Political Discussion

The Biden classified documents scandal continues to heat up. Apparently more documents were found when Biden's lawyers went looking to see if anything else exists. A special counsel has been appointed to investigate Biden by the house Republicans. And the AG is also investigating as well as the State Department.
 
There is a Supreme Court case against google coming up that could have huge consequences for the internet.

Currently Big Tech companies are shielded from liability from what users post online via Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

This case is about YouTube and the feed of videos it provides. Because the feed is now dictated by an AI, and no longer just a feed by date/time uploaded the lower courts have ruled that the AI-best recommended videos do not qualify for those protections. Because Google / YouTube is curating them.

What does this mean if the SCOTUS upholds the lower court's ruling? It basically means the future of social media and search engines existence is threatened, and they could look and behave very differently in the future if they survive.

What is everyones thoughts on this. Should Big Tech still be exempt from liability on AI curated feeds?
 
RenegadeMonster said:
There is a Supreme Court case against google coming up that could have huge consequences for the internet.

Currently Big Tech companies are shielded from liability from what users post online via Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

This case is about YouTube and the feed of videos it provides. Because the feed is now dictated by an AI, and no longer just a feed by date/time uploaded the lower courts have ruled that the AI-best recommended videos do not qualify for those protections. Because Google / YouTube is curating them.

What does this mean if the SCOTUS upholds the lower court's ruling? It basically means the future of social media and search engines existence is threatened, and they could look and behave very differently in the future if they survive.

What is everyones thoughts on this. Should Big Tech still be exempt from liability on AI curated feeds?
Click to expand...

This is absolutely brilliant. They’ve been using their shitty little algorithms to stir the pot and divide to get the hate clicks. Fuck em if it blows back up in their faces.
 
Joe Mac said:
This is absolutely brilliant. They’ve been using their shitty little algorithms to stir the pot and divide to get the hate clicks. Fuck em if it blows back up in their faces.
Click to expand...

Oh, I for sure can get behind getting rid of that aspec.

Sadly though that's the the motivation factor of this lawsuit, money is. And whether or not YouTube can be held liable for copyright infringement or defamation for user posted content and have to pay up.
 
folsom_lives said:
Wait, so the first few bills the new house majority is trying to cram through involve cutting Medicare, social security, and then plan to eliminate federal income tax. 🤡 :poop:

I've been thinking more and more on eliminating the income tax and on the face of it sure, there's more money in my pocket. But I can't escape the thought of it then spiraling into the being another way to siphon more wealth from the lower and middle class into the wealthy and corporate owners. It's the same argument they make about wage increases. "It's going to make everything more expensive"... So that means that these "costs" get passed onto consumers. In lieu of the income tax they are proposing a consumption tax hike. So basically it takes the controlled process of government regulated income tax and makes it so the corporations can set whatever "tax" they want to bend us over the barrel on the consumption side in cahoots with the GOP and their consumption tax. Shit is already expensive with inflation and here they are trying to find ways to make shit more expensive. When the purchasing power of the dollar is crashing, don't give me more dollars...
Click to expand...


I don't have a side here, but this was funny
 
Jonathan Y said:


I don't have a side here, but this was funny
Click to expand...

I am not tracking his point. Never was under the impression Warren was against paying more taxes.

also the number of blue check marks in the replies has me wonder why so many regular folks think they need to subscribe to twtr blue. Like no one is trying to impersonate you Frank from Cleveland..they’ve already got your personal info from the thousands of data breaches that have occurred. 🤦🏾‍♂️
 
Indymisanthrope said:
I know it would require more than a simple majority of Congress to pass into law so maybe it's out of scope of my hypothetical scenario, but I am seriously tempted to put a repeal of the 2nd amendment into my top 3.
Click to expand...
Taking money out of politics would make it easier to pass some sort of legislation. An outright ban like the UK or Australia is probably impossible in a practical way. But requiring gun insurance would do a lot.
 
www.cnn.com

Opinion: The realization about the IRS that the GOP needs to have | CNN

Patrick T. Brown writes while the reflexive small-government ideology of many House conservatives made picking a fight over the IRS inevitable in the new Congress, there are legitimate reasons to drop the issue.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com

I guess it comes at no surprise that the first bit of legislation the Republican controlled House passed was to repeal the additional funding to the IRS. And according to this opinion piece, for funding for the IRS actually is better for the GOP cause.
 
RenegadeMonster said:
www.cnn.com

Opinion: The realization about the IRS that the GOP needs to have | CNN

Patrick T. Brown writes while the reflexive small-government ideology of many House conservatives made picking a fight over the IRS inevitable in the new Congress, there are legitimate reasons to drop the issue.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com

I guess it comes at no surprise that the first bit of legislation the Republican controlled House passed was to repeal the additional funding to the IRS. And according to this opinion piece, for funding for the IRS actually is better for the GOP cause.
Click to expand...
the thing is, they don't care. it's not about results. it's about the appearance of doing the thing. it's like the TSA or all the bullshit sex laws. Every study done says if you really want people to take sex and pregnancy seriously and to minimize the social issues regarding sex -- pregnancy, STDs, traffic, underage sex/exploitation -- then what's needed is education and widespread access to resources. But if you offer a condom or a pill or a book the explains sex or the body, conservatives generally and republicans specifically lose their shit and vote it down.
 
Speaking of Sex laws, apparently Massachusetts was 1 of only 2 states that didn't have a revenge porn law on the books. We finally passed legislation on January 4th to address this.

Previous laws had a loophole that made it near impossible to prosecute and convict anyone for revenge porn. So, it's about time they addressed this.
 
yukbon said:
the thing is, they don't care. it's not about results. it's about the appearance of doing the thing. it's like the TSA or all the bullshit sex laws. Every study done says if you really want people to take sex and pregnancy seriously and to minimize the social issues regarding sex -- pregnancy, STDs, traffic, underage sex/exploitation -- then what's needed is education and widespread access to resources. But if you offer a condom or a pill or a book the explains sex or the body, conservatives generally and republicans specifically lose their shit and vote it down.
Click to expand...

Religious extremists are dangerous people.
 
www.thebulwark.com

The Economic Secret Hidden in a Tiny, Discontinued Pasta - The Bulwark

Ronzini says it didn’t want to halt sales of its star-shaped “pastina.” So why did it?
www.thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com

Interesting read that sheds some light on the state of manufacturing in America. As manufacturing moved out of America, so to have we lost many capabilities making some of the seemingly most simple things impossible. In the case of this pasta, there are no manufacturing facilities that be sourced to create the dies to cut the pasta. The article also mentions Apple having to abandon their goal of assembling iphones in the States because they couldn't source the tiny screws they needed. And that if a company as large of Apple simply can not get screws they need manufactured stateside is says a lot.

If global trade were ever cut off we would be in a whole world of hurt.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top