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    schnurrito ,

    Remember when reddit was a free speech platform where pretty much everything legal was ok except doxing?

    What went wrong that we can't have places like that on the Internet anymore?

    schnurrito ,

    I think the line is easy to draw: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/moderation-is-different-from-censorship

    I oppose most censorship, but I do not oppose moderation. If you don't want to see certain people speaking freely, you shouldn't have to, but you shouldn't be allowed to keep them from speaking freely to each other.

    schnurrito ,

    It appears I am getting bored with the entire Internet.

    When we had web forums with thread bumping, I got an endless stream of interesting and entertaining things to react to despite there being relatively few users.

    schnurrito ,

    historically a "PC" is a machine compatible with the "IBM PC" and the only OS available for that was DOS or later Windows

    Of course then Unix-like operating systems started to become available for the same machines, and Apple switched to Intel processors for a while too.

    schnurrito ,

    Platforms actually have one significant advantage over personal websites, blogs, disconnected forums: You only have to go to one website (open one app) in order to read everything you find interesting. You don't have to remember to go to 5 different forums and read 15 different blogs.

    Of course the disadvantage is that they are a lot easier to censor because they're a single point of failure.

    ActivityPub should in theory be the best of both worlds, but I am not too optimistic; people, organizations, governments wanting to censor people they don't like will always find a way. :(

    What do you think about Abstract Wikipedia?

    Wikifunctions is a new site that has been added to the list of sites operated by WMF. I definitely see uses for it in automating updates on Wikipedia and bots (and also for programmers to reference), but their goal is to translate Wikipedia articles to more languages by writing them in code that has a lot of linguistic...

    schnurrito ,

    This problem was solved in like 2012 or 2013 with the introduction of Wikidata, but not all language editions have decided to use that.

    schnurrito ,

    I think enwiki tends to use Wikidata relatively sparingly.

    schnurrito ,

    When Android was still new, lots of people thought of it as "Linux for phones".

    schnurrito ,

    2004: The Internet is going to lead us into a utopian future of free communication and access to information! No government will ever be able to censor information anymore because they will lack legal reach to censor everything!

    2024:

    schnurrito ,

    Humanity never changes, adults still think we know better what's good for young people than they themselves do. When I was a child and teenager, I hoped that this attitude would die out over the generations, seems that that isn't happening.

    schnurrito ,

    and that is how it should be and which was also my philosophy when I held positions of authority in online communities (I don't hold any anymore because I no longer have time to spend as much time online as I used to)

    That requires quite a bit of idealism and self-reflection which is not a common trait in humans.

    schnurrito ,

    What is the difference between believers and heretics? Well, the heretics believe that 2+2 equals 3. Meanwhile, we believers know that 2+2 obviously equals 5.

    schnurrito ,

    When Internet communities were still a relatively niche thing and I (preteen to early teen) was already on the Internet, I had great dreams that in the future everyone would be on it and this would cause society to be awesome.

    Everyone is now on the Internet. This has not made society awesome.

    White House calls for legislation after ‘alarming’ proliferation of Taylor Swift deepfakes — Social media networks also need to do more to prevent the spread of the images, said press secretary Kar... (www.bloomberg.com)

    White House calls for legislation after ‘alarming’ proliferation of Taylor Swift deepfakes — Social media networks also need to do more to prevent the spread of the images, said press secretary Kar...::The White House said sexually-explicit AI-generated images of pop star Taylor Swift were concerning and that Congress...

    schnurrito ,

    Things the world needs:

    • governments regulating the Internet more
    • some others

    Taylor Swift is living every woman’s AI porn nightmare — Deepfake nudes of the pop star are appearing all over social media. We all saw this coming. (www.vice.com)

    Taylor Swift is living every woman’s AI porn nightmare — Deepfake nudes of the pop star are appearing all over social media. We all saw this coming.::Deepfake nudes of the pop star are appearing all over social media. We all saw this coming.

    schnurrito ,

    On the Internet, censorship happens not by having too little information, but too much information in which it is difficult to find what you want.

    We all have only so much time to spend on the Internet and so necessarily get a filtered experience of everything that happens on the Internet.

    schnurrito ,

    No, that is not what I'm saying, mostly because I don't think it is true. I'm saying that nowadays there is nearly all kinds of information one can think of somewhere out there on the Internet; but if it is only in relatively obscure places and you don't know where to look for it, then it is still de facto censored by having too much other information out there.

    schnurrito ,

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit

    Women STEM students up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism (www.hepi.ac.uk)

    We know that women students and staff remain underrepresented in Higher Education STEM disciplines. Even in subjects where equivalent numbers of men and women participate, however, many women are still disadvantaged by everyday sexism. Our recent research found that women who study STEM subjects at undergraduate level in England...

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    what or whom are you even trying to troll? this is a strawman of 100% of everything

    schnurrito ,

    copying is not theft, stealing a thing leaves one less left, copying it makes one thing more, that's what copying's for

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    In the 2000s we thought user-generated content would lead to a utopian future where we got our opinions from each other rather than from big companies.

    Turns out: big companies, governments and other institutions with money are perfectly capable of paying people to be "users" who are "generating content". Now we get (at least some of) our opinions from them and don't even know it.

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