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Re:Obscure election will decide the fate of the open internet
on Friday September 30, 2022 @02:31PM (#33038740)
The American internet may be neutral but that means little when the legal system doesn't respect freedom of the press. For example, isn't Julian Assange is being prosecuted right now because he exposed government wrongdoing?
Re:The Anarcho-Statists of Spain: Analysis of Spanish Anarchism
on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @12:01PM (#31989894)
Response by an anarchist: http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/spain/sp001532.html
Re:Which search engine is the least censored?
on Friday March 11, 2022 @09:23PM (#30648403)
> Results for "evidence of election fraud 2020" - at least 5 results showing major election fraud took place.
Shouldn't an "objective" search engine return results that are true (that there was no systemic election fraud) instead of results that fit his personal biases?
Re:Housing is both a human right and a profitable asset, and that’s th...
on Saturday December 18, 2021 @01:53PM (#29607333)
Rights are fundamentally a social construct. So the question is not 'what are rights?', but 'how do we define rights?' And there isn't any reason that we have to define rights to only include negative rights, not positive rights. In fact, that kind of a definition would be inconsistent - what value does freedom of speech have without the economic (housing, food, etc.) stability and education (both positive rights) needed to thoughtfully participate in society? What's the point of property rights (negative) if you don't have any property (positive)?
Also it's possible that reality simply says the right cannot be provided, and reality tends to beat policy.
I support that goal but it takes careful planning and a lot of hard work. Simply calling it a right and leaving the details for someone else to solve achieves nothing.
This is true of any right. Freedom of speech, the right to vote, etc. did not appear out of nowhere. They were the result of people fighting for them - either making revolution or pressuring governments into guaranteeing those rights. Those fights took a lot of planning, work, and sacrifice. In the same vein, if there was enough political drive to give everyone housing, at least in the West we have enough wealth to achieve that.
Re:Nullc: Fast C-like programming language with advanced features
on Thursday November 25, 2021 @10:00PM (#29347133)
Nitpick: break, return, import etc are statements, not expressions
Re:Clerk: Local-First Notebooks for Clojure
on Thursday November 04, 2021 @09:49PM (#29114596)
Gfgeftela?
Re:Socialist Publication Current Affairs Fires Staff for Doing Socialism
on Thursday August 19, 2021 @12:22AM (#28230292)
The DoTP isn't necessarily supposed to be centralized state authority. Marx based his DoTP off the Paris Commune, which was the furthest thing from authoritarian.
Re:Microsoft president: Orwell’s 1984 could happen in 2024
on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @11:00PM (#27298861)
I think it's important to note here that new technologies that have the potential for oppression can be used not only by authoritarian governments but by liberal-democratic ones as well (see: CIA programs, Snowden leaks, etc) and private companies.
Re:Ask HN: I have nothing to do at work and it's killing me
on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @09:12PM (#21768733)
This seems to me to be vaguely like manipulation...
Re:Yinbi: A Censorship-Resistant Cryptocurrency [pdf]
on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @08:37PM (#20640745)
I'm a bit skeptical.
> Yinbi Client will enable users to send and receive YNB, and will be released sometime soonafter the YNB giveaway has begun.
Will this be open-source? Can I make an alternate client? If not, this give Yinbi Global Alliance a lot of power.
Also: https://s3.amazonaws.com/yinbi/Yinbi-TOS.pdf It seems like Yinbi will have the power to terminate accounts at any time.