DOGE and the nazi sale happened. That's not just problematic social media posting.

DOGE promised the world and delivered small wins. The normal politician does this and does not deliver a single win.

In Europe people aren't really aware of the labor politics, but doing a nazi salute has made Elon radioactive.

Putting that kind of filter in the way of speech seems ripe for abuse.

In the UK once website blocking powers were established, their scope was extended repeatedly by courts for IP protection purposes.

> Putting that kind of filter in the way of speech seems ripe for abuse.

On one hand I agree with you. Any automatic filter implemented can later be expanded to cover more and more things, such as messages from political adversaries for example. It's a slippery slope as we all know.

On the other hand I don't think it applies in this context very much. If we're talking about content published by a corporation or such (say a newspaper for example) they already filter all their gathered news themselves and have no obligation to publish things they don't feel like.

Similarly if we're talking about user uploaded content on social media I don't think they have any obligation to publish everything and anything that their users decide to upload either, and it's not the expectations of the users that anything can be hosted there for them. Users already know that youtube/facebook/tiktok/what-have-you have seemingly arbitrary rules regarding what content they're willing to host and not.

Now if for example DNS providers or ISPs decide to implement these sort of filters on the web at large that's a different matter I think. In which case I agree with you.

The slope isn't slippery, it's vertical. It's always misused. Thus it needs to be completely prohibited, lest the camel get it's nose in.

Disregarding for a moment whether that's what HN-greybeards want or not, being behind in this area doesn't necessarily preclude Apple from catching up later. There's enough of a market that they can buy it from one of Google's competitors if they have to.

Parent is trying to sarcastically demonstrate thought termination by way of woke. As in, some accusations shut down conversations by way of being too much effort or requiring too much social capital to argue against.

I adore Peter Watts, so I'll be checking out Smith then!

Watts is like brain candy, keeps my mind buzzing from all the ideas for weeks. Charles Stross can have the same effect, a sort of future shock.

Cordwainer Smith's style and subject matter is quite different from Watts; I felt this story was like a combination of the two. So, if you would like this story even if it was less eschatalogically cynical, and had more of a golden age setting, you'll probably like Smith!

A contributor's license agreement would overrule the terms of the employment contract, assuming they set one up properly.

A lot of modern comedy is awful because it substitutes embarrassed laughter for amused laughter.

While the presentation has merit, the events listed on this page at the time of this comment don't meet the my bar of one of:

1) Essential to not have missed for everyday conversation;

2) Will affect my decision making in some way;

3) Will be remembered a year later.

There is simply far too much news.