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It's now locked so there can be no new replies. I highlighted the one dead comment for readability.
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Someone flagged it again. If it shows as [flagged] that means that it was previously flagged, if it's [flagged] [dead] that means the thread is locked and not visible to most users. Sometimes clicking "vouch" will make the thread visible again, depending on how many times it has been flagged already. Just click "vouch" and see if that removes the [dead] tag.

That guy is shadowbanned, all his posts are showing up as dead. Shadowbanned users have all their posts automatically marked as dead, unless someone manually vouches them. The people who keep posting on shadowbanned accounts tend to be unhinged schizos, since most regular people notice after a while that they are shouting into the void.

 

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HN discusses the Online Safety Act, the new British law that prompted Null to IP-block the UK. Amusingly in this case it's a website where users roleplay with AI chatbots, and they also decided to IP-block the UK after determining that the cost of regulatory compliance would be unsustainable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44629134

https://blog.janitorai.com/posts/3/

the requirements are insane:

• legal risk assessments that cost more than our entire monthly budget
• biometric id verification systems (reddit is implementing persona for this which costs $1.5 per person)
• constant legal review of thousands of pages of guidelines that keep changing

the penalties include fines up to £18 million plus personal criminal liability for me and our team. like, actual jail time if ofcom decides we screwed up.

An aside, but this style of no capitalization or punctuation really grinds my gears. Like, why?

 

[Cherenkovblue]

An aside, but this style of no capitalization or punctuation really grinds my gears. Like, why?

It makes it difficult to parse at a glance, whereas capitalization and punctuation mimic the prosodic features which allows us to parse sentences into their component clauses without necessarily evaluating the phonemes that make up the constituent words thereof.

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