I think that there is no actual system in place, and loss of functions- even hell-banning- rests entirely upon the whims of the mods. No matter what contradictory explanations are given by said mods.
(somewhat) Interesting sidenote: "Women in refrigerators" has been a big meme in the world of comic books the last several years. Begat by writer Gail Simone (the name of her old and long-running blog) to comment on the excessive examples of brutal to the point of blatant misogyny that exists in mainstream comics. Females, whether romantic interests or heroines themselves, have the curious tendency to meet with extremely violent ends, with the case that prompted Simone being a superhero's girlfriend found murdered and packed away in a fridge.
Just thought the terminology, while in a different context, was notable for yet sharing a derogatory inclination.
I'm implying what's happening in the UK is not a new or uncommon thing. Real freedom of the press is on its way out the door in general, which I think should suggest that any ideal of a healthy democracy is a pipedream, particularly when the freest nations are increasingly convoluted.
I don't see how depriving the machine of a cog can be construed as complacency. I've had several windows of unemployment and homelessness, sometimes by fate and sometimes by choice, and it is never an easy route. Like the saying goes, "If you are not an active part of the solution then you are just another part of the problem". In that respect, re-tweeting insolence and signing e-petitions and the like is closer to complacency.
To be more clear, the Fairness Doctrine was dismantled by the Reagan administration and permanently shelved by Obama himself, meaning that for the press in America to be held accountable for its own actions is now somehow contrary to their constitutional rights to free speech. I think the full implications are just barely being seen publicly, but essentially, non-biased media is absolutely a thing of the past.
And while citizen journalism can allow for unbiased reporting, with no editorial guidelines or presence then it also opens the floodgates for citizen journalism to be even less restrained than commercial media in terms of lunacy.
Most taxes do not go to food-aid or medical research. And by not contributing to or directly enabling so many of society's ills he is indeed giving back far more than most others ever will.
I think parallels are blatant. Such money-worship is exactly what most persons today equate with success, and that same religious fervency is precisely what is destroying the world at large. I think real success entails principles that Capitalism will always be oblivious to. The pursuit of money is not at all what life is about.
Except that none of these things will happen, as with the previous dozen or so times of the decade past, the Powers That Be will just raise it up yet again when next backing themselves into a corner.
I think that poll is incredibly biased and wishful thinking. I have been through too many neighborhoods around the country where people had neither the means or interest to do anything whatsoever online. I know several public schools in my region where the only computers are in the offices. We who exist online with our bread and butter dependent online, want desperately to see it as the world, but in all honesty it is not even remotely pertinent of the majority.
I'd say that wealthier people commit crimes over not having what they want, whereas not so wealthy people commit crimes over not having what they need. There's a mighty big divide between greed and desperation.
There is always a third alternative, one that would be a heckuva lot more humane than either of these options. The ability to buy or sell anything is not where respectability comes from (but it is where every ailment of the modern world comes from). Every farmer I know can at least provide food and shelter for their family without having to buy or sell anything, which is a lot more than any Capitalist is capable of. Resourcefulness is to be commended, not exploited.
The persons with the power and authority to enact change are precisely the ones who would lose power and authority in the doing. So it will not happen, not by working within the system. Rallies and petitions and the like are wholly useless.
It's true. They will never work because we already know that just in regardance of the surveillance issues Facebook lies on its own Terms and Conditions that users must agree to. They can pay out whatever courts decide for whatever grievances along the way, but their practices will never change, as that would interfere with their abilities to monetize. At the end of the day, money means more than people.
Very interesting thoughts there. I have an uncle who has taught Philosophy at the University level at one of those ivy-eating colleges in Massachusetts for over twenty years. He's fond of saying that Philosophy is a dead science, that nothing new has come from that world since the middle of the 1900s. I tell him to watch more of the older HBO comedy specials. Or read comic books.
I think in today's world, not only are corporations/collectives people too, but they have far more rights than actual individuals in every conceivable manner. Regarding the cloak and dagger stuff, there is no real legal justification, and I believe that is why they insist on fighting any actual transparency. Laws today are retroactively rewritten to further protect those guilty. The children are running the candy shoppe.
And as such are calling for a rather profound spanking.
To be fair, there is plenty of documentation that diverse subliminals find their ways into television programming, and even the music in supermarkets. Just like Fight Club.
What an incredibly ignorant response. America's issues go a wee deeper than just the Iraqi fun and instigating the global economic crises of the past decade. Like the invasion of Iran in the 1950s, as but one of endless examples going back to the founding. And Putin never made the direct claim that he was doing it better than America, merely expressing how the states need to get off the high horse. Of course Russia has issues. But they're not insisting at gunpoint that the world get down on its knees and open wide for American business interests. The gobstoppers response is no better than trailer trash rubbish.