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Google Tries to Defend Its Web Environment Integrity as Critics Slam It as Dangerous (techreport.com)

submitted 1 year ago by ruffsl to c/programming

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Attacks and doxing make me personally MORE likely to support stronger safety features in chromium, as such acts increase my suspicion that there is significant intimidation from criminals who are afraid this feature will disrupt their illegal and/or unethical businesses, and I don't give in to criminals or bullies

Kick a puppy
Get attacked for kicking a puppy
"These attacks make me MORE likely to keep kicking puppies, as I don't give in to intimidation from criminals and bullies that want healthy puppies for their nefarious ends."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36916444

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Off-Topic: I saw this same exact post in lemmy.world.

Are some posts posted cross-instances? How does that work.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's this website that you linked to? It seems like Reddit or lemmy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hacker news is based on an old version of Reddit. It's a great community for tech & programming news.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks I had no idea! Seems really simple and clean

[+] [email protected] -59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

Kick a puppy

If you have to resort to false equivalences like these, you're not really making the anti-WEI crowd look good.

*Edit: * There's some massive misunderstanding about my comment.

I called it a false equivalency because it's comparing both the measures ("stronger safety") and the thing is supposed to prevent (doxing and bullying) to puppy kicking.

That's just emotional manipulation done badly. We all call it out when politicians use pedophiles to warrant Internet surveillance, and now apply it ourselves? I don't know about you, but when I see bad reasoning, I'll call it out. Even if it's done by "my side".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is quite a bit worse than kicking a puppy. Of course, it's horrible when puppies get kicked but ultimately they will be on. This, on the other hand would be a major set back to humanity, potentially permanent as our rights and privacy are erroded day by day.

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