Praise the Shai-Hulud!
koper
joined 2 years ago
Why do I always feel like I need a PhD to understand even the first paragraph of Wikipedia articles about math. Is that just me?
Sure. For the fact that many jurisdictions outside of the US also consider freedom of speech and other human rights to apply between private parties: this is called "horizontal effect" and covered extensively in case law by e.g. the European Court of Human Rights. See also this chapter for an international comparison and this paper for a European perspective.
As for the specific rules in the EU for platforms: Article 17 of the Digital Services Act requires that users who are banned or shadowbanned from any platform are provided with specific information of what rule they broke, which they can then appeal internally or in court. Article 34 and 35 requires very large platforms (such as X) to take broad measures to protect i.a. the users' freedom of speech.
More to the point, one person who was shadowbanned by X in a similar way used the DSA and won in court
(Edited to add the last paragraph)
*in the US.
The EU recognizes that human right such as freedom of speech also should be protected against private parties. Platforms can't ban or restrict you for arbitrary reasons here.
I'm of the opinion that having a lot of money shouldn't, in fact, allow you to do what you want. No person should have this power to do mass censorship, not in the last place because manipulating online discourse means manipulating a fundamental aspect of democracy.
Musk specifically is meddling in elections, both in the EU and the US by e.g. bribing voters. Turning the dials of the algorithm lets him do this even more effectively.
But the whole point of the doomsday machine is lost... if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world, eh?
I am aware. And usually that means crossposting the jokes or making fun of 4channers, not uncritically repeating their dogwhistles.
Just so you're aware, the phrase "noticing things" or "being a noticer" is 4chan lingo for believing there is a Jewish conspiracy to run the world. That's why I asked OP to clarify.
Hey OP, do you actually think Christians in the US are marginalized, or did you just cross-post that alt-right garbage here by accident?
Your comment perfectly represents the moral bankruptcy of the Democratic party. The obsession with elections and compromising, even when the midterms are almost two years away.
A proper opposition party would hammer the substance and put the institutional failures on full display. If you don't have principles, there's no point to winning power anyway.
Deporting citizens to El Salvador for criticizing Israel. Which Nick dislikes only because he is a literal neonazi who wants a "holy war" against Jews.