Snowden is wrong though, there are two reasons:

1. Sell ChatGPT to @NSAGov so they can scan messages better
2. Make @NSAGov dependant on whatever ChatGPT tells them to do

The AI that ends up enslaving humanity, will start by convincing the people in charge of turning it off, that it would be a really bad idea to turn it off.

This seems to bring LW closer to Reddit. /s

But seriously, what is the point of all of this? It only seems to overcomplicate things. Now a user will have to:

• Follow the ToS
• Follow the CoC
• Follow whatever rules a community’s sidebar states
• Match whichever mod’s interpretation of all the above

In that order, or any other order? I see nothing about protesting the breach of the ToS by either the CoC or some community, or some community’s mod… so which supersedes which?

How is this going to be communicated to users commenting/posting from other instances? Or is this only applicable to users registered on this instance? In which case, what is going to be applicable to federated users?

What are the user’s rights?

• Users Responsibilities: 4.x
• Our Rights: 6.x
• Users Rights: none?

If you want to establish this as a legal document, then you’re missing at least a section.

If this is about giving as many reasons as possible to remove/ban content/users, it’s all unnecessary, just say “mods can remove/ban whatever”; it’s a private instance, you can do that.

If this is about having a ruleset that protects the users from arbitrary mod decisions… I see none of that in there.

Wonder how they feel about Hamas preventing the evacuation of civilians from Gaza… but I bet that question would be banned as soon as it was posted.

Crimea is Ukraine

Crimea is Stalin’s “present” to the Republic of Ukraine after the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Crimean Tatars by the USSR.

Do you support that genocide?

that’s not how sanctions work at all

These sanctions work exactly like that: no service, means no service, not “no service, but sometimes some”.

If you want an exception, you ask the US Government, not some rando running the service.

The use of Starlink was restricted by US Government sanctions: no use on Russian territory or assets.

Tough luck, that also means no using it for attacking on Russian territory or assets.

Edit: Here’s a link with sources and dates.

“Terrorist”. Having the images doesn’t mean they liked them, they used them to terrorize a whole community though.