The people that are most willing to help are generally the least likely to help, especially when it comes to content moderation.

This is not only incorrect (this particular law doesn’t apply here), but I can easily prove it beyond any shadow of a doubt.

Backpage was shutdown despite their willingness to comply with the law because they were found to “facilitate” CSAM. Omegle was also temporarily shutdown for the same reasons. There have also been quite literally dozens of prosecutions of website admins on the dark web for offering a platform for CSAM despite them arguing in court that they had no control over what their users uploaded and quickly moderated the content when discovered. In the end none of it matters–as a provider of a service you are required to make it difficult to share CSAM, not just comply with the law when someone catches you with your pants down.

It bedevils me that people are so laissez-faire about literal fucking CP–AI generated or not.

And in spite of literally all of that, none of this has anything to do with US law. It’s Patron policy. They don’t want to service someone who constantly has issues with CSAM, and they have every right not to offer their services to catbox.

Ultimately, yes, I think they are.

There’s no opinion to be had. You are absolutely morally and legally responsible for what your users upload. Period.

The photos perfectly elaborate, though… They didn’t really get screwed, someone uploaded “animated child sexual abuse photos.” Which is not only illegal but against the TOS of Patreon. From the photos shared it looks like this isn’t the first time it’s happened, either, and Patreon clearly doesn’t want anything to do with it–which frankly is their right.

Not really sure how this equates to them “being screwed.” They’re responsible for what people upload to their service (they clearly understand that) which is why public uploads like this without restriction aren’t a great idea.

The best part about it, is that the old-as-fuck Democrats hate it, which makes me love it all the more.

No, I got that. I forgot the /s.

Justice Clarence Thomas dissented to the court’s order that black people are real people.

Like, it’s a fucked up headline, but I bet for a second you were like “wait a minute, is that real?” Which is both funny and sad at the same time concerning both Thomas and the times we live in. lol

It’ll never happen […] * it happens * […] Who could have guessed!

Figures. Gays for Trump prolly pissed rn.

Invest in dental supply companies.

Yeah! Don’t touch our members of congress! Throw everyone else in jail, but not our most passionate public servants! /s

https://torrentfreak.com/internet-backbone-provider-hurricane-electric-sues-movie-companies-over-ridiculous-piracy-allegations-200612/

Hurricane Electric gets my vote.

All the more reason to setup Adguard Home/Unbound.

Only a matter of time now, really.

This shift of the dollar from a global reserve to being just another currency went from a realistic impossibility to “probable” in the course of a 90 days. If it weren’t so fucking crazy it would actually be impressive.

I mean, twitter sucked when it first launched, too. Doesn’t mean it won’t get better.

Not sure why everyone is so hellbent on FOSS software to be in its most usable and polished state on launch but will buy prereleased and/or beta games and put in 10,000 hours into half finished games without batting an eye. The double standard for FOSS developers is insane to me.

It does, however ever dollar of tariff revenue goes to the federal government. So it still increases revenue. Especially when essentials are tariff’d. Generally you can’t avoid Chinese imports.

I honestly can’t think of promises that would require more money.

There are quite literally dozens. Bringing manufacturing back to the US, eliminating income tax, eliminating tax on overtime/per diem, cut “energy prices” in half in 12 months (max of 18 months), end the Russia/Ukraine war, make in vitro fert free, end birthright citizenship, cut corporate tax rate from 21% to 15%, eliminate tax on social security, car loan interest tax deductible… The list goes on. All of this will cost quite literally trillions of dollars and none of that has anything even tangentially related to his trillion dollar plan for mass deportations.

We’re looking at the largest increase in federal spending in the history of the United States here. More than any war ever. You have to pay for it somehow.

He’s working very hard to meet his campaign promises. They were too grandeur. The government needs a massive increase in revenue to be able to meet the promises he’s made. If you sit down and think about it, this is the easiest way for the federal government to increase revenue without directly increasing taxes. Then he does wild deportations to distract everyone from what he’s doing.

All to keep the top 1%'s share of total adjusted gross income to share of total income paid at 26.3% and 45.8%. Crazy to me that the top 1% of earners cry so hard about contributing a proportional amount in taxes.

That Tim Walz’s and AOC’s support for Israel is the single-issue that’s stopping Democrats - or at the very least Walz/AOC - from winning elections?

I mean, it’s a significant swing factor. It’s clearly not the only factor, but you have entire communities in the US not voting for candidates because of their stances on Israel. You would think this past election would be a glaringly obvious example, but I guess not.

Gallop polls suggest it’s a significant issue or voters;

Democrats’ sympathies for the Israelis dipped to 38%, while the reading for Palestinians jumped 11 points to 49% […]

About 50% of them. To imply that they’re not losing elections because of the support of Israel is supremely ignorant and stupid.

I still fear that mistakes may slip through

Wikipedia is moderated by real people, so this is a non-issue. The fault tolerance for Wikipedia will be the same from AI vs People because it’s moderated by the same people regardless of where the content comes from.

I also use it for this. Sometimes I can get pretty draconian with my speech, so I feed my long winded responses into AI, and pull out a more readable responses. I even have AI write pull requests sometimes. Works great.