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Banning Nazi and ISIS propaganda doesn't and hasn't negativity affected anyone but Nazis and Jihadists. It's just plain good policy.

I guess that's why arguments against it always fall back on straw men and hypothetical slippery slopes.

There are plenty of actual things that do negatively affect societies free speech but this isn't even close to one of them.

Loss of life from mass shootings in America is a far more regular occurrence then loss of life from earth quakes in Japan.

hydrogen worsens the impact of methane in the atmosphere and as such simply pumping hydrogen through existing infrastructure sounds pretty dangerous.

https://theconversation.com/dont-rush-into-a-hydrogen-econom...

https://agage.mit.edu/publications/global-environmental-impa...

more skeptically, given that green hydrogen remains a pipe dream, it's both a useful delaying tactic for switching to electricity and furthering investment in fossil fuels, which must stay in the ground if we are to have any hope of staying below 1.5c.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/new-fossil-fuels-incompatible-wi...

no bc they are leveraging monopoly in search to advantage their other products and undermine competition.

im a relatively happy firefox user, but at this point to say mozilla significantly mitigates googles monopoly is as plausible as when microsoft claimed that BeOS somehow mitigated theirs.

Apple Unveils M2 4 years ago

honestly happy to pay through the nose for thinkpad build quality. it's a tax deduction and going to last me 5+ years.

hopefully get some ryzen 6000 series laptop options this year. the thinkpad z13 looks promising, but will have to wait for reviews to start rolling in.

How about we simply ban Google and Facebook from reproducing news on their own site?

News Corp is and always has been free to not have its content on Google (https://www.robotstxt.org/). But that's not what they want, they want a Money just for appearing in search results. Seems more like a rent seeking for News Corp.

We're bending over backwards to try and accommodate Google

The funny/bizzare bit is we are bending over backwards to accommodate 2 multinational American corporate monopolies that don't even pay tax in this country.