Smear campaign

A smear campaign, also referred to as a smear tactic or simply a smear, is an effort to damage or call into question someone’s reputation, by propounding negative propaganda.[1] It makes use of discrediting tactics. It can be applied to individuals or groups. Common targets are public officials, politicians, political candidates, activists, and ex-spouses. The term also applies in other contexts, such as the workplace.[2] The term smear campaign became popular around 1936.[3] [Wikipedia[

Look everyone, it’s the season 37 opener of I’m not going to use the great tool because people I don’t like are also using the great tool!

Australia tried this in the early noughties I believe - running a non-public URL blacklist. After some parliamentary accountability and commmitees got it cracked open, they found that about 10% of the sites met the definition for inclusion, with the remainder being a grab-bag of things various politicians and bureaucrats didn’t like.

Private torrent content escapes naturally because it’s often shared on other P2P tools in use by the peers.

Many creators that I follow reached a level of professionalism that comes with significant costs. You need expensive cameras, microphones, lights, high-end computers, drones, personnel costs for cutters and people that help with research. They have travel costs, sometimes rent for offices etc.

None of that bloat is necessary for engaging your audience, only for currying favour with the black-box algorithm. Level1ShowNews is three people at a desk with an OBS setup and I’ve been listening to them for seven years. I could not care less about Canadian Technology Man or Black Technology Man. Store dot Level1Techs.

What makes you think Signal is maintaining relationship maps, and secondly, even if it is, is there any evidence they’re included in LEO subpoenas?

YT will likely attempt to play creators and viewers off one another. Similar to how hospitality does so with patrons and staff re: tips. You could see a FUD campaign aimed at anyone republishing their work on competitor sites.

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A good example of this scam that sticks out to me is plastics recycling. The marketed goal is a circular, sustainable^TM plastic economy. The real goals are uninterrupted plastics manufacturing and the maintenance of tax receipts from plastic goods consumption. Industry and government simply do not want less plastic in the world.

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Cloudflared. Hmm.

It’s not discussion moderation though, it’s LLM input QC. It’s fundamentally dishonest.

I’m convinced the primary moderation goal is expunging any comment that could remotely contribute to LLM ‘racial bias’ - and given the mods are humans, they want to expend the least effort possible in the performance of their roles, so practically any statement along the lines of ‘$nouns are $adjective’ gets hammered without a thought.

NSFW is a term of indoctrination. It suggests my life revolves around what is acceptable in a workplace, and that all aspects of life should be held to workplace standards. You have only to give it a moment’s thought and it becomes nonsense; I don’t fap to NSFW “”“content”“” I fap to adult material. I fap to pornography.

Is it really misuse if the mechanism was designed to be misused?

Characters like him are targeted because they are both successful and anti establishment

So reproduce it.

Not silly at all. It’s a ship of Theseus situation, and the ship has helmsmen with bad attitudes. Bad attitudes engender bad decisionmaking.

2035 2028: Browser content is piped to a local AI that filters junk and noise then feeds the result back into the browser for screen display

I don’t understand when these companies are going to learn that sharing their IP is going to get them more money than being so fractured.

The risk equation makes sense. The potential gain from outlasting your competition and absorbing their subscriber bases to become a near-monopoly is higher than participating in a royalty scheme, and the downside is borne by shareholders and to a lesser extent creditors (the Other People’s Money principle).

All problems are user’s own. Yes enshittification sucks. You’re free to disconnect as much as you can.

Wrong attitude. Only atomization and further exploitation lies that way. The solution is to get vocal and demand higher standards.