You are talking about the 1st amendment. Free speech is a principle whereas the 1st amendment restricts the government from violating that principle in its relations with the populace.
Free speech as a principle you’re after (aka truly free speech without any consequences whatsoever) never existed.
You’re free to say whatever you want, and I’m free to take actions based on that. You cannot give free speech benefits only to one side of the argument.
This is a pretty big distraction that is often used in these types of discussions. It's a distortion of what people actually want. The "consequences" being advocated are often just the whims of today's favored group. Giving free speech benefits to only one side of the argument is exactly what people are asking for when they ask for "consequences" -- freedom for A, consequences for B.
Depends on what they did. If Twitch lets, say, the Unibomber stream video, it looks bad to advertisers (Twitch's customers). They don't want to be associated with that.
It all makes sense when you look at it from a money angle rather than an ethical angle.
They wouldn't blame Twitch for what that person did, but they would blame Twitch for continuing to host them on their site.
For example: if Twitch hosts a well-known sexual abuser and groomer who's known for taking advantage of vulnorable fans, then people will be rightfully upset with Twitch for giving them an audience.
This is why Ryan Haywood got permanently banned from Twitch. Some of his victims and many of his former fans reached out to Twitch and said "hey, this guy is an abusive and manipulative piece of shit who will take advantage of vulnerable fans if he gets the chance. Please don't provide him with a megaphone and a potential audience."
People can, and do. At any given moment you can probably find at least one hashtag campaign excoriating Twitch for having not banned some streamer for something for other.
The context is that the last six months or so have been a shitstorm of prominent streamers caught in various forms of grooming, sexual assault, and so on. Much of this has happened off-Twitch, but it's certainly affected the reputation of Twitch to be associate with such.
It's no different to the owners of M:TG banning people for serious misconduct, for example.
I don't think that is true. The build that is distributed through the site has the Play Store "features" disables and has other things like an auto-update mechanic. When built for the website the build config `PLAY_STORE_DISABLED` set to true.
PoS and MobileCoin validator nodes use about the same amount of electricity.
I'm not a fan of PoS because it looks like a ponzie scheme (unless it's done like eth where initial distribution is done via mining)
This is actually worse than PoS, because PoS uses standard public key cryptographic to validate ownership of coin in the chain to stake, it at least in theory can achieve "trustless" validation.
This on the other hand is just a shitty attempt to outsource database maintenance to untrusted 3rd parties, using SGX, while forcing them to pay for S3 hosting because they can't implement a DHT to do proper decentralized file transfers.
Phone numbers are only 10 digits. That is only 10 billion combinations. For SHA1 which pwned passwords uses that it should only take a couple seconds on a decent system. Even with SHA256 it could be done in like a minute.
