Giving some people 10k and not everyone is a big FU to everyone. Your argument sucks. Surely we should just forgive *all* debt and the world will be a better place...

It will be fought with equal success as the War on Terror in Afghanistan. Maybe we can stop leaking our own attack tools as a first step...

I'm glad that's all cleared up now.

It was more a comment on the rapidity of swear words appearing in your response, but I'll bite.

When you say "Pics or it didn't happen", are you asking me to supply proof of the things I mentioned or of how you feel about it?

I didn't make things up about you, I just tossed them out to get your opinion on them. Just say what you think about them, I'm really interested! I find your support for "infrastructure net neutrality" for example very interesting. So AWS is not an infrastructure company? Payment processors are not infrastructure companies? For that matter, facebook is not an infrastructure company, when its reach goes so far beyond mere social media, when companies won't hire people in certain fields if they don't have a facebook account?

I have often found that people who are for net neutrality and a company's right to throw anyone they dislike off their platform have totally incompatible opinions when it comes to closely related issues. For example: most of the people who currently defend the companies' right to shut down conservative-leaning accounts for speech code violations or lies were backing legal sanctions for a small baker who refused to create a custom wedding cake for a gay couple. WTF?

How are these two opinions reconcilable? I'd just love to know what they would say if accounts were being removed for "promoting unsafe sexual practices that endanger public health and safety," you know, like folks expected from a Trump/Pence religious dictatorship.

I totally agree with you on "infrastructure," the question is where you draw the line. I believe we have arrived at a time when hosting, electronic payment processing, and information exchange should all fall under the "infrastructure" classification. What sense does it make to limit it just to the pipe when the other three can be and are being used as choke points? They are utilities at this point and should be treated as such.

And yes, you're right, I'm probably very strange. Peace.

QED

Sometimes the cure can be worse than the disease.

I might be doing you an injustice, but I would bet that

• you defended people standing outside Republicans' private residences, using megaphones to shout slurs into their living rooms (free speech!)
• you are a proponent of net neutrality, preventing infrastructure companies from prioritizing one kind of speech over another (free speech!)
• you would deem an attempt to defund NPR an attack on democracy (free speech!)
• you have found the idea of a neutrality rule to force talk radio and Fox News to provide more balanced reporting attractive (too much free speech!)
• you would fight the same kind of rule for MSNBC etc. (free speech!)

It's called "mostly free"

We all laughed at China banning Winnie the Pooh. Let's see how many good democrats who are concerned for our country's wellbeing defend banning "Mop the Meal!" or "Top the Teal!"

You wouldn't be silenced either if you had your slashdot, facebook,twitter, instagram etc. accounts frozen and your website thrown off the internet. After all you can still stand on the corner and yell at the world. That's what people have been doing for centuries! And you can still write letters to the editor of your town newspaper! They would probably still publish them, unless you had really ticked them off by pushing the wrong message. How could you possibly claim that you've been silenced just because your opponents can still use all the other services? Silencing is not (yet) an all or nothing affair.

Glad that's settled then. I had somehow still thought that there might be people with diverse backgrounds and motivations in a crowd, but now that I've been informed that I was mistaken, I can surely call ALL Minneapolis protestors "looters and arsonists," right?

...who even-handedly and justly use their great download skills to track down and punish all the people who commit violent acts. Wait, they didn't do that for antifa and BLM rioters? Oh well, can't catch them all! At least as long as they catch the pro-Trump rioters they can be certain of adoring coverage from Slate, Wired, buzzfeed and Huffpo. And if a few hundred thousand innocent conservatives get caught in their dragnet, that's just a nice bonus. They were asking for it anyway by using parler.

Their unbiased take was sorely needed!

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