FreedomAdvocate

If all you do in a major city is sit in your house and play on your computer

Sure, but that's not what most people who live in the city do. They live in the city because of what living in the city gives them the ability to do.

So the question still stands - What do you do outside of a city for free that you can’t do in a city for free?

Huge asterisk on this article - the study that they link to for the 17,000 figure is based heavily on data that has now been retracted, or where even the authors now admit it is not verifiable.

To put the real-world harm in perspective, public health studies estimate hydroxychloroquine use was linked to at least 17,000 deaths worldwide, though the true toll is likely higher.

The article that the 17,000 number links to references an article, "Deaths induced by compassionate use of hydroxychloroquine during the first COVID-19 wave: an estimate", which has now been retracted - https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?pmid=38171239

Another study titled "Mortality outcomes with hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine in COVID-19 from an international collaborative meta-analysis of randomized trials" that this article references, was ammended months ago to essentially say "Remember how we said it was responsible for those deaths in our initial study 4 years ago? Yeah sorry about that, the evidence doesn't actually support it. Whoopsies!"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-60478-x

Finally, we conclude that there remains uncertainty regarding a potential adverse HCQ effect, in particular in light of the most recent meta-analysis.

So whoever wrote this article in the OP either didn't realize that the article that they based a huge part of their article on had some post-publishing ammendments on one basically discrediting it, and another that had been retracted in 2024, or actively chose to just ignore those ammendments.

Moving on from all that - the gigantic issue with "curbing misinformation", especially when the government is the one doing the curbing, is that we KNOW that they abuse it and use their powers to remove information that they don't like, not just information that is wrong. For example the government forced social media companies to censor "misinformation" about the COVID vaccine that was actually factually correct - how it didn't prevent you from catching or spreading COVID. That was labelled "misinformation" and if you dared to say it you were banned from social media......but it was 100% true.

Just an FYI that this seems to require a monthly subscription fee, even for self-hosting.

So if you self host this you still have to pay a monthly subscription fee to even use it?

The company acknowledged that Biden administration officials had pressured YouTube to remove content “that did not violate its policies,” which Alphabet called “unacceptable and wrong”

What is your take on this? Do you think that is authoritarian/fascist behaviour by the Biden administration?

they’ve been found? by who?

Did you somehow just randomly end up in this topic without even seeing what it was about?

Misinformation gets people hurt, YouTube at the time didn’t want their users getting hurt.

How are so many people in here missing the entire point of the article that this thread is about?

Youtube didn't think their users were getting hurt. Youtube deleted videos and banned accounts because the Biden administration forced them to.

The company acknowledged that Biden administration officials had pressured YouTube to remove content “that did not violate its policies,” which Alphabet called “unacceptable and wrong”

Big Tech giants such as Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Meta have regularly extolled AI’s benefits,

Are you saying that you don't know what these companies use AI for?

Apps that have been disabled at a system level cannot run.

Any income you do earn depends 100% on you eating and staying alive.

No, staying alive depends on eating. You don't need a job to be able to eat - people survived for thousands of years without jobs and money.

The fact this simple fact is unable to penetrate your brain shows how much your brain has been calcified by ideology.

The irony is just delicious.

If you're censoring someone then you don't want free speech. If you're hosting a platform for discussion and you start banning people and deleting posts etc, you're being authoritarian and you are demonstrating that you don't think free speech should be allowed.

Numbers is a lot different - there are only 10 of them, so only 10 options for each one you have to remember. How many words are there in the english language?

I doubt a single person in here could even get to 30. Think about the intelligence of the average person. Remember that half of the people in the world are dumber than that. Most people can't even remember a secure 12 character password no matter how hard they try.

That is all you can respond with to my comment?

You're proving my point - you moved to a new job and you're just having the exact same issues as the last job, and the job before that.