News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting. Parent comment

Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by nullc on Thursday October 15, 2020 @05:53AM (#24786758)
> Neutrality is only an option if you limit yourself to making cuckoo clocks.

Heretic! True clocks look like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Hexadeci...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by pjc50 on Thursday October 15, 2020 @07:54AM (#24787601)
That was a specific reference to a famous speech of Orson Welles in The Third Man:

> You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by drewbug on Thursday October 15, 2020 @01:27PM (#24791199)
_Pinky and the Brain_ edition:

> In Italy under the Borgias, they had thirty years of murder, bloodshed and warfare. And they produced indigestible noodles, boring operas and the FIAT. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The Swiss bank account, the best cheese in the world and Heidi!

:)

[ Parent | on HN ]