On the one hand, it’s sort of funny that the Wikipedia article avoids saying “Nazi”. I think about half of Reddit would say executing people who fought on the side of the Axis is a good thing, or at least downplay it. Indeed it sounds like it was opened up around 2008 and the local politicians basically said “who cares lmao” before getting backlash.

On the other hand, imagine doing something you KNOW is so bad that you FORBID people to talk about it and 80 years later people are basically bragging about it on the internet.

The FBI spied on trump as well as got caught lying about the Biden laptop scandal to help Biden win the 2020 campaign so… Would it be surprising if he directed Patel to fuck with the FBI on purpose?

As we all know, communist countries would never harm the environment for productivity.

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Yeah, if the end consequence is creating a giant database of photos of US ID’s (and storing which accounts theyre associated with as a nice bonus) then that is, in my opinion, not great.

I understand Discord is already rolling out ID verification in the UK and their solution is to use a 3rd party service (you send them your, they just send discord a "is over 18? YES/NO). Personally I don’t think thats much better but it won’t be Discord’s own liability when they find out call center employees in India or Vietnam are using the images of your ID to sell online or something.

Came in to say that. And this.

I think a tumblr post popularized it… Basically it went something like “I don’t like insulting people by saying they live in a basement, so I use CHUD (Cannablistic Humanoid Underground Dweller, after the horror movie of the same name) instead”

There was a time long in the past, where 4chan was the place you could find the most gay porn, and hate for gays, right next to each other.

Remember SOPA, the “stop online piracy” act? It was terrible, and it crashed and burned thanks to a public outcry. Then they renamed it the “child abuse prevention act” or something and tried to run the bill with a new title and the exact same contents.

Theres been a few similar bills, and they all have one thing in common. They don’t just have the potential to be abused, they were MADE to be abused. Mass online spying and censorship is the goal.

If those bills (or some of the ones targeted at “misinformation”) had passed, you would surely be regretting it now that the republicans are in charge of the agencies that execute them. I’m glad it’s looking like the republicans in senate aren’t stupid enough to pass it either.

I miss the old reddit… But “really strange and aggressive advice” would probably rank highly with the problems it had back then too.

Took him long enough.

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As far as I understand, trans people are still a protected class under other statutes on the UK, but basically just don’t count for any laws like “50% of company board members must be women to receive this tax break”.

Which, idk, seems reasonable to me.

I would like to say, California instituted a $20 fast food minimum wage which was estimated to cause an 8% increase in overall wages (they already trend high there) but a 1.5% increase in menu prices. To my mind this tracks as wages are kind of small (too small) against ingredients, building lease, etc.

Granted, increasing the wages of everybody in the agricultural supply chain would probably have a bigger effect, but overall I think businesses tend to mcfucking lie about the impact of wage increases on consumer prices.

It’s not reddit, people can be sarcastic without the /s.

Based on the sheer trending numbers, this seems unlikely.

We had a pretty close call there. For a while, the president was pushing hard for a federal online censorship program that got caught lying as soon as it was formed, and also trying to get votes counted with no voter ID unlike every single other democratic country. The administration was also paying bail for protestors who burned down random businesses and pushing for prosecution of people who acted in self defense. Luckily we didn’t re-elect him and his handlers after that.

It threw off everybody’s bullshit calibration when the FBI announced in 2020 that the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, which included implications of Joe Biden taking foreign bribe money, was “Russian Disinformation”.

They also ordered (technically only “asked nicely”) Facebook and Twitter to engage in censorship campaigns based on this.

Later, after helping Biden win the election, they admitted that the laptop was real and not a Russian psyop as publicly claimed. Internal text messages revealed even later prove that while the FBI may have thought the laptop was not real at first, they did not believe it was a Russian plant, in other words, they lied.

So stuff like that might be why Republicans tend to believe “Russian Misinformation”.