I will probably get downvoted for saying it, but this post and the response here reminds me a lot of things you'd see on r/conservative in that people take an isolated hateful incident and extrapolate to say that this is the start of a civil war and we need to mount an equally forceful response. Yes this is a tragedy, unhinged, and terroristic behavior, but, as someone from a deeply red state who has some ultra-conservative family, 0 of them are even remotely close to wanting to fight and die over pride flags.
I only say this because the sentiment that "there is no other way out of this but civil war" is not anywhere close to true, in my mind, and only serves to stop coherent discussion.
The same Patrick Moore who thinks that it's okay to drink weed killer? Leaving aside his insane stances on climate change, the guy is obviously a crackpot and it's wild that he is taken seriously by anyone.
TL;DR: She's a former employee that recently came out to detail her abusive time working for LMG filled with sexism, harassment, and working her to the point that she injured herself just to be able to take a day off work
They aren't actually removing content at all. They're just adding a 5 second delay to websites they don't like. I still think it would be an uphill battle to try to prove that this causes "substantial injury to consumers" or that it "cannot reasonably be avoided by consumers" since they could still go to the website on their own.
I don't really think the "promises free speech" argument would fly either because that would open the door to sue over anyone moderating anything at all, leaving aside that the term "free speech" as it was used by Musk is subjective and was never defined by the platform. There was even a time where they just outright disallowed posting any link to other competitors and that was never challenged in court. The statutes do have catch-alls but that doesn't mean there is no standard by which you have to measure up against to prove that it fits one of those categories.
Bad faith? Yes. Illegal? It's definitely not clear cut, and it seems like the answer is probably not.
This is a real tough one considering how large his body of work is. Carrie & Lowell was the album that really got me into him, and I think it's a good one to start with. Illinois is another immaculate album by him, imo. My fav song may just be Impossible Soul because it's 25 minutes long and is essentially an entire EP at the end of an album haha.
This is irresponsible speculation, in my opinion. I have not heard any credible legal sources say that what he posted constitutes witness tampering, and judges have given him wide latitude in the past with regards to what he is allowed to say publicly because of his role as a public figure. It is far from a foregone conclusion that he "sentenced himself to minimum of 2 years" considering he has not even been charged with anything at all regarding that incident.
I still don't really get who gets the money from this special membership? I understand people subscribe to YouTube and twitch personalities because they want to support the creator and they get most of the money, but what incentive does anyone have to buy this community membership here? Is it really just the special avatars/badges/whatever?
Maybe I couldn't find it somewhere online, but is there a structured development roadmap for features you plan to implement? If not, what are the top priorities going forward? What are your long term goals with the project?
I think Lemmy specifically doesn't fall victim to the issue of certain news agencies and personalities being exclusive to the platform as much as Mastodon does with Twitter. You can get the same news here as long as someone is there to post it, but that's where Lemmy is a bit behind at the moment: we haven't hit that critical mass of users such that smaller communities have enough content to sustain themselves. Maybe the platform isn't ready for all those people quite yet either; I think the software has a little maturing to do before mass adoption would happen.
Anyone from Germany care to comment on why this is? Y'all seem to have such a large presence on here compared to others