#DontRentDC is common sense, protecting your neighborhood and business.

But imagine an airline refusing to let people board because there will be a championship game and fans will riot and damage the city after their team wins the game. It might have a moral base, but how can you tell a rioter from a non-violent citizen? What data do they need to make the right guess? Bad data means bad guesses, good data means......thanks for GDPR.

I know GDPR theoretically does not apply to CH, but lots of business already apply it because our customers on the EU. No sense in having two systems in the company.

I think the urgency and priority are for the upcoming inauguration and the safety factors involved. And keeping DC citizens safe. I can see your argument when it comes to GDPR.
I don't know how we would separate potential football hooligans... I would assume known hooligans are probably on some noflylists too?

Dunno. I assume there is some way of identifying these folk? Tbh a good whack of them self IDd on TV /social media or turned themselves in. There's your list right there.

Not sure how we got from a private co changing its Ts and Cs to "It's a conspiracy ". Tin foil hat time I guess.




There are already some sports fans banned from flying/travelling to games. Same deal I suppose. They did something wrong, have the potential to do it again, so are removed from the equation. Their actions have consequences.


Yep. Kid in my first form got a 10 year international game ban and had to hand his passport in to local police station after he went on the pitch and thumped a goalie. On camera.

If interested, he interviews Tulsi Gabbard -

Maybe it pure co-incidence..

But I never watch anything political on youtube..No news channels, no conspiracy, no tin foil hat stuff.. I simply have no interest in it other that playing devils advocate here

I only use youtube to watch techie stuff, product reviews, old thrash metal videos, unix stuff etc.. things like that.

Last few days my suggestions from youtube are mostly MSNBC. CBS, CNN .. Tons of stuff about trump exposed..trump failure, trump supporters exposed.. trump embarrassment..

What gives.. Is this tinfoil hat stuff? Youtube is encouraging me to be educated?

Nah, John. Tinfoil hat stuff is believing Trump is leading the charge for the Second Coming and all those folk storming Capitol Hill were carrying puppies and kittens and intending to hang stars and rainbows in the Senate hall. But what do I know...

YouTube is half great stuff and half supremely dodgy content. Much like EF, it depends on your personal standpoint as to which half is which.

It's hypocritical for any Trump supporters to complain about "cancel culture." They've been trying to cancel Joe Biden and the results of an election.

To each their own, but I prefer to not see a functioning and fully equipped tank in my mad neighbor's garden, or a missile launcher mounted on his truck.
That ruling was overturned by the Supreme Court in 2018 (7-2, Kavanaugh hadn't been appointed yet).

ETA:
The New York Times called that 7-2 ruling a "narrow decision". Go figure.

Does this mean EU will have a better image among certain EF members from now on?...

I was always a reluctant Brexiteer, however it's still a vote that I don't regret. Not everything the EU does is "BAD" however on balance I think it's better to go forward without being a member. That's the problem with this forum, and general discourse at the moment, the center ground just doesn't exist. Everyone has to be on one side or the other!

Anyway, to return to the point, I didn't post that link in praise of the EU. Just showing an example of how the decisions of Big Tech over the past week will have serious ramifications for them going forward. Other countries will also now take a firmer line on how they are regulated. I think it's highly ironic that a country like Germany, which has far more restrictive free speech laws than most western democracies, have raised their concerns over the actions of Big Tech.

Another example, in Uganda they've blocked Twitter and Facebook, after Big Tech closed some accounts there related to the upcoming election. The response from Twitter (see below) is hilarious in its lack of self-awareness. This after they suspended the New York Post's Twitter account in the run up to the US election!

Big Tech should remember, whilst they can control accounts which can be switched off, governments control the internet, which can also be switched off. A race to the bottom is the only outcome here.

https://twitter.com/Policy/status/1349059275461685250

This x 100000!!!!!!

You're writing about the Brexit vote - I don't believe there were more than two options. It was Yes or No. There wasn't a half-in, half out option.

Have you no idea that the internet is used for so much more than social media?

Certainly not!

Tom

Not voting?

DT won’t have YT account either ...

YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55643774

Can he survive if all media will turn away from him?

Donald Trump is finished anyway and has been for a month or so. He'll be 78 by 2024 so there's almost zero chance he would run in that election. This is why all this talk of the 25th amendment and impeachment are just theatre.

Trumpism and its followers however isn't finished and the more social media and tech tries to silence them the greater the devotion to the cause will become.

Apparently some use the internet only for social media so this idea comes as a surprise for them.

The Chinese seem to have no problem shutting down certain bits of the Internet while keeping others fully open.

Most of people ensure problems are finished. It's not OK to turn your back after you thought you knocked out someone, deceit is part of humans. Trump playing dead could be just theater And not only humans, even the spiders in my flat are intelligent enough to play dead and wait for me to go away and then run for their lives.

TC, do you have any proof the cancelling of Trump is not an inside job from other Republicans? Trump served the purpose of winning back on 2016, today he lost the election and he's damaging the Republican brand and companies across the US, so not useful anymore. Why not make a few calls and ask some acquaintances to block him. People will go against the crazy liberals, so no worries. The swamp Trump promised to drain, may be just swallowing him. Once you consider a thing can be theater......everything can be theater.

The face of twitter may be a guy posing as left, liberal or whatever you want to call it, but check the owners, 73% of institutional ownership. World-known lefties such as Vanguard, Morgan Stanley , Blackrock and State Street own 30% of twitter https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activi...ional-holdings I have big troubles understanding the animosity against the tech people that think they're above the law, after you see who owns them.