorship.

It's probably the concentration camps, organ harvesting, and various other human rights violations, rather than the accumulation of wealth.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/10/asia/xinjiang-china-reeducati...

https://nypost.com/2019/06/01/chinese-dissidents-are-being-e...

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/09/04/7570898...

Two possibilities now since your last hypothesis was proven wrong with a simple git blame?

But sure, maybe the CTO/co-founder went rouge, lol.

What's the difference at that point? Both are leaders/founders of the company.

Either way, I don't want to use a browser that either someone is implementing affiliate links in the omnibar because they were stupid, or because they want $$$$.

The traffic and 99% of the browser code isn't theirs, why do they deserve affiliate money?

Btw there's a difference between being charitable and being naïve. It's obvious this was intentional.

What really happened was the CEO and the CTO sat down with these crypto companies and sketched this deal out to the T.

They hijacked the search terms "btc", "ltc", "bnb", etc. and herded users to those sites for a fee.

Could you imagine your scenario though? The CEO just woke up and was like WHOA where'd all this money come from, so the CTO says well I accidently added too many affiliate links, but the CEO was like ehhh keep it like that for a few months until people make a big deal about it, then I'll act surprised and remove it.

The fact that you can check their mod log makes me like them even more.

I have a feeling HN would never publicize that information themselves.