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Comment: Re:What's the First Amendment? (Score 1) 230

by detritus. (#43364287) Attached to: New CFAA Could Subject Teens To Jail For Reading Online News

Minors don't have 1st Amendment rights. The courts have settled this long ago.

That's nonsense. Yes they do and it was never "settled long ago." See video game bans, library book bans, black armband bans, etc. all upheld by SCOTUS. Free speech and the right to seek information is free speech. COPPA only exists because it hasn't been ruled on by the courts.

Comment: Re:Good technology (Score 1) 187

by detritus. (#43286195) Attached to: Brain Scans Predict Which Criminals Are More Likely To Re-offend

> When you have 95% of the country always voting for their team, based on the assertion that the other team is wrong, nothing changes.

The keyword here is country. These groups need to be cut down to size. We called them states, counties and towns once. More diversity via localized government means a lot more living options with different standards.

Comment: Re:Good technology (Score 1) 187

by detritus. (#43284737) Attached to: Brain Scans Predict Which Criminals Are More Likely To Re-offend

> We have the power, it's just that when half of Americans vote for people promising to bring the government to the knees, you don't wind up with the best or the brightest being elected.

Or half the people hopelessly defending a corrupted system of horizontal of checks and balances government has the capabilities to heal themselves. The only solution to that is the vertical check: nullifying government when necessary.

Comment: Re:Patriot Act is unconstitutional (Score 1) 231

by detritus. (#43188083) Attached to: National Security Letters Ruled Unconstitutional, Banned

Ableman v. Booth was a famous case where even the own authority of the federal courts were questioned, not by a southern state court but by Wisconsin! The Wisconsin Supreme Court didn't recognize the federal court's authority and let a guy who helped fugitive slaves to escape into Canada to evade US law enforcement. But the US Supreme Court, in their infinite wisdom, came to the brilliant conclusion that they were supreme.

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