2020 US Election mega thread

[schurchill39]

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Should they be able to say who can and can't use their services to express unfashionable opinions as well? If you say "stop the steal", or "there is no evidence that COVID started in the wet market", or "chemicals in the water are turning frogs gay" on your cell phone, is it fine to ban you from service?

So this is where the gay frogs are coming from. The more you know!

[Buster]

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Should they be able to say who can and can't use their services to express unfashionable opinions as well? If you say "stop the steal", or "there is no evidence that COVID started in the wet market", or "chemicals in the water are turning frogs gay" on your cell phone, is it fine to ban you from service?

sure.

They should be able to ban you for anything they want. They are private companies and owe you nothing.

[ExtraSlow]

Could they ban the gay frogs?

[schurchill39]

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Could they ban the gay frogs?

You want to ban the froggets?

[Xtrema]

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Should they be able to say who can and can't use their services to express unfashionable opinions as well? If you say "stop the steal", or "there is no evidence that COVID started in the wet market", or "chemicals in the water are turning frogs gay" on your cell phone, is it fine to ban you from service?

https://business.telus.com/en/busine...ble-use-policy

Telus can ban you by texting "fuck" thru their network if they want to. But they won't enforce it unless they have gone thru a cost/benefit consideration.

[ThePenIsMightier]

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https://business.telus.com/en/busine...ble-use-policy

Telus can ban you by texting "fuck" thru their network if they want to.

When the Telus call centre first had that voice recognition lady-bot, I got frustrated by her lack of comprehension and swore and she was programmed to hang up on people who swore.
So, I spent the next 90 minutes calling back repeatedly to see how many standard and obscure swear words that she was programmed to recognize. The list was long!
It was hilarious. I wish YouTube was a thing, then.

[ExtraSlow]

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Telus can ban you by texting "fuck" thru their network if they want to. But they won't enforce it unless they have gone thru a cost/benefit consideration.

Apparently my public mobile revenue is pretty valuable to Telus. I probably text the word "fuck" minimum 46 times a week.

[ZenOps]

Youtube just banned. That escalated quickly.

[ZenOps]

As for the insurrection itself. Not even close, not even the same ballpark, not even the same sport compared to when Canada burned down the White House.

[Tik-Tok]

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As for the insurrection itself. Not even close, not even the same ballpark, not even the same sport compared to when Canada burned down the White House.

Canada didn't exist until 50 years after that. Britain burned it.

[Xtrema]

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Canada didn't exist until 50 years after that. Britain burned it.

We love to take credit for it tho.

[ZenOps]

Blame or Credit. The USA invaded the physical border in North America, they did not set a ship out to shellack London England (although arguably, if Canada lost, London would be the next logical step) Due to extremely low population, the natives of Canada most definitely did make a contribution at least in the attempted land takeover. So you can't just say British, unless you count the entire native population as slave military scrubs.

If Japan was successful at Hawaii, undoubtedly California would have been next. Some even argue that Japan was successful at taking Hawaii, its only the nuke that stopped them.

Canada won, decisively.

Bismark as a Forward Operating Base? Logical.

[littledan]

Ummmmm. No it was not the nuke that stopped japan from taking hawaii. All I can say is you need to re-read that chapter of ww2.

[googe]

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This is actually the most troublesome thing here. You know its only a matter of time before someone puts together a web page where you can type in a name/email and see if they had a parler account, what they posted, who they followed, etc, which will be used by HR departments/hiring managers around the world to screen people. While i think people that break laws should be prosecuted and deserve to be shamed, i don't like the idea of "ideology lists" like this.

Know what's even worse?

Most mobile devices will embed GPS location into every photo or video unless you disable that setting. This is to enable features that let you map out your travels and other things that most people don't really want or care about. The downside of this unbelievably bad idea is obvious. People are giving away their locations without realizing it. Most image sharing sites or social media sites strip this data out because of the obvious consequences. But they usually don't think to do this immediately (facebook didn't at first, nor did imgur, etc).

Parler made that mistake, so now, people are mapping out everywhere that every picture posted to Parler was taken. Even if you used a fake name, you may have given away your home or work location. There is already a site up that plots every post (without the pic or vid that was posted).

https://kylemcdonald.net/parler/map/

[tirebob]

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Ummmmm. No it was not the nuke that stopped japan from taking hawaii. All I can say is you need to re-read that chapter of ww2.

Actually, there is quite a lot of genuine debate over whether the bomb(s) ended the war or that the Japanese were ready to surrender anyways. I mean the narrative has always been that it was the reason, but the argument can definitely be made that it was more about a show of strength to the rest of the world by the Americans at the already inevitable end of the war so they come out on the other side in a serious position of dominance.

I watched a documentary on this a while ago and for the life of me I can't remember the name but it was pretty compelling. By no means am I saying I subscribe to it for certain, but I also would not be surprised. In the end, the narrative written by the winning team is always what we are going to be hit with most.

[Buster]

The Japanese were never going to win that war, once the Americans got their industrial machine going. The economic output the Americans can muster is ridiculous.

The bomb was just designed to save the lives of American soldiers and probably Japanese civilians, since they were pretty much a national religious cult at that point in their history.

[Xtrema]

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Know what's even worse?

Most mobile devices will embed GPS location into every photo or video unless you disable that setting. This is to enable features that let you map out your travels and other things that most people don't really want or care about. The downside of this unbelievably bad idea is obvious. People are giving away their locations without realizing it. Most image sharing sites or social media sites strip this data out because of the obvious consequences. But they usually don't think to do this immediately (facebook didn't at first, nor did imgur, etc).

Parler made that mistake, so now, people are mapping out everywhere that every picture posted to Parler was taken. Even if you used a fake name, you may have given away your home or work location. There is already a site up that plots every post (without the pic or vid that was posted).

https://kylemcdonald.net/parler/map/

People get dox'd for taking Pokemon gyms down. All these are par for course.

[rage2]

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Know what's even worse?

Most mobile devices will embed GPS location into every photo or video unless you disable that setting. This is to enable features that let you map out your travels and other things that most people don't really want or care about. The downside of this unbelievably bad idea is obvious. People are giving away their locations without realizing it. Most image sharing sites or social media sites strip this data out because of the obvious consequences. But they usually don't think to do this immediately (facebook didn't at first, nor did imgur, etc).

Parler made that mistake, so now, people are mapping out everywhere that every picture posted to Parler was taken. Even if you used a fake name, you may have given away your home or work location. There is already a site up that plots every post (without the pic or vid that was posted).

https://kylemcdonald.net/parler/map/

Yea, this is where Apple gets things right. iOS uploads shouldn't have GPS data. iOS has stripped GPS data access for quite a while now to apps, and even earlier for uploads via Safari. You can't even enable it. Other EXIF data is retained, just GPS stripped. The only GPS data that an app has access to is your location when you're uploading the photo, assuming you've granted location access. It's actually a bit of a PITA when you want to genuinely share a photo and want to retain GPS data. Even airdrop strips that shit.

GPS tagging is a genuinely useful feature, for me anyways. I use that shit daily to find photos.

[sabad66]

It only took two impeachment’s, but finally trump realizes how bad he was getting grifted by Rudy:
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/thehill....s-report%3famp

Sad!

[sabad66]

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Know what's even worse?

Most mobile devices will embed GPS location into every photo or video unless you disable that setting. This is to enable features that let you map out your travels and other things that most people don't really want or care about. The downside of this unbelievably bad idea is obvious. People are giving away their locations without realizing it. Most image sharing sites or social media sites strip this data out because of the obvious consequences. But they usually don't think to do this immediately (facebook didn't at first, nor did imgur, etc).

Parler made that mistake, so now, people are mapping out everywhere that every picture posted to Parler was taken. Even if you used a fake name, you may have given away your home or work location. There is already a site up that plots every post (without the pic or vid that was posted).

https://kylemcdonald.net/parler/map/

yikes. i see each data point has an ID... anyone know how to look that ID up to find the content? curious what all the points from calgary are lol. likely harmless but would be interesting to see