Notices by Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se), page 15
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 04-Feb-2017 10:04:32 UTC 
Bob Mottram
@gargron Looks like some Blairite Labour politician is behind this. I might have known.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Turley
The wording about commercial activity indicates that this is more aimed at the silos than at GS, but if this passed then they could designate GS to be a "regulated social media platform" at leisure and create the new crime of "running an unregulated social media system".
Also, UK politicians are idiotic enough that they would think this was a good idea. Even under Corbyn, the authoritarian nature of the Labour party shouldn't be underestimated. An obvious indicator is that they voted enthusiastically for some of the most invasive spying powers anywhere (the IP act of 2016). -
VegOs ✔♋ (vegos@loadaverage.org)'s status on Saturday, 04-Feb-2017 09:48:35 UTC 
VegOs ✔♋
Then there will ne no instances in the UK. Are there? Does it matter much? Nevertheless, this need resistance to keep other countries from adopting it. -
Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Saturday, 04-Feb-2017 04:57:55 UTC 
Mike Gerwitz
@gargon I didn't look up the referenced list of social media platforms, but it sounds like they maintain a regulated list. They also mention blogs in the definition of a "social media platform". Federated instances seem like a similar case: my instance is for my own personal use, so they'd only be able to censor it in the same way they'd censor my personal blog (well, if I were to live in the UK, that is).
Federated instances that allow users to sign up are likely a different story based on their level of popularity. But censorship would be fruitless: other instances would have the data they're trying to censor. That includes my personal instance. I'm outside the UK's jurisdiction, and even if I weren't, we go back to the blog argument.
I'd say that I'm curious to see how this might be implemented in a federation, but I'm really not---this shouldn't happen at all. -
@mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 04-Feb-2017 01:32:50 UTC 
@mcscx@quitter.se
@gargron "bill" means it's not *yet* a law, it's still a proposal. But it may become a law because British MPs are crazy -
Eugen 🎄 (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Feb-2017 00:42:34 UTC 
Eugen 🎄
This concerns the entire fediverse: UK wants to force every social network to register with their government, threatening an immense fine otherwise. Now *that* sounds more like censorship https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/827585268391739392
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Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Sunday, 05-Feb-2017 02:30:38 UTC 
Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
@lilitu By your definition, there is no democracy in this world. That makes the term not very useful. -
Lilitu (lilitu@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Jan-2017 09:56:54 UTC 
Lilitu
So, with this definition in mind, we can quickly dismantle the claim that the US is a democracy:
1: PEOPLE don't cast a vote for president. They cast a vote that is considered by an Elector from the Electoral College that votes for their state in the election.
2: There are a variety of means in which a minority position can be forced through Congress in the United States, such as an Executive Order, or with the Executive Veto.
3: The way that the votes are distributed is fairly gerrymandered. The vote distribution of the Electoral College is not proportional. As an example, one person from Vermont's vote, is worth the same as three people from Texas. In this way, less populous states actually hold more power in the vote.
4: The commoners have almost no say in their actual government. A study published a few years ago found that the average American has pretty much zero effective say in the policy decisions that affect them. -
Lilitu (lilitu@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Jan-2017 09:54:26 UTC
Lilitu
Let's look a little deeper into that, now. Most Americans describe themselves as in a Democracy. But what is a Democracy? To answer that, we need look at the origin of the word in Greek: Dēmokratía. When translated to english, this means "rule of the commoners" In the parlaiments of the Greek city-states, each and every person whom was not a slave was given the right to vote in open forums held about the topics of the day and the majority vote would be adopted as the position. -
Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Sunday, 05-Feb-2017 02:09:25 UTC
Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
https://quitter.se/attachment/3052953
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-germany-spiegel-idUSKBN15J0EU -
zerohedge (zerohedge@quitter.im)'s status on Sunday, 05-Feb-2017 01:36:51 UTC 
zerohedge
TEPCO Admits Fukushima Radiation Levels Reach Record Highs As Hole In Reactor Discovered https://quitter.im/url/381399 -
somercet (somercet@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 03-Feb-2017 16:22:00 UTC 
somercet
@dogjaw Dunno about "best," but it was good. Peter Weir is good. Ed Harris as the Artist, though, ha, what an evil dick. -
Kaiser©®™ (dogjaw@freezepeach.xyz)'s status on Friday, 03-Feb-2017 16:20:12 UTC 
Kaiser©®™
The Truman Show was the best movie I've ever seen. I too totally wasn't expecting that when I watched it for the first time. -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Friday, 03-Feb-2017 16:23:43 UTC 
Annah
"Nvidia is putting a stop to the resale of bundled promotional game keys by tying them to a specific graphics card purchase, according to Ars Technica. Users will now have to redeem codes via the GeForce Experience (GFE) app, which is directly linked to third-party services like Steam and Uplay. Users must also ensure that the requisite graphics card is "installed before redemption." GFE then performs "a hardware verification step to ensure the coupon code is redeemed on the system with the qualifying GPU."
Most of these games are shit to begin with, and now they're "free" shit thats basically handcuffed to the video card. -
Udda Boktips (uddaboktips@quitter.is)'s status on Friday, 03-Feb-2017 16:29:47 UTC 
Udda Boktips
Är Daniel Friberg jude: en historia om mordhot och censur
http://jagvillvarafarlig.blogspot.se/2017/02/ar-daniel-friberg-jude.html -
Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Friday, 03-Feb-2017 16:47:58 UTC
Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
@mmn @vinzv It's sort of POSSE-only, if I understand correctly. And then I don't know how it works, if you can interact on the site itself. -
Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Friday, 03-Feb-2017 16:47:21 UTC
Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
@vinzv @mmn Not really a GNU Social. This is something odder. This is like a personal "planet". You still need to host an RSS feed yourself. -
MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Monday, 30-Jan-2017 22:25:10 UTC 
MMN-o ✅⃠
@vinzv More than 2 years assuming I'd have the same salary as my current day job (which I wouldn't need to have). Assuming taxes etc
would be deducted. -
Caasn (caasn@status.caasn.de)'s status on Monday, 30-Jan-2017 16:21:59 UTC 
Caasn
Nicht zu vergessen: Das wird eine Plattform, für die die Nutzer monatlich bezahlen sollen. Hat ja auch bei app.net schon so super geklappt. -
vinzv (vinzv@gnusocial.de)'s status on Monday, 30-Jan-2017 08:57:45 UTC 
vinzv
So, people are giving 70.000$ to someone selling them a non-federated version of GNU Social?
Well played - at least in terms of marketing. Imagine how long e.g. @mmn could work full-time for 70.000$...! -
reality karen teaduck III (reality@quitter.se)'s status on Friday, 03-Feb-2017 15:46:24 UTC 
reality karen teaduck III
@johnnynull yeah, and like anarchy, any attempt to do will inevitably reveal the unsolved complexities which have led to where we are now
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