Silentiea

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[–] Silentiea@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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[–] Silentiea@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I mean, only insofar as that's true of anything illegal?

[–] Silentiea@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

When you define a word loosely enough, it can cease to be meaningful. When most people hear "opposition to censorship," they're not going to expect the reference to be advocating for the legalization of public and deliberate slander or open threats of violence and attempts to incite violence.

Using the phrase in that way may not be technically incorrect, but it is still misleading at best and disingenuous at worst. Again, you are welcome to your view of what constitutes censorship and the belief that it is always, ipso facto, abhorrent, but I don't think that view leaves any room for meaningful discussion about this case, so I don't think I'll be engaging any further. Call it self-censorship if you like.

[–] Silentiea@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

When I was like 8, I allegedly ... Illegally acquired... A beanie baby. I .. may have just carried it out of a mall while Christmas shopping.

This is all hypothetical, of course. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that a tiny stuffed ferret was as close as I was going to get to owning a ferret. That would be silly.

[–] Silentiea@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

I have three identical monitors in a row. Primarily I use the center one, for productive work and gaming, but often I'll have something up on the second screen that I'm working with as well. It's more rare that I actively use the third one, but some tasks have more than two or three windows and now I can see all of them full size at once.

I've occasionally used them as a single ultra wide screen for gaming, but since then I've gotten an hmd for VR and that is better.

[–] Silentiea@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

We're also monkeys, if there is such a thing. Some monkeys are more closely related to apes (and thus to us) than they are to other monkeys, so if there's any group that can be called the "monkey clade," we are in it.

[–] Silentiea@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I guess you're welcome to that opinion. Just as one would be welcome to the opinion that literally stalking someone should be legal.

Many kinds of speech are very broadly considered okay to restrict, even in places like the USA where "unlimited free speech" is a big motto. It's illegal to slander and libel people, for example. That it's illegal in many cases to verbally harass and abuse as well should be fairly non-contentious.

[–] Silentiea@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Yes. "Fighting words," credible threats, and other such aggressive language are generally illegal, even in the USA.

If any language being illegal is automatically censorship, then I don't think censorship isnecessarily bad in every case.

[–] Silentiea@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

New Geneva conventions list of war crimes:

  1. Wars
[–] Silentiea@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

Easter was pretty good actually, but the lead up to it was terrible, coupled with being told by someone important that it "can't be trans day of visibility because it's Easter. It can't be anything else".

Buuut I made it and I'm okay. And I got to see the parts of my family that support me while the parts who don't ignored me, so that was nice.

[–] Silentiea@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There are plenty of examples of companies challenging the legality of regulations and winning, and other cases of apparent corruption among judges.

[–] Silentiea@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Gigabit fiber is a thing, and not at all uncommon in a lot of places.

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