FreedomAdvocate
@FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
- Comment on UK once again demands backdoor to Apple’s encrypted cloud storage 1 hour ago:
Just more left wing fascism/authoritarianism, nothing to see here. The UK really is going all out on becoming a hellhole.
- Comment on US | FCC chairman leads “cruel” vote to take Wi-Fi access away from school kids 2 hours ago:
Missed the point by so far you don’t even know what topic we’re in anymore.
- Comment on US | FCC chairman leads “cruel” vote to take Wi-Fi access away from school kids 2 hours ago:
So your argument is a “he said she said”, and you believe the FCC are just wrong?
- Comment on US | FCC chairman leads “cruel” vote to take Wi-Fi access away from school kids 12 hours ago:
And the content that is sorely needed due to the clickbait headline:
Congress temporarily authorized the hotspot program during the pandemic, and the FCC didn’t have authority to bring it back when the congressional authorization expired.
- Comment on Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia 13 hours ago:
You completely miss the point. Google have a history of making their AI “accidentally” hide information and give biased results. It doesn’t matter what name the feature is called, that’s irrelevant.
Also where do you think AI overview and the LLM it works in got its content you peanut? 🤣
- Comment on Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia 21 hours ago:
AI mode is not when they launched their AI.
- Comment on Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia 1 day ago:
Just like how before 2024 it wouldn’t say a positive thing about Trump if you asked it, but would sing the praises of Biden/Harris?
- Comment on Imgur is now geoblocking the UK 2 days ago:
When I visit imgur.com while on a VPN pretending I’m from the UK, it returns a “Imgur is temporarily over capacity, please try again later” error. Toggling it off and on goes from working fine to that same message over and over, so they either are having issues on servers that they are directing UK traffic to - which is possible - or they’re just pretending to be having capacity issues to not raise suspicion of not wanting to comply.
- Comment on Samsung phones embedded with 'unremovable' Israeli spyware 3 days ago:
But not from being disabled which is what we’re talking about. If it can’t run it can’t do any of that.
- Comment on Samsung phones embedded with 'unremovable' Israeli spyware 3 days ago:
None of those articles say a thing about on-device apps being able to overrule being disabled by the OS.
- Comment on Samsung phones embedded with 'unremovable' Israeli spyware 4 days ago:
External PC programs that can be used to break into phones is not the same as apps being able to circumvent OS-level disabling lol.
- Comment on Samsung phones embedded with 'unremovable' Israeli spyware 5 days ago:
I dont have to prove the negative, its on you to prove that they can.
Even if it was up to me though, the OS prevents apps that have been disabled from running. AOSP’s documentation says this.
Again - show Google it happening and you’ll be an instant millionaire. Why haven’t you done it already? Just DM me the evidence and I’ll do it since you don’t want to.
- Comment on Samsung phones embedded with 'unremovable' Israeli spyware 5 days ago:
Go tell Google, they’ll pay you millions in big bounties for how Israel is doing this. Unless of course you have zero evidence that app developers can do this in Android……
Yeh thought so.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
I’m referring to the fact that they dont include the biggest companies because they know they can state and show what they use AI for and how it benefits them.
- Comment on Facebook data reveal the devastating real-world harms caused by the spread of misinformation 6 days ago:
Huge asterisk on this article - the study that they link to for the 17,000 figure is based heavily on data that has now been retracted, or where even the authors now admit it is not verifiable.
To put the real-world harm in perspective, public health studies estimate hydroxychloroquine use was linked to at least 17,000 deaths worldwide, though the true toll is likely higher.
The article that the 17,000 number links to references an article, “Deaths induced by compassionate use of hydroxychloroquine during the first COVID-19 wave: an estimate”, which has now been retracted - scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?pmid=38171239
Another study titled “Mortality outcomes with hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine in COVID-19 from an international collaborative meta-analysis of randomized trials” that this article references, was ammended months ago to essentially say “Remember how we said it was responsible for those deaths in our initial study 4 years ago? Yeah sorry about that, the evidence doesn’t actually support it. Whoopsies!”
www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-60478-x
Finally, we conclude that there remains uncertainty regarding a potential adverse HCQ effect, in particular in light of the most recent meta-analysis.
So whoever wrote this article in the OP either didn’t realize that the article that they based a huge part of their article on had some post-publishing ammendments on one basically discrediting it, and another that had been retracted in 2024, or actively chose to just ignore those ammendments.
- Comment on YouTube will restore channels banned for COVID and election misinformation 6 days ago:
The company acknowledged that Biden administration officials had pressured YouTube to remove content “that did not violate its policies,” which Alphabet called “unacceptable and wrong”
What is your take on this? Do you think that is authoritarian/fascist behaviour by the Biden administration?
- Comment on YouTube will restore channels banned for COVID and election misinformation 6 days ago:
Misinformation gets people hurt, YouTube at the time didn’t want their users getting hurt.
How are so many people in here missing the entire point of the article that this thread is about?
Youtube didn’t think their users were getting hurt. Youtube deleted videos and banned accounts because the Biden administration forced them to.
The company acknowledged that Biden administration officials had pressured YouTube to remove content “that did not violate its policies,” which Alphabet called “unacceptable and wrong”
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Big Tech giants such as Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Meta have regularly extolled AI’s benefits,
Are you saying that you don’t know what these companies use AI for?
- Comment on Samsung phones embedded with 'unremovable' Israeli spyware 6 days ago:
Apps that have been disabled at a system level cannot run.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It didn’t say anything about companies in the “server supply chain” being happy. It also said……well not much really. Nothing that could support the title.
- Comment on Samsung phones embedded with 'unremovable' Israeli spyware 1 week ago:
You think Android lets apps override their app disabling feature? You should report that to Google, they’d be shocked to hear it.
- Comment on YouTube will restore channels banned for COVID and election misinformation 1 week ago:
Do you even know what the topic you’re writing these comments in is about?
- Comment on AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers 1 week ago:
Them using reddit posts and comments is a bigger issue.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The title and the article don’t match, like……at all. The article states that all the biggest companies absolutely can state and show how AI is extremely useful to them.
- Comment on YouTube will restore channels banned for COVID and election misinformation 1 week ago:
Read the article maybe?
- Comment on YouTube will restore channels banned for COVID and election misinformation 1 week ago:
The large platforms are now the official propaganda arm of fascism.
You say this while the large platforms have all been found to have been the official propaganda arm of the democrats, which is a staple of actual fascism, while now the current administration is making them stop being propaganda arms of the democrats.
- Comment on YouTube will restore channels banned for COVID and election misinformation 1 week ago:
I’m having a hard time believing that the Biden administration was some tyrannical anti-free speech censorship regime
Are you serious? Like…legit serious? Were you not paying attention?
- Comment on Samsung phones embedded with 'unremovable' Israeli spyware 1 week ago:
Israel don’t make Android. Apps can’t override how android disables apps at an OS level.
- Comment on Samsung phones embedded with 'unremovable' Israeli spyware 1 week ago:
The app’s privacy settings claim that users can disable this data collection by turning off “AppCloud” in the app list.
They don’t just “claim” that - that’s how Android works lol.
So in short the whole article could have just been “disable this app and you don’t have to worry about it”. Doesn’t have as much of a tinfoil ring to it I guess?
- Comment on Why Local-First Apps Haven’t Become Popular? 1 week ago:
Valuing convenience over other things doesn’t make someone an idiot. As with everything, you evaluate a product on the benefits it gives vs the drawbacks it brings. For most people the benefits of cloud/online syncing far outweighs the drawbacks.