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RT @saifedean: The Cult of the Coronahysteric Cowards has officially entered the child sacrifice stage. https://t.co/ANHcLflXhM https://t.c… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @pierre_rochard: Twitter does not censor fraud. Twitter does censor political speech. Where there is a will, there is a way. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BitcoinTina: @futurepaul IF you do not know, @NSKinsella I think you will find his work very interesting. https://t.co/H1jq2a1gIq — PolitiTweet.org

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@BitcoinTina @NSKinsella I heard him on bitcoin fixes this but somehow I missed this tftc ep so thank you! https://t.co/HknmxSv5en — PolitiTweet.org

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@alepoutre as a Protestant I also believe Catholicism is a corrupt sham so at least we agree on one thing :) — PolitiTweet.org

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@alepoutre I've spent my entire adult life critically reflecting on Christianity. I'd rather be right than be in the mainstream of opinion sorry if you find that offensive. — PolitiTweet.org

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@alepoutre thanks you have my permission to regurgitate spoon-fed dogma without critical reflection. no laws stopping you! — PolitiTweet.org

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@johneletto yeah in the "spirit of the law" (is that a thing? idk) it feels like virtualization should be the same thing as a physical server, but at the same time if you were liable for anything "multi-user" you could probably extend the virtualization all the way to each end user somehow — PolitiTweet.org

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(what I'm referring to: https://t.co/jxhNUI7gV1) — PolitiTweet.org

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are AWS and Digital Ocean "interactive computer services" in Section 230, or does that term only apply to the user-facing applications built on top of cloud infrastructure? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @pierre_rochard: Until the fiat “intellectual property” laws are repealed, there is no libertarian defense of social media platforms. T… — PolitiTweet.org

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@SubstackInc I'm considering moving my list from Mailchimp but a feature that's very important to me is disabling tracking and analytics (I don't want you or me snooping on how people interact with the email). Is this on your roadmap? — PolitiTweet.org

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@lwatcdr which industry are you in? this does not sound at all like my understanding of the life of an independent researcher in any field. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lwatcdr they can look but not touch — PolitiTweet.org

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@ScottsSoapbox I don't think it would be less innovative, but I admit I'd accept less innovation if it also involved less arbitrary gov power in deciding who gets to do what. So probably I'm biased! — PolitiTweet.org

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@ScottsSoapbox most good ideas are some form of copying + modification. so you're making most good ideas illegal right out of the gate. sounds like a bad environment for doing research! also china spends plenty on r&d and is hugely innovative in a ton of sectors https://t.co/6p2rqMPXrF — PolitiTweet.org

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@ScottsSoapbox well I'm glad we def agree on this! and tbh getting rid of these abuses (also the drug reformulation patent loophole) would go a long way to improving things. I'm just arguing that we'd get even more good effects if patents are one year. and extra more good if zero years. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ScottsSoapbox you are claiming this but there's no evidence patents actually accomplish these things https://t.co/ev9PKzSgfU — PolitiTweet.org

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@lwatcdr imagine if any humble researcher had the whole field of medical ideas available to them, rather than needing to join a $100 billion corp in order to have access to some subset of world IP to work from — PolitiTweet.org

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@lwatcdr duplication is cheap is exactly my point. save scarcity for art and magic the gathering cards and bitcoin. imposing it artificially from above has all sorts of ill effects: less innovation, less information sharing, conservatism in fear of patent disputes — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kellymakena: Pai says FCC general counsel gave them the greenlight to reinterpret Section 230. The agency is moving forward on the NTIA… — PolitiTweet.org

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@ScottsSoapbox seems like you're moving the goalposts. there are tons of jobs in many corrupt bureaucracies that doesn't justify the formulation of those institutions. I truly believe patents do much more harm than good and the current broken system is exactly what patents incentivize — PolitiTweet.org

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@lwatcdr "intellectual property" is a way of introducing scarcity where it does not exist: information. it drives prices up. if "us" as a society decide we aren't getting enough innovation we can find ways to incentivize it. but outlawing the free spread and use of information is harmful. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JeffWPa Lots of medicines have been invented and shared with humanity throughout history without patent. How did we get any of those? — PolitiTweet.org

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@lwatcdr It's quite possible some people will still pay a premium for a name brand version. I still like going to a nice restaurant even though I can make a steak at home. But the diff is it's not illegal for me to make a steak at home and therefore restaurant steaks don't cost $12k. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lwatcdr hopefully they'll figure it out! most likely they'll need funding for promising drugs up front, like a kickstarter or patron model. but making it illegal to print a life-saving drug feels like an aggression. — PolitiTweet.org

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someday we'll have molecular printers that can manufacture life-saving drugs in our home and they'll only print aspirin because all the new drugs will be under indefinite, intractable IP protection — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @pierre_rochard: Trademarks, copyrights, patents, these all arguably infringe on free speech in quite violent and consequential ways. T… — PolitiTweet.org

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@garthvh @pierre_rochard The fact that you find Pierre's tweet cryptic shows how much more you have to learn about Bitcoin's consensus mechanism. You might find it surprisingly reasonable upon investigation! — PolitiTweet.org

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@pierre_rochard @garthvh Idk we could save on a lot of needless energy expenditure if we just print more bitcoin and fund wars with it! — PolitiTweet.org