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Comment Re: Looks like he's about to get sued! (Score 2) 377

If you are talking about the freedom to be an asshole online with no consequences, well, that's not actually a right.

Actually, it is a right. It's called freedom of expression, even reprehensible and vile expression. Back when the ACLU was an honorable organization they used to defend freedom of speech even when it was offensive and repugnant.

Comment Here we go again ... liberals (Score 0) 51

If nothing else, you can count on a liberal showing up on the scene of any unfortunate event and hand wringing about how the blame for a person's actions lie at the feet of another. If someone finds inaccurate information and makes bad decisions based on that information, the poor decisions are the fault of the idiot making the poor decisions. Nobody else.

Comment Re:Buyer beware? (Score 1) 123

Get "caught" doing what? There is nothing ethically or morally wrong with charging more to people willing to pay more. You don't complain where the guy next to you on your flight paid more for his ticket, do you? Do you bitch if the people in the hotel room next door paid more for their room? How is this different?

Comment Re:What a sad joke (Score 1) 101

The likes of Cloudflare and Google are the only games in town right now

You're an idiot. There are multiple providers of encrypted DNS, including OpenNIC and DNSCrypt-proxy (which allows chaining DNS servers so even the DNS server doesn't know who made the request). Mozilla doesn't want to use those because they're building the framework for enabling them and Cloudfare to block access to domains that allow "wrongthink" on the Internet.

Comment Re:.Onion promotion (Score 2, Informative) 101

If you are interested in privacy from Cloudflare

Cloudfare's CEO has twice "removed sites from the Internet" on a personal lark. I wouldn't even trust Cloudfare with something as benign as the local path to my Firefox installation. Now you're telling me I should trust Cloudfare to promote my sensitive traffic to TOR? Ahahahahahahahahahahaha

Comment I love the market... (Score 1) 101

You know why? Because it cuts right through the crap. Yeah, you can whine about the dangers or this or that business model, but the market forces you to put your money where your mouth is. Pier 1 wants us to believe these online behemoths are an existential threat, but yet what did Pier 1 do to repel the threat? Nothing meaningful, which reveals just how much of a threat they really thought it was.

Comment Re:disruption fetish (Score 1) 265

But all of these guys (people) who "Want A Revolution!" Think?? No, let's go, everyone against the wall because I, *I* know best!

See if you even get one of them to name a single revolution in human history that yielded a lasting government better than the one it replaced.

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