What to make of this whole thing? Hard to say. But here’s an amusing thought.
Before I start: I’ll invoke dang’s rage for a moment and say this is yet another burner account due to my previous ones being flagged/banned - not for anything actually illegal or low brow or whatever, but for going against the orthodoxy. Trite and cliche statement, yes.
This whole thing is yet another nail in the coffin. Maybe Apple will back out, maybe not, but really it doesn’t matter. Could be any other company, I don’t particularly care.
What does matter is how HN treats its members and how moderator(s) handle things when we bring these possibilities up. This is where I think the ball has been dropped. You can also substitute HN for other technophile forums, again, doesn’t matter.
You need to learn that shunning us when we are telling you what’s going to happen isn’t the way to go about this. You deplatform us on these topics because you think you know better and we are the trolls and conspiracy theorists with our unsubstantiated claims, lack of evidence, data, and so on. To us, you can’t see the forest for the trees nor the train wreck approaching. I think most of us just stopped caring.
You can say every so often that a broken clock is right twice a day. But I am pretty sure both Assange and Snowden shake their heads at such a statement here and wonder if it’s true naïveté or if you’re trying to guile others.
But, for the time being you can believe what the news and Snopes say and continue to shitpost HN. Eventually it’ll be you on the chopping block.
This is something that was briefly touched upon in The Smug Style in American Liberalism where Knowledge and Knowing aren’t the same, but in general people are incredibly uncomfortable in hearing this - on HN and elsewhere. Too many confuse Knowing with Knowledge. Knowing isn’t a metric of intelligence, merely conformism without any critical thinking.
China showing just how ahead of the curve they really are. I really wish they would have the gall to try some of this here, but the ruling party is owned by big money (the Jews, really) and any of this happening would go against their interests. So we are saddled with a decrepit, slowly degrading way of life while on the other side of the globe someone with some sensibility has found a way to put words into actions.
Last week they called games something to tune of “mental opioids.” Can you imagine Steam and even Netflix being banned here if it was found it has a net negative result on society? Yeah fucking right they would.
Kudos, I hope this turns out to be a positive long term change for them.
Before I start: I’ll invoke dang’s rage for a moment and say this is yet another burner account due to my previous ones being flagged/banned - not for anything actually illegal or low brow or whatever, but for going against the orthodoxy. Trite and cliche statement, yes.
This whole thing is yet another nail in the coffin. Maybe Apple will back out, maybe not, but really it doesn’t matter. Could be any other company, I don’t particularly care.
What does matter is how HN treats its members and how moderator(s) handle things when we bring these possibilities up. This is where I think the ball has been dropped. You can also substitute HN for other technophile forums, again, doesn’t matter.
You need to learn that shunning us when we are telling you what’s going to happen isn’t the way to go about this. You deplatform us on these topics because you think you know better and we are the trolls and conspiracy theorists with our unsubstantiated claims, lack of evidence, data, and so on. To us, you can’t see the forest for the trees nor the train wreck approaching. I think most of us just stopped caring.
You can say every so often that a broken clock is right twice a day. But I am pretty sure both Assange and Snowden shake their heads at such a statement here and wonder if it’s true naïveté or if you’re trying to guile others.
But, for the time being you can believe what the news and Snopes say and continue to shitpost HN. Eventually it’ll be you on the chopping block.