Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work
by seamyb88 on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @05:50PM
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The phone analogy is terrible because the vitriol doesn't prevail. You aren't bombarded with 100 people's bigotry every time you pick up the phone.
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What about the postal service then? That is a common carrier. Never mind being bombarded with bigotry, people can bombard you with literal bombs using the postal service, but hey if some kids are shitposting memes on 8chan... well we have to shut down that service altogether.
Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work
by Fnoord on Thursday October 17, 2019 @01:18AM
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Radio, TV, and newspaper are each a better analogy.
Postal service is more akin to the infrastructure of radio/TV/newspaper (which differs, and is rather not one but various, e.g. cable, FM, and paperboys).
The analogy with Internet would be transit providers. The undersea cables between US and EU, for example. These are heavily logged, e.g. by UK. Imagine all your post be scanned, that'd be GDR-esque.