[Loughla]

I don't know who that guy is, but if he's against IPv6, why does he say;

>promotes accountable leadership, fair market practices, and adoption of the next generation of IPv6 addresses.

[evanjrowley]

I learned about him yesterday via this article. It also frames into context articles I've seen in the past about AFRINIC's IPv4 space being lost to foreigners. https://medium.com/@emmanuelvitus/afrinic-hope-hijack-and-th...

A couple months ago he gave a talk Why Buying IP Addresses is a Scam in Washington DC. It's a lot of complaining about who owns IP addresses: https://youtu.be/dAqXo5DB42E?si=7RpoUFXM3KXziN-Y

It appears the entire channel and Number Resource Society is just a front for his own opinions: https://m.youtube.com/@numberresourcesociety

[alright2565]

How does his YouTube channel have:

1) 6.3M subscribers

2) <5k views on about half their videos

3) 10M+ views on a random selection of their dullest videos?

[jekwoooooe]

YouTube is willingly complicit in bot activity when it makes their stats look good. They don’t care about bot subscribers or comments as long as it drives engagement

[arp242]

And their Facebook/Twitter accounts have no meaningful engagement at all. 123 followers on Twitter, which is pathetic. Even I managed to get ~600 followers, mostly from when my blog ended up on the HN frontpage. I barely posted on Twitter. It's a massive discrepancy from their 6.3 million YouTube subscribers. Together with the view count rollercoaster, this does not smell kosher.

So it seems that a bad faith bullshitter who will abuse any system to bits to earn a buck is engaging in bad faith bullshit behaviour on account of being a bad faith bullshitter who will abuse any system to bits to earn a buck. I am shocked I tell you. Shocked!

[viraptor]

Why is NK called Democratic People's Republic if it's not? The marketing copy can say whatever it needs to.

[sethops1]

And America isn't a democracy, it's a Republic.

[OneDeuxTriSeiGo]

This is the most infuriatingly incorrect statement.

America is a democracy AND it's a republic AND a bunch of other stuff.

The full description is that America is a Federal Constitutional Representative Democratic Republic.

[apple4ever]

No a Federal Constitutional Republic captures it perfectly. We are not a Democracy.

[rbanffy]

Technically “America” is a continent. The country is called “United States of America”. ;-)

And yes, saying it’s not a democracy infuriates me as well, because it’s being used to justify a whole lot of undemocratic shenanigans.

[OneDeuxTriSeiGo]

Lol I almost went for that pedantry. However technically America is not a continent (under most definitions of continent) but North and South America are. :P

[rbanffy]

America would then be the whole land mass. Or something like that.

[SllX]

Unless you grew up in a place that taught a six-continent model instead of a seven-continent model and it was NA/SA consolidated instead of Europe and Asia into Eurasia.

Also: continents are bullshit.

Also also: America is the United States of America in the English-speaking world.

[yndoendo]

When the Presided of the USA is no longer bound by the Constitution, written law, it is no longer.

[thyristan]

Funnily enough, it isn't even a constitutional monarchy then, it regresses beyond that to an absolute monarchy.

[rbanffy]

The fact remains the country, as defined by its laws, should be a democracy.

Its people will have a lot of stuff to fix in a couple years.

[Biganon]

Oh my god I cannot stand reading this anymore, why do so many people parrot that like it's some gotcha phrase.

"A cat is not a pet, it's a feline."

Things can be multiple things at once. The US are a republic and a democracy. Republic = not a kingdom, democracy = power to the people. Close but not exact synonyms.