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CAPTCHAs don't prove you're human – they prove you're American (2017)

92 points · 90 comments · theanonymousone

KingOfCoders · 1790412762 · focus · HN ↗
It's just forcing US culture on everyone in the world. Also see Meta deleting IG posts and banning people based on US politics / morals.
1. nephihaha · 1790413010 · focus · HN ↗
  Americans have changed/reversed a lot of political definitions including conservative/liberal.
  1. asdfaoeu · 1790413904 · focus · HN ↗
    How has conservative changed?
    kiicia · 1790420848 · focus · HN ↗
    it was meaning "to be careful and considerate when changing things", now it means "i do whatever i want and if you don't agree then you are (insert imaginary adversary here)"
    nephihaha · 1790595734 · focus · HN ↗
    American conservatives are economically liberal (or pretend to be), whereas American liberals are not economically liberal. In other words some of the American conservatives are pushing laisser-faire and Manchester School type economics, while the so called liberals are pushing intensive government regulation (which is not liberal.)

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