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Re:Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer on Monday August 14, 2017 @03:42PM (#15012087)
Last time I checked, most of the stormfront members and most of the alt-right aren't committing any crimes against people who are coloured, just like how homosexuals don't commit crimes against heterosexual people.
Re:Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer on Monday August 14, 2017 @03:39PM (#15012046)
I agree. This is what society has come to.

Muslim employee in a supermarket refuses to handle bacon = okay

Christian employee in a supermarket refuses bake a cake for a homosexual = not okay

Free speech and anti-discrimination when it suits you, and the opposite when it suits you. The doublethink is strong.

Re:Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer on Monday August 14, 2017 @03:21PM (#15011837)
> Would it be a "unanimous" conclusion if it were a conclusion drawn by a singular person or entity?

Which singular person or entity should be responsible for determining what "hate speech" is? According to SJWiki I am a neurosexist for believing that men and women have different brains and that gender is not a social construct. Should SJWiki be trusted? According to the ADL, Gavin McInnes and Mike Cernovich are hate preachers. Should the ADL be trusted?

> Do you have an example of this being identified as hate speech?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMl4kIxw-jo

Also it's a slippery slope because once the "hate speech" clampdown happens, we'll then be punished for microaggressions, so even if you're not a racist, you'll be seen as racist for asking what race or ethnicity someone is?

Re:Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer on Monday August 14, 2017 @02:58PM (#15011510)
Antifa aren't anti fascist. They're a terrorist organisation. They physically attack people for wearing Donald Trump hats and for attending protests.
Re:Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer on Monday August 14, 2017 @02:56PM (#15011492)
The funny thing about hate speech is that no one can make a unanimous conclusion for what hate speech is.

Nowadays hate speech is a euphamism for any idea or opinion someone doesn't like, so the term hate speech has lost its meaning. It now means using gender pronouns to refer to people, using gendered job names, saying that men and women are born with different brains, saying that there's only 2 genders, saying that feminism is cancer, saying there's a link between islam and terrorism, saying that black people underachieve in society due to genetics instead of the evil racist oppressive white male - and much more.

Re:Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer on Monday August 14, 2017 @02:53PM (#15011447)
I will stop using Gmail and move my email elsewhere as google banned the accounts of Jordan B Peterson and Dennis Cooper, people who do NOT spread hate. Google is a SJW company.
Re:I was forced to shut down Lavabit (2014) on Thursday December 29, 2016 @10:04AM (#13277596)
Whisper Systems didn't give the data the government wanted, and they'll still operating and not banned in america.

https://whispersystems.org/bigbrother/eastern-virginia-grand...

Re:I was forced to shut down Lavabit (2014) on Thursday December 29, 2016 @08:45AM (#13277196)
Protonmail is not anonymous. I tried to sign up with Tor and it asked me to validate my phone number. Also if you look at their Transparency Report, you'll see that they do data retention on the government's demand.
Re:I was forced to shut down Lavabit (2014) on Thursday December 29, 2016 @08:44AM (#13277189)
No. Lavabit could have programmed a backdoor into their web interface using the private keys that allows access to only one account, but the US government wasn't happy with that.
Re:I was forced to shut down Lavabit (2014) on Thursday December 29, 2016 @07:26AM (#13276926)
What I don't like is how the government demands to wiretap EVERY person's account regardless of there being no suspicion of crime in every account. How can that be justified? To stop future whistleblowers?

It reminds me of the Investigatory Powers Act in Britain which demands ISPs to log everyone's internet browsing history and the end of end-to-end encryption as all encryption will have to have backdoors.

All that will happen, is that anonymous email providers will move to countries which are privacy friendly. It's a game of whack a mole. There's already Sigaint which is an anonymous email provider which is hosted on Tor. I'll be using Sigaint, offshore hosting and I2VPN when I launch my anonymous website.

Re:EU court says mass data retention illegal on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @05:24PM (#13233196)
The Investigatory Powers Bill will still pass in Britain, if not now, when we leave the EU in 2018.
Re:2016's most-edited Wikipedia articles on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @05:23PM (#13233190)
Why am I not surprised to see Donald Trump in this list?
Re:Getting Rid of Comments on Vice.com on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @12:30PM (#13230879)
It looks like a move to control dissent as people comment their disagreements with a refute, to articles they disagree with.
Re:Nestle says it will cut sugar in chocolate by 40% on Thursday December 01, 2016 @01:00PM (#13081685)
It's the sugar that makes milk chocolate taste good, as cocoa powder has a sour taste. I expect Nestle to lose money due to this move.
Re:ProtonMail v3.6 Release Notes on Thursday December 01, 2016 @12:57PM (#13081659)
I'm saddened that for an "end-to-end encrypted" and "privacy" email service, that Protonmail is not anonymous. I tried to sign up with Tor and it asked me to validate my mobile number. Also if you read the Transparency Report, Protonmail does data retention for the government on certain accounts.
Re:Ask HN: What is your full stack web development? on Thursday December 01, 2016 @12:50PM (#13081578)
php, I haven't decided on a php framework. For ruby, I use the Ramaze framework.

Photoshop, Notepad2, Sublime Text, Faststone Capture, Licecap, Google Chrome, WinSCP, WAVE chrome addon

Nokia had a great platform with Symbian^3, Maemo and Meego. Steven Elop killed the company when he sold Nokia to Microsoft, he should have sold to Amazon. Then Nokia would be selling proper smartphones instead of feature phones.
Re:Nestle says it will cut sugar in chocolate by 40% on Thursday December 01, 2016 @12:46PM (#13081525)
That google cache will expire. Here's a version of that link that'll last forever. http://archive.is/CyGmc
Secure hashing.
Re:Keeping secrecy the exception, not the rule on Saturday April 16, 2016 @03:21PM (#11511880)
lol
Re:Keeping secrecy the exception, not the rule on Saturday April 16, 2016 @03:18PM (#11511867)
What if someone forgets their password? Then they can't access their email account again.
I received this email from Experience Project (EP) after emailing them.

====================

Hi,

Thank you for your email. We truly appreciate your idea and that you want to help keep the site up for users.

Please know that we have looked into every option when making our decision to close the site. This was a very difficult decision on our part that we struggled with for months.

The bottom line is that the privacy of our users is our top priority, and as online anonymity is being challenged more and more by government agencies, we simply no longer have the resources to effectively handle a slew of incoming information requests, subpoenas, and search warrants.

While we support proper law enforcement efforts, the potential for abuse is constantly growing as scores of new laws require compliance with intricate and sometimes contradictory privacy regulations for each country, territory, and state.

With Appreciation,

EP Support Team www.experienceproject.com

====================

How am I supposed to make a website with a private message function where users are anonymous, if the american government can demand to revoke all users anonymity? It happened with Lavabit, now with Experience Project. American government wanted info on [email protected] (which Lavabit was happy to give) then decided they wanted information on ALL users, and the same thing must be happening to EP. Any website based or hosted in america with private messaging and supposed anonymity is at risk.

Re:GitHub spy on user reading emails (2014) on Friday April 15, 2016 @02:55PM (#11506728)
A beacon doesn't mean they're reading the content of the email.
C in Easy Steps
Re:Someone just made a $147,239,214 Bitcoin transfer on Saturday November 23, 2013 @10:30AM (#6786209)
If Bitcoin was created by the government, how can they tax it?
Re:Someone just made a $147,239,214 Bitcoin transfer on Saturday November 23, 2013 @10:21AM (#6786172)
Yes the police do show up asking you where you got the money from. And if you can't say, they take the money off you.
Re:US doesn't know what Snowden took, sources say on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @09:23AM (#6250046)
If you can read something, you can copy it.

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