Really highlights the fact that any free speech and naive western sense of freedom in these walled garden is just a button press away from being taken away and that there are no rules or standards. Whenever the owners or their friends feel even slightly displeased, annoyed or god forbid afraid the masks go off and the hammer falls.
Protocols not platforms are the future.
Sadly look at email. Technically you can host it yourself but if you're not one of the 15 or so big providers, good luck not being marked as spam before you even do anything.
The real problem is with the oligarchy controlling everything, service or protocol. This is why Threads was/is dangerous.
That is definitely a good point.
That's literally the same point I was making, that your protocol can be blocked when they've decided they don't like it.
Somewhat unfair judgement against emails IMO, especially cause it’s the “trust list” that’s in the control of a few, with no open manner to add more people to the trust list. The protocol isn’t at fault for failing to prevent problems; it’s the ability for corporations to gain significant market share without control, before they are then allowed to put barriers down to disallow or discourage interaction between those in and out, forcing those within to stay in, while those outside to give up on others in order to gain usability.
That was my point too, I guess I wasn't clear enough so thanks for elaborating. The protocol isn't at fault, but something being a protocol (and not just a proprietary service) isn't enough if the vast majority of the market share is being held by a few corporations.
And they’ve been systematically shutting down anonymous email services.
Load up Brave with a tor connection, and try to sign up for anonymous email. When they can’t track you reliably, even the “anonymous” services require a confirmation email or phone number.
Man I don't want a future where we doxx ourselves to just be on a PC. Its insane that parents think real ID for gaming is a good idea. Linux might be the only way to escape any of this in the near future.
They pretend it’s to protect us from illegal activity, but it’s really to protect them from whistleblowers.
Do protocols solve the problem of every hop in between you and the destination has to pass through what amounts to someone else's private property? Some private servers owned by who knows who on the way between that we have no idea whether they're inspecting every packet that comes through or not.
Because that's the bigger issue, and I'm not even sure it's one we can solve, because it's pretty important to how the internet functions.
A protocol still has to be supported and passed through private corporations walled gardens.
Who else remembers Comcast illegally using Sandvine to throttle bittorrent traffic specifically? Pepperidge Farm 'members.
https://torrentfreak.com/comcast-throttles-bittorrent-traffic-seeding-impossible/
That's what integrity checks are for, so that no one along the path can edit what you say before it actually gets published.
That's rather missing the point, an integrity check doesn't solve the fact that to communicate with anyone, you have to do it through giant corporations pipes.
An integrity check doesn't help when an ISP have straight blocked your protocols traffic, like Comcast previously did with bittorrent.
Can we stop sucking down the preachings of an idiot like Jack Dorsey? We don't actually have net neutrality, so it's totally within their current rights to just block traffic they don't like.
Almost any protocol can be wrapped in any other protocol. You could, say, use bit torrent by encoding the packets and embedding the data in valid png files, then transporting them over http. As long as both sides understand the wrapping it'll work just fine.
I've even seen http tunneled over DNS queries in order to completely bypass firewalls.
They've been getting away with their class-war for so long any deviation from norms is alarming. Usually we just talk about black vs white, right vs left, etc.
That is a fair point. I've said it to numerous people talking about this subject: Americans are the most propaganda inundated people on the planet. There's some quote about about how in China people know to not believe in the gov propaganda and here it's just called the news lmao
I mean, North Korea exists. But yeah, Americans are extremely propagandized.
It seems like this is not a case of "no rules or standards". These platforms do have rules and standards. The article mentions them, in fact.
Do you happen to work in HR? You'd fit right in considering you defend arbitrarily applied rules at the behest of management.
Ha! That's a good one.
Except freedom of speech only applies to the government. You can't yell from your neighbor's front lawn either if they don't want you to.
That said, the fact police were sent is BS.
Here's an image of the playing cards, for anyone who just came to the comments.
Having the suit one corner and the rank in the other is going to make these a bastard to play games with. How would you hold them in your hand so's that you can see both?
Maybe the user was banned because of bad design?
Yeah, at first I thought he was copying the format from Iraq but nope:
No idea why nobody linked it yet, but you can buy them here: https://www.comradeworkwear.com/products/the-playing-cards
Honestly? That very much feels like a "fuck around and find out" situation and a GREAT way to piss off rich people in the event someone else gets blue shelled.
Also: Free speech doesn't apply to social media. You can and will be banned for no reason other than someone with the power was bored.
Oh man blue shelled is perfect
Thankfully no one cares when Forbes posts their hit list every year.
Man, there's way more than 52.
He's gonna need a Magic: The Gathering like system for all those fuckers.
Well, yeah, platforms (unless otherwise specified) are for-profit. Anything that would impede their profit stream is naturally going to be censored so that profit can continue uninterrupted.
Can’t have some idiot poor going around making richoids uncomfortable, they’d just pull their money, and that would mean less money going to the platforms.
Step 1: profit. Step 2: profit. All other steps: profit. EZPZ
This story goes way beyond that. The police have been harassing him as well.
It’s one thing to ban him from your own platform. It’s another to make sure no one else can choose to do business with him either.
CEOs are all the rage these days, but hear me out here - shareholders?
I agree... What is it like 10% own 90% of the stock market, 1% own 50% or something like that? Major shareholders are the real evil oligarchy... CEOs are just shills they hire to take the bullet, same as politicians but paid better... I'd love to see some playing cards for the real oligarchy... But it's pretty hard to really track them because they hide behind corporations and shit
Just highlights once more that we are ruled and suppressed by the rich.
Damn I would buy those too
Oof, the back of those cards is designed as a shooting target. So much for plausible deniability.
Probably technically falls under free speech regardless.
No different from the dozens of other targets made as targets with the face of political figures centered as the bullseye, imo. If one is fine, it's all fine.
And yet the card maker's website says "we do not condone violence".
Just as credible as social media platforms claiming they protect free speech, or corporations that claim they care about anything other than shareholders profits. Or Trump claiming he doesn't support project 2025.
Their class is united, it's why they win.
See who you are not allowed to criticise and you will see who rules you.
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