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Comment Re:Reclassify as a competitive product? (Score 1) 147

"Competitive." You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

It means they can comply with the order without overcoming the financial/regulatory inertia involved in juggling funds earmarked for "market dominant" services. Otherwise the USPS will have to provide special services now with money they won't be able to touch for at least a year.

Comment Re:The USA was founded on Anonymous Comments (Score 1) 582

The AC to Whom You reply did not equate Ms. Huffington with government.

He equated Huffington with "the British." Before ~1775, "the British" were the government, hence the revolutionary pamphlets to begin with.

Plus, the Owners of said press at the time of the revolution did not find specifying the identities of the Pamphleteers so important as to require attribution.

The publishers almost certainly had personal knowledge of the authors, though. At this point, HuffPo doesn't even have that much.

Even if They had, the fact remains One cannot fully critique and/or criticize policy/Politicians if the Owners of the press require "true names".

Then use a press other than HuffPo's, or buy your own.

Comment Re:The USA was founded on Anonymous Comments (Score 2) 582

First and foremost, Ariana Huffington is not the government. Otherwise there'd be a lot more sideboob in Congress...

Beyond that, those anonymous pamphleteers you mentioned got their works published because the owners of the printing presses consented to the publishing of the specific tracts in question; Whether or not they printed a particular piece by a particular person was wholly by their own prerogative. Here, Huffington owns the printing-press equivalent, and has decided to limit the use of her resources just a bit more narrowly than "Anybody can come along and post GNAA spam."

Then as now, freedom of the press belongs to those who own one.

Comment Re:quit drinking (Score 1, Insightful) 330

"No True Scotsman" involves moving goalposts. Alcohol abuse is a well-documented, well-defined medical condition; the only "goalpost-moving" here is movement from the OP's self-diagnosis.

Or are you honestly trying to defend all the first-hand accounts of users of homeopathy, chiropractic, faith healing and the like?

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