I'm a lurker by nature, and only come out occasionally to mock you.
I have zero problem with this story being discussed or reported. It's interesting and worth taking notice of. I just pointed out in response to his "where are you?" that you were already here, and as this is an article on the NSA, were unlikely to leave any time soon.
4 out of 5 of my last comments may have been disparaging you, but how many of your comments are in defense of the NSA? I have no problem being considered an "anti-Cold Fjord shill", if someone wants to pay me, but I clearly don't work as hard at it as you work for yours.

Our resident NSA shill is the submitter. I expect he'll be here all day.

Never heard of Steam's offline mode? There's also this list of DRM-free games. You'll notice that all of Valve's games are on that list (except the multiplayer games). Steam is a distribution platform. Valve doesn't decide the DRM that people put into their games. Stop spreading FUD and do some research.

I suppose no one could ever accuse you of neglecting work to post this nonsense.

You're not making sense cold. You've been working too hard. Take a break, go home, see your family. There will be plenty more shilling waiting for you tomorrow. Just remember, stick to defending NSA, attacking Snowden. The GCHG has their own man, let them deal with their own PR.

cold fjord is rushing so quickly to defend the NSA that he no longer waits for them to be mentioned. Think he gets overtime?

So boycott anything anti-gay marriage but throw out all the racist bile you want? Your own ilk would shun you.

Several people have argued from the "he's an active force against my values" perspective, but you worded it well so I'll respond here. In a way, I agree with you, but no more than I agree in the "wrongness" of his values. The fact that he is alive and actively promoting his value system doesn't make him any worse than anyone else who has an objectionable value system.
The same argument could be used by all Democrats and all Republicans [to use U.S. labels, international readers insert your preferred terms] to boycott anyone who votes for the other party. They are actively working for a political agenda the other side finds reprehensible. If you take these things too personally, it is very easy to hate everyone. Personally, I won't even vote Libertarian because they're too much part of the system for my taste. I could easily hate everyone who associates with any government party, anyone who votes for any government authority, as working actively to promote the reprehensible agenda of restricting my personal liberties, but fuck all that, I'm tired of hating everyone. Instead I married a girl who is a police officer and votes straight Democrat on every ticket and I hate it but she's wonderful so I love her.
SMH you end with. Everyone has a different value system. You don't actually know these people, authors, actors, musicians, talk show hosts, whatever. I've yet to meet anyone in person that I could actually have a conversation with that is actually worth the trouble of censoring. But fuck it, I'm too tired to fight with people over it. Orson Scott Card wrote some good books, has some views I don't agree with, but still seems an interesting person to talk to if given the opportunity.

I had that wrong, the Pianist is by Polanski, not the Piano. So if you're a man of principals, direct your wrath appropriately.

You're charming.

Well that's easy. Contact stars Jodie Foster as the lead actress. Jodie Foster is very good friends with that Jew hating alcoholic Mel Gibson. Even cast him in the lead role in her movie The Beaver (post anti-Semite outbursts). You are financially contributing to a Jew hater. And as I said in another response, I had sort of blended Woody's creepiness with Polanski's rapiness. Poorly written.

Yeah, my mistake. The Polanski one.

Yeah, that was a hastily thrown together argument. I blended Woody being creepy with Polanski raping a 13 year into one charge of child molestation. Point is, no one seems to have a problem with 90% of the creepy/illegal shit entertainers do, but one campaigns against gay marriage and they start a boycott. It's just a weird hypocrisy. There are probably much worse people than Orson Scott Card who have received plenty of Hatta's money. But whatever, way to take a stand on something.

While I disagree with the guy's views, I wonder about the zealotry against him. Did you to see Midnight in Paris? How about The Piano? If you are that concerned with the character of those who benefit from your entertainment consumption, should I take your choice to watch those as an endorsement of child molestation? And if you haven't seen those, give me any list of 20 movies you like, I'm sure I could find others.