Comment Re:Ok to be spied on (Score 1) 33
The US is an ally of Canada. Russia and the Commies are not. Can't get simpler than this.
Why have languages had to devolve from the simplicity and beauty of common lisp?
Because syntax matters.
Want to fund Canadian journalism? Just give them money.
They already do. Almost all Canadian journalism is government-subsidised.
Everything Trudeau has ever done has been like this. Create a problem, blame other people, steal credit if it ever gets resolved.
Yeah.
The Special Prosecutor is David Weiss, the same person who tried to slip that immunity deal past the judge.
If it was a public dispute? No.
If the Trump White House was calling and threatening the Times editorial board? Yes.
There's a big difference in the fact that DeSantis is making a bunch of blatantly unconstitutional attempts to control speech (the very explicit retaliation against Disney being the most obvious).
DeSantis hasn't done anything at all to Disney. He has reorganized Reedy Creek Improvement District, but Disney has been telling us for decades that RCID is an entirely separate entity.
Because if it weren't an entirely separate entity, Disney would have been breaking all sorts of laws...
From the court filings:
Things apparently became tense between the White House and Facebook after that, culminating in Flaherty’s July 15, 2021 email to Facebook, in which Flaherty stated: “Are you guys fucking serious? I want an answer on what happened here and I want it today.”
If you can prove that the disinformation led to loss of life in court, then by all means go for it.
Sure, but that would be a civil action. What we are seeing instead is prior restraint by the government, which is blatantly unconstitutional.
Yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater is protected speech, as the Supreme Court made very clear in Brandenburg v. Ohio, more than fifty years ago.
Almost everything the government has been seeking to censor is likewise protected speech.
Which is how we get to where we are today, where insufficient subservience to the arbitrary diktats of the day is treated as genocide.
No. The point is that the people citing Popper's Paradox of Tolerance are invariably the ones Popper was warning us about.
Not a good reason to tolerate criminal activity by the government.
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