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smotched··on Turkey bans Grok over Erdoğan insults
It would help to read the article we're discussing.

> Journalist posted a fake image online of the interior minister holding a sign that read “I hate freedom of opinion” and was subsequently handed a seven-month suspended prison sentence. A woman who posted images of politicians with painted-on Hitler mustaches and called a minister a terrorist was fined about $690.

smotched··on Turkey bans Grok over Erdoğan insults
Could you give examples of when a U.S. citizens speech rights were legally taken away? Lets go with one of your examples of "When sexual minorities want to speak". Please elaborate.

None of the examples you gave are actually examples of speech being restricted. Its people (sometimes politicians) freely voicing their opinions on others speech, that is not restriction.

smotched··on Turkey bans Grok over Erdoğan insults
How is it asinine? they both restrict speech and they both have no concept of "freedom of speech". The only difference is what they choose to censor.
smotched··on Grok 4
Claude is #1 in how many tokens it produces. Grok 4 now comes in at #2

see the section "Cost to Run Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/grok-4

smotched··on Apple just released a weirdly interesting coding language model
its a 7b model...
smotched··on "Grok 3's Think mode identifies as Claude 3.5 Sonnet
This is the case for many models, r1 constantly thinks its chatgpt. Writer is likely new to the ai world.
smotched··on What’s new in Swift 6.2
People like this just complain. Without pointing to anything real or saying anything meaningful. You just have to ignore them like spam.
smotched··on The Steam Deck is software-freedom friendly
Why?
smotched··on The Steam Deck is software-freedom friendly
do you find it fishy 88% of the nursing workforce is female?
smotched··on TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S.
they are already under way. So you don't want investments into the US?
smotched··on Germany approves global minimum corporate tax
They cant nope out of the entire EU though.
smotched··on List of APIs that require declared reasons
I dont think the keychain can be used to track...
smotched··on List of APIs that require declared reasons
but if its scoped to that app, and is removed on uninstall, how?
smotched··on X tells advertisers to spend $1k per month or risk losing verification status
Yup technically its free if they spend 1k...they get all the value from the 1k worth of ads plus the gold checkmark
smotched··on X tells advertisers to spend $1k per month or risk losing verification status
Thats false, you can spend $20 if you want, you just wont get the gold checkmark
smotched··on BRICS gold-backed currency coming in August
I really encourage you folks to look up the difference between currency and money, it will make it a bit cleaner.

You can have run an economy on pounds of gold, what matters is the exchange rate to currency.

smotched··on BRICS gold-backed currency coming in August
Your first sentence is a bit ironic. You're conflating currency with money. Gold was never really used as currency, the currency (dollar) was backed by money (gold)
smotched··on Twitter has started blocking unregistered users
thats fine because it can be rate limited. the issue was companies collecting massive amounts of data
smotched··on Twitter has started blocking unregistered users
Inevitable with the data scraping for AI issue
smotched··on Reddit CEO says company is 'not negotiating' on 3rd-party app charges
how do you fund this public alternative and have it be even remotely competitive?
smotched··on GM announces it will also adopt Tesla’s NACS connector
because Europe doesnt allow anyone else to compete
smotched··on Twitter’s U.S. Ad Sales Plunge 59% as Woes Continue
no, the source is not the document, the document comes from a source.

In a journalistic context, a source is a person. That's why words like "my source" are used.

smotched··on Twitter’s U.S. Ad Sales Plunge 59% as Woes Continue
but also "anonymous source" has been used to write anything the paper actually just wants to say
smotched··on Twitter’s U.S. Ad Sales Plunge 59% as Woes Continue
not really, literally every ad network has went down compared to last year.
smotched··on Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?
Yup, whats I'm saying is that's because there's a small community that does through new and upvotes good content
smotched··on Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?
there is, if you're in the new section like some of us
smotched··on Twitter to stop running ads from non-subscribers from April 21
Where did you see that about RT?
smotched··on Amazon announces 'Bedrock' AI platform to take on OpenAI
This doesnt seem like a ChatGPT rival...it doesnt even seem like a GPT rival
smotched··on NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
"media"
smotched··on NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
They will look cool to a certain group of people momentary but it will hurt them in the long run.

The average user won't even notice their tweets are missing from their feed.

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