This Week In Techdirt History: December 10th – 16th
from the that-was-that dept
Five Years Ago
This week in 2018, the Australian government passed a law forcing tech companies to break encryption, Hollywood and record labels were quietly asking congress to bring back SOPA, and the UK intelligence community said it was moving on from bulk data collection in favor of bulk equipment interference. The latest EU copyright proposal was not only bad, but impossible, and while legacy copyright industries were lobbying hard for it, it still wasn’t enough for some and no agreement was reached, but it was about to be upstaged anyway by even worse regulations on terrorist content.
Ten Years Ago
This week in 2013, the newest Snowden leak revealed that the NSA and GCHQ infiltrated World Of Warcraft and Second Life, while most big internet companies started speaking out for major surveillance reform, and Keith Alexander told senators that he couldn’t think of any way to keep the US safe other than bulk metadata collections. Meanwhile, the latest TPP leak revealed that the US was isolated in its desire to push through corporate exceptionalism, and was indeed the sole party pushing for a lot of bad demands, while the USTR was defending secrecy around the negotiations on the basis that the public is too stupid to understand.
Fifteen Years Ago
This week in 2008, we looked at how geographic restrictions were harming online video sites, at the increasingly blurry lines between personal and commercial use of material, and at the many reasons that a music tax is a bad idea. The UK culture secretary was pushing for copyright extension, Universal was continuing its war on Redbox DVD rentals, Australian ISPs were refusing to censor the internet, and a New Zealand hairdresser got a bill for playing music in her shop. We also saw a patent lawsuit so completely bogus that the judge ordered sanctions and attorney’s fees paid.
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Oh look – another 15 year stretch in which TechDirt wasn’t debasing itself and insulting its readers by pushing pro-transvestite propaganda…🙄
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Fuck off, troll. Your hatred isn’t welcome.
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Why such hatred and bile in your heart, friend? Are you a tranny fucker?
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If you want to get laid that badly, why don’t you just visit your local bar?
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That was because you were not here pushing your bigotry onto everyone, and it will become a non topic again when you leave.
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What’s bigoted about opposing pro-transvestite propaganda?
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Irrational, unfounded hatred and fear-mongering based on stereotypes and prejudice and even calling the perspective that society should be accepting of non-violent, non-abusive identities “propaganda” is textbook bigotry.
Any more questions?
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There’s nothing unfounded or irrational about condemning transvestite activism and those who benefit from it. Trannies are degenerate, misogynistic kid groomers.
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In my experience, people who are so preoccupied with boogeymen are rationalizing or avoiding something in their own lives. I hope you get help for whatever issues you’re dealing with. You also might benefit from decoupling from whichever echo chamber culture war firehose you’re drinking from.
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There’s that unfounded irrationality…
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Such hatred for people you do not know, and based on an excuse for that hatred, rather than what is actually happening. All you are exhibiting here is that you cannot stand people who are different from you, which is irrational.
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Quick question, dickhead: What’s wrong with anyone wearing any kind of clothing?
I mean, other than how you’ve gendered inanimate objects to the point where you believe a certain piece of cloth can only be worn by women and any man deigning to wear that cloth should receive a punishment up to and including death, that is.