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  • It’s not difficult to define.
    It’s about people’s choices.

    People can choose to own a gun, choose to want to own a gun, choose to own a whole armoury.
    I think owning a gun is stupid. I live in a country that successfully regulates guns.
    Saying “I think gun owners are stupid” isn’t hate speech because they have chosen to own a gun.
    If I said “gun owners should use their guns in themselves” that becomes hate speech because it’s wishing harm on them.

    People choose to be Republicans, trumps choices in life are why he is where he is.
    Hate trump because of what he does, not because he has blonde hair.

    People don’t choose to be gay, or be trans, or be Jewish, or be black, or be short or whatever.
    Which is another way opinions can become hate speech.
    If I said “I think gun owners are stupid” that isn’t hate speech.
    If I said “I think black people are stupid” that becomes hate speech because it is grouping people by something they have no control over.





  • 4 years ago (best number I can find, considering IAs blog pages are down) IA used about 50 petabytes on servers that have 250 terabytes of storage and 2gbps network.
    From this, we can conclude that 1 TB of storage requires 8mbps of network speed.
    Let’s just say that average/all residential broadband has spare bandwidth for 8mbps symmetrical.
    We would need 50,000 volunteers to cover the absolute minimum.
    Probably 100k to 200k to have any sort of reliability, considering it’s all residential networking and commodity hardware.

    In the last 4 years, I imagine IA has increased their storage requirements significantly.
    And all of that would need to be coordinated, so some shards don’t get over-replicated