Post AOGXe86CM7dbgysphw by m0lr4k@noagendasocial.com
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(DIR) Post #AOGIM8ABsZA1Moi5mC by josh@poa.st
2022-10-05T15:54:15.538045Z
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Never saw this before now. A statement from the EFF's Australian counterpart regarding Cloudflare.Worth mentioning the EFF is, as far as I'm aware, the only charity in the US worth a shit and this group in Australia seems pretty smart. Australians are pretty down & out about their Internet freedoms so it's worth looking into.efa.org.au/2022/09/05/efa-statement-regarding-cloudflare/
(DIR) Post #AOGJ2RQscw3FI9gxSC by Mackiavelli13@chudbuds.lol
2022-10-05T16:01:54.584904Z
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Pretty much calling them out on their shady business and asking for proof or rather advising them to give proof for the only purpose of keeping a good faith relation with other clients they have.
(DIR) Post #AOGJcrCQIu9RdCIIPQ by Soup@chudbuds.lol
2022-10-05T16:02:47.322224Z
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It's a solid statement, but they still use words like "privileged" and "marginalized" as if someone being black or trans means they deserve more protections than anyone else instead of an equal application to everyone.
(DIR) Post #AOGJdE2zM9GqUb3aOe by Soup@chudbuds.lol
2022-10-05T16:07:29.788104Z
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Yeah, things are on the upswing at least
(DIR) Post #AOGJuAj8xAsl7Or4sa by teaclips@chudbuds.lol
2022-10-05T16:11:36.970608Z
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Right so apparently we are in a society where the “more vulnerable” get more protections which actually puts the least vulnerable in the second tier class making us more 🥁 vulnerable.
(DIR) Post #AOGKFdObYiJI78Ty9g by Hoss@shitpost.cloud
2022-10-05T16:08:39.864715Z
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>Worth mentioning the EFF is, as far as I'm aware, the only charity in the US worth a shitI don't think I'll ever be able to trust another charity again. It's too easy for clown world to subvert their original purpose.
(DIR) Post #AOGXe86CM7dbgysphw by m0lr4k@noagendasocial.com
2022-10-05T18:43:18Z
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@josh I mean... look at their homepage right now.https://www.eff.org/They do some good work, but they're still a SF-based organization in current era.
(DIR) Post #AOGXeA5uw8bLsgldY0 by josh@poa.st
2022-10-05T18:45:34.268111Z
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@m0lr4k modern attention economy:"Senate passes most invasive bill in US history, privacy and fundamental rights of every person living in america threatened like never before"100 reddit upvotes, 1000 views, crickets"Senate passes bill that threatens to deadname every trans folx and body of color"100,000 reddit upvotes 100 million views youtube videos about it die-in protests at the house of reps and that one mexican woman crying on tiktok
(DIR) Post #AOGYUYIeBegm0jhfKC by GW@poa.st
2022-10-05T18:52:42.590121Z
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@josh @m0lr4k the front page of the internet
(DIR) Post #AOGdwDNo331h1A7tNA by ThePhilosopher@poa.st
2022-10-05T19:56:05.577873Z
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@josh @m0lr4k I am more and more seeing what the old philosophers were thinking when they wanted an educated elite to be the ones to rule society. The simple fact is that most people cannot be expected to be able to make good decisions for the whole. Democracy is an extremely hard style of rule to maintain.
(DIR) Post #AOGgQZJnG28ve1qolc by IXNAM@chudbuds.lol
2022-10-05T20:23:59.495723Z
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I'm not sure there's much concrete evidence a more educated elite would be more capable of ruling over everyone successfully. Sure, they'd be smarter about it in theory, but you'd still run into issues of egotism and corruption. Theoretically that's part of the reason to have a hierarchical political structure, such that each level handles the common concerns of its constituents.The US has drifted endlessly far from the original intent, but in theory you'd want the most rules / laws to be at the smallest, local level. As you traverse upwards in the hierarchy there should be less and less regulation because it's applying to a broader part of the population. And ideally as you go upwards, the hierarchy simply regulates the lower hierarchical tiers rather than the individuals. Such a structure could allow people to change the rules of their locality without affecting anyone elsewhere, or move to a locality that already better meshes with their ideals.Unfortunately, as is somewhat obvious, people are obsessed with regulating the largest swath possible rather than the smallest. No one is very content with keeping to themselves and instead most choose to morality police the whole because they unquestionably believe in the superiority of their own ideas. Even what I've said here might be me falling into exactly the same trap.I think the issue is not so much finding someone capable of making decisions for the whole, but that no one is actually capable of doing that over a large enough swath of the population. Moreover, the anarchist / libertarian ideal regarding who should be allowed to govern you other than yourself still rings somewhat true - this is where the whole "consent of the governed" thing plays in, except at present there's no alternative so everyone is forced to implicitly give that consent. Also, self regulation implies individuals be capable of immensely greater responsibility which doesn't seem to hold true outside N = 1.Societal and political structure may be one of the hardest problems for humanity to solve because of the fundamental duality of logic and human nature and the fact they exist in various proportions throughout the populace.
(DIR) Post #AOGwc4RTTjXWcqwy7k by King_Sneed@poa.st
2022-10-05T23:23:28.524421Z
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@josh >Electronic Frontiers Australia calls on Cloudflare to provide a detailed statement of reasons for its decision to, at first, continue providing services to its customer Kiwi Farms and then to cease providing those servicesHoly based
(DIR) Post #AOI2CNCltEnYAhA8qe by teknomunk@pl.polaris-1.work
2022-10-06T12:02:03.667748Z
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@josh > “When balancing competing rights and interests, the relative power of the parties is an important aspect that must be taken into account. Those with more power and privilege should generally be held to a higher standard.”Agreed. It usually works out the opposite way: those with more power and privilege avoid responsibility for their actions and those without are held responsible for things beyond their control..> Cloudflare is a private business, and in a competitive market it should be free to choose who it wishes to do business with—and who it does not— subject to some restrictions.While I agree in principle, ...> in a competitive market...this market is not competitive. There's Cloudflare and...who else?
(DIR) Post #AOKn5k3kHEHMVlSaHY by Mackiavelli13@chudbuds.lol
2022-10-07T19:57:30.256632Z
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Democracy is a joke and you know that well.
(DIR) Post #AOLfk4wdRLfWOUojhI by ThePhilosopher@poa.st
2022-10-08T06:09:52.238034Z
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@Mackiavelli13 @m0lr4k @josh I think it can only work in a society where people are informed and engaged. But most people don’t want to be. They wanna chill and consume. Spending their lives running away from the fleeting moments of self realization.
(DIR) Post #AON1WiCl4G8oFiLlR2 by Tabernack@poa.st
2022-10-05T18:52:10.656884Z
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@josh @m0lr4k Welcome to the great filter. This is why we've encountered no other intelligent life.
(DIR) Post #AON1WifpKBORhrwykC by ggf@poa.st
2022-10-05T19:13:52.900800Z
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@Tabernack @josh @m0lr4k From Robin Hanson's Great Filter paper: