For one, a lot of corporations and governments won't use formats that aren't approved by a standards body.

And you continue to buzz, annoying yet impotent.

You're still talking? Geez, it's like having a mosquito buzzing constantly. Annoying, small and inconsequential.

Why are you still talking to me? Oh right, crazy people never shut up.

Ask a Native American about land being stolen. Ask the natives of South America about land being stolen.

But I said resources, which is more than just land. It's minerals and the rights to mine them given over to colonial corporations at the point of a gun, it's timber and oil and water and anything else that has even a glimmer of monetary value.

Regardless, you seem to cling to your stupidity like a man on the edge of a cliff clings to God, so desperate to be right you won't even try to save yourself. I'm done with you as well.

I'd like to offer some counterpoints:

Having an outlet for these kinds of things is not necessarily better. It gives disparate people a platform to share their ideas, normalize their behavior and validate themselves and each other. It's a double edged sword.

As far as giving people a heads up, that's nonsense because most of these people spew their idiocy under anonymous accounts. You could be sitting next to an otherwise seemingly normal person and never know they spend their days upvoting pictures of 9 year olds in sexually suggestive poses. If the accounts were tied to their real names and addresses, there would be far far fewer people creating these sorts of forums.

Who said anything about illegality? It's not illegal to say "No thanks, your behavior is not welcome here."

Allowing things to grow in the dark is a lot of the problem! That's how you get ISIS or the KKK.

At least if Jefferson posted to /r/Coontown, it would be full of gravitas!

So glad to know that the defenders of free speech still have a place to share pictures of underage girls, openly discus raping those underage girls, share racist rants and generally discuss how those uppity bitches are keeping men down. Our founding fathers would weep.

The more you speak the more the stupid comes out of your mouth.

They're the ones that are outstripping their OWN ability to maintain themselves

Really? Because the West didn't already strip their countries bare after centuries of exploitation as colonies, and now via mega-corporations that prop up our unsustainable lifestyles? Our very economy depends on an uneven arrangement of low offshore wages and cheap foreign resources. We've destabilized governments to ensure that we narrow few remain on top.

Not that you'll admit it. Blind idiocy such as yours can't afford to admit to mistakes. You gloss over the inequities of the world and pretend that everyone got an equal start so it's their fault if they can't catch up. You are a living banner for everything stupid and vile in this country.

As for not being worth a thinking person's time, well if you actually tried thinking once in a while I wouldn't have to keep confronting the nonsense you spew into this discourse.

Oh, the WEST isn't in danger of over populating itself! Well well, that's awesome. Screw all those other people outside that great big giant wall we have that separates us from the rest of the world!! Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster and his noodly appendages that nothing that happens in the world would ever effect us here in the WEST!

You are about the biggest example of a horse's ass I think I've ever seen.

No, really.

Yeah, because struggling artists are well known for their crack legal teams.

..the a large copyright aggregator like Rumblefish comes along, claims over and over again that they own the rights getting your accounts suspended while they rake off a profit from their own monetization of said music.

There is quite a difference in companies partnering with NASA, and thus needing NASA to succeed for their own growth, and corporations actively competing with NASA for their profits, where NASA's success is a threat. Because that is the goal, make no mistake, for the corporations to carve out all of the profit from NASA, until NASA will be lucky if they have funding to launch a bottle rocket.

You act like NASA has a choice and isn't caught between corporate funded Libertarian/TeaParty/NeoCon PACS paying off congresscritters and senators to strong arm them into these deals by holding their budget hostage.