It’s a fine sample size. That’s a normal national poll. A poll of 1,000 people has a margin of error (from random sampling) of 3%. There are other errors than random chance that could bias a poll, but random chance is what sampling size is generally managing.

This is a story about protests and mask bans in the US and non-governmental actors can still be a threat to protesters in a “free” country.

This is obviously different in countries that are not free.

So… the US? People are regularly arrested for perfectly legal, not even a shadow of a doubt, activity at protests. And protesters are vulnerable to not just cops, but dangerous actors who support the thing they’re protesting against. Whether it’s doxing, billionaire-funded slander, your boss not liking the cause, or actual violence, there’s plenty of reason not to want your face to be easily identifiable, even while orderly protesting for a just cause. Never mind health concerns like not wanting to catch COVID (or breath tear gas).

The idea that orderly protesting is safe in the United States is incredibly naïve.

either keep Sotomayor or replace her with a progressive justice

No, we need to replace her. The ability to replace justices is often a limited time offer.

The media isn’t making up Biden’s call for law and order, nor the calls from the Democratic governors in CA and NY, or the Democratic mayor (albeit DINO) of NYC. Basically every statement by a non-progressive politician is vague support for freedom of speech before moving on to statements about violence and antisemitism (generally unsupported) and how protests aren’t supposed to actually inconvenience or disrupt anyone’s lives.

Just getting together well-meaning people and talking things out is like the pinnacle of liberal ideology too. Don’t know why so many Democrats are tripping over their feet to paint the protests as bad and cheer on the cops. You have your perfect resolution right there!

Active Clubs also maintain close affiliations with more traditional white nationalist and accelerationist groups

Man, it would be cool is rightwing accelerationist groups just pushed for super wokeness and a beefy welfare state to accelerate their conflict like the leftwing accelerationist cheer everything progressing toward a conservative hellscape because it’ll make a revolution happen. Why does their accelerationism just make things they like happen?

Yeah, last time I went back to survey the landscape the more anticorporate/progressive subs I knew were noticeably diminished, while subs that get off on the futility of activism and immutability of power structures were going strong.

Forget SCOTUS, issue an executive order that the DOJ considers rulings from circuits that do not abide by Judicial Conference rules to be invalid and instruct law enforcement to disregard them. Just make this district a legal black hole. People forget that part of checks and balances is that enforcement is separate from the court system and needed for their rulings to mean anything. Judges aren’t kings.

Edit: Sorry for the mild necro, was just looking through communities and didn’t check the dates.

I’m personally curious whether Reddit actually has any ability to protect that database. I don’t remember Reddit TOS, but usually those things give them license to use and copy the data, maybe even to sell it, but not actually the copyright on it. So if someone made a Reddit scraper and copied the comments, wouldn’t only the actual commenter be able to sue?

$60M may be reflecting that, in that it’s more a convenience fee to shield Google against individual Redditors going after them than something that Reddit itself could actually sue over.

Even better, that should be their primary social network site. It’s inherently restricted to valid government accounts and under their control so all the right data protection and preservation procedures can be followed. Then Threads users can follow potus@socia.whitehouse.gov or whatever.

This isn’t an existential problem. Just block threads.net.

If it helps bring perspective. I’ve never even heard of Fedi Garden before this post. I did a lot of puzzling over choosing instances for Lemmy and Mastodon when I first joined and never saw a link to them. I’m not sure why they’d even be seen as a trusted list for a new users, since at joining the user also doesn’t know anything about them or their values, reliability, or reputation.

Plus, once you’re in the Fediverse you then learn you can just change instances. Once someone points out that [other instance] can talk to Threads users the individual can just switch or stay depending on their preferences.

The best place to go is Z, which federates with both.

I don’t know much about how Reddit and moderation works behind the scenes but recently everything I post in different subs keeps getting auto-removed without any explanation whatsoever. If I message the mods of those subs, then there are only three responses: 1) no response whatsoever, 2) sarcasm and unkindness without actually assisting me, and worse 3) a permanent ban without further elaboration.

If you were getting auto-removed on all subs you were either shadowbanned (Reddit admins thought you were a spammer or evading bans) or you were running afoul of commonly copied automod rules. Every sub has their own automod code, but there’s a lot of copying of rules, so you could just end up getting removed by the same rule copied to multiple subs. Some common rules remove content from new accounts or accounts without a certain amount of karma. Filters for slurs are pretty common as well.

If you were getting negative responses from all the mods, you either had really bad luck with the mods you contacted or something about your account made them think you weren’t joining their sub for positive interaction. Having a lot of negative karma or an initial post or history that looked like you were joining to fight the sub’s groupthink might get you sorted into the “don’t feel the trolls” bucket. Or you were shadowbanned and the mods just assumed you must have done something wrong. There’s no real rules on what legit modding is, so if they get a bad impression they won’t assume good faith and spend time explaining things.

Frankly, if everyone is being mean to you it seems kind of unlikely it was totally a “them” problem. A random mod getting off on abusing a user, ok, but multiple mods in different subs just picking on you for no good reason?

But right now they’re naive bots built on other text corpuses, soon they’ll be trained on Reddit itself, so they can karma farm and continue memes from the aughts for the rest of time without the need for pesky users.

After a series of community revolts and a revolving door of chief executives, by 2015 Reddit had more than 100 million users but only $12 million in annual revenue…

…Perhaps Reddit’s biggest obstacle to a smooth I.P.O. has been its users. The thousands of forums, or “subreddits,” that make up the site are overseen largely by a volunteer force of moderators. Some have resisted the idea of Reddit’s being a public company, concerned that market forces and the quarterly demands of shareholders will corrode some of the features that made the site so attractive to them.

Apparently the community revolts were ended by 2015, and the recent issues have just been unspecified “resistance to going public”. That thing that was national news 9 months back, and was also reported about in the New York Times, somehow didn’t merit a mention.

Mike Isaac has covered Reddit since 2010 from San Francisco.

By “covered Reddit” does he mean wrote articles with whatever comment was most upvoted on a topic? Because he certainly didn’t demonstrate a particularly deep understanding of Reddit in this article.

That’s not relevant to whether someone can buy stock. Lots of Europeans own stock in American companies.

“US Arab officials” are not “Hamas”.

That’s some good racism you got right there.