Well, they can incarcerate you without convicting you.

A court can order your execution, I'd imagine they can order the deletion of an online account.

Exactly. The *AA and their government goons have never cared about process. Same when you get arrested under false pretenses, the establishment gets off with a 'sorry' while in the mean time you lost your job, lost relationships and regardless of conviction you have a record that keeps influencing whether or not you'll get hired in the future and whether or not you keep getting re-arrested and strip searched for simply existing.

I vehemently disagree!

They almost never say "sorry".

Because then they wouldn't have control over the workers.

I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!

That's a chemical substance, not expression. It does not run afoul of the first amendment.

The difference is that this attempts to tax media with a certain type of content (violent) differently.

The Bill of Rights was only proposed six years after the end of the Revolutionary War. Who killed or died for it specifically?

Little Shop of Horrors teaches us that going to a dentist who loves being a dentist isn't necessarily a good thing...

I don't think most of what the CIA does would qualify as "honest". They're spies, aka liars, thieves and criminals.

Oh, don't worry, it's coming. Once all of us not in the top .1% have died of starvation due to no longer being able to work for a living, the rest will have that paradise.

where does this pseudoreligious belief, in defiance of all economic history and simple logic and reason come from that an unregulated marketplace is somehow more fair?

From the loads and loads of money spent on advancing this idea by the very people it would benefit?

There is a very large propaganda network whose purpose is to push the idea that letting the very rich do whatever they want will somehow make things better for everyone, and it has been set up over the course of decades. From think tanks, to cable television networks, to buying off professor positions to push right-wing economic theory, and more stuff that I can't think of at the moment (let alone more I don't know about at all), tons of cash has been spent to make this idea seem far less insane than it actually is.

This is the big nightmare scenario of AI (and really, they don't even need technology that advanced). If there's no need for employees, what's to stop the people who control the machines (ie, the very rich) from simply taking what they want, including land, leaving the rest of us without anything we need to survive?

Maybe if we're lucky they'll keep us on reservations and not just send robot armies to slaughter us outright.

As a police friend of mine says, if you're going to commit a crime, do it just once and make it worthwhile.

A police officer not only encouraging crime, but encouraging BIG crime. Fantastic.

It's always been a mystery to me how an organization that is so clearly a cult managed to get status in the United States as a legitimate religion.

They infiltrated the IRS and waged a campaign of terror against them until they gave them their tax-free status.