A tactic used by Microsoft and Google in the past:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

Basically they embrace an open standard , extend with proprietary nonsense and then extinguish it with sheer incompetency or greed.

Oh you’re certainly right, i was just thinking about windows in the 2 examples above!

Jesus Christ, I’m not a tankie 😄

I’m a ‘reddit is too ban friendly’ guy.

I also mentioned in another comment that the false equivalency example might not have been too great. Hope you see where I’m coming from.

Ah yes, the other side of the same ‘censorship’ coin 😉

Let’s flip the argument around. Lets say i wrote:

‘if people started flying rainbow flags on their cars in my country , I’ll keep a baseball bat in my car’

Do you think i deserve to be perma banned for ‘advocating violence’?

Did you just censor the word douche?

‘Easy! Just use AI or something. You nerds figure it out!’

-the client

Oh man , that is disappointing.

I’m certainly not a ‘right-winger’ , but i hate the idea of arbitrary, centralized control of what ‘hate speech’ means .

That doesn’t sound ‘federated’ to me!

Thanks for the explanation!

Can you elaborate on the ‘politics’?

I sense something weird , especially with the hardcoded ‘hate speech’ filter, which seems to run contrary to federation.

Anything else I should know about ?

It seems that they’re only using a.i to separate vocals from an existing demo track that already has Lennon’s vocals.