It might be ok if that's what were happening. Some of us are asserting that rules to block violence and racism are being use to stifle speech that is neither racist nor violent. I can think of a discussion I had where someone was trying to "shame" me for reading the "racist" comic strip "The Boondocks".

I'm used to obligatory references to XKCD for this sort of thing, but yesterday Dilbert provided I think the perfect response to many articles about Firefox, Gnome, etc....

Keyboard Upgrades

That is a grossly unfair description of one of the groups' concerns.

I don't mean to interrupt your kicking a few Trump supporters while they're down, but I believe this was part of the pork in the COVID stimulus bill from the House. So this is because House leadership felt we needed to know about aliens ... because COVID. I guess it wouldn't have been worth passing a COVID relief bill with out aliens.

The 57 number is (I believe) total homicides for December and is not specific to police. The police shootings is lower down on the page. I only saw 20, killed or wounded for the year.

Flash may have been awful for a number of very sound reasons. As others pointed out, it addressed a set of problems that were not addressed well by anything else at the time and had better support for developers. Like systemd.

My concern is that this breaks what an extension I choose to install can do to protect me from the java script and poor practices employed by websites behind my back. Sure, a malicious extension could be bad. But malicious java script is more prevalent, harder to validate before obtaining & running it, and is more likely to be used by malicious 3rd parties.

So they are modestly addressing a secondary attack surface by preventing the ability to protect a primary attack surface. This cure is worse than the disease.

That makes me thing of two questions. First, which is worse, chasing people off the internet like you described, or taking to the streets, smashing & burning neighborhoods to intimidate people?

Second, what happens if both sides decides this behavior is the "new normal" for political discourse?

... as the few games that have been ported to Linux all finally break. Because the vacuum created by Loki didn't take.

Firefox already exclusively supports pulseaudio on Linux. Going Wayland only has to be in plan.

As other have pointed out, there have been times that snopes rated satire from the Bee as "false".

More to the point, it's that there is more issue / offense taken with the Bee, like deplatforming it on facebook due to snopes. For over a decade it's been ok when people got their "news" from satirical places like the Daily Show and other sources that generally favored one political party. But once there is a source favoring the other party, suddenly satire must be flagged for our protection.

It's just one more example of a double standard that's fueling unrest in the country. Today, it's satirical humor. On another day it's the political leanings of news organizations. On yet another day, it's who gets to use social media for political outreach. The rules change based on the politics of the person acting. If you are being honest, it's easy to see. People feel insulted when you try to tell them it isn't happening.

My issue is more nuanced. I know someone works at a school who's hours were increased, given a random schedule from week to week, forced to do all sort of things outside the job description (janitorial work, baby sitting, tech support, even teaching and a bunch of other stuff) while having pay reduced. Coworkers who were given (and accepted) the option to not come in were making more money saying at home and doing nothing. (No not remote teaching. Nothing.) Among them were people who'd admit they didn't want to come back to work because they'd be paid less and they "liked the free time". The same people would complain when those were "too essential" to have the option to stay home would got a single paid day off to recharge and take care of matters at home.

A safety net is nice. An teachers are under appreciated and under paid. But we were well beyond that. There was a wide disparity between those who were voluntold to "keep the economy work" and those who were given a raise and vacation for being "non-essential". Even after the summer, that school is using para's as teachers (to keep class sizes down) without a pay increase. (Para's are already paid less than teachers.)

It sounds like somebody should have stopped and asked for directions hours earlier. Are they sure they found a new organ? Are they sure they were in the throat at the time?

Boy. I was hoping you weren't full of it. What about all the ones who were against warrant-less wiretaps and other such abuses until their guy was in the White House defending it?

You would have done better to stop after the first link. Still a broad brush, but you wouldn't have earned that troll mod.

Pandora's box was opened long before that. There's the databases of license plate & car photos from parking lots and major roads. There are the "string ray" devices that the police were "contractually obligated" to not make the public aware of. That probably wasn't the start either. If the legislature has the will power to reverse some of this, more power to them.