Ha, I only relate to the permabans part

Not OP, but it’s Henry Blodget.

I was amazed to learn this as well.

Yes. Before there was some quality content. Then there was this New York Time “sex trafficking” investigation or something. Then Visa and Mastercard threatened to drop pornhub. So Pornhub removed all videos that weren’t “verified”. Now everything is just awful. I don’t know what pornhub’s “verification” process entails, but apparently it’s a pain in the ass to complete. All I know is 100% of the videos I had saved are still removed. And they decided to pull this shit like 3 years ago during the pandemic when everyone was locked inside their homes. Download your porn people!

Ha! Legislators have been using the lowest budget form of AI to respond to constituents for decades. If anything this just levels the field.

Reddit is like Facebook. If you think Reddit provides any actual value that could be milked for shareholders you should see what happened to MySpace.

Something new is always on the horizon & people will abandon this site in droves as soon as a copycat who can do it a little better comes along.

I can’t wait to ditch this place.

Yeah, then they pay fines and continue business as is and know how to fuck people over without lawsuits.

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Who do you mean, Hindenberg or Block?

Genuine question : how has it become worse, and what was it before?

Land rent is fraudulent, in the sense that land is not something that can be created yet we let people own it and sell it to us.

Those Facebook moms really be trusting everything these days 💀

Yeah, anyone who's paid even a little bit of attention could tell you that "fintech" has just been speed-running the past 150 years of why financial regulations exist

True, bitcoins are resilient for crypto, but why is it that, proportionally, so many of its users are scammers? I can't think of many situations where digital dollars would fail where Bitcoin is even accessible much less a useful medium of exchange where cash wouldnt be more useful.

Bitcoin wants to be the dollar bill of the internet but it can't even remain anonymous. By design every transaction becomes part of the blockchain for everyone, right?

>The software engineers behind these systems are employees of NTC Vulkan. On the surface, it looks like a run-of-the-mill cybersecurity consultancy. However, a leak of secret files from the company has exposed its work bolstering Vladimir Putin’s cyberwarfare capabilities. > >Thousands of pages of secret documents reveal how Vulkan’s engineers have worked for Russian military and intelligence agencies to support hacking operations, train operatives before attacks on national infrastructure, spread disinformation and control sections of the internet. > >One document links a Vulkan cyber-attack tool with the notorious hacking group Sandworm, which the US government said twice caused blackouts in Ukraine, disrupted the Olympics in South Korea and launched NotPetya, the most economically destructive malware in history. Codenamed Scan-V, it scours the internet for vulnerabilities, which are then stored for use in future cyber-attacks. > >Another system, known as Amezit, amounts to a blueprint for surveilling and controlling the internet in regions under Russia’s command, and also enables disinformation via fake social media profiles. A third Vulkan-built system – Crystal-2V – is a training program for cyber-operatives in the methods required to bring down rail, air and sea infrastructure. A file explaining the software states: “The level of secrecy of processed and stored information in the product is ‘Top Secret’.” > >The Vulkan files, which date from 2016 to 2021, were leaked by an anonymous whistleblower angered by Russia’s war in Ukraine. Such leaks from Moscow are extremely rare. Days after the invasion in February last year, the source approached the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and said the GRU and FSB “hide behind” Vulkan.

At this point, this may not be the most surprising news, but it's still useful to have confirmation about some of the scope and details of these operations. One of the questions that is raised by these revelations though is what knowledge did major technology players have about these operations, and what measures were taken to defend against them?

Reddit hands premabans out for any old shit, I seriously doubt they're doing anything above and beyond what they do anyway.

> We could easily go back

Look around homie, we're already there.

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I still can’t block it. Complained to Reddit & apparently you can’t block ad’s.

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How exactly is Bitcoin a scam then? What aspect of its structure makes it a scam?

If you called the crypto market in general a scam I could understand but Bitcoin has been around for the best part of 15 years, has no CEO or leader and is literally just a payment network. Also it’s code is open source so anyone can see and read it.

I’ve never seen another scam that lasted as long and has those same features.

Bitcoin is a hedge against regular money, if you don’t see an issue with regular money then you won’t see the use for Bitcoin. I personally think regular money is one of the biggest issues the modern world faces.

Personal responsibility does seem to be dying. I find that more terrifying than a president Trump.

There will be a culling soon. The massive removal will reduce this app to MySpace when it's over.

Used only the for the ultra rich! Yay science!

It's also becoming increasingly clear that without food and water, you will die. Isn't that insane?