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Comment Re:Who said they hate the Internet? (Score 4, Insightful) 430

Point fingers at the ultra-orthodox and scream about child molestation, since that is exactly what they are afraid of happening if people speak about it outside of their community -- you are basically validating what they are saying to themselves when they keep it a secret.

If they weren't actively trying to cover it up then people would be pointing at the particular people responsible for the child abuse and screaming at them. As it is, in exactly the same way as the Catholic church has, their community are trying desperately to cover it all up, shield the perpetrators from any sort of punishment and allow them to carry on doing it

Damned right we should be screaming at people who do that, because they're enabling the molestors.

Comment Emotionally invested in what exactly? (Score 3, Insightful) 171

If you care most about promoting innovation, offering carve-outs from the patent system to certain industries and technologies looks like a pragmatic solution to a serious problem. If you're emotionally invested in the success of patent law as such, then allowing certain industries to opt out looks like an admission of failure and a horrible hack.'"

Isn't that the actual, official, reason for having patent laws and protections in the first place?

Surely being 'emotionally invested in the success of patent law' would require you to want it to achieve what it was meant to achieve?

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