Didn’t think so.

Do you know the difference between “says” and “asks”?

Are you having a seizure?

Now you’re just repeating your idiocy. Are you a politician?

There you go again, not thinking before commenting. It just makes you say stupid things.

You should consider thinking about what people say before responding. It will probably lead to improved understanding and more relevant replies on your part.

And several of them are here ITT saying that the browser is sketchy.

The company was founded and is headed by a homophobic anti-vaxxer. Plus, the browser is not secure and has been involved in several controversies in the oast for things like selling user data and running a crypto scam.

Censorship is bad, but Facebook and X’s entire business models revolve around spreading content that is at once false and inflammatory, either just to create engagement or for more malicious purposes, and they reach a huge portion of the population directly, including children, teenagers, the mentally ill and other vulnerable populations. This requires a new understanding of accountability for spreading information.

I wouldn’t agree that it makes sense to hold a Mastodon instance responsible for what its users post, because they don’t have a financial incentive or the ability to promote misinformation at a massive scale. Twitter does. As Aristotle said, we must treat equals equally, and treat the unequal unequally according to the form and extent of their inequality.

I think that the point is “Rowling claims to want to protect cis women but even cis women would be harmed if she got her way, so nobody actually benefits”. Maybe it’s too charitable an interpretation but then again maybe not.

I squarely disagree. People who dedicate as much time and energy to making life worse for others as her are clearly living with intense negative emotions that they don’t know how to deal with in a healthy manner. Happy people don’t campaign against rights for others. Rowling is clearly a miserable and pathetic person. In the game of life, she’s losing to the average favela musician who has no money but loves their community.

The sea is not “a salt brine in itself”. You need a much higher salt concentration to pickle anything than what you find at any point in the ocean. Enough to prevent microbial life forms from surviving and consuming whatever it is you’re trying to pickle, which is why it doesn’t rot while pickling.

uBlock Origin works in Firefox for me. No ads on YT.

They can’t unless the parties agree that they can. The sneaky part is the “by continuing to use our services, you agree to the new terms” part, which is standard practice. You’d have to terminate your account before the new terms come into effect, then take them to court to make sure they didn’t keep your data around and use it to train their AI anyway because they “didn’t notice” that that particular content belonged to someone who didn’t accept the new terms.

Nothing suspicious at all about being contacted by the subject of a news story just to say it’s not newsworthy. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

Then the few people who don’t are very prolific commenters because it’s a mistake I see often.

Just because this is a common enough mistake, I’m going to publicly correct you for the benefit of other people who might see this comment. I apologize.

It’s Martial Law. Not Marshall Law.

Correct. When there isn’t enough bread to go around, it doesn’t really matter if everyone has money.

These are all valid points but they don’t preclude the existence of an open-source alternative to MBFC, which is what the commenter you replied to was asking.

Awesome. What prompt did you use?