Telecoms want to editorialize what goes through their pipes. But tech companies want the pipes to be neutral so the telecoms can't mess with their platforms.

Then the tech companies turn around and want to editorialize user generated content on their platforms. But users want the platforms to be neutral so the tech companies can't mess with their content.

Do you see why the tech companies are being hypocritical? Everyone wants control over the presentation of their own "stuff", but then all the middle men want to stick their fingers in it. Tech companies aren't "regulating" this content as a service to the community, they are indulging in growing their own power. The 1st amendment becomes meaningless if all speech has to go through corporate filters. How does one have "public speech" on the internet? If the social network kicks you off, start your own website. Run your website, the ISP can kick you off. Get your own uplink, the domain registrar can delist your name. Run on a naked IP address, even the banking system can arbitrarily freeze your account. We have lost control of government to private corporate interests who act as their own judge and jury to control our most foundational freedom of speech and assembly. How long until laser printers run AI classifiers on what you're allowed to print? (Hint: they already do but so far limited to detecting currency.)

It's completely fair to say if the tech companies want the pipes to be neutral, they should also promise to keep their platforms neutral—no arbitrary "fact checkers" and SJW censors. On the flip side, if a company wants to act as a private publisher instead of a public platform, then they assume responsibility for the content—no "safe harbor" provisions, and they should also be subject to telecom "publishing" deals as well since they are no longer providing public service themselves.

Yeah exactly. When I finally get to the so-contraversial tweet, it's just saying looting has gone too far and he's willing to send the national guard to help the governor restore order?

Is twitter really going to start censoring any calls for law and order? That's ridiculous.

On the one hand, I hardly find the authority's dismissal of the lab convincing. Even those in the US because it was US funded research going on there, and the blowback if they did admit it was from our program, and especially if it was from gain-of-function research that had been banned in the US and then moved to China, would be colossal. The media has been incredibly complicit in conflating that just because it wasn't engineered, that it didn't come from the lab (which is not an exclusive relationship by which to make that assumption), and quoting "viral experts" regarding that assumption without disclosing they were involved in the lab's research, which makes them a huge conflict of interest to clear their own work.

But on the other hand, even if we believe that they've never seen anything close to this before, then they failed to perform their core function, which was to find these pathogens before they hit the population and give us a head start to fight them.

So either way, the lab screwed up.

The point isn't to prevent infection outright (it's not a vaccine) it but to give the body an edge to fight it and reduce the severity. Given the incubation period, you might not know you have it in order to start taking the drug early, when it would be effective, hence taking it preemptively. (I've also read you have to be taking it a while before it builds up and gets dispersed throughout the body but I'm not sure about that.)

Anyway if you're waiting until the damage is done and you're in the hospital, you've missed the boat. Which is why the studies which only cover treatment of patients in a hospital are not helpful, and suspect as a feint to push policy toward expensive and even less proven new anti-virals but which happen to be covered by patents and fat profit margins.

FYI Trump is kind of famously a non-drinker. Apparently his brother Fred was an alcoholic and died early, so for once we have a sober president.

Black box voting machines make it easy for election officials to throw the results however they pleased. Let's skip the Russian conspiracy theories when good ol' domestic corruption is more than enough to explain suspiciously wiped servers.

Sort of, except for the part about cryptocurrency depending on stable government. One of its selling points is that it *doesn't* depend on government. So it's more of a fork, targeting a world where you have communications and thus want to conduct long-range commerce, but don't trust/rely on banking/government support to do it.

Considering remote tribes in Africa can get cellular these days, it's quite feasible to me that we would retain basic internet access even in times of failed governance, and being able to order scarce goods from other regions is exactly what makes cryptocurrency more liquid/functional than other forms that rely on physical barter for already-local goods. For example, Venezuela: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fte...

I hope you find some peace, that sounds like a really shitty start to life. It shouldn't have been like that.

Parents should be supportive of their offspring. Sure there's no legal requirement, and sure sometimes kids need a little push to get out of the nest, but I doubt that is the case here. My parents would still pitch in if I was having trouble, and I am grateful for that support. In any case, she has a job (she had previously posted pics on reddit from working at EBGames (or some such) over Halloween), so I'm not sure why you assume she "refuses to take care of herself."

The video is hard to watch. For reference, the daughter was participating in the comment thread on reddit (username shoeofallcosmos).

Oh, so he abuses his children and then also doesn't support them financially, sounds like a real winner!

Some people actually have ethics rather than only protecting their own selfish interests.

The troll is strong with this one ;)

For all those who argued against net neutrality as promoting "regulation", see how little help that was, they will try to regulate anyway. We might as well get the useful consumer protections against corporate manipulations while they are/were available, otherwise we'll just get stuck with regulation at both gov't and corporate levels.

Use the search field instead of scrolling through everything. It's fewer keystrokes even if you know the phone number. (unless the phone UI sucks, which is possible) And if you have a few people you call a lot, set up speed-dial, even faster.

Seriously, I don't even use the telephone number pad when making phone calls, even basic phones have address books built-in.