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Wow. That's from crowd investment alone. The creator calls Silicon Valley full of liberal elites too.

I can't help but feel nervous, like Trumplites are coming for Tech and winning grassroots support.


Eh, I'd say things are simply becoming more representative of the population as a whole. I mean, look at Twitter and how it moderates its platform. It's pretty clear that right wingers who break the rules get dealt with much more harshly than those from the other side, and things like the Trust and Safety Council include very few people from pro free speech organisations or non left wing organisations in general.

And when people think they're being censored/ignored by such platforms, well of course they'll start their own/check out ones more sympathetic to their views.

It's not really winning grassroots support. It's winning over the people who were already conservative and felt major social networks were being unfair to them.


I don't think there will be a general part once it gets splintered. It will probably be like China except every nation state will have their own version with their own censorship.

The open web started dying with the great firewall.


It seems hugely disingenuous to leave sept 11 from that.


9/11 was a foreign in origin. The GAO and the FBI / DHS risk assessments are domestic extremism.


That blew my mind too. I wish that article could be pinned to the top of hackernews forever.


Google will be sued for it. It will be too enticing for lawyers to pass up.

It'll be open season on Google now, and they deserve it if the blacklists and age blacklist is true.


Yes, I agree.

And everyone maintaining age blacklists or ideological blacklists should be fired.


Go for it but if you're burning down innocents in your mad dash to stop nazis.

Don't expect sympathy.


While many antifa are anarchists or anti-capitalists, the defining feature is opposing fascism. Don't succumb to a trivializing caricature of antifa as being primarily about wanton violence against property.


He didn't say much about the resistance gunman who attacked the gop senators or the shooter who shot a republican in the head a few days prior to Charlottesville.

Emotions are running too hot.


I was half expecting a point on nearly half of all women are on something like Xanax.

How biopharma is enabling the worst in us.


Sure but I think they should also be taught practical things as well like driving, taxes, light house maintenance, and other skills most of need for everyday life over abstract math and social science.

I'm a big fan of the Japanese model.


Or censorship will lead them to violence.

MLK Jr. - "A riot is the language of the unheard"


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