Most truckers aren't allowed to carry, due to laws of their company. Those that do carry have multi-state permits, and have to be very attentive of the laws as they cross state lines. (Or leave their piece at home if going to NY or CA.)
Agreed. Lee is especially important in that in spite of opposing the secession of the South, he still fought due to his honor and loyalty to his homeland. These, as well as the fact that he was a brilliant commander, are the reasons he's admired, both back then and today.
I've been trying to upvote this, but my vote isn't being counted . . .
Che Guevara hated black people and homosexuals. Cancel Che when?
I think right now you can send them checks in the mail, send Bitcoin, and use echecks.
The extension is blocked from most of the browser repos (you have to sideload it), so they focused on the browser. But the browser has taken a lower priority due to them trying to scale Gab up for the latest influx of people coming in, plus defending against the attacks, plus dealing with deplatforming issues (like Visa deciding to blacklist them).
It's not at all a racist statement, nor a statement inciting a race war. The original intent, and the intent of most of those who post it is a simple statement that there is nothing wrong with being a white person. Only someone who is racist, or an ideologue, or trying to incite a race war would take it as such. That's why the message was chosen, and that's why it's used.
It's easy to say "It's OK to be black" or hispanic, or asian, etc, because saying that to anyone would probably result in agreement. But what about white people? The statement still applies, but suddenly it is interpreted as hateful, racist, white supremacist, etc, by liberals, when it is absolutely none of those things.
I guess freedom of expression is probably too broad a distinction, but I was thinking along the lines of the argument of Miller vs California (1973):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_v._California
I agree that it's necessary to be wary of how far we go in the interpretation of that decision, as it can indeed lead to censorship. But at the same time, the concept of freedom of speech was put into place for the exchange of ideas and political protection, not to endorse wank material. That said, I can hardly fault sites like Gab for disallowing it, especially considering there are a far larger number of sites providing exclusively that type of material in a much more easily searched and categorized presentation.
Should I use a spam phone number too? Because they require a phone number to sign up.
Look again, Gab's been redesigned and looks much better. It's kind of difficult to build a free speech platform from the ground up while being attacked from all corners.
And even if it did look like garbage, I'd rather sacrifice looks for free speech any day. (I take IRC over Slack, Mumble/Riot.im over discord, etc.) Functionality trounces aesthetics.
They banned porn because it's very hard to police it and prevent illegal content, like child porn. That's how opposition groups try to take down websites, and with all the difficulty Gab has faced during its existence, I don't blame them for trying to mitigate vectors of attack. (Yes, the creator of Gab doesn't approve of porn, since he is a Christian, but he stated that that's not his reason for banning porn in the first place.) That said, Parler bans porn too, so if that's the only issue people have with Gab, then Parler is hardly an alternative. In any case, porn is not classified as "freedom of speech", but rather "freedom of expression", which is NOT constitutionally protected.
Gab's been through quite a bit in order to defend freedom of speech. And on top of that, the developers have implemented Gab Trends and Dissenter, which are both valuable services when it comes to protecting freedom of speech and spreading information.
I don't trust Parler, as they seem to be a very corporate-controlled service. (The Neocons are jumping on it pretty quickly too.) The TOS seems to confirm that too. Not only that, but it seems to be pushed a quite a bit on all the conservative sites, from the comments on conservative subreddits, to tweets by select individuals, etc, most notably in the past 2 weeks.
Gab has been around longer, has weathered a lot more attempts to deplatform it, and has developers that are solid supporters of freedom of speech, even if it's speech they don't agree with. They've had an account reserved for Donald Trump for a while now, and the community is currently thriving. They aren't perfect, but their developers are constantly working to improve it.
It doesn't. Parler is more restrictive than Gab, and the community is very corporate. Plus Gab's been through trial by fire, dealing with deplatforming attempts, rejection by payment processors, DDOS attacks, etc. If Parler is legit, it will experience the same issues soon enough, but will it handle those issues as well as Gab did?
Plus the developers of Gab have been proving themselves repeatedly with other services, like Gab Trends (like Drudge Report, but with user curated content) and Dissenter (uncensored comments section for ANY website). Seriously, they've done more than most websites have for freedom of speech on the internet.
Gab had an app, but it got removed because censorship. They maintained it as an apk that could be side-loaded on Android for a while, but in the end, when they reworked Gab to be part of the Fediverse, they instead gave users the ability to use any Fediverse software to browse Gab. (Most of those pieces of software banned them, but I believe there are some, like Fedilab, that still work.)
The same will happen to Parler, if it is indeed a legit service.
Don't forget Gab, Gab Trends, Liberty Daily, OANN, Bitchute . . .
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Agreed. As much as I appreciate the message of this post, the original should not be diluted.
My issue with KIA2 is that while it was less restrictive than KIA, this resulted in the topic broadening beyond its initial focus. That's not necessarily bad, it's just that I still visit KIA for the occasional post that KIA2 misses.
"Fentanyl Floyd"?
Sad that Chick-Fil-A went got woke.
That's why you use Dissenter. Now EVERY website has an unmoderated comments section where free speech reigns.
The central point of 1984 is not necessarily about authoritarianism or government surveillance, although they certainly play a big part. The central point is about doublethink, the idea of changing the meaning of words, the context of definitions, and historical records to the point that the people are brainwashed to believe whatever they are told to believe. This is quite literally what is going on today, with the leftist movements, SJWs, the LGBT community at large, etc.
The media has their regular "Two Minutes of Hate" for Donald Trump (lol more like 24 hours of hate), we are told our forefathers were terrible and that the US was established due to terrible practices, and so on. The idea that "you can't say that" is applied to words and contexts at a rapid pace. Pepe and Kek became racist overnight because the media said so. Cuck, soyboy, and now simp all become anti-LGBT or hateful, or whatever. You get the idea.
Orwell didn't need to establish an authoritarian regime in his book to get this point across, but as it was written in response to this type of thing occurring in the USSR (and to a lesser extent, fascist Germany, which was fresh on peoples' minds at the time), where the authoritarian regime was prevalent.
Although it's argued that Brave New World is a more accurate representation of the modern day, I think it's really a combination of both. The doublethink of Orwell, and the media control of Huxley are prevalent today. And there are plenty of other classic dystopic works, such as Fahrenheit 451 that also warn about issues that we see currently.
These books weren't written necessarily as just warning, but as observation of specific ideas that the authors saw take form in their own time. But reality is much more complex and nuanced than any book, so it takes the exploration of many of these themes to arrive at a more clear picture of what is actually happening today.
I am a Cali resident. I am pissed.
I suspect they've already tried, we just haven't heard of it. (I don't doubt other presidents have had attempts made against them that we haven't heard of either.)