One of the threats contained her home address. That's what the police here call a "credible threat" and arrest people for.

Go read TFA. Read the first few paragraphs evens. We are talking about rape and death threats, which included the author's home address. She goes on to show how that isn't an isolated incident.

If it were just the usual 12 year old XBOX Live bullshit you would have a point, but this is people going far out of their way to gather information on their targets and make specific, violent threats that they are capable of carrying out.

The difference is that when people talk about men knowing how to talk to women they mean knowing how not to be insulting, lecherous dicks showing them with unwanted attention... You know, talking to them like they talk to other guys they have no sexual interest in, i.e. normally.

When people talk about women knowing how to talk to men they mean women knowing how to talk extremely passively so as not to upset some apparently quite delicate feelings. It's the exact thing that a lot of men complain about - women being overly sensitive. The point she is making is that actually some men are at least as bad, and feel insulted and threatened when a women offers constructive criticism.

You can see it all over the comments on this article. A woman dares to suggest that some men are being arseholes when they made credible threats to rape and murder her, and suddenly all these guys get defensive and upset instead of just saying "yeah, maybe people shouldn't do that."

No, they get told they are ugly, nerdy, flat chested and unable to get a boyfriend. Different words, same bullshit.

Can you say specifically what special treatment the author of the article is asking for? I don't get the impression that she thinks only women should be excluded from death and rape threats, which include details like their home address, and which continue for months and even years after one article was published.

Your misunderstanding is pretty common, unfortunately. She isn't saying that women should have special treatment, she is saying that men generally don't have to put up with this stuff and women shouldn't have to either (i.e. equality). To be absolutely clear, if it was white men being routinely threatened with rape and murder just for doing their job it would still be a problem.

How do you take an email saying "Women are the niggers of gender. If you killed yourself, I wouldnâ(TM)t even fuck the corpse" constructively? How do you take people threatening to come to your house, complete with your home address, constructively? Why do so many of these kind people post their constructive criticism anonymously?

Bad laws are a problem in themselves, not a gender issue. Having said that I find that they are generally well balanced and fair in my country, and apply equally to both genders. I have benefited from them, and I'm male (e.g. I now get the same relaxed dress code as women do).

It's worse than that. TFA has countless examples of rape and death threats. Someone even posted one woman's address in this threat. How many men, or even black man or gay men get threats like that?

There is a significant market for region free, modified DVD players that let you skip all the crap. So significant that even supermarket 20 quid models are often region free, or very easy to "modify" with a few button presses on the remote. Clearly there is a demand for something better.

You are doing it wrong. Netflix at the highest bit rate is similar to BluRay, and they support 4k which is even better (and yes, the bitrate is adequate). As for downloads proper BluRay rips clock in around 10GB of an average 1.5-2 hour movie. I think you might have been downloading low quality 720p or telecine rips.

ISPs are regulated by UK laws and thus forced to spy on all their customers. Andrews & Arnold are not immune, they must log their user's metadata and hand it to various government bodies when asked. They are no substitute for a VPN.

VPNs were never covered by EU data retention laws (because they are not ISPs) and bypass all UK laws.

I'm just waiting for the first time that opting out is used as evidence in court that the subscriber is a pervert. That's why I have refused to express an opinion, and use a VPN to block their blocking anyway.

I hope this results in two things:

1. More people use a VPN to block ISP monitoring.

2. Someone sues over the accusation that they infringed copyright.

So it's expensive security theatre.

Back in 2004 my girlfriend has 100/100 symmetrical fibre to her appartment. Truly unlimited, around $30/month. Verizon is still a few years away from where Japan was a decade ago.