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byQzukk
1:39AM
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Attached to: What Would The Internet Look Like If America Repeals Section 230?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
That's why. Somewhere in some tiny corner of some website with three visitors a month will be something that pisses off someone with lawyers.
Oh, and if Stratton Oakmont rings a bell, it's because Wolf of Wall Street was about them. So the irony is extra delicious because its possible the guy posting on Prodigy was telling the truth.
If S.230 goes away, will slashdot delete this post before a lawyer for whatever's left of Stratton Oakmont finds it and sues them over it?
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byQzukk
1:32AM
(#60127434)
Attached to: What Would The Internet Look Like If America Repeals Section 230?
It's worth remembering that this entire "Repeal 230" business was started as an impulsive tantrum by a petulant man-baby.
That's no way to refer to Joe Biden! https://www.theverge.com/2020/...
The reality is, S.230 is unpopular across the board because it takes away power from those who would use the courts to silence criticism.
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byQzukk
1:28AM
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Attached to: What Would The Internet Look Like If America Repeals Section 230?
whether screening my Facebook and Twitter is in fact limited to the good-faith efforts to address the types of content they are allowed to filter
Thing is, S.230 allows that effectively without limitation:
any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected.
So, say a site run by an antifa-supporting organization does not remove posts by antifa while removing posts from people they consider to be fascists. What exactly would the commerce department claim is being done in bad faith? That antifa supporters don't actually consider antifa posts to be un-objectionable? That they don't actually consider posts by fascists to be objectionable? Is a court going to make a call on how much violence antifa protesters think is "too much"?
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byQzukk
2:29AM
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Attached to: What Would The Internet Look Like If America Repeals Section 230?
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of (A) any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected.; or (B) any action taken to enable or make available to information content providers or others the technical means to restrict access to material described in [sub-]paragraph ([A]) .
(Emphasis mine.)
"people just moderating their discussion boards" is specifically what S.230 allows. Prior to that, you had https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
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byQzukk
8 @08:50PM
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Attached to: Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Opposes Net Neutrality
I'm saying it would be trivial to add that clause.
No different than going to the store to buy a pack of sliced Pasteurized Processed Dairy Product.
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byQzukk
8 @07:14PM
(#56932146)
Attached to: Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Opposes Net Neutrality
Replace ISPs with Trains. Does it still work?
What, the original Common Carriers? Did you think through whatever argument you were trying to make before you started typing or did you just pick some random thing?
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byQzukk
8 @06:38PM
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Attached to: Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Opposes Net Neutrality
Net Neutrality became needed because Congress and the FCC legislated monopolies after the patriot act went into effect. It was easier to spy on the whole country via 10 access points than via thousands. So your choices went to shit.
Except that they didn't "legislate" monopolies, they repealed the regulation that was previously forcing phone companies to wholesale connections to competitors. By removing that regulation in 2005, the FCC allowed the phone companies to shut down every competitor that did not have the billions (Google Fiber spent one billion dollars in Kansas City alone) of dollars required to install their own networks. Did they do it for the NSA? Did they do it because they're Republicans and deregulation is always good? Did they do it to play fair since cable companies didn't have to resell their networks? Did they do it because AT&T promised to hire them all as consultants? I don't have an answer to that, but the government did not create this problem anymore than the government is responsible for you hitting yourself in the face with a hammer since they didn't pass a law to stop you.
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byQzukk
8 @06:23PM
(#56931984)
Attached to: Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Opposes Net Neutrality
it would be illegal for you to offer a kid-safe internet service
Actually, it would be trivial to eliminate this problem. Simply put, you sell "Kids On Line" and make no claims about it being "the internet" and everyone is happy. Be sure to mail out plenty of floppies and cds with 12 free hours of service, it's a proven winner!
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byQzukk
@01:55PM
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Attached to: My conversion is complete
If nothing else, the key takeaway from Brave New World is that the Alphas and Bravos need to be thankful that the Deltas and Epsilons do all the hard work, and the Deltas and Epsilons need to be thankful that the Alphas and Bravos are there to do the hard thinking and responsibility. Without that, they'll kill each other at the earliest opportunity regardless of economic system.
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byQzukk
@09:17PM
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Attached to: Well, that submission was declined in record time
I think it's a tough call to claim that the term "open source" was *originally* invented in the 90's.
The problem is that everything and Sun's dog were "open" since the 80's. OpenLook, OpenWindows, OPENSTEP, Open Software Foundation, X/Open Group and so on. I am fairly certain that this is part of why RMS went all-in on "free software" instead of "open source", because the world already had plenty of "open" programs that were "source available". Trying to figure out when exactly the term "open" transitioned from "Foundation members and/or Sufficiently Paying Customers can review code but make no modifications or use of it" to "anyone can modify, use and share this code" needs to be solved by digging through the Deeper Archives From Before the Dawn of Internet, but unfortunately this predates the Wayback Machine and Google made their usenet archive unusable.
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byQzukk
2018 @01:18PM
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Attached to: 'Tech Companies Should Stop Pretending AI Won't Destroy Jobs'
with public works projects like rebuilding Europe as fiscal stimulus.
Robots would do that cheaper, just saying.
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byQzukk
2018 @12:33PM
(#56164379)
Attached to: 'Tech Companies Should Stop Pretending AI Won't Destroy Jobs'
will let us work 10% less
Sure.
and retain the same pay and productivity
AHAHAHA dream on, sucker.
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byQzukk
018 @03:40PM
(#56078591)
Attached to: Japan Wants To Increase Acceptance of Technology That Could Help Fill the Gap in the Nursing Workforce
Japan already has a film about that.
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byQzukk
18 @09:31PM
(#56060055)
Attached to: Nearly Three-Quarters of Adults in US Believe AI Will Eliminate More Jobs Than It Will Create -- and They Want Companies To Pay
We already know how it will go: the companies will whine to the government about how they can't find any employees with the skills they demand (such as "willing to work for $5/hr"), and demand that the government do something about it or they won't be cutting any more checks next campaign season.
Something will be done, whether it's government-paid retraining or (more likely) more immigrants.
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byQzukk
18 @09:05PM
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Attached to: Nearly Three-Quarters of Adults in US Believe AI Will Eliminate More Jobs Than It Will Create -- and They Want Companies To Pay
How fast do you imagine this technology will grow?
Let's say that Ford invents AI tech that allows them to fire every single employee tomorrow and run their entire factories lights-out. How much can they undercut their competitors with a nearly $0 labor cost? (Let's say they pay Amazon Turks $0.05 a review to double-check the AI-designed cars and make sure they look like something a human would want to drive.) How much will the stockholders' profit while the other companies struggle to catch up?
Once Ford pulls the trigger, how many quarters of losses and negative earnings reports do you think it will take for GM, Subaru, etc to do the same? Say GM decides to hold out and runs a "Buy Human" marketing ad (has "Buy American" ever actually worked?) how many GM employees are going to use their salaries to buy GM trucks over cheaper RoboFords?
Personally, I imagine that once each specific field is automated, it will rapidly become totally automated (on the scale of financial quarters once the lagging companies' stocks take a beating). How about RoboShipping? Humans won't be able to compete against $0 labor plus reduced insurance costs. Once RoboTrucking can be done, it will be done as quickly as RoboTrucks can be made and/or retrofitted into existing trucks. We will probably never develop "general" AI, just a lot of task-specific ones that only have to be invented once each.
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