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[Vector]

He's been impeached twice.

[McTraveller]

The most times ever!

[Frumple]

Least partisan impeachment in US history, too, and all it took was trying to get congress literally killed.

Mitch is deciding to carry water for the guy that just tried to have him and most of his colleagues murdered, of course, but that's the GOP for you.

[JoshuaFH]

It's like your roommate trying to stab you to death, and when the police are dragging him away you scream "You can't arrest him! He PAYS THE RENT!"

[delphonso]

Lol

[MrRoboto75]

It's like your roommate trying to stab you to death, and when the police are dragging him away you scream "You can't arrest him! He PAYS THE RENT!"

You can't fight in here, this is the war room!

[Cthulhu]

Made 50 bucks on predictit on the impeachment yea vote.  Could've made a shitload more, some absolute mad lad content aware scaled the market about a minute before the vote closed, dumped some absurd number of shares and dropped the winning bracket down to 18 cents for like 30 seconds before it got bought back up.  I had about 75 I could've dropped into it, which would've been a 400% profit since it was pretty much decided at that point, oh well.

[Bumber]

Legal analysis time.

Eric Swalwell compared Trump to Osama bin Laden. Now I'm imagining bin Laden saying, "I know that everyone here will soon be flying into America to peacefully and righteously make your voices heard!"

Google admits to running experiments which remove media sites from its search results. This shit is why monopolies are illegal, now if only someone enforced the bloody law...

There's also this lawsuit, claiming Google search is biased towards YouTube over other competitors.

[MorleyDev]

After his hype men had already come up and talked about 'cage fights' and 'kicking ass', it's hard not to take the "peacefully and righteously" as sarcasm. An equivalent comparison to my mind would be the extremist preachers who always stop juuust short or literally saying 'go do terrorism' but everyone knows that they really mean 'go do terrorism'.

[George_Chickens]

Legal analysis time.

Eric Swalwell compared Trump to Osama bin Laden. Now I'm imagining bin Laden saying, "I know that everyone here will soon be flying into America to peacefully and righteously make your voices heard!"

Google admits to running experiments which remove media sites from its search results. This shit is why monopolies are illegal, now if only someone enforced the bloody law...

There's also this lawsuit, claiming Google search is biased towards YouTube over other competitors.

Google has removed practically all of their competitors from the Google app store, such as LBRY, for “Sexual Content and Profanity”, when the vast majority of them do not allow sexual content and profanity to be shown on the front page. There's definitely something shonky going on there.

[MorleyDev]

If they don't have a policy for actively finding and removing sexual content, not just showing it on the front page, and demonstate that they are enforcing that policy, and Google Play Store allows them on their store then Google risks getting in trouble with the no-porn banks and whatever countries have bans on such content for redistributing it. Same reason there are no 'Adult Dating' apps on Google Play with an official policy that allows nudity.

There are some grey areas and places it gets conveniently overlooked though.

[George_Chickens]

If they don't have a policy for actively finding and removing sexual content, not just showing it on the front page, and Google Play Store allows them on their store then Google risks getting in trouble with the no-porn banks and whatever countries have bans on such content for redistributing it.

If I remember right, by default the LBRY app uses the Odyssey instance, which delists and filters out porn and NSFW content. If this were the problem, they'd have removed the Reddit and Imgur apps, too, both sites having dramatically more porn.

[Bumber]

A day before rioters stormed Congress, an FBI office in Virginia issued an explicit warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence and “war,” according to an internal document reviewed by The Washington Post that contradicts a senior official’s declaration the bureau had no intelligence indicating anyone at last week’s demonstrations in support of President Trump planned to do harm.

A situational information report approved for release the day before the U.S. Capitol riot painted a dire portrait of dangerous plans, including individuals sharing a map of the complex’s tunnels, and possible rally points for would-be conspirators to meet in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and South Carolina and head in groups to Washington.

“As of 5 January 2021, FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington, D.C.,” the document says. “An online thread discussed specific calls for violence to include stating ‘Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood from their BLM and Pantifa slave soldiers being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. We get our President or we die. NOTHING else will achieve this goal.”

Oh, boy. It really was like 9/11 and Pearl Harbor.

1/6 was an inside job! Rioters can't knock down steel barriers!

[MorleyDev]

LBRY looks like it was restored not long after being delisted, so sounds more like either whoever was auditing it after a report got overridden after they challenged back the ban or some automated 'so many reports' system kicked it off before being manually restored.

There are some grey areas and places it gets conveniently overlooked though so long as they have sufficient NSFW-warning policies and make them require external links to access (Can't join a NSFW Discord Community without an invite link from outside the app, for example). Reddit was banned years ago for pornographic content, but they restored it after Reddit made sure NSFW subreddits weren't included in the 'default views' for users.

For App Stores, you either get a process like Apples where you get vetted and challenge and explain and change prior to go-live, or you go-live quickly but could be taken down if they notice it and have doubts they want to address.

Not that I don't think there are problems with the big tech businesses, just that most of them can be understood through the lens of pursuit of increased user retention as a key metric, and fear of advertisers pulling funding, rather than active malice.

[martinuzz]

Interesting analysis by Timothy Snyder

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/magazine/trump-coup.html?referringSource=articleShare