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Comment · 8 years ago
What you describe is called "namespaces". Plan 9 and Linux have them already.
Comment · 8 years ago
I think that actual people interested in some topic and having some expertise in it filter out misinformation better than Facebook and Twitter will ever do. Persons repost news from less trusted sources such as news sites with their opinion about it.
On the other hand, social media platforms inject content that is popular, according to the number of "likes" and "reposts" into your newsfeed. It means the content has gone viral and it has already spread to several clusters around you, most of them centered around some other topic and, therefore, unable to properly evaluate it.
To answer your question, I don't think it will completely filter misinformation, but I think this strategy is better than anything Facebook and Twitter can come up with.
Comment · 8 years ago
Please don't ask such questions. Parent comment already has positive score, but your comment remains. There is actually a rule saying you should't do this on https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please don't comment about the voting on comments".
Comment · 8 years ago
"Fake news" is simply an excuse for introducing government control of media, which leads to political censorship. Otherwise government would not care about it more than average citizen do.
Comment · 8 years ago
We, don't, it is the guys who have money to pay for writing such articles.
The problem is automated newsfeed, which makes users read "recommended" content and ads instead of allowing them to choose which sources they trust.
The real solution is to switch to Mastodon and similar federated networks, where everyone can select who to follow and receive nothing else. It is easy to subscribe to actual people with similar interests who "boost" (repost) the kind of content you like. They filter out misinformation way better than any of those Facebooks and Twitters can ever do.
Comment · 8 years ago
> We could not measure all possible angular momentums but it was possible to measure one or two that would not be known to the attacker.
You only need to measure three angular momentums, all other can be calculated. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_of_inertia#Motion_in_sp...
"This shows that the inertia matrix can be used to calculate the moment of inertia of a body around any specified rotation axis in the body."
On the attacker side, they only need to make sure three angular momentums match.
Comment · 8 years ago
Here is the actual post by Leonid Volkov, already linked in this thread: https://www.facebook.com/leonid.m.volkov/posts/1935274903161...
Seems like it is a misinterpretation or just sloppy wording on Reuters side.
The letter sent to Google is here: https://navalny.com/p/5949/ Video mentioned in the letter (you can see it in the scan) is still available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGhGMhSd99w
Comment · 8 years ago
Demanding fair play from Google, Facebook and other large corporations is a losing strategy, especially if the government is not on your side. They have too much freedom to rank search results, advertisements and your feed items however they want to, up to the point where censorship is indistinguishable from their algorithms deciding that something is simply of no interest to you. You can't complain if your recommended videos feed is full of "cat videos" and has no political content you are interested in.
The real solution to censorship is federation. We are bad at making decentralized search engines, and projects like YaCy [1] have never been successful, partly because it is hard to make ranking algorithms decentralized. But projects like Mastodon [2], Pleroma [3] and PeerTube [4] already have made federated social networks where you can decide what you subscribe to and receive it regardless of someone else decisions. The technical part is simple and transparent and if your provider tries to censor the sources you like, you can always switch to another one or host it yourself.
Comment · 8 years ago
The videos are not removed and access is not terminated. The advertisement campaign is terminated, that's all.
Surely you have to backup your data, but this case has nothing to do with information access.
Comment · 8 years ago
Is it a some kind of joke about "fake news" censorship excuse?
Comment · 8 years ago
But videos don't violate election silence because pension changes is not even a matter of regional government.
Comment · 8 years ago
It is important that neither videos nor demonstration against proposed pension changes have anything to do with the vote.
Vote is simply an excuse used by the government to silence protest.
Comment · 8 years ago
Briar works over direct links, such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct. Think FireChat.
Comment · 8 years ago
You say you "don't see the problem" because you see no way to fix things. The problem does not cease to be a problem because of that.