<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Levitz</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Levitz</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 23:12:25 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Levitz" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Levitz in "Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>(1) protest is protected by the first amendment<p>I'm guessing those 15 people are these 15 people:<p><a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/15-members-direct-action-minnesota-minneapolis-based-direct-action-group-antifa-ties" rel="nofollow">https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/15-members-direct-action-...</a><p>>Charges Include Conspiracy to Impede or Injure a Federal Officer, Interstate Stalking, Interstate Threats, Solicitation to Commit a Crime of Violence, and Assaults on Federal Officers</p>
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<p>>I fail to understand why this is a problem when they do the exact same thing to civilians?<p>You are asking why a civilian can't do the same things that a federal agent can?</p>
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<p>You can find similar results if you check the one for Facebook, back in 2012. 500+ emdashes.<p><a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000119312512034517/d287954ds1.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000119312512...</a></p>
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<p>How does that apply to the above story about a pilgrimage though? My experience in the way of St. James is very similar, the vast majority of people will not walk that road ever again in their lives and I saw plenty of people from all around Europe, even a few Americans.<p>It does seem to apply to rural areas specifically though.</p>
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<p>Rather, it's a recognition that it's not worth it to engage when the odds of the question being honest are slim. If you are curious about bias on Wikipedia, the information is readily available. There's even a Wikipedia article.</p>
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<p>>This may be one of those "not everyone gets to win everywhere" situations. And if I have to choose protecting 4chan vs. protecting children...<p>Which to be clear, is nothing but a fiction you built yourself in order to insist on your failed arguments, 4chan is a 18+ site and it enforces the rule. It's literally the <i>second</i> rule of the site just below not posting illegal content.</p>
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<p>I'm not sure if I'm confused or terrorized by the article.<p>Concerns on Wikipedia dying because of a lack of editors, and that being due to <i>AI</i>? Wikipedia's community often makes it very clear they don't want editors, and there's a whole lot of people who have actually tried to contribute who will tell you of the unjustifiable miserable time they had when wanting to do a good deed, that has been a considerable problem for I don't even know how many years now, why would I care about AI redirecting traffic possibly reducing the influx of editors when there's a far larger, more evident, long-standing problem?<p>Promoting quoting Wikipedia as a source is madness. It begs circular logic. Citogenesis is already a considerable problem, can we not kick it into overdrive? Please? Wikipedia being at risk is one thing, but asking for a cancer to be spread upon academia, I'm sorry but we are not at a point in which reputation can be squandered like that.<p>>Doing so may also help to address the public’s eroding trust in higher education itself, as a greater commitment to serving the public would reassert the role of universities as stewards of knowledge that exist to serve humanity – a role shared by Wikipedia.<p>And there's even acknowledgement! But that somehow makes it worse because one of the main reasons academia has lost reputation is the same one that often gets called out on Wikipedia: political bias and agenda pushing.<p>It's like there's a fire in a building and a huge stack of papers on another, in which a guy is playing with matches, and the argument is that we should move the fire from the former to the latter. I honestly think that if this sort of advice was listened to, the consequences would be terrible.</p>
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<p>That's the most depressing thing. Nuclear has been successfuly overregulated.</p>
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<p>I think it's more complicated than it would seem.<p>You've got legal and moral layers, then you've got to engage with the root problem that some services choose to use X as a channel to communicate with the general problem, but on top of that there's also the political intent to use Nitter explicitly to boycott Musk.</p>
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<p>>I was misled by an individual who claimed to be helping the Nitter project pro bono with a team of lawyers. He made up a timeline of events that sounded mostly believable.<p>I want to believe this was a case of incompetency on their part rather than malice because wow, that's a horrible thing to do.</p>
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<p>>Why on earth they do that, I will never know<p>Because some people in positions of power ignore the consequences of using external services.<p>There has been a bit of a wake up call in this regard in Europe, with many governments making efforts to detach themselves from US corporations, but it's a much larger problem. When a government entity chooses to rely on Whatsapp, or Android, or some other piece of technology bound to a corporation, they are creating a bond between the rights and services they enable and interaction with that corporation.<p>This nuance is often ignored because "Well everybody uses (thing) anyway" and other shortsighted trains of thought. I'm by no means against opposing X in principle, but the issue at hand is not itself about X, and I suspect a lot of people wouldn't care if it was still Twitter.</p>
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<p>I don't see how that makes any sense whatsoever.<p>If one party is reckless in legal terms, then that's their right and they will bear the consequences. It's generally considered to be a bad attitude to have, which is why people generally don't have it, and I'm going to need an explanation on how wishing that onto Nitter isn't in practice wanting someone else to burn at the stake to spite a third party, especially given the enormous difference in economical, and as a result legal standing on both of those entities.<p>Said more explicitly, wanting some random guy who made a project to risk aspects of their livelihood to spite Elon Musk because you don't like him is psychopathic.</p>
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<p>That's not what is happening though, people are able to access it just fine.</p>
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<p>>What’s the purpose of Nitter?<p>To allow people to check X without feeling they are contributing to the success of the platform, by bypassing the account requirement.</p>
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<p>Well yeah, who do you think is going to get this to people like your mom?</p>
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<p>>Imagine if videogames needed an external datacenter to run the tutorial levels.<p>I don't see how this is anything like that. The point here is to make it easier to give the user indications which has been a staple since forever, hell this is so much of a problem that there are entire solutions engineered to letting one user take control of the computer of another user through the net.<p>Beyond that, I'm sorry but looking for help in the context of videogames is <i>extremely</i> prevalent. That external datacenter to run the tutorial levels is sometimes called "Youtube" and others "Wikia".</p>
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<p>Pointing out that these criticisms seem completely unprincipled is not inventing a conspiracy.</p>
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<p>Moderation as in "You can't call the other posted 'fuckface'" and moderation as in "I will delete every mention of this news story because it's negative to the agenda I want to push" are not, at all, the same thing.<p>In fact, I wouldn't call the latter "moderation" at all, rather it's mods abusing their power to push political propaganda, but they do it through moderation in terms of action.</p>
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<p>Damn it's almost as if this was a conversation we should have had around 2018 at the latest. Like evident bias in social networks was a real concern all along.<p>What was the response <i>every single time</i>? Ah yes. "Get your own Twitter".<p>I despise most social networks, this one included, but I can't overstate the degree to which the audience deserves this.<p>Absolute no lessons learned though. Maybe Musk has to buy Reddit too for people to get a clue.</p>
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<p>We put up with it mostly because it enables a lot of communication to happen at all.<p>You want to hold the corporations legally liable for the content their host, you can say goodbye to basically reddit as a whole, any twitter clone, youtube comment sections and a whole more stuff.</p>
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