With no legal right to do so, these officers took that man off the street and locked him up in a small room against his will.

Explain to me how that's not kidnapping?

Charge the officers involved with kidnapping.

Then you'd see them stop.

In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice.

In practice, however, there usually is

selinux

Yeah, and people keep forgetting that that's exactly what investigative journalists do, so if you want to prosecute him for that, you've just killed freedom of the press.

And what, exactly, did Julian Assange hack, or break into?

"There is clearly no music in your video" vs 'All content owners have reviewed your video and confirmed their claims to some or all of its content: Entity: rumblefish; Content Type: Musical Composition.'

That sounds pretty much like an admission of fraud to me

” To understand that, you have to grasp that “the Internet” isn’t just a network of wires and switches"

Well of course not, as every (ex-) politician knows, it's a series of tubes.

As soon as it came to our attention today that people were drawing attention to the fact that we had made a mistake.

Fixed for accuracy.

You say that the necessary actions were taken shortly after you became aware of the issue, but how can you reconcile that with the "All content owners have reviewed your video and confirmed their claims to some or all of its content" answer that the video uploader was given when he disputed the takedown notice?

Either Google are lying about you having responded by confirming that you own the copyright to the birdsong, or you're lying about having reviewed the video.

Which one is it?

Yeah, the problem with government mandated insurance purchases is that it's not single payer government provided health cover, like the rest of the civilised world provides.

And btw, i'm not an American.

Yeah, you most certainly could change your insurance company.

Unless, of course, you wanted to change because you were dissatisfied with the way your current provider was dealing with your current condition.

I love how it's always "because the government knows better than you or your Doctor", but I never see "because the insurance company whose main purpose is to make as much profit as possible knows better than you or your Doctor"

Han has much nicer boobs than I remember.