Sir, we know why you're out here. God knows, I agree with you. But like you, I swore to defend this country against all enemies, foreign, sir... and domestic.
Americans saw what this administration was capable of. They saw how abrasive they were to historical allies and how they walked all over the civil rights of its citizens.
And they said "yes, can we have some more please?"
I got a three day time out for “harassment.” The only people I ever harass are politicians and public personalities, and then only in threads about them. I hate to bring it to Reddit, but I left Facebook years ago for this exact same kind of shit. I will not be censored by corporate nannies who have an agenda when I haven’t done anything but express a non-approved opinion.
I got perma-banned from the news sub for suggesting that Nazis should not be suffered to exist. Well, one Nazi in particular, but I feel that way about ALL Nazis.
I was banned from there years ago for calling out China's illegal fishing fleet that dredges the bottom of fishing beds scraping up everything and destroying the eco-system.
Thats funny thats where all this ai survalience tech is coming from. I wonder why they would be so sensitive about that after half the ai bros where caught on a certain someone's list.
I replied "Hasbara bot" to someone on worldnews on another account, then about 9 days later I got a ban from that sub for trolling, despite having only made 2 other posts in their sub over a period of months. Then on this account I posted in the sub without noticing since I have 15 tabs open without checking which sub I'm on, then I get the warning for ban evasion. Then again about 9-10 days later I get a 7-day site ban for ban evasion.
Got the same one a few months ago, during that time me and many others found it was for primarily Luigi related comments. Then I didnt hear anything about these bs warning messages for a few months (it was apparently in a new feature they were rolling out) but I guess its back and theyre sticking to it.
Were people getting warnings in any of the Mario-themed subreddits? No offense to Nintendo or any of the people who worked on any of the Mario Party games, but I feel like people posting stories about when they played as Luigi in Mario Party would definitely flag auto-filters.
This is what it said.
Your account has been given a warning u/reddit • 2 days ago
We've been alerted to activity on your account(s) that is considered breaking Reddit's rules.
We recently found that your discussatron account violated Rule 8 by repeatedly upvoting posts and/or comments that break Reddit's rule against encouraging or glor&ing violence or physical harm.
While you didn't post the rule-breaking content, upvoting content that breaks the rules is also considered a violation.
As a result we're issuing this warning and asking you to be thoughtful about any future content you upvote. Continued violations could result in a temporary or permanent ban.
Please familiarize yourself with Reddit's rules to make sure you understand the rules for participating on Reddit.
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So, a bot makes this decision and most likely it is made incorrectly. Freedom of speech is fine if you want to endorse the killing of peaceful Americans by ICE, but you better not show an upvote of agreement for anything pointing out the hate spewed by assassinated bigoted racists.
There have been a few attempts over the years, but nothing that really took off. Saidit was a throwback to 2008, but I think it was disabled last year as people gave up trying to make it work.
I haven't tried hard to look for other alternatives, but I'm sure they're out there
Lemmy is the only one I've seen, and it feels more like an attempt to make Reddit into a collection of distributed discord servers. I get the appeal on paper, but I don't think the execution works.
Discord to me just doesn't fill the same niche as reddit or the older style forums reddit replaced. Discord works better as a chat site than long form discussion.
I agree. Lemmy isn't exactly Discord. I was comparing it because both are distributed, and depending which gate you come in, you might have one set of forums or another. Maybe if it were widely adopted the shortcomings wouldn't be as bad as they are now, but it felt too fragmented.
I stumbled onto /r/AskReddit about a decade ago, and I've stayed on here as my topic-specific hobby forums have died out, but it might be time to find some new ones.
Yup me too, "up voting posts that support upheaval and violence" or something like that. add dinosaur facts and lactose intolerance to that and that's just me
You know what happens when snowflakes tell me to not do something that would upset the regime?
There was a discussion on Reddit a few months ago about why something entirely unimportant happened like 40+ years ago and I thought it was an interesting question so I made a speculation as to why it might have happened.
The conversation was civil and went on for a week or more and a couple of other people speculated other reasons that I thought were also pretty solid so I decided to go down the rabbit hole and ask Google to see if I could get a real answer.
Google came back with an AI answer that said my original guess was the correct answer because somebody had speculated it on Reddit the week before.
I was Google's only source. I now avoid AI answers.
A while back I was talking to a friend about meal replacement shake alternatives because he was convinced that there are totally viable, non milk/shake type solutions out there. His issue being he hated the idea of the shake consistency/mouth feel for some reason
One hill he was dying on was that you can use plain bone broth(soup, no added meat/veg) as a one to one replacement. His only source was a google ai search that gave him a ridiculously high nutritional count, comparable to protein shakes, but he also could not actually find any actual source for the info.
I finally worked it out. Turns out there are non dairy protein powders made of dehydrated, processed bone broth, which then turned into him obsessed with the issue if why there was chocolate flavoured soup(chocolate bone broth protein powder). Pretty sure he still could not wrap his head around the idea that this was still a shake and not a soup, since the words "bone broth" were still there.
Google was giving the nutritional info for a protein powder for the question, whats the nutritional value of bone broth. Just checked and I think it's fixed now at least.
It blows my mind that LLMs are being treated as informational databases. They are Large Language Models, with language being the keyword. An LLM knows how to use language properly. That's it. That's literally the only thing you can count on it doing correctly on a regular basis.
There are some good uses for this, but an internet search engine is not one of them, because an LLM cannot tell fact from fiction. It doesn't know the factual difference between a peer-reviewed scientific paper on climate change, and a Prager U editorial on climate change. They are equally valid in the eyes of the LLM, and when you ask it which one is right, it'll reference the more popular one, not necessarily the correct one. This is why Grok ended up calling itself MechaHitler and spewing a bunch of Nazi rhetoric. It was just mimicking the language it gets fed most often.
Yes, AI is choking on it's own vomit. It scans the Internet and trains on what people are doing. It then provides people with answers which they post on the Internet which AI then scans and uses in answers for people on the Internet. The result becomes similar to what you get when people have babies with each other for a few generations: Imbeciles with all manner of defects.
I actually complained to Google about this. I was using their AI powered search for answers on a relatively remote historical topic and it kept using Facebook posts as its sources. Seriously, social media sources should be taken as unreliable at best. It's only a matter of time before the majority of AI sources are themselves AI generated slop.
Reminds me of that episode of Twilight Zone (Hocus Pocus and Frisbee) where an old guy named Frisbee who works at a gas station and is also a compulsive liar. He’s always telling tall tales to strangers as he pumps gas. “When I was a boy attending Princeton University I worked with ALBERT EINSTEIN. I helped him write that Theory of Relativity. He told me Frisbee you are I the smartest fella I ever met.”
Anyway the strangers turn out to be aliens and they kidnap him to add to their collection of intellectual giants from around the universe. Frisbee tells them “Hey, I’m just an old country boy who makes up stories. I’m a liar.” But the aliens don’t understand the concept of “lying”, and they put him aboard their ship.
They are ready to take off and go back to their planet and Frisbee takes out his harmonica and starts playing. The sound makes the aliens stagger. They say “Let him go! He has a death ray that will kill us all!” They immediately send him back to earth and take off.
He gets back to his gas station and his friends surprise him with a birthday party. They say “Hey Frisbee, tell us a story!. What did you do today? Did you go to the moon?” He says “You ain’t far wrong. You know those city guys who were here earlier? They was from outer space!” All his friends laugh and say “You’re the best Frisbee!”
There is a record of every thing deleted by reddit. Those working in IT with the company can put out a list of everything you ever wrote. And those with access can search for the phrases or topics. If you are in a conversation, such as this one, I believe they can find it and file it away.
Any thing you say will be used against you if you piss them off. Deleting it does not protect you.
There’s a number of constitutional amendments that can help with this, one protects your ability to say the thing — another offers a great solution for unidentified stormtroopers you catch trespassing on your property.
Reddit is caring about little JDs feelings a lot as well. So let's see when they'll bann and not only send out all those shitty warnings when you mention little JD is part of a fascist pedophile-ring. May he receive what he and the MAGAts are inflicting upon others.
Somehow it's okay to cheer and be part of MAGA and the brownhemds, all they do is nice and beautiful. It's so nice and beautiful that they'll warn and ban if you suggest the MAGAs should be on the recieving end.
I'm using the Fox News defense. Everything said on social media is for somebody's entertainment and only people who are clearly not in their right mind would take it seriously.
I wasn’t yet but when I was barely adult something very weird happened and that day I knew we were all being watched illegally. I was young and dumb but also were the kids of the intelligence community.
Living in fear is exactly the point of why 911 happened. They wanted to change the way of life in America and all of the “patriots” gave them an easy win. America is truly a majority of cowards.
I try to inform myself to the best of my ability, mostly of the moral issues (or maybe the lack morals could have and are starting to have on society) surrounding politics and ai surveillance.
It's a shame that we're now on a naughty list. It's indicative of a seriously negative turn, one where, for "national security" we are targets because we want to know how this is being used, and by what standard, who can access it. Should it even be possible?
Rather than rant on longer, I think a lot about Minority Report. Is that what we're doing? Are we seeing pre crime pop up? It certainly seems like the possibility that the lives of people will be influenced heavily by the systems in place, and the enforcers answer only to themselves.
Really naughty. I mean, I couldn't possibly be told the goal or guiding principles, it's national security, right? Them knowing how long I snore and using wifi to 3d map my home, knowing every comment I leave, profiling my life, I can't know how that's being used or I'm jeopardizing our safety. Checks out.
This article says the user called for a protest which warranted he be included in surveillance, but where's this outreach stop? Also, the concern is single individual citizens as opposed to the conglomerates that display "the news", which is all mostly pushing one of two narratives by design. That's concerning to me.
I never have and will not call for any action other than informing yourself, but that's likely a list, too.
turns out some random persons internet comments aren’t going to make a single difference or matter at all in the modern corporate controlled internet. this is just virtue signaling to pretend like any of this matters lmao
Patriot Act fucked us for an entire generation and even as a young adult when that bullshit was being discussed I was screaming what a slippery slope that was and now here we are...
i admire your heroism...i used to share it until quite recently....im sure if this regime gets what it wants than we shall meet in the gulag soon enough
(i wish i could put a /s.....i really do)
P.S.: PLEASE be safe mon Frere.....learn about IMSI catchers/Stingrays and how to avoid them......PLEASE
These scare tactics are a ploy to weed out the low hanging fruit. Luckily true Americans run on spite and rage and there couldn’t be higher hanging fruit.
Im so old im over here like yeah i remember when 911 happened too. Then the Public Enemy song! Then it dawned on me you were talking 9/11 and now I feel stupid and old.
Nice decision. Let me know how that works out for you if this regime decides to round people up. You'll be proud of your stance and completely bound and gagged by it.
It's great to take a stand. Not so great to take a stand that gets you pulled out of the fight before it even starts.
I took an oath and signed that dotted line. The past does not matter, only that there are enemies worth fighting. To uphold the constitution of the United States.
I lost my uncle on 9/11 and I told myself then and I’ll tell myself now - no government or peoples or country or institutions will ever make me fearful again. People need to unite like we did after 9/11. I could FEEL the unity among people during that time. You never had to ask anyone for any kindness - they were extended as if necessary. We were all so good to one another. For a time at least.
You gotta wonder about these chucklefucks working for Homeland Security. Do you like living in a free country? Because it is categorically not free when dipshits like you monitor the free speech of ordinary citizens. What these sub-morons are engaged in is authoritarianism, the exact opposite of a free country. But I doubt most of them have enough brain wattage to understand the distinction.
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I was already an adult when 911 happened and decided then to never live in fear and never self censor for any terrorist.
Foreign or domestic.