If you can be targeted, arrested, and deported for doing a thing, it is a crime in every way that matters.

To the extent that this does not apply to citizens at scale, there are many more people who are not effectively silenced. If they pass laws that are upheld and able to effectively silence everyone, that would be objectively a big step towards crushing dissent. There are relatively recent laws by conservative states attempting to regulate social media that have been blocked for 1st Amendment reasons. I don't see a reason to consider the legal barriers useless, they pretty clearly matter a lot here.

And I believe Trump’s allies in Silicon Valley are closing the gap between what they want and what they can practically achieve.

We're here, on a network not controlled by those companies. Free speech protections are a big part of what makes that possible.

I'm not saying they couldn't be stronger. There is a huge problem with abusing deportations this way, and other forms of legislating speech by enforcement. But please consider how much worse things can get, and what barriers still remain between here and there. That it isn't a crime to say "Free Palestine", that it isn't a simple matter of declaring it a racist slogan to make it a crime, does mean something.

I once had a deal with my landlord to provide wifi to the other tenants. Of course I didn't snoop, but it's not like they had any real assurance of that. You'd think there might be some privacy concerns but nobody had a problem except when the internet was down. I think in general people don't tend to care about that, though if you do there's the option of using a VPN.

Free speech protections are still in place, and this is why they are important. This resolution can't prevent people from saying it, just signals that the current house of representatives wants to.

putting community conversations front-and-center in the user experience and blending AI-driven efficiency with real human perspectives

So, reading between the lines, Reddit is going to collaborate with advertisers to make their bot spam falsified social proof campaigns successful, while pretending that's not what is going on.

I love it, hate having to check my phone for these, brilliant choice to put the code onscreen

"You do get defeated knowing that homes are so expensive after looking today," Bartolini said. "I hope people in power, they change the price of things. There has to be a way to make everything go cheaper. There's no way that it can just keep going up and up and up cause then people won't be able to live."

I think he wants to change it but maybe doesn't totally understand the real options for changing it.

One thing it's great for is making granola that holds together. Perfect consistency and sweetness. You need to use a lot because the point is to get the oats to stick together, so it would be ridiculously expensive to use honey instead like some recipes suggest (and I think that would probably make it too sweet, since honey is sweeter).

sell things that you actually have the rights to print and sell.

This would exclude the thousands of makers who subscribe to designers like Cinderwing3D, and have permission to print and sell her articulated dragon designs.

It sounds like they do have the rights, and this policy is still causing problems for them because there's a difference between having the rights and being the original creator.

To me it seems fine, especially if there's still a free version that's basically the same or it gets released after a delay. I don't think I'd pay for something like this myself, and maybe they're taking some legal risk, but if the money lets them spend time making media accessible, how is there a problem that outweighs the good?

But our numbers show a strong correlation between profit and negative externalities, so as long as we're causing harm we should be making money. Maybe we should start focusing research on even more dangerous monsters.

The fact that these places exist and aren't shut down has always really bothered me, horrible stuff