I don't think there's any lack of fundamental problems. We're still primarily using a protocol that wasn't designed to be resistant to bad behavior, with address starvation, with assignments carried out by conflicted organizations, with name services likewise, with apparent disinterest from government organizations happy to write speeding tickets in anything like enforcement of existing laws about conduct on telecommunications networks, which themselves occasionally make a lunge towards censorship and all of which are somehow complicit in unconstitutional citizen spying programs. All of these problems are also international. When you want to discuss problems with the internet, the first problem is where do you start, and the last is where do you stop?

But on the flip side, at some point even the phone company is allowed to cut you off, and not only for reasons of nonpayment. It may have to involve legal action, but if you are problematic enough, you can be denied non-emergency phone services. Or, you know, imprisoned. Then you wind up with really terrible access to telecommunications. How much are we expecting to change society in the course of this conversation?

Slashdot, Reddit, and other atypical social media sites have their own benefits and pitfalls unique to their particular community and moderation designs. Aspects of Slashdot's specific mod system are beneficial and user-friendly, including the descriptive moderation and ability to assign scores based on it. I give bonuses for flamebait, troll, and offtopic on the assumption that much of that moderation is intentionally abusive, but I also don't want to wade in the muck of every single comment in busy discussions.

Sometimes I click around and eventually do read every comment, especially in discussions with few comments, but I'm not about to make that my default because I sure don't want to. But I still wish that metamoderation had any perceptible effects, or that you could comment in discussions where you've moderated — just not in the same thread — as the people most qualified to comment are also the people most qualified to moderate.

Not the encore dump? Shame, shame!

Are the kind of people who are upset that they can't use the n-word in public and who knowingly voted for Trump the rapist because they think it should be legal to fuck kids. So really I don't pay much mind to those people because they're weird little fuckers and best case scenario they will become irrelevant and worst case scenario we're all going to die in a global Firestorm of nuclear fire caused by those idiots handing the launch codes to religious lunatics because they're upset somebody said happy holidays...

It's not a product it's there to replace wages. The potential payoff is in the trillions so a little bit of short-term expenditure is fine, most of which you will pay for it because there are only a handful of companies left after decades of mega mergers and illegal antitrust violations that were not enforced.

The billionaires have had it with capitalism. Mark my words. They are done with capitalism and they are done with consumers and they are done with us.

Now do Israel oppressing Palestinians.

Apparently you did, because equally apparently you don't understand as much as you think you do. You also seem to think you're the only descendant of Jews around here.

I get it you want to say the n word and you want to do it without getting banned or modded down. And you know the way things are going if your side wins you'll get the Say the n-word as much as you want.

But they're going to take your house and the pills to keep you alive. They're not just going to let you be a racist piece of shit on the internet they're going to take your property away from you. And they're going to do worse to your kids and your grandkids not that you care...

I'm not telling you this because I think it'll change your mind. You are too poisoned in the brain to do anything but be an asshole anymore.

I'm telling you this because I want to put it in your head like a worm that's going to eat your brain alive like a certain Health and human services head. You know what you're doing and you know it's eventually going to backfire and you know that unless you're at least 65 years old you're not going to drop dead before it does.

So you know damn well that the internet is nothing like a mother fucking newspaper. But your troll and a racist so this is all about you getting to be your worst possible person as much as possible. And I'm telling you you're not going to get away with that. The billionaires will take all your property just to take it. Good luck dying before that happens because that's literally the only thing that can save your fat stinking ass

Also could you please stop putting rapists in the White House? Thanks

And the rest of the world follows. If the United States does the way with free speech on the Internet by killing section 230 then Europe will follow. And it's Europe that you're talking about because China does not have free speech on the internet and in many African countries they will literally kill you if you're gay.. although in their defense Americans went over there and lobbied for the laws that give death penalties for being gay...

The United States falling to fascism is going to take the rest of the world with it. Eventually we will hand nuclear launch codes to the religious lunatics and Chisto fascists and then that's game over for the human race...

It's not a product it's capital. It's not something they sell even to businesses it's something you own and use for your own purposes. AKA capital.

AI exists to solve the problem of paying wages. Because of that it doesn't need to be profitable it just needs to serve the needs of the people who own it, billionaires.

I think this is a difficult idea for people to wrap their heads around because what's happening here is capitalism is going away and since we all grew up being told that capitalism is immutable and the only viable economic system the idea that it would be dismantled and replaced with something else is nonsensical.

25% unemployment got us World War II. AI is going to cause at least that much. If you think there are going to be new jobs sit down and try to list them. You can't. The economy can't adapt this fast.

The reason I bring it up is there is a lot of old people who think they are going to get away from this mess unscathed. So they think they can sit back and watch everything collapse around them.

It's painfully obvious billionaires have had enough of capitalism. But socialism is absolutely not on the table. So with capitalism collapsing and socialism not an option what now?

And we better figure it out fast because the billionaires already have their solution which is techno feudal dystopia.

Good luck getting medical Care in that collapsing economy and civilization. The pills keeping you alive or going to become unavailable. You'll be lucky if you have food and enough heating oil to get through a winter

Gov't has many, many, many regulations including fees attached to them. If you want to 'run a business' you pay ridiculous amounts of fees.

1st Amend also allows people to complain about said fees.

Doesn't make them remotely unconstitutional or a chill on speech.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

230 requires *providers* to have a way to report content - not users.

The definition of a provider is wider than most people understand.

That they can now take down content is irrelevant to being sued for it. It can't be taken down prior to it being posted, unless you're reviewing everything before it goes public. So the suits happen - that's expressly why a law like 230 is needed.

A mom n pop store that allows reviews of purchases could be bankrupted over a single user review that contains copyrighted text.

230 has flaws that should be fixed, but the concept it represents is absolutely vital to the current internet. The *only* companies that could deal with it being repealed are the big social companies.

If the only people who can deal with the penalty are the ones you're trying to penalize....you might not have a grasp of the problem.

Because at least they're not directly to blame. What pisses me off are the people who are complicit.

It's mostly people over 50 who have the I got mine fuck you attitude. The kind of people who are angry they can't use the n word in public anymore.

A convicted felon with 28 credible rape accusations couldn't be president without complicity from a large group of people. Without willing participation

I didn't have you being a little bitch on my bingo card for today.

It's extremely antisemitic to conflate all Jews with Zionists, as Zionism is antisemitic. But...

...most of the Zionists' ancestors weren't even semites, unlike the people they're genociding. Tell me again about how it's 100% about race. You're focused on this incident, I'm talking about the bigger picture, of which this incident is only one piece. Was it anti-semitic? Yes. Is Israel's genocide promoting anti-semitism? Also yes. Does that justify attacking all Jews? No it does not, not any more than being opposed to actions of some Muslims or middle easterners or any other group justifies attacking all of them. But since I never said so, it is you who may fuck all the way off. If I had meant that, I would have said it, because I am not a mealy-mouthed little fuck who can't say what he means. I don't have to make points through weaselly implication because I am not afraid to simply say what I mean, despite the accusations of cowardly clown fucks.

A significant number of Jews insist that their ethnicity and their faith cannot be separated, which is only true to the extent that some of their sects refuse to consider you to be a Jew unless your mother is a certified Jew — another practice which both limits the growth of their faith, and alienates them from everyone else. It's not universal, but it's universally harmful, because the people who do this insist with their fundamentalist fervor that it's the only valid way to be a Jew. So while I would say that for individuals it's entirely possible for those things to be separate, it's not reasonable to expect people to believe that it is.

Every person is an individual, whether it's the shooters in Australia, or their victims, or the Muslim who took the shotgun away from the shooter and got shot twice in the process. Everyone's potentially got their own narrative about every other person, none of which will fully capture who or what they are. All we can do is look honestly at situations, causes, actions, and results, and look for solutions. None of them come from being willfully ignorant as you are demonstrating here, nor from a jerking knee.

Do better.