Free Speech and (Big Tech) Censorship Thread

Zachowon

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"Script kiddies" are the ones that do indeed do the easy dumb fun but I would never conflate them with an actual hacker and neither should you. Profit never motivated me to use my linesman handset in the 90's but curiosity did. Legitimately being inconvenienced by the codewheel on my old SSI games also got me to hack my copies with a hexadecimal editor, and I was just some teenager in the late 80s early 90s. You are severely underestimating what people can get up to without a profit motive.
No.
I am saying tje amount of damage They can do is minor. Yeah sure you can hack it. Olay, now what? You willing to get someone killed and become wanted?
 

Robovski

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No.
I am saying tje amount of damage They can do is minor. Yeah sure you can hack it. Olay, now what? You willing to get someone killed and become wanted?
Here you can see a screen from a Mercedes EQS, they don't want you opening the hood of your own car.
WPSKa5g.jpeg

Oddly enough, some owners aren't too keen on that, but oh look, someone already figured out how to open the hood of the car: How do I open the Mercedes EQS's hood? - Alt Car news turns out the lever is there, just hidden.
Now, is there any real reason a typical owner should want to open the hood? No, this is an electric car and would need a specialist to repair, there isn't anything you would service in there without needed training and tools; the washer fluids have their own access in a fender. But there are those who see it as a challenge to be overcome. Others will use this knowledge for their own ends (sometimes nefarious). I don't have this car. I won't have this car. I now know how to open the hood because I was curious when I heard about it. If I was someone who, lets say, wanted a place to put a bomb or a homemade lowjack or a bug within such a car, I now know a great place to put one.
 

Zachowon

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Here you can see a screen from a Mercedes EQS, they don't want you opening the hood of your own car.
WPSKa5g.jpeg

Oddly enough, some owners aren't too keen on that, but oh look, someone already figured out how to open the hood of the car: How do I open the Mercedes EQS's hood? - Alt Car news turns out the lever is there, just hidden.
Now, is there any real reason a typical owner should want to open the hood? No, this is an electric car and would need a specialist to repair, there isn't anything you would service in there without needed training and tools; the washer fluids have their own access in a fender. But there are those who see it as a challenge to be overcome. Others will use this knowledge for their own ends (sometimes nefarious). I don't have this car. I won't have this car. I now know how to open the hood because I was curious when I heard about it. If I was someone who, lets say, wanted a place to put a bomb or a homemade lowjack or a bug within such a car, I now know a great place to put one.
And there is VERY few people in the world who do not have a meaning behind thier nefarious ways.
 

bintananth

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Here you can see a screen from a Mercedes EQS, they don't want you opening the hood of your own car.
WPSKa5g.jpeg

Oddly enough, some owners aren't too keen on that, but oh look, someone already figured out how to open the hood of the car: How do I open the Mercedes EQS's hood? - Alt Car news turns out the lever is there, just hidden.
Now, is there any real reason a typical owner should want to open the hood? No, this is an electric car and would need a specialist to repair, there isn't anything you would service in there without needed training and tools; the washer fluids have their own access in a fender. But there are those who see it as a challenge to be overcome. Others will use this knowledge for their own ends (sometimes nefarious). I don't have this car. I won't have this car. I now know how to open the hood because I was curious when I heard about it. If I was someone who, lets say, wanted a place to put a bomb or a homemade lowjack or a bug within such a car, I now know a great place to put one.
One of my brothers-in-law has an '08 Koenigsegg. It has a 245mph+ top speed and is basically a street-legal LeMans racecar which would need to be de-tuned to be race legal. It's not even close to being that fussy.

He knows how to maintain it without having to ship it to Sweden for something like an oil change.
 

Bacle

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So this whole blow up Neil Young caused seems to have caused Spotify to start removing Joe Rogan episodes, which seems like it might be a breach of contract violation.

Rogan has enough cred he could probably put together his own platform if he wanted to.
 

Zachowon

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So this whole blow up Neil Young caused seems to have caused Spotify to start removing Joe Rogan episodes, which seems like it might be a breach of contract violation.

Rogan has enough cred he could probably put together his own platform if he wanted to.

Apperently they are removing Neil Young songs as well
 

Cherico

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Apperently they are removing Neil Young songs as well

Honestly Fuck Neil Young seriously Fuck him he of all people should understand how important free speech is. He lived on it thrived on it and build a career on it and then he goes around and tries to remove some one elses livelyhood. Fuck him hard and yes a southern man doesn't need him around anyhow.
 

Husky_Khan

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Just a reminder that it's often Government Pressure that makes Big Tech engage in Censorship.

In this case Biden's Surgeon General Vivek Murthy had this to say on MSNBC:

Daily Wire said:
“We can have the best science available, we can have the best public health expertise available. It won’t help people if they don’t have access to accurate information,” the Biden-appointed surgeon general answered, adding, “People have the right to make their own decisions, but they also have the right to have accurate information to make that decision with.”

Big Tech companies, Murthy said, have an “important role to play” since they are the “predominant places where we’re seeing misinformation spread.”

“This not just about what the government can do,” he emphasized, “this is about companies and individuals recognizing that the only way we get past misinformation is if we are careful about what we say and use the power that we have to limit the spread of misinformation.”

 

Cherico

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Captain X

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It won't happen naturally, but he really should be taken to task for that. It also provides an easy avenue of attack against Big Tech provided anyone sacks up enough to actually do it.
 

Cherico

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I didn't say that, but the man can defiantly be sued in civil court for such bullshit because it is a vast overstepping of his bounds and he should know better. Its a clear case where he is in the wrong.
 

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