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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Dec 9, 2020 0:53:28 GMT
Halo haloAs 343 Day draws to a close, we're excited to offer a closer look at Halo Infinite development and share our updated launch window of Fall 2021 Fall? That is a lot later than I was hoping for. Everything else sounds and looks good though. Edit: I wonder if it’ll come out mid November, as a way to celebrate Halo’s 20th Anniversary since the first game came out November 15, 2001.
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Post by SirSourpuss on Dec 9, 2020 0:57:56 GMT
I don't disagree that there are watermelons out there trying to police speech, but a corporation exercising their freedoms is not that. That depends. Is the company offering a service, or is it a platform?
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Post by eternalambiguity on Dec 9, 2020 1:52:37 GMT
I don't disagree that there are watermelons out there trying to police speech, but a corporation exercising their freedoms is not that. That depends. Is the company offering a service, or is it a platform? What's the distinction, legally? Or rather, is there a definition for each, and how do those definitions differ?
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Post by Pounce de León on Dec 9, 2020 9:08:06 GMT
The platform is a front for other interests not necessarily its own.
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Post by Vortex13 on Dec 9, 2020 13:00:39 GMT
Twitch removes "blind playthrough" tag because it's offensive. archive.vn/BsdZiI can't wait until Twitch changes it's name because it's offensive to people with body spasms. I agree with Sovereign on this one: "Organic Life Humanity is nothing but a genetic mutation. An accident."
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Post by SirSourpuss on Dec 9, 2020 13:40:36 GMT
What's the distinction, legally? Or rather, is there a definition for each, and how do those definitions differ? A service is open to anyone that abides by the ToS. A platform can offer itself to whoever it so desires, regardless of whether they abide by the ToS or not. For example: I have a service that builds stages. You can buy your own stage and you can go on that stage and say whatever you want, as long as you don't burn it down. On the other hand, I can build a stage, my stage, as a platform. And you can go on my stage, as long as you express my opinions and the moment you are out of (my) line, I can kick you off my stage. I'm free to do so, it's my stage, but I am going to isolate myself, in that process, deriving myself of revenue.
We have a few such "services" today, that at some point forgot they are services and turned into platforms. Or maybe it is just their policing tools that are not as refined. Just the other day, we had some left leaning twitter accounts getting banned. There was a # as well, for it. What was it? #Stopleftistpurge or something like that? Ah, #stoptheleftpurge
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Post by eternalambiguity on Dec 9, 2020 14:24:53 GMT
What's the distinction, legally? Or rather, is there a definition for each, and how do those definitions differ? A service is open to anyone that abides by the ToS. A platform can offer itself to whoever it so desires, regardless of whether they abide by the ToS or not. For example: I have a service that builds stages. You can buy your own stage and you can go on that stage and say whatever you want, as long as you don't burn it down. On the other hand, I can build a stage, my stage, as a platform. And you can go on my stage, as long as you express my opinions and the moment you are out of (my) line, I can kick you off my stage. I'm free to do so, it's my stage, but I am going to isolate myself, in that process, deriving myself of revenue.
We have a few such "services" today, that at some point forgot they are services and turned into platforms. Or maybe it is just their policing tools that are not as refined. Just the other day, we had some left leaning twitter accounts getting banned. There was a # as well, for it. What was it? #Stopleftistpurge or something like that? Ah, #stoptheleftpurge Where did they claim to be services? Where did they claim that anyone (who follows the ToS) is permitted to use their platform? It's my understanding that they reserve the right to at any time boot anyone off of their platform, and in fact with the changes to Section 230 Trump wanted to make they kind of would have been forced to.
I don't really care what side of the aisle someone is on, but I don't think a "private" business should be forced to do business in a certain way as long as it's not illegal. That to me is more problematic than whatever decisions those businesses make on who they allow or what they promote.
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Post by SirSourpuss on Dec 9, 2020 15:03:49 GMT
Where did they claim to be services? I think, from how I understand it at least, twitter, youtube etc. that categorize themselves as services, do so as to get some special funding for big tech from the US federal government. If their categorization is that of a "platform", or something along those lines, they become immediately exempt from that funding. It's why the Zodiac kil-I mean, Ted Cruz, had a hearing with the CEO of Twitter, the other day, because Twitter's policing does not coincide with that of a service, but more of a platform. Which could lead to the US government looking to get its money back from Twitter, for however many years Twitter has been receiving that funding. At least, that's how it was explained to me. I don't think a "private" business should be forced to do business in a certain way as long as it's not illegal. Nobody is arguing that. But from what I understand, some services get federal funding and in order to qualify for that funding, they need to operate under certain conditions. They can either forgo that funding and operate independently, or they can honour the conditions the government set on them and get the funding. That is up to the corporation, but it can't have it both ways.
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Post by Pounce de León on Dec 9, 2020 16:42:30 GMT
Where did they claim to be services? I think, from how I understand it at least, twitter, youtube etc. that categorize themselves as services, do so as to get some special funding for big tech from the US federal government. If their categorization is that of a "platform", or something along those lines, they become immediately exempt from that funding. It's why the Zodiac kil-I mean, Ted Cruz, had a hearing with the CEO of Twitter, the other day, because Twitter's policing does not coincide with that of a service, but more of a platform. Which could lead to the US government looking to get its money back from Twitter, for however many years Twitter has been receiving that funding. At least, that's how it was explained to me. I don't think a "private" business should be forced to do business in a certain way as long as it's not illegal. Nobody is arguing that. But from what I understand, some services get federal funding and in order to qualify for that funding, they need to operate under certain conditions. They can either forgo that funding and operate independently, or they can honour the conditions the government set on them and get the funding. That is up to the corporation, but it can't have it both ways. But they are services, no? What else would they make money from?
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Post by eternalambiguity on Dec 9, 2020 17:00:33 GMT
I think, from how I understand it at least, twitter, youtube etc. that categorize themselves as services, do so as to get some special funding for big tech from the US federal government. If their categorization is that of a "platform", or something along those lines, they become immediately exempt from that funding. It's why the Zodiac kil-I mean, Ted Cruz, had a hearing with the CEO of Twitter, the other day, because Twitter's policing does not coincide with that of a service, but more of a platform. Which could lead to the US government looking to get its money back from Twitter, for however many years Twitter has been receiving that funding. At least, that's how it was explained to me. There are a few things to unpack here. First there's the assertion that big tech is receiving funding from the government. Then there's the claim that that funding is dependent upon the "tech's" categorization as a service vs a platform. That of course necessitates an official definition for each of those terms. And finally, there's the claim that Twitter isn't acting as a service but a platform. Did the person you talked to provide proof of these claims? Nobody is arguing that. But from what I understand, some services get federal funding and in order to qualify for that funding, they need to operate under certain conditions. They can either forgo that funding and operate independently, or they can honour the conditions the government set on them and get the funding. That is up to the corporation, but it can't have it both ways. When someone is complaining about an "institutional inquisition," they absolutely are arguing that a business be forced to do things a certain way. My pro-business-until-business-doesn't-back-their-conservative opinions relatives have done the same. And Trump, the president of the United States, has been trying to do that for months with his push for repealing or restructuring Section 230, which came directly after Twitter put a popup next to his tweets. I would not believe claims about such funding without proof. If everything I mentioned above was proven, I'd agree with you--they shouldn't receive funding. But the topic really isn't funding.
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Post by SirSourpuss on Dec 9, 2020 17:01:13 GMT
But they are services, no? What else would they make money from? More than that, it is a place, easily accessible to the public, whether you have an account or not, to find all kinds of things that interest you. News, video games, movies, music, celebrity gossip, everything. And it is very easy for a company to maintain presence there. Didn't Bioware *cough* shut down the BSN because other places, like twitter and reddit, were better suited to communicate with their fans, only they abandoned those too, after Andromeda and Anthem, to only communicate through EA's forums? I do assume these companies are very appreciative of twitter's service. And I also assume a lot of advertising goes through these sites. I mean, I don't know. I don't use twitter, or reddit much, but when I do, I always have adblock on.
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Post by Pounce de León on Dec 9, 2020 17:03:31 GMT
But they are services, no? What else would they make money from? More than that, it is a place, easily accessible to the public, whether you have an account or not, to find all kinds of things that interest you. News, video games, movies, music, celebrity gossip, everything. And it is very easy for a company to maintain presence there. Didn't Bioware *cough* shut down the BSN because other places, like twitter and reddit, were better suited to communicate with their fans, only they abandoned those too, after Andromeda and Anthem, to only communicate through EA's forums? I do assume these companies are very appreciative of twitter's service. And I also assume a lot of advertising goes through these sites. I mean, I don't know. I don't use twitter, or reddit much, but when I do, I always have adblock on. They don't make money from users posting I believe. They make money from collecting user data and / or streaming ads to the users. That is the service I mean.
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Post by eternalambiguity on Dec 9, 2020 17:05:19 GMT
I think, from how I understand it at least, twitter, youtube etc. that categorize themselves as services, do so as to get some special funding for big tech from the US federal government. If their categorization is that of a "platform", or something along those lines, they become immediately exempt from that funding. It's why the Zodiac kil-I mean, Ted Cruz, had a hearing with the CEO of Twitter, the other day, because Twitter's policing does not coincide with that of a service, but more of a platform. Which could lead to the US government looking to get its money back from Twitter, for however many years Twitter has been receiving that funding. At least, that's how it was explained to me. Nobody is arguing that. But from what I understand, some services get federal funding and in order to qualify for that funding, they need to operate under certain conditions. They can either forgo that funding and operate independently, or they can honour the conditions the government set on them and get the funding. That is up to the corporation, but it can't have it both ways. But they are services, no? What else would they make money from? He's talking about some other quasi-legal/political definition of service (which I haven't been able to find a definition for).
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Post by SirSourpuss on Dec 9, 2020 17:31:38 GMT
There are a few things to unpack here. First there's the assertion that big tech is receiving funding from the government. Then there's the claim that that funding is dependent upon the "tech's" categorization as a service vs a platform. That of course necessitates an official definition for each of those terms. And finally, there's the claim that Twitter isn't acting as a service but a platform. Did the person you talked to provide proof of these claims? So apparently, I have miscommunicated something. And you are right, this has to do with section 230 and that is about publisher vs platform, not service vs platform. So I am very sorry, I am not a native English speaker, nor am I American. This was not communicated to me in English and, therefore, some things were lost in translation. From what I understand, again, due to translation, platforms enjoy a certain amount of federal funding, tax cuts etc. which publishers don't and the discrimination is whether the platform is operating under publisher terms or platform terms. So the service vs platform distinction isn't applicable here and, from what I also understand, whether platform or service, in the US, falls under the same jurisdiction as an interchangeable term for either. So yes, I am wrong in making the distinction.
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Post by eternalambiguity on Dec 9, 2020 18:57:36 GMT
There are a few things to unpack here. First there's the assertion that big tech is receiving funding from the government. Then there's the claim that that funding is dependent upon the "tech's" categorization as a service vs a platform. That of course necessitates an official definition for each of those terms. And finally, there's the claim that Twitter isn't acting as a service but a platform. Did the person you talked to provide proof of these claims? So apparently, I have miscommunicated something. And you are right, this has to do with section 230 and that is about publisher vs platform, not service vs platform. So I am very sorry, I am not a native English speaker, nor am I American. This was not communicated to me in English and, therefore, some things were lost in translation. From what I understand, again, due to translation, platforms enjoy a certain amount of federal funding, tax cuts etc. which publishers don't and the discrimination is whether the platform is operating under publisher terms or platform terms. So the service vs platform distinction isn't applicable here and, from what I also understand, whether platform or service, in the US, falls under the same jurisdiction as an interchangeable term for either. So yes, I am wrong in making the distinction. Alright, looking up publisher and platform returns a few articles, and this one in particular goes over the history a bit:
They note that internet platforms are given immunity under the current law - they are permitted to take things down at their discretion.
I still don't see anything about funding related to this. It's about speech.
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Post by SirSourpuss on Dec 9, 2020 21:20:44 GMT
eternalambiguityI found this article on tax reform for media companies and ... " Technology investments could change distribution models
Other avenues for repatriated cash include R&D, especially development of new technologies for content distribution and investments in platforms. This may be especially important given that many established media companies are battling new market entrants that are finding ways to circumvent traditional content distribution. The historical model of producing a film, releasing it through various windows—from theaters to cable or on-demand—is often disrupted by streaming services. Many companies are looking for new and innovative ways to distribute their content, and to transform to platform models, so investment in technology is likely essential. The new law’s extension of the R&D tax credit can certainly encourage these forms of investment.
In addition to the R&D tax credit, the new law allows an immediate deduction for qualified R&D expenditures, although these expenditures will need to be capitalized and amortized beginning in 2023. With both the R&D tax credit and deductions for R&D expenditures, media companies can continue exploring not only new content development and distribution technologies, but ways of using blockchain and encryption technologies to safeguard their copyrights." So they are going to be afforded tax credit and some immediate deduction for R&D, coming 2023, if I understand it correctly. And maybe this isn't much, so as to make the "platform" categorization worth the effort of defending in judiciary hearings.
They note that internet platforms are given immunity under the current law - they are permitted to take things down at their discretion. The thing is not that they are policing their content, but rather that they are being partial as to what content they are policing. Which leads to rise of other platforms, like Parler. And if that platform exists as a platform for extremists, this causes a problem, as it basically allows these people to radicalize through other means and, of course, since Parler also promotes itself as a platform, it is not liable for the opinions of the people using it there, until proof that Parler is being partial to a certain rhetoric. Parler, of course, isn't going to care. It only cares about growth, so it will house whoever it can. In the end, the policing only favours these people who have been marginalized, to adopt more extreme outlooks, through persecution syndrome and further getting entrenched in likely uneducated preconceptions, while also robbing them the opportunity of learning or at least being proven wrong. This is only going to prove more divisive in the long term.
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Post by smilesja on Dec 9, 2020 21:24:56 GMT
eternalambiguity I found this article on tax reform for media companies and ... " Technology investments could change distribution models
Other avenues for repatriated cash include R&D, especially development of new technologies for content distribution and investments in platforms. This may be especially important given that many established media companies are battling new market entrants that are finding ways to circumvent traditional content distribution. The historical model of producing a film, releasing it through various windows—from theaters to cable or on-demand—is often disrupted by streaming services. Many companies are looking for new and innovative ways to distribute their content, and to transform to platform models, so investment in technology is likely essential. The new law’s extension of the R&D tax credit can certainly encourage these forms of investment.
In addition to the R&D tax credit, the new law allows an immediate deduction for qualified R&D expenditures, although these expenditures will need to be capitalized and amortized beginning in 2023. With both the R&D tax credit and deductions for R&D expenditures, media companies can continue exploring not only new content development and distribution technologies, but ways of using blockchain and encryption technologies to safeguard their copyrights." So they are going to be afforded tax credit and some immediate deduction for R&D, coming 2023, if I understand it correctly. And maybe this isn't much, so as to make the "platform" categorization worth the effort of defending in judiciary hearings.
They note that internet platforms are given immunity under the current law - they are permitted to take things down at their discretion. The thing is not that they are policing their content, but rather that they are being partial as to what content they are policing. Which leads to rise of other platforms, like Parler. And if that platform exists as a platform for extremists, this causes a problem, as it basically allows these people to radicalize through other means and, of course, since Parler also promotes itself as a platform, it is not liable for the opinions of the people using it there, until proof that Parler is being partial to a certain rhetoric. Parler, of course, isn't going to care. It only cares about growth, so it will house whoever it can. In the end, the policing only favours these people who have been marginalized, to adopt more extreme outlooks, through persecution syndrome and further getting entrenched in likely uneducated preconceptions, while also robbing them the opportunity of learning or at least being proven wrong. This is only going to prove more divisive in the long term. Eh given how censor crazy, Twitter and Facebook have been lately social media has definitely taken an ugly turn.
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Post by SirSourpuss on Dec 9, 2020 21:27:31 GMT
Eh given how censor crazy, Twitter and Facebook have been lately social media has definitely taken an ugly turn. I wish I knew. I don't use social media. You guys are all I need.
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Post by smilesja on Dec 9, 2020 21:30:49 GMT
Eh given how censor crazy, Twitter and Facebook have been lately social media has definitely taken an ugly turn. I wish I knew. I don't use social media. You guys are all I need. All I know is that there's a reason people are branching out. What social media is doing is pretty frightening and they do it under the guise of "truth".
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Post by SirSourpuss on Dec 9, 2020 21:45:06 GMT
All I know is that there's a reason people are branching out. What social media is doing is pretty frightening and they do it under the guise of "truth". Some great crimes have been committed under the best of intentions.
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Post by eternalambiguity on Dec 9, 2020 22:14:10 GMT
eternalambiguityI found this article on tax reform for media companies and ... " Technology investments could change distribution models
Other avenues for repatriated cash include R&D, especially development of new technologies for content distribution and investments in platforms. This may be especially important given that many established media companies are battling new market entrants that are finding ways to circumvent traditional content distribution. The historical model of producing a film, releasing it through various windows—from theaters to cable or on-demand—is often disrupted by streaming services. Many companies are looking for new and innovative ways to distribute their content, and to transform to platform models, so investment in technology is likely essential. The new law’s extension of the R&D tax credit can certainly encourage these forms of investment.
In addition to the R&D tax credit, the new law allows an immediate deduction for qualified R&D expenditures, although these expenditures will need to be capitalized and amortized beginning in 2023. With both the R&D tax credit and deductions for R&D expenditures, media companies can continue exploring not only new content development and distribution technologies, but ways of using blockchain and encryption technologies to safeguard their copyrights." So they are going to be afforded tax credit and some immediate deduction for R&D, coming 2023, if I understand it correctly. And maybe this isn't much, so as to make the "platform" categorization worth the effort of defending in judiciary hearings. I don't see what any of this has to do with Twitter, or the publisher/platform distinction. I see nothing about either there. The thing is not that they are policing their content, but rather that they are being partial as to what content they are policing. Which leads to rise of other platforms, like Parler. And if that platform exists as a platform for extremists, this causes a problem, as it basically allows these people to radicalize through other means and, of course, since Parler also promotes itself as a platform, it is not liable for the opinions of the people using it there, until proof that Parler is being partial to a certain rhetoric. Parler, of course, isn't going to care. It only cares about growth, so it will house whoever it can. In the end, the policing only favours these people who have been marginalized, to adopt more extreme outlooks, through persecution syndrome and further getting entrenched in likely uneducated preconceptions, while also robbing them the opportunity of learning or at least being proven wrong. This is only going to prove more divisive in the long term. Note the "at their discretion." That phrase means that Twitter picks and chooses, and potentially shows bias. That's (currently) legal. And with regards to individuals being pushed to more extreme positions - why should Twitter care about this? Twitter isn't trying to police the world's speech, they're trying to police the speech on their turf. There's nothing wrong with Parler existing as the "not left-wing" alternative to Twitter. The market will decide if their existence has worth. I personally kind of agree with you, that if one group acts like anyone who slightly disagrees with them is their sworn enemy and deserves nothing but scorn, they're probably pushing people away who might have become more moderate. But "how much is too much" is a floating decimal point, and I see no problem with Twitter or Twitch or whomever placing their line where they want to (as long as it's legal).
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Post by SirSourpuss on Dec 9, 2020 22:57:17 GMT
I don't see what any of this has to do with Twitter, or the publisher/platform distinction. I see nothing about either there. Well, it makes a distinction between distributors/platforms who will receive tax cuts to their R&D and publishers, who will not receive the tax expenditures. So if twitter/youtube/facebook etc become labeled as publishers, instead of either of the other two, they don't get the benefits. Apparently, this undisclosed amount has to be quite substantial. EA got a huge tax exemption for creating 500 jobs in Montreal, by the Canadian government. Note the "at their discretion." That phrase means that Twitter picks and chooses, and potentially shows bias. That's (currently) legal. In the judiciary hearing, Jack Dorsey told Ted Cruz that twitter's banning algorithm should not show any bias. So if that is true, Jack Dorsey is guilty of perjury. And with regards to individuals being pushed to more extreme positions - why should Twitter care about this? Twitter isn't trying to police the world's speech, they're trying to police the speech on their turf. By effectively being the leading social platform of its type, it kinda does. Whether they care for it, is another thing. There's nothing wrong with Parler existing as the "not left-wing" alternative to Twitter. The market will decide if their existence has worth. Parler has seen some very large growth over the past few months. I personally kind of agree with you, that if one group acts like anyone who slightly disagrees with them is their sworn enemy and deserves nothing but scorn, they're probably pushing people away who might have become more moderate. But "how much is too much" is a floating decimal point, and I see no problem with Twitter or Twitch or whomever placing their line where they want to (as long as it's legal). The problem with legality, it is only legal, until it gets outlawed. At some point, murder was legal, pedophilia was legal. Not to equate those two to twitch's or twitter's ban bias, but legislation changes and passes and covers new things all the time and things that seem unthinkable to be illegal to us today, may be tomorrow's unthinkable to be legal. Like, when did jaywalking become illegal? Imagine needing legislation for jaywalking.
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Post by DragonKingReborn on Dec 10, 2020 0:14:18 GMT
This is a Gaming News thread - please take discussion of various social media platforms and their policy on handling content to another site.
Thanks.
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