I'd prefer to take out terrorists by putting them in front of a court of law.
This whole 'summary killing' makes my gut roil because it is the same shit that the police got in trouble for back in the 1960's with black men accused of crimes.
Hit the nail on the head with the 'discretion causes problems'.
Personally, I feel that journalists should publish ALL papers they get with NO redaction on them. Redaction just allows people who were involved in various criminal or 'damaging to the image of our country' actions to get off scott-free.
Problem is that those Supreme Court decisions can be overturned by a later Supreme Court, something that many people forget and dismiss because it has been done so few times in the past.
Bullshit. If my 6 year old second cousin knows the difference between those three things (we enrolled her in a computer literacy class at the local public library), then damned sure adults should know what the difference is between them when they are specialists in that field.
This was not an 'accident'. This was a motivated attempt at silencing free speech on the internet and demonstrates why ANY censorship laws against ANYTHING (even something so controversial as child pornography) are bad because they can be and are abused.
I don't understand why those politicians were not arrested for treason for daring to use that argument. It would be like me calling for the assassination of the President or the repeal of the Constitution.
Well, the fact is that licensing should be BLANKET licensing to release things in any country where that thing is legal.
None of this "License for the U.S.", "License for Australia", and "License for South Africa" bullplop. That is just an attempt at copyright owners trying to make their stuff appear more 'valuable' by making companies/people pay multiple times for content.
Actually, censorship is NEVER justified. 99% of the time when someone is talking about 'censoring' something, they are actually hoping to push it 'underground' so that it won't come out, become popular, and become normalized.
They tried it with interracial marriages, they tried it with homosexuality, hell.... they even tried it with heterosexuality outside of 'marriage' (a purely human invention).
Bottom line is that we should not allow any censorship and tell people "You don't like X? Fine, you don't have to do it, but leave the people alone who want to do it unless they are physically forcing someone else into something against their will!"
Sounds to me like you were right at the beginning of the last paragraph: they have no idea what their privacy policy should be.
Until these websites stop banning people for things like "comments harmful to minors" (Newsvine) and speaking out against societies viewpoint on some subjects (especially sexual viewpoints) I'm not going to use my real name nor a permanent e-mail address.
We need to have the First Amendment/the right to free speech (which is supposed to protect free speech even when it isn't government trying to clamp down on that) mean something online before I would support this.
No, bottom line you should not have to pay extra. It's time for the FTC and FCC to get involved here and tell these companies "QoS is okay...... caps are not and never will be!"
Joey, the point is that they SHOULD be the same as phone data. There is no reason (outside of misleading customers) to have those two things separated and charged for differently.
I'm fine with QoS.... but restrictions like these, when they are artificial restrictions, I am damned well not and I think that these companies should be rapped on the hand with a 2 ton stone hammer.
Guess again. Attorney Generals are more than willing to intervene in cases because they do not have to worry about being reelected. In most places, they are appointed (if I am remembering correctly).
Doesn't matter if it is or not. Bottom line is that if the devices are not illegal, the Olympics do NOT (even if it is private property) have the right to keep people from using legal devices.
It would be like saying that someone has to use an iPhone when their Android phone is just as good and works just as well.
Government needs to be told that they cannot wiretap people (or scan all people's calls) without a warrant pointing to a specific phone or a specific person.
One or the other. "Eschelon" or whatever they are now calling it needs to be killed, it's just a way to harass people who dare to speak out against government policies.
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This whole 'summary killing' makes my gut roil because it is the same shit that the police got in trouble for back in the 1960's with black men accused of crimes.
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I don't understand why that is so hard for people to fathom.
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Personally, I feel that journalists should publish ALL papers they get with NO redaction on them. Redaction just allows people who were involved in various criminal or 'damaging to the image of our country' actions to get off scott-free.
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This was not an 'accident'. This was a motivated attempt at silencing free speech on the internet and demonstrates why ANY censorship laws against ANYTHING (even something so controversial as child pornography) are bad because they can be and are abused.
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They really should do that in cases like this where the policy is very clear.
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None of this "License for the U.S.", "License for Australia", and "License for South Africa" bullplop. That is just an attempt at copyright owners trying to make their stuff appear more 'valuable' by making companies/people pay multiple times for content.
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They tried it with interracial marriages, they tried it with homosexuality, hell.... they even tried it with heterosexuality outside of 'marriage' (a purely human invention).
Bottom line is that we should not allow any censorship and tell people "You don't like X? Fine, you don't have to do it, but leave the people alone who want to do it unless they are physically forcing someone else into something against their will!"
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Until these websites stop banning people for things like "comments harmful to minors" (Newsvine) and speaking out against societies viewpoint on some subjects (especially sexual viewpoints) I'm not going to use my real name nor a permanent e-mail address.
We need to have the First Amendment/the right to free speech (which is supposed to protect free speech even when it isn't government trying to clamp down on that) mean something online before I would support this.
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I am not going to use my real name on Youtube because of that, some of my opinions are very...... controversial to put it mildly.
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I'm fine with QoS.... but restrictions like these, when they are artificial restrictions, I am damned well not and I think that these companies should be rapped on the hand with a 2 ton stone hammer.
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It would be like saying that someone has to use an iPhone when their Android phone is just as good and works just as well.
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If they find a person actively doing MiM attacks, arrest that person. Don't ban everyone from using their wireless devices at the Olympics.
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One or the other. "Eschelon" or whatever they are now calling it needs to be killed, it's just a way to harass people who dare to speak out against government policies.
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