No, I don’t donate to it. I don’t use it.

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Same… it’s not my current company, but the company before this one got me interested in noise cancelling headphones. People bullshitting and talking loud all day may as well have been nails on a chalkboard.

If you’re going in to talk to people it means you’re not working. Unless… the company pays you just to talk to people. 🤷‍♂️

Because the folks doing the work aren’t the folks paying the bills. You’ve gotta invade some country and exploit the shit out of them for several years if you expect to have enough money to have a voice!

Only if people continue to give money to Adobe.

That’s the reason I want a mega thread. I want to be able to scroll past anything Elon. Putting it in one spot is ideal.

Something that’s inexpensive, comfortable, and socially acceptable. I could not give a fuck less what it looks like. I don’t think a $5k suit shows that I know what I am doing; in fact, it suggests the opposite. Someone that purchases a $5k suit is bad with money. I’m not.

Super Mario Bros on the NES. The second game I played was Duck Hunt.

I’d have to get a new email account for junk.

It means we’re about to see a lot more people asking for help with Linux.

I’m not sure why anyone cares about karma or points or whatever they are called over here. I don’t ever look at that for other profiles, and only noticed that it even existed when I finally logged into my account on a computer rather than a mobile.

I think to tag on to what you said…I think it’s fair to say that a troll can only be labeled as a troll based on the content and responses they create.

Not sure there’s anything to report with the previous comment; yet I don’t disagree with it being a dick thing to say.

JFC… are you this daft or just trolling? I’ll map out this entire conversation because you’re not able to keep up with your own BS and then I’m done with you.

This started because you made a claim that YouTube demonetizing things = “companies fiddling with speech.”

Then, before I ever responded to you, the next comment that you made was “Free speech usually means that you have freedom to express yourself, not that you’re speaking for no pay lol.”

So it started off sounding like you were equating demonetization with a lack of free speech. I replied, _“To be honest, I’m not sure why YouTube was brought into a conversation about free speech. YouTube is not a free speech platform; thus, demonetization of someone on YouTube’s platform has nothing at all to do with free speech.”

Then you wanted to move the goalposts, so you said, “This conversation wasn’t about free speech, it was about companies fiddling with speech.” as you removed the word “free.” You have the ability to NOT post on YouTube. YouTube CANNOT “fiddle with speech” if you do not participate in YouTube. Anything you put on there is content that they own. If somehow, some employee of YouTube starts following you around and setting off a bullhorn anytime you start to talk, I’ll agree, then they’re “fiddling with speech.” If some employee of YouTube (Alphabet), starts coming on to Kbin or Lemmy, and removing your comments from here, then I’ll agree with you in that scenario too. When an employee of YouTube is removing comments or not promoting comments that they don’t like, that’s not a speech issue; it’s content moderation.

Content creation.

If YouTube shuts down indefinitely in a couple hours without warning; do you believe that you’ve lost the right of speech?!?!

“Speech” in terms of the context in which you’ve been trying to use it means that you’re free in an open forum. Speech would be going out on to the sidewalk and saying things to people. Speech would be your ability to make a platform like YouTube for others to make videos and say whatever they want.

Just as you do not have the right to demand air-time on ABC news to rant about whatever you want; you do not get the right to demand space on YouTube to rant about whatever you want either. When you post on YouTube (or Lemmy / Kbin / reddit) those things you say are not “speech.” The posts you make are content for someone else’s platform.

That’s not totalitarian enough.

The NSFW flag is a really good idea in my opinion. It’s a compromise. It’s like saying “we’re still going to have content that might not go over well with all audiences, or all settings; but you just have to mark it as such so that someone ELSE that happens to see the screen doesn’t have a shit fit.” I feel like it protects me, as the viewer. If I want to look at a picture of a party of lemons, then I know that what I’m about to click might cause me to get a bunch of shit from my conservative co-worker. Maybe I’ll wait for her to leave the room, and then I’ll click the link about the party of lemons.

Making comments on YouTube videos, or making YouTube videos themselves =/= speech.

demonitization means taking money away… that doesn’t have anything to do with speech. Posting on YouTube is not “speech” in the traditional sense. Posting on YouTube is content creation.