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Comment Re:Argh... this so called political correctness... (Score 1) 570

Your response seems to put you in the camp of Culture Warrior.

So, here's the things. No one cares what you think about it. This is about corporations (and other organizations) avoiding bad press. It has nothing to do with stamping out human rights abuses, so stop thinking that this has anything to do with doing that, or virtue signaling or anything else. This is about appeasing customers. Some customers are uncomfortable with the term, so companies stop using it. Frame it however you like, but it is a business decision, and outrage over it is as stupid as thinking that changing words makes it go away.

Get over the notion that it is any sort of response to actual human suffering. There are people doing that, and they aren't tech companies.

Comment Re:Hard to believe (Score 4, Interesting) 231

My kids are going to use iMessage because their friends all use iMessage, because the school requires iPads. I could install something else, but they won't use it because all their other communication is in this other app. So I can either spend my time complaining that they never see texts, or I can get an iMessage enabled device.

Note the quote: "My kids are not going to use WhatsApp/Signal/Telegram because their friends all have iPads and they use iMessage." from my original reply.

Comment Re:BAKE THE FUCKING CAKE, H8S!!! (Score 1) 631

Because context matters. There is a difference between baking a cake and supporting insurrectionists, and treating them as equivalent is incorrect.

Also, the baker refused to decorate the cake on the premise that it violated their religious freedom. Refusing to host a platform based on a violation of terms of service is arguing apples and volkswagons. It's inconsistent because it isn't even remotely the same thing.

Read a book.

Comment Re:He's in the right on this one (Score 1) 206

And that's where you are wrong.

Censorship is the act of suppressing media deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.

We, as a society, censor child porn. And drawing of child porn. And pretty much anything related to child porn. And it's the right thing to do. We censor it by making it illegal to produce or own. And (for the record) that is an agreed upon violation of the first amendment because it is the state that is censoring, not a private organization that can refuse whatever it wants to on its private servers.

There is no conflation here. It is what it is. The suppression of information deemed objectionable. You just don't like that is what it is.

Comment Re:He's in the right on this one (Score 0, Flamebait) 206

Bullshit.

Child porn. That's going to be censored, with everybody shaking their heads and saying, "Just think of the children..."
Nudity. Regular porn. "...just think of the children..."
Nipples from breastfeeding women on Facebook. That was a thing that Zuckerberg thought deserved censorship.

Facebook (and the whole of western society) is all over censorship as long as it is stuff with which they don't agree.

"The only acceptable form of censorship is none..."

Go ahead and advocate for child porn if that is what you believe. I'll watch you get torn apart from the cheap seats.

Comment Re:Look at both sides (Score 5, Insightful) 289

This all comes down as a cascading failure of responsibility and empathy.

Our federal government is mostly non-functional. Homeland Security is literally hijacking shipments of protective equipment that states have ordered. Trump alternates between grandiose proclamations and shirking responsibility. Money that is meant to find it's way to those most in need is not getting there, and what does make it is late, too little, or hijacked in some way to go to those who are not in as much need.

So, our federal government is not providing comfort to its citizens and passing the responsibility off to the state governments, which cannot run their budgets at a deficit by law and therefore borrow (as the federal government does) to provide the citizens with what they need, but still has the responsibility to do their best to provide a safe environment for those citizen -- this means lockdowns and distancing so that hospitals and what resources they have are not overwhelmed.

Citizens, receiving little help, worry about themselves first and say stupid things like "if I get sick, it's my problem" when, in fact, getting sick from a contagious disease that infects 5.7 more people is everybody's problem. So, they, having received no empathy have no empathy.

We (U.S. citizens) live in a failed state that started 40 years ago with the Milton Friedman declaring that it was the moral obligation of corporations to produce profit, and the right wing of the country deciding that such a statement held the weight of religious proclamation.

Comment Re:Mental illness is nothing to be joking about (Score 2) 165

Prove God. You're the one with the position that has the nullable hypothesis. I don't have to, because you can't prove that something doesn't exist. Therefore, you have the burden of proof.

So, go ahead. Excerpt you won't. You'll play with words, you'll dance around the concept. You'll do everything but the one thing that is being asked. Prove your fairy tale is real.

Do that, under controlled conditions, and you'll have the basis of something. Until then you are making wishes to your imaginary friend.

Here's the deal with science. It is the best explanation for the observable evidence. That's it. Give a reproducible experiment that shows otherwise, and scientists with move heaven and earth (metaphorically) looking for the answer, and invalidate previous theories if they no longer are the best fit. That's not denying science.

All the idiots (that would be you and your like) and your faith and your fictions pretending to be anything more than frightened children hiding from the reality of their own death are just sad. Nothing more than a waste of potential.

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