I figure I would just stop at greed. I don’t think there’s incompetence, they know what they’re doing to maximize profit. Our concerns being DIY PC builders are pretty low on their radar.

Clearly Americans need more debt.

Never attribute to profit?

Just trying to kill the DIY PC market. You will buy the Paystation, Xbox, and Steam machine and like it. No user upgradable hardware. Only upgradable models. All non-console GPUs, CPUs, and DRAM are for AI alone.

Lol I clearly stated there is a demarcation between objectively damaging speech and disagreement. Try again dude. What are you, a closeted republican? As soon as someone challenges you devolve into “no, u!”, make accusations of being attacked, and make shit up about your opponent while engaging in projection?

F off. We’re done.

From a philosophy teacher I expected better than hyperbole and a binary argument.

Do better.

You are conflating things that are not the same in a fence-straddling argument. There are things that objectively cause harm. Using X’s Grok to make CSAM. Using AI to deepfake people telling outright lies or giving damaging instructions to the public. Inciting people to engage in illegal behavior. We already have definitions of harmful speech, what we also have is people arguing that it isn’t harmful because it serves their agenda.

Disagreeing with someone is not even close and shouldn’t even be part of the discussion when considering actual censorship. Philosophy is a lovely fun exercise in arguing every point on the curve of a circle, but it doesn’t keep the Nazis from taking power.

She’s her own badge bunny.

Yeah. I’m as tired of the argument that pretty much anything goes as far as free speech goes as I am of the “everything is a slippery slope when we make laws to keep people from doing harmful shit.”

I mean what’s the required damage before people put a stop to inciteful speech and objectively harmful lies? Or making CSAM of kids using a platform like X? Germany had to kill a few million people before they decided that maybe displaying Nazi symbols and speech wasn’t a good idea. So we have a platform being used to make CSAM. What’s it going to take before someone says that this is a bad idea and shouldn’t be done? How many kids will commit suicide after being taunted and shamed for their images being used? How many is “enough”? There should be immediate action to end the means to use these tools to make porn, there’s plenty of porn available on the internet and making it from user-submitted images on a major public platform is a horrible idea, but too many make up all kinds of reasons why we can’t do that…economic, censorship, whatever.

Could have the unintended consequence of more abandoned, euthanized, or animals put in a shelter.

We’ve never been great. It’s just removing the veneer of respectability we gave ourselves and doubling down on the shittiest parts.

Of course. Especially if they can do it right before midterms. Expect more radical ICE action in the immediate leadup to elections. That way he can cancel them for whatever made-up BS reason.

Liberal, democrat, millennial, woke, illegal alien… the list is endless of everything the right hates and insults. It’s not limited to political disagreement, it’s anything that could potentially make them expend effort to understand and not be an asshole about.

We don’t need MORE proof. Insinuating we need any more proof gives a veneer of validity to the suggestion there is any doubt at all. This is typical right wing “inundate with bullshit” that leaves anyone with a shred of hope of having an honest discussion constantly scrambling to offer more and more proof while the fact is that the Right DO NOT CARE. They’re here to “win”; honesty, morals, truth, reality be damned.

Jennifer Government and Snow Crash here we come. Except we don’t get any of the cool shit fictional cyber-dystopias do.

Yep. Engagement drives more engagement.

The US is like turning on a morning soap opera. What absurd and dramatic contrivances have they come up with this time that could never happen in real life?

They want it to happen before midterms. That way trump can justify canceling them.

Bullets go through thin metal car bodies fairly easily, especially rifle rounds. A windshield is some protection, but not enough.

I literally put the very first sentence of the text that it was an older article.

The context is that law enforcement has a history of deliberately escalating by placing themselves in front of vehicles.