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HaiZhung

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  • History repeating itself

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  • Of course it is complex. A few points:

    If you ban a party in Germany, it’s automatically bans all „clones“ of that party, and all of its members in high functions can’t participate in these clones. Failure to comply would lead to an immediate ban of the clone. While I agree that eventually, a new far right with other people will probably form, it would take years for them to reorganize and they would have to be extremely careful. I believe that a ban would probably yield at least 10 years of far-right free politics.

    Appeasement of the far right has failed every time in history, they will cannibalize every attempt to include them in any sort of „rational“ discourse. Banning parties is a lever that exists precisely because of Germany‘s history. IMHO it sends a strong message to all the non-far-right people (of which there are approx. 60-70%) that bullshit will not be tolerated.

    In contrast, doing nothing signals that what the AfD is doing is fine and will move the discourse farther and farther right.

    Stopping funding and preventing them from entering the Parliament is precisely what a ban would do, so I am not sure why the difference is between that and what you are suggesting.

  • History repeating itself

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  • Previously Secret Memo Laid Out Strategy for Trump to Overturn Biden’s Win

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  • This is not a trial of trump.

    This is a trial of the American justice system.

  • Good neighborship

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  • France has been importing more electricity than exporting in 2022 because their nuclear reactors can’t perform in the heat resulting from climate change. And this is more likely to happen again as each year becomes hotter.

    I’m not sure where this fetishism for France‘s nuclear energy is coming from.

  • Democrats worry their most loyal voters won’t turn out for Biden in 2024

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  • You mean what republicans are doing extremely consistently?

  • Democrats worry their most loyal voters won’t turn out for Biden in 2024

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  • An actual fascist dictatorship IS the real threat. What do you think trump will do if he wins?

  • ich_iel

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  • Ist er? Hast du beispiele?

  • What’s Happening in Italy Is Scary, and It’s Spreading

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  • I can’t believe I mistyped that 🤦🏻‍♀️ you are right of course.

  • What’s Happening in Italy Is Scary, and It’s Spreading

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  • What’s missing is what a huge difference the media makes. Once you control the media, you basically control the country, as can be seen in Hungary, Poland and Russia. All of these states have put in massive efforts to install their own cronies as media leadership, and you can see this happening in other countries too. Now it’s Italy.

    Then on the other hand, you have billionaires that flood the people with cheap tabloid bullshit, of course to paralyze honest debates around things that actually matter (climate change, wealth inequality, etc) and instead refocus the populace on scape goats (LGBTQ rights, abortion, etc).

    Far too often, „serious“ media fails to defend against the bullshit, and at some point will also report on these „issues“ as „this is what the country is talking about“. What they are ignoring is that this conversation is deliberately led by bad actors, and by picking it up they are legitimizing their positions.

    Then they invite complete lunatics to discussion to provide a „balanced viewpoint“, when there is no balanced viewpoint to be had for certain issues: the earth is round, climate change is happening, and it is our fault. Period. There can be no further discussions on the facts.

    The misinformation campaigns are massive, the astroturfing is massive, and is probably happening even here. It is too cheap and works too well to not do it.

  • Google employee responds to all the negative feedback WEI, (google drm the web)

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  • Wouldn’t it be boring if everyone just agreed on everything? :-)

    Don’t get me wrong, I am the first one to criticize Google when they mess up, but recently I have observed that piling on Google is just appears to be en vogue. I think it is important to understand what you are criticizing/outraged by, otherwise you are letting yourself be manipulated somewhat too easily.

    I, for instance, don’t fully penetrate the WEI proposal, I admit. All the more I am befuddled by the overwhelming news cycle this generates, and I can’t help but wonder … why?

    Anyway, when I wrote the top level comment, all other comments were just “suck it google” in various flavors, and I was disappointed by the lack of depth in the discussion.

    In the meantime, this has changed, see my edit.

  • Google employee responds to all the negative feedback WEI, (google drm the web)

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  • I do not see how my advice applies to my own comment. To me, this proposal is exactly like all other proposals, I don’t really think about it at all, and I don’t have the context or the background knowledge to judge its usefulness.

    But okay, if I try to understand it: this seems to be an attempt at stopping the cat-and-mouse game between browser fingerprinting tech and browser obfuscation tech, and instead make it - optionally - possible to identify yourself as a „real“ user. You can opt out, and I sincerely doubt that Google would lock out users that will opt out or use another browser. Why? Because they would be leaving free ad money on the table, and they don’t do that.

    So I don’t really see how that changes the ways of the internet, since fingerprinting is being done already, so, I guess, I don’t really care for this proposal one way or the other.

  • Google employee responds to all the negative feedback WEI, (google drm the web)

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  • Google does not sell data to advertisers, that is incorrect.

    You are correct that Google cross-correlates some data for integrating features, but as I said, you can just go and delete your data, and it will continue to work just fine.

    Maybe it’s also useful to remind oneself that you do get lots of services from Google for free - and considering they are free (!), imho, Google is taking about the most ethical approach it economically can. (Ie., they will use your data to tune full integration of their products and serve ads for you, BUT you can always opt out and delete it)

    I fail to see how meta and twitter are so much different in the range of products they offer. Meta e.g. operates the larges private messaging app on the planet and they DID sell (or accidentally leak, however you want to put it, see Cambridge analytica) their data.

  • Google employee responds to all the negative feedback WEI, (google drm the web)

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  • Makes sense to me!

  • Google employee responds to all the negative feedback WEI, (google drm the web)

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  • As pointed out in another comment, the proposal explicitly states that web sites have to function without this feature; and chrome itself will keep it disabled for a random 5% of users.

  • Google employee responds to all the negative feedback WEI, (google drm the web)

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  • Isn’t it already effectively very easy to force a specific browser on a website? The explainer touches on that, browser fingerprinting is so powerful to date that you can already easily tell individuals and their browsers apart. What’s changing with this proposal wrt your examples?

  • Google employee responds to all the negative feedback WEI, (google drm the web)

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  • Great comment! I don’t understand the proposal well enough to answer that, but I still would like to commend you on taking the time to look into this and writing it up.

  • Google employee responds to all the negative feedback WEI, (google drm the web)

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  • From what I can tell, out of all the big tech firms, Google goes to the greatest lengths preserving your privacy. You can even go to your profile settings right now and delete all your data. This was possible even before GDPR, so I am not sure how you get this picture.

  • Google employee responds to all the negative feedback WEI, (google drm the web)

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  • As a counterpoint, IMHO Google has the best track record regarding privacy of all the big tech firms. Googles data was never sold, leaked, or abused by employees as far as I can tell.

    This is in stark contrast to companies like meta and twitter.

    Maybe Google isn’t as good communicating that fact, but what is your reason for the distrust in this particular case?

  • Google employee responds to all the negative feedback WEI, (google drm the web)

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  • The explainer explicitly mentions that the proposal allows browser to ignore WEI and the web is intended to work without. It even points out that there will be a continuous group of chrome users of ~5% that have the feature disabled.

    If website owners rely on this feature, they are hurting chrome users just as much as other browsers.