Doesn't that send a clear message to the perpetrators that they can cause any community to be shut down and killed and all they have to do is post CSAM to it? What makes you or anyone else think that, upon seeing that lemmyshitpost is gone, that the perpetrators will all just quit. Was lemmyshitpost the only community they were able to post in?
How would you respond to having someone else forcibly load up your pc with child porn over the Internet? Would you take it offline?
But that's not what happened. They didn't take the server offline. They banned a community. If some remote person had access to my pc and they were loading it up with child porn, I would not expect that deleting the folder would fix the problem. So I don't understand what your analogy is trying to accomplish because it's faulty.
Also, I think you are confusing my question as some kind of disapproval. It isn't. If closing a community solves the problem then I fully support the admin team actions.
I'm just questioning whether that really solves the problem or not. It was a community created on Lemmy.world, not some other instance. So if the perpetrators were capable of posting to it, they are capable of posting to any community on lemmy.world. You get that, yeah?
My question is just a request for clarification. How does shutting down 1 community stop the perpetrators from posting the same stuff to other communities?
I can't afford to buy new vehicles, so I'm stuck still driving around in my 2004 - but even that car has a factory-installed immobilizer. It's weird that it's not considered a standard option on all models for modern vehicles.
How does closing lemmyshitpost do anything to solve the issue? Isn't it a foregone conclusion that the offenders would just start targeting other communities or was there something unique about lemmyshitpost that made it more susceptible?
One of the biggest studies to date tracked nearly 600,000 Californians and found that your odds of being killed by firearm are 8 in 100,000 and increase to 12 in 100,000 if you keep a gun in your house (source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/07/guns-handguns-safety-homicide-killing-study). That means that keeping a gun in your house increases your chances for dying to gunshot by 4 in 100,000 chances.
So you can't understand why people still keep guns? It's because they don't perceive it as a significant threat. And statistically, it isn't. At least not as big a threat as many other common behaviors that are accepted as normal.
The takeaway is that if you are paranoid about dying from statistically small things, then ceasing doing a lot of other activities (like driving) is going to be statistically more impactful than not having a gun in your house.
Prosecution wants to rush a date so that it will interfere with campaigning
The prosecution has already done their work. They are ready to prosecute the case and present evidence. Delays allow for eye-witnesses' memories to become less clear and opens them up to challenges on cross-examination. Wanting a speedy trial has nothing to do with political agenda and everything to do with wanting to present the most accurate facts possible.
When local police are "accidentally" making mistakes that make it difficult/impossible to prosecute crimes against people who happen to be the wrong color then yeah, it really does take the FBI to get the job done.
I investigated that instance and am not seeing what you claim they are doing. Any chance you just stumbled across a rogue community there that has already been banned by their own admin team? The instance and communities there are pretty adamant about not posting any content that violates US law (which is pretty strict when it comes to the kind of content you describe).
Also, why is the knee jerk reaction to defederate when banning a single community is usually all it takes to solve the problem?
His private jet (a Boeing 757) that flew him from Palm Beach to Atlanta for his booking....costs $15k to $18k per hour to operate, and it's a 2-hour flight each way (not counting warmup, taxi, and idle time waiting to takeoff). He basically dropped $60k+ for that flight. It doesn't make sense that he'd need the services of a bail bondsman when he's dropping $60k for plane rides, or maybe his campaign funds are paying to operate that jet - I wouldn't be surprised.
I see you ignored the other comments in the subthread. Someone did provide an extremely thorough answer which the commenter dismissed as not believing the author was credible...rather than exploring the numerous valid claims and arguments. My comment was not only a perfect description of what was happening, but also turned out to be prophetic about what would happen next. Their original challenge was not in good faith and was intentionally designed to cause someone to have to go out and do a ton of work only to be dismissed.
On review of all the additional evidence and testimony, it became obvious to the prosecution that the key witness ("Trump Employee 4" - revealed by NBC News to be "Yuscil Taveras" - IT Director at Mar-a-Lago) in question had perjured himself in earlier grand jury testimony and that it was a conflict of interest for that witness to be represented by by the same attorney (Stanley Woodward) representing other involved clients.
Prosecutors asked for a hearing on the representation issue before James Boasberg, the chief US District Court judge in Washington DC who oversaw the grand jury investigation.
Judge Boasberg had a federal defender available to advise Taveras if requested, and Taveras did opt to change lawyers after he learned he was being investigated on suspicion of making false statements in previous grand jury testimony.
So, TL/DR: he went with the public defender out of the immediacy and need for independent counsel and the only option available at that moment was the public defender who was pre-emptively made available by the Judge himself.
I will speculate that he will be acquiring his own representation going forward.
It is in the nature of power. Reducing this to a particular economic system is nearsighted.
I will agree that it is the nature of power. But I will argue that few other economic systems actively facilitate (and actually reward) the concentration of power the way capitalism does. I'll also point out you are basically resorting to a "whataboutism" argument.
Your employer is ALWAYS looking for a way to either get more work out of you for the same compensation, or replace you with some one or some process that produces the equivalent output for less cost. The entire idea that employees should be loyal to their employers is one of the most successful propaganda campaigns ever spawned by capitalism.
They are definitely causing the Barbara Streisand effect with this. Before seeing this post, I had never heard of skiplagging...now there is a 100% chance I will check for skiplagging my next flight if it saves me money.
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Doesn't that send a clear message to the perpetrators that they can cause any community to be shut down and killed and all they have to do is post CSAM to it? What makes you or anyone else think that, upon seeing that lemmyshitpost is gone, that the perpetrators will all just quit. Was lemmyshitpost the only community they were able to post in?