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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (8 children)

"We are all going to die because we have new technology, help us governments, regulate it so we don't make too much human progress at a time!!!"

I want to know what happened to "information wants to be free".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe but more likely something that seriously criticized Putin or his policies

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

yeah but that's just like your opinion man

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Poe's Law

Do you really not see that this is literally just "we are the good guys so it is ok if we do it"?

"Misinformation" is whatever those in power decide to be such, whether it can be found on Signal or X or wherever, and whether the ones deciding it are in power in the UK, the US, India, Germany, Venezuela, or Russia.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It was a mistake that the Unicode people started to add emoji of their own at all ever in the first place.

My understanding is that emoji were originally added because they existed in other preexisting standards. They should have kept it at that. Now we get public discussions what concepts are important enough to "deserve" emoji, which is a stupid, pointless discussion that could have been avoided if they had not started doing that. We were able to communicate just fine before emoji were a thing.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Your house representative didn't vote for it, nor against it, because the decision was not to bring it up for a vote at all.

You can find sources for this if you search for the #kosa hashtag on Mastodon, e.g. https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/01/ding-dong-kosas-dead-for-now/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Normally one would expect stupid bills to pass the House, but fail in the Senate.

Has this happened before that it was the other way round?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Then why did they support it in the Senate?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Because I think the government should fundamentally not be in the business of telling us on the Internet what we can talk about, how we have to design our websites, etc etc.

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

the worst laws in the US are always supported by both parties

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