schnurrito @ schnurrito @discuss.tchncs.de

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That would require a constitutional amendment in the US.

I'm very slightly too old to be part of Gen Z and can tell you that teenage and early-20s me also thought that surely the future would be awesome because then people like me, people who see the world the way I do, would be in power and fix all problems I see with the world.

Now there are plenty of politicians and other public figures who are my age or younger, and I can tell that they are not all like me, they do not all see the world the way I do, in fact they are just as diverse as everyone before them and make the same mix of good and bad decisions as everyone before them.

Linguistically, I want neither English but Chinese, but an auxiliary language to be the lingua franca. I already know Esperanto, so this would be a good candidate as far as I'm concerned. There's no way I'm learning Chinese.

I want to see as much nonfree closed source software replaced by FOSS as possible, no matter who makes it.

The others (pop culture, companies) wouldn't bother me much at all. But I don't think Christmas would stop being popular at least in Europe.

I switched to "new comments" a while ago and have no desire to go back to anything else.

"Doctor, I'm afraid of individually spelled out letters."

"Why?"

Patient screams.

"Are you okay?"

Patient screams even louder.

"Oh, I see."

Patient runs out of the room.

Now, no one can say anymore that Trump has never done anything positive.

Your link is a link back to this thread, I suspect you meant to link to something else like e.g. https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/28935257?scrollToComments=true

I think you can even do it in Organic Maps itself? In OsmAnd definitely.

OpenStreetMap data is exactly as good as volunteers made it.

The concept you're looking for is that moderation is different from censorship.

The "very random, as u can see" girl who posted on the "random" board of 4chan https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/katy-t3h-pengu1n-of-d00m is now in her early 30s.

You can control the platform, so long as "the platform" means only your own instance. I have tabs open right now to both reddit.com and discuss.tchncs.de and the only difference as far as "control" is concerned is that here I can read posts by users, and from communities, that are registered elsewhere than discuss.tchncs.de too, the operators of the latter still otherwise have the same "control" as those as of reddit.

If the links in the article are accurate, this doesn't seem to be a "law", but this thing: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/code-practice-disinformation

Anyone know more about it than I could quickly find? Is this in any way legally enforceable?

Obviously, I believe that governments have no legitimate business whatsoever telling us on the Internet what we can talk about, say to each other, etc.; but I would still like to know more about this particular attempt by the EU to do so anyway, so would appreciate more information.

always the one who asks

I still do, but I'm not very young anymore, most people who regularly use TikTok are probably younger than me.

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This is next to impossible to answer without a budget and location (at least country).

Of course, Americans have a constitutional right to receive Chinese propaganda.

sorry, I probably should have checked, I have no objection to mods deleting this thread if this violates the rules here

All I heard of before is that lemmygrad is more "extreme" than hexbear? My instance defederates from lemmygrad, but federates with hexbear, I don't know the exact reason for this though.

every base is base 10

I participated in a discussion similar to this recently here on the German-language community: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/28281369/15510510

Topics that were raised there by various people, some by me (read the full discussion if you can read German):

• an "algorithm" is really just a way of manipulating data, it's meaningless to say you are banning "algorithms" because all software is based on "algorithms", even reverse-chronological sorting of things you're subscribed to is an algorithm
• algorithms are mainly intended to keep people on the platform for as long as possible (but I raised the issue that I actually found old web forums more engaging than today's Facebook)
• how do you define "an algorithm" legally? I suggested a definition based on transparency and objectivity, others raised the issue that this would mean that misinformation could be easily manipulated to be shown at the top, and that if you require "transparency", the platforms will just disclose how their algorithms work instead of abolishing them

One important aspect that nobody raised in that discussion is that moderation is different from censorship.