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How slow do you read??


Expanding the DMCA model to speech in general! Ten years ago I would have been very surprised to see this take on HN.


I think the calculus has changed a bit since then because we either have unaccountable megacorporations doing it or government.


Why would you think government would be any less accountable? If anything, government has everything to gain from this.


Governments all over (including our own) have already gotten caught removing things that are directly relevant to transparency for modern systems. Crazy to think they can be relied upon to exercise these types of powers wisely.


If your argument is that nobody can be trusted then that’s fine, but I’m throwing my hat in with government over Facebook or Twitter if I have to choose. Because “everyone just drop it” doesn’t seem like it’s gonna happen.


"Less unaccountable" is what I meant to write, but my point still stands.


"I think the calculus has changed a bit since then because we either have unaccountable megacorporations doing it or government. So let's give them even MORE power."

On other, less-enlightened forums, this would earn you a .jpg of a dog cocking its head to the side quizzically.


I was thinking the opposite, if they’re gonna ban you for hate speech there has to be a formal complaint, with a reason and citing exactly the content, there is a formal dispute process and the final decision is made by someone not part of the corporation.


Well, your examples are from 50 years ago...


Hershey bars are made by Hershey, not by Nestle.


There is the oddity of KitKat in the US being made by Hershey but Nestle internationally.


There aren't going to be fewer people as a result of this, there are just going to be fewer South Koreans in South Korea. When developed nations pursue non-procreative social policies and lose their demographics, they get internally replaced from undeveloped nations. The global population continues to grow.


The growth of the global population is slowing[1]. Undeveloped nations are developing, and as they do their birth rate drops as well.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/WLD/world/birth-rate


He was surely the leader of a fine category:

  "Pretiboy"
  "Swepestake"
  "Stanchebost"

But, there was also another kind:

  "Plodder"
  "Vagrawnte"
  "Helpeles"


All of these others mean something to me, but what does "Stanchebost" mean?


We call ours "Monty" for short


It's not going to be for people convicted of multiple DUI's.


Bloody sheep!


That's a birth defect, not a sex.


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