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  1. Good. This is another excellent step towards filtering out the kind of crazy conspiracy nonsense Qanon, Putin's boyz, and other "gone full retard" trolls are using to trick the ignorant, gullible, and cowardly among us.
    8 points
  2. Freedom of speech doesn't apply here. Facebook is a private entity and can choose to remove whatever they like. In this case, they are allowed to remove something that promotes the spread of misinformation if they want to.
    7 points
  3. I'm just waiting for a day they enforce their rules evenly Gonna comment on this nonsense before anyone reads it and thinks this is true. Their rules are being enforced against right wingers more because right wingers are the ones that spread violents/nonsense alot more. That's just fact. The left does not contain a significant anti vax, gun nut, racism, homophobia, bigotry, pro russia election interfering, anti masker, and white supremacist movements. You're just going to have to face the fact that the worst people on earth is drawn to the right for a reason. Social media platforms have rules to try and keep things civilized which will naturally clash with the right.
    5 points
  4. Nobody ever said there's no negative side effects to vaccine. Not once.
    5 points
  5. Which is why we've learned to test these things over years, through all sorts of stages and trials. When we have tried to rush things, as President Ford did in the 1970s, we end up with unintended side effects, like Guillain-Barre syndrome. https://www.history.com/news/s...ne-election-year-1976" rel="external nofollow">https://www.history.com/news/s...vaccine-election-year-1976" rel="external nofollow">https://www.history.com/news/s...-vaccine-election-year-1976 If we try to do the same thing with a Covid vaccine for purely cynical and selfish political purposes, bad things are much more likely to happen. Trust the science. Trust the scientists. Don't trust a pathological liar... What about when the scientists are on the payroll of a pathological liar? What happens if a vaccine comes out that has scientifically proven positive effects, and also scientifically proven negative effects? No one is allowed to make an ad stating the negative effects? You must by law list the negative effects of all medicine. I mean you're living in la la land man nobody ever said there's no negative effects for vaccine and there's absolutely no problem whatsoever and has never been any to talk or discuss the proven negative effects of vaccine or any other medicine. There's a big difference between talking about real negative effects and QAnon ridiculous conspiracies like vaccine cause autism which has never been proven scientifically and doesn't make any sense anyway.
    4 points
  6. Which is why we've learned to test these things over years, through all sorts of stages and trials. When we have tried to rush things, as President Ford did in the 1970s, we end up with unintended side effects, like Guillain-Barre syndrome. https://www.history.com/news/s...-vaccine-election-year-1976 If we try to do the same thing with a Covid vaccine for purely cynical and selfish political purposes, bad things are much more likely to happen. Trust the science. Trust the scientists. Don't trust a pathological liar...
    4 points
  7. Facebook bans ads that discourage vaccination, but not anti-vaccine posts

    I'm just waiting for a day they enforce their rules evenly
    4 points
  8. Wait, what? The microchips thing isn't true?
    3 points
  9. Blah bah “hell” blah blah “hell” blah blah “stupid political comment” blah Very low death rate percentage...compared to what exactly? This is the same garbage that is misleading people on Facebook.
    3 points
  10. So the big problem in the world is QAnon, Boogaloo Boyz, Proud Boys and Trump. Go it. They are one/some of the many big problems and contribute to them.
    3 points
  11. Huawei is reportedly considering selling its Honor smartphone unit

    The USA doesn't like competition.
    3 points
  12. Freedom of speech doesn't apply here. Facebook is a private entity and can choose to remove whatever they like. In this case, they are allowed to remove something that promotes the spread of misinformation if they want to. Then they should not be protected under Section 230. What you described here is a publisher, not a platform Wrong. Again. No. Facebook is not a publisher. Simple as that. Get back to me when Facebook itself writes original content and publishes it as such. Until then, it's a glorified RSS reader, at best a blogger service that it's members use to share content. Still not a publisher.
    3 points
  13. Freedom of speech doesn't apply here. Facebook is a private entity and can choose to remove whatever they like. In this case, they are allowed to remove something that promotes the spread of misinformation if they want to. Then they should not be protected under Section 230. What you described here is a publisher, not a platform Wrong. Again.
    3 points
  14. Sorry out of news loop lately. What is this about? Never seen it, but I think the gist is that a film was made about a cursed topic that is simultaneously immoral to ignore and immoral to portray. The mistake was probably making it a film instead of a book or something about the issues the writer is constantly pointing to when defending it. Something something art. Netflix is distributing a movie which sexualizes, FOR REAL, 11-year old girls. The film didn't use "movie magic" to pretend that (like using fake blood, fake body parts, stunts, in violent movies, etc.), it filmed, and zoomed for a long time, on the girls most intimate body parts while they were "dancing". The director says the movie criticizes children hypersexualization, but it doesn't. It just adds to this problem. It's analogous to filming a person doing drugs (let's go with cocaine), drugs for real, to criticize that doing cocaine is bad. And failing to criticize that doing drugs is bad. The solution would be to film that person snorting cornstarch with a bit of baby powder, for instance. And actually criticizing it. In "Cuties", the solution would be to zoom in on other parts of the girls bodies (faces, hands, feet), or just show the public's reaction to the choreography, or hire older actresses to play younger characters.
    3 points
  15. Netflix drops free trials in the U.S. for new subscribers

    The trick is to only have one service at a time. Once you get bored one one, just rotate to another. This keeps your bill down. Don't fall into the trap of paying for multiple services at once. The actual trick is to have friends and family. LOL I have Apple TV, Disney+, ESPN+, HBO Max, Hulu, Netflix (Premium), Prime Video, Spotify (Family Premium), and YouTube TV all full time for $60 a month.
    3 points
  16. Netflix drops free trials in the U.S. for new subscribers

    The trick is to only have one service at a time. Once you get bored one one, just rotate to another. This keeps your bill down. Don't fall into the trap of paying for multiple services at once.
    3 points
  17. Netflix drops free trials in the U.S. for new subscribers

    Attracting new subscribers to help pad that huge "Cuties" child porn bill they're about to be paying.
    3 points
  18. Apple announces the iPhone 12 Pro series with new design and more

    Uh, there is no iPhone 8 "Pro". Are you sure you own one, or just some random Apple shill? He probably meant Plus. Ease up.
    3 points
  19. Apple announces the iPhone 12 Pro series with new design and more

    ...and as a big hug to mother nature, Apple no longer includes earphones or charges in the box
    3 points
  20. End-to-end encryption coming to Zoom next week

    How do I get that dark mode goodness on the Windows Desktop app?
    2 points
  21. LG Wing unboxing and first impressions

    This can be genuinely useful even if it looks weird. A landscape fullscreen and 1 half screen which apps can utilize without ruining the fullscreen immersive experience. At other times, it is a regular phone. The only thing is LG gave it only a 4000 mAh battery for so much of "screen". It should have been much bigger.
    2 points
  22. Zoom calls will gain more functionality with Zapps

    Zoom is popular because it's simple to use. This is the wrong move, imo.
    2 points
  23. Since LaP answered the rest of your question, I'll deal with this part. Because of what Trump has now done to corrupt and muzzle the HHS and CDC, we have to parse/distrust what comes out of them. Fortunately, the rest of the scientific and medical communities are not so muzzled and you can see them reporting the actual findings every day...on networks that aren't Fox News or OANN in the USA, of course.
    2 points
  24. Neowin Community Minecraft Server

    Added to whitelist
    2 points
  25. Never needed a third party utility to adjust refresh rates.
    2 points
  26. That's impressive, I don't think I've ever seen a dev break down system requirements to such a extent. I should be able to do 1080p@60 even though in the above they list a 1080 and I have a 1070. I might just have to tweak something like shadow detail down from High, nothing you tend to notice unless you're looking for it.
    2 points
  27. Mmm, I’ve changed refresh rates for years without the need of a third party utility. I’m not at a PC as i am out of state but I am pretty sure it was monitor properties in device manager. So really, this change wasn’t a new feature but instead a better placed one.
    2 points
  28. Not being sketchy at all. I have to email sensitive stuff from time to time back and forth from work plus when I go out and stay somewhere, I use the public WIFI wherever I am at so a VPN is necessary. Not everyone that has a VPN is sketchy you know. I also like the fact that I can install this service on my iPad and iPhone. It’s more about convenience than anything. The service is super fast. I have no idea how to configure my own VPN and honestly don’t have time to sit down and figure it out so ExpressVPN works for me.
    2 points
  29. Who cares when they won't go through customs?
    2 points
  30. A big meh. The camera still disappoints from the reviews I've seen. Again OP pretending like they compete with flagships.
    2 points
  31. Huawei teases octagonal rear camera setup on the Mate 40 series

    Apple showed that was not the case yesterday. The magnetic wallet pouch was pretty cool. Wow, a magnetic CC holder. So much innovation. Incredible! A magnetically aligning charging solution that resolves a known issue with the overall technology, but can also be repurposed to accomplish other usability and connectivity tasks when not fulfilling it's primary purpose. It's easy to be facetious but you've made a bit of a fool of yourself there...
    2 points
  32. Freedom of speech doesn't apply here. Facebook is a private entity and can choose to remove whatever they like. In this case, they are allowed to remove something that promotes the spread of misinformation if they want to. Then they should not be protected under Section 230. What you described here is a publisher, not a platform Wrong. Again. No.
    2 points
  33. Animaniacs Jurassic Park Clip

    ☺️ I cant wait.
    2 points
  34. Blocking some type of adds is probably the further away from censorship than you can be. That would be like saying Neowin blocking porn adds is censorship ...
    2 points
  35. Extremely unfortunate. Can't compete with Huawei so let's destroy it.
    2 points
  36. Netflix drops free trials in the U.S. for new subscribers

    You sound upset over the Cuties lawsuit. Ironic that you keep accusing Ted Cruz of being a pedo.
    2 points
  37. Freedom of speech doesn't apply here. Facebook is a private entity and can choose to remove whatever they like. In this case, they are allowed to remove something that promotes the spread of misinformation if they want to. Then they should not be protected under Section 230. What you described here is a publisher, not a platform
    2 points
  38. Blocking Members

    It looks like you need to hover the mouse over the member's username within the thread:
    2 points
  39. >Updates to improve security when Windows performs basic operations. Why bother publishing a changelog if you're just going to write this useless BS.
    2 points
  40. Sorry out of news loop lately. What is this about? Never seen it, but I think the gist is that a film was made about a cursed topic that is simultaneously immoral to ignore and immoral to portray. The mistake was probably making it a film instead of a book or something about the issues the writer is constantly pointing to when defending it. Something something art.
    2 points
  41. Netflix drops free trials in the U.S. for new subscribers

    be useful if they would finally let people have an annual subscription tho.
    2 points
  42. Yeah, this is actually a major downgrade design-wise. The rest of the world has moved to chamfered edges and curved backs ages ago to facilitate usage in the hand, while Apple goes back to fugly block design with edges that will cut your palm and bruise your thigh through the pocket. Look's like all aesthetic sense departed Apple along with Jony Ive.
    2 points
  43. Apple announces the iPhone 12 Pro series with new design and more

    ...and as a big hug to mother nature, Apple no longer includes earphones or charges in the box right; I really don't understand why people are making such a big deal about it. The headphones and charger included in previous models were garbage anyway and most people either put them in a drawer and forgot about them or trashed them anyway. They were a waste of money and resources that could be put elsewhere. I don't need a new set of crappy headphones and a cheap/slow 5w charger with every new phone I purchase and most others don't either ....
    2 points
  44. Apple announces the iPhone 12 Pro series with new design and more

    Wireless charger. Problem solved.
    2 points
  45. So basically iPhone 4X.
    2 points
  46. Apple announces the $99 HomePod mini with Intercom and more

    I love insightful comments about the Apple tax and you were first good work. well when Google and Amazon both are more affordable for their mini offerings and are more widely compatible with most home automation suites how else would I take it? you could argue it's because of the chip Apple is putting in it but do you really need the strongest SoC for a voice response unit?
    2 points
  47. they can claim it to be a new feature, because at some point in recent history they took away the display from control panel, but they haven't replaced all the functionality. I checked the source. This is just Rich adding fake fluff. They never said this was a new feature to Windows or that you normally need a third party utility but instead that you could now change it from there.
    1 point
  48. Mi Smart Speaker review: Punches above its weight

    Agree, a line-out would've been great. It would've also meant a lot more people picking it up without a care for its sound quality since they'd be using external speakers anyway.
    1 point
  49. I know right? The iPhone 12 looks pretty best. Best price, best performance, best new features, and 5+ years of best updates. So just like every iPhone every year
    1 point