Surely you’re aware of the embrace, extend, extinguish corporate strategy.

People only get to decide what they want from their platform until facebook starts extending the spec. Then your client will become incompatible with some posts, and so on and so forth.

In summary, it’s a threat to the platform itself.

If there was a bot that just flooded All with far right talking points, do you think admins ought to block that or leave it to the users?

What if it was far right mixed in with cat memes?

What if it started more slowly like a few posts an hour and then ramped up over 6 months to be 1000s of posts per hour?

Exactly, I hereby decide that I would like to ignore corporate efforts to undermine this burgeoning new platform. I furthermore reserve the right to complain about the loss of said platform in future years by claiming that it’s everyone elses fault for allowing corporate encroachment.

That’s not how polling works

Ban it.

It’s basically a misinformation machine even if it doesn’t have an agenda.

Disclaimer is pointless.

Interesting…

video is on facebook. Note that the woman interviewed was just filming, not the woman that intervened.

The woman that intervened seems to be a serial advocate / complainant / irritant of public services. By physically intervening she escalated the situation more than the guards did.

Listening to the interview and watching the video, IMO the term of “Excessive force” is problematic.

I imagine that PTA policy is to remove commuters who are non-cooperative? That seems pretty clear cut to me. If someone is not complying with directions from PTA officers they ought to be removed.

Was the force used to remove these two excessive? I don’t think so. No one was injured, there were no threats of harm, no one was pushed to the ground to be restrained. They were physically removed from the train against their will in as safe a manner as reasonably possible under the circumstances IMO.

Note that we don’t know what happened in the alleged collision between the girl and the other commuter.

Yeah - the voice didn’t really mean much to my day to day at all, but this loss is indicative of our deepening conservative bent.

Descriptions varied

'nuff said.

Yeah no one who’s still there cares at all.

Sorry I don’t really understand your position.

You’re rejecting the quotes from the article on the basis of the publication, suggesting a better accusation would be a “scam”, and then refuting that accusation as baseless.

I’m not trying to be an ass, I mean this as kindly as possible, but this is a straw man argument. You should look into logical fallacies. They’re well documented tactics for manipulating people and misrepresenting information. Everyone should. It will help you to reason about information and ultimately identify when you’re being manipulated.

If the app was banned due to it being a scam (which is not the case)

The term “scam” is a straw man. “Scam” is subjective, so you could define a scam as “an app that provides no content and steals your money” and conclude that the app in question is not that, and therefore fine.

The main assertion in the article is:

the app deliberately targets young men and encourages misogyny, including members of the app sharing techniques on how to control and exploit women. The firm has also claimed that there is evidence to suggest that the app is an illegal pyramid scheme

First instance of intellectual property piracy?

Perhaps, but of course there are still significant differences.

To make these copies you needed a team of highly skilled scribes and their accoutrements, and the ship had to wait in port for several days.

That is to say, these copies in babylon would have come at a significant cost.

JFC. Sometimes people visit us with kids and it’s just arrive > open youtube > commence rot > spice it up 9yo twerking.

My partner is pregnant with our first child. I get the convenience of free child distraction, I also get that I might find myself doing exactly this in several years, but honestly I really hope I can find ways to at least minimise this. It just seems so Orwellian or… wall-e-ian.

I swear my kids are probably going to hate me because I’ll be the most boring dad around that forces kids to play outside instead of doing all the fun stuff.

I’m sure they only do this while “mummy is visiting” and it doesn’t happen at home.

This is just sad.

Some poor woman bore a child that died and some fuck head ufologist latched onto it for a few clicks.

There’s 2 versions of the Martian, but IIRC Porter didn’t do either. I think it’s r c bray and the star trek kid, is it whedon?

I despise lawns and plan to get rid of mine.

That said, Kikuyu grass is not without its virtues.

Firstly, it’s cheap. Yes you need to mow it but that just takes time, not money.

Secondly, it’s better than dirt. You can walk across it when it’s wet without getting dirty.

Thirdly, you can see snakes on short grass. This was a huge advantage for most of Australia’s history.

it’s got crypto.