I've stopped caring about institutions' reputations because I don't need them to gatekeep for me anymore. If I want to read about finance, I can read Matt Levine. If I want to read about law I can read Eugene Volokh. If…
It is not just much more commonplace but obligatory for print magazines to exercise that control. A print magazine can't say, send me slander, send me libel, send me copyright violations, send me terrorist threats, if…
Why should someone running a website be able to moderate without fear of litigation when someone publishing a print magazine is not able to moderate without fear of litigation? Did 230 say anything about that or did the…
Here's the Merriam-Webster definition of censored: "suppressed, altered, or deleted as objectionable : subjected to censorship". Government censorship is a subset of censorship. Private citizens of a private company are…
Here's an article by Eugene Volokh on the difference between publishers, distributors and platforms: https://reason.com/2020/05/28/47-u-s-c-%C2%A7-230-and-the-pu.... "Historically, American law has divided operators of…
Historically the term platform has meant just that, they have a legal requirement to allow all content. Think something like a phone network. There are rules about what constitutes spam on a phone network - laws…
"Hypertension markedly increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases and overall mortality. Lifestyle modifications, such as increased levels of physical activity, are recommended as the first line of anti-hypertensive…
>> I'm not sure how new teams can be formed and new staff onboarded with zero human contact or office interaction The company laptop shows up at your front door and you get on the phone with the hiring manager who tells…
>> Laborers couldn't really ask for higher wages, because that was politically impossible Not just politically impossible, illegal: >> World War II disrupted those trends. As demand for everything — particularly labor —…
That's an application-centric view of development, as indicated by the phrase "the application". If an application is successful, its data will likely end up being used by other new applications, and the data will…
Right on.
Publisher, distributor, and platform are legal definitions that have been worked out through case law over a long period of time. Blocking content on a political basis as a non-internet content provider would be more…
If a poster printing company started making editorial decisions about which posters they printed, they would be at risk of being considered a publisher and as such being liable for the content of the posters they…
I use JIRA at home for side projects and every job I've had for the last decade used it at work. Personally, I will worry about replacing it in 2023. Professionally, it's not my problem to worry about. As for the…
Your only positive statements in that whole thing were "I think a job as a quant or something at a finance firm would be interesting" and "I'd really like to consider starting my own business". Everything else was I…
To me, both Personal Jesus and Hurt are Johnny Cash songs now.
You've got 4 years. I'll worry about it in 2023.
Portland gets winter, but you can just stay inside that weekend.
>> I'm not keen on keeping suspects locked up on risk of re-offence, either; it seems a total violation of presumption of innocence So if you were making the laws, the trooper that pulled over Timothy McVeigh would have…
Wikipedia has Russia at 346 people incarcerated per 100,000 and the US at 655. El Salvador is at 590. So, highest in the world but not anywhere nearly double the second highest, and not an order of magnitude greater…
>> At no point does it create a category called "publisher" who is subject to different rules from a category called "platform." Section 230 does not need to create those categories because they already exist under the…
>> Yeah, it really does seem some times like what Section 230 abolitionists really want is better accomplished through antitrust law That's called false dichotomy.
>> But they then have to choose... Yes, that's correct. They have to choose what content to allow. That's called being a publisher. >> Telephones are not public communication I'm guessing that you are too young to have…
>> The world you propose gives more power to large site operators, not less, because they're the only ones that could possibly afford the requisite moderation resources Not true, someone running a small blog can read…
>> "leave this problem alone, it's working just fine" You have the major internet networks 3 weeks before an election banning speech because if they allowed it it might hurt their preferred political candidate. I mean…
I've stopped caring about institutions' reputations because I don't need them to gatekeep for me anymore. If I want to read about finance, I can read Matt Levine. If I want to read about law I can read Eugene Volokh. If…
It is not just much more commonplace but obligatory for print magazines to exercise that control. A print magazine can't say, send me slander, send me libel, send me copyright violations, send me terrorist threats, if…
Why should someone running a website be able to moderate without fear of litigation when someone publishing a print magazine is not able to moderate without fear of litigation? Did 230 say anything about that or did the…
Here's the Merriam-Webster definition of censored: "suppressed, altered, or deleted as objectionable : subjected to censorship". Government censorship is a subset of censorship. Private citizens of a private company are…
Here's an article by Eugene Volokh on the difference between publishers, distributors and platforms: https://reason.com/2020/05/28/47-u-s-c-%C2%A7-230-and-the-pu.... "Historically, American law has divided operators of…
Historically the term platform has meant just that, they have a legal requirement to allow all content. Think something like a phone network. There are rules about what constitutes spam on a phone network - laws…
"Hypertension markedly increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases and overall mortality. Lifestyle modifications, such as increased levels of physical activity, are recommended as the first line of anti-hypertensive…
>> I'm not sure how new teams can be formed and new staff onboarded with zero human contact or office interaction The company laptop shows up at your front door and you get on the phone with the hiring manager who tells…
>> Laborers couldn't really ask for higher wages, because that was politically impossible Not just politically impossible, illegal: >> World War II disrupted those trends. As demand for everything — particularly labor —…
That's an application-centric view of development, as indicated by the phrase "the application". If an application is successful, its data will likely end up being used by other new applications, and the data will…
Right on.
Publisher, distributor, and platform are legal definitions that have been worked out through case law over a long period of time. Blocking content on a political basis as a non-internet content provider would be more…
If a poster printing company started making editorial decisions about which posters they printed, they would be at risk of being considered a publisher and as such being liable for the content of the posters they…
I use JIRA at home for side projects and every job I've had for the last decade used it at work. Personally, I will worry about replacing it in 2023. Professionally, it's not my problem to worry about. As for the…
Your only positive statements in that whole thing were "I think a job as a quant or something at a finance firm would be interesting" and "I'd really like to consider starting my own business". Everything else was I…
To me, both Personal Jesus and Hurt are Johnny Cash songs now.
You've got 4 years. I'll worry about it in 2023.
Portland gets winter, but you can just stay inside that weekend.
>> I'm not keen on keeping suspects locked up on risk of re-offence, either; it seems a total violation of presumption of innocence So if you were making the laws, the trooper that pulled over Timothy McVeigh would have…
Wikipedia has Russia at 346 people incarcerated per 100,000 and the US at 655. El Salvador is at 590. So, highest in the world but not anywhere nearly double the second highest, and not an order of magnitude greater…
>> At no point does it create a category called "publisher" who is subject to different rules from a category called "platform." Section 230 does not need to create those categories because they already exist under the…
>> Yeah, it really does seem some times like what Section 230 abolitionists really want is better accomplished through antitrust law That's called false dichotomy.
>> But they then have to choose... Yes, that's correct. They have to choose what content to allow. That's called being a publisher. >> Telephones are not public communication I'm guessing that you are too young to have…
>> The world you propose gives more power to large site operators, not less, because they're the only ones that could possibly afford the requisite moderation resources Not true, someone running a small blog can read…
>> "leave this problem alone, it's working just fine" You have the major internet networks 3 weeks before an election banning speech because if they allowed it it might hurt their preferred political candidate. I mean…