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  Anathema Device ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2023 @ 11:51pm

  "Any government that doesn’t allow the consumption of marijuana needs to be roundly criticized as anti-progressive." Have you met the Singaporean government? A democracy only in name? The country still has the death penalty for drug dealers. While I think our Singaporean resident has plenty of ways to obfuscate his presence here besides anonymity and no user name, Singapore's government is very scary and regressive. Not that America has any reason to be smug, given your current crop of GOP loonies so close to taking power again.

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  Anathema Device ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2023 @ 09:38pm

  Fox doesn’t rely on Fox news or advertising. The real money is in cable contracts. I assume they know this will kill off what’s left of their small competitors, so they can charge whatever they like for their “news” and sports products.

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  Anathema Device ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2023 @ 09:34pm

  “but will never cite who they are” You really think that any copyright holder would identify themselves under their pro or real names just get more harassment from the likes of you? Let alone a female creator like me, so that the house trolls here can makes their real life hell? What a stupid and irrelevant comment to make. Do you imagine a billion dollar industry like Romance books is driven by nobody getting paid royalties? I got my latest monthly sales payment today. Granted it was in the tens rather than hundreds of dollars, but i’m now self-published after a lot of being ripped off by pro publishers, and haven’t written a book in nearly ten years. Still, it’s USD income that I can use to drop a donation or two to news sites, donate to friends in need, and pay for other things without conversion fees. A thousand USD a year is better than zero USD, and i did the damn work to earn it.

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  Anathema Device ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2023 @ 05:44pm

  Oops, read the comment incorrectly. Consider the horseshit retracted 😄

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  Anathema Device ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2023 @ 04:20pm

  It’s an extra barrier which, since they’re and stupid, might slow them down.

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  Anathema Device ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2023 @ 04:17pm

  Horseshit

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  Anathema Device ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2023 @ 03:00pm

  Noindex is your friend

  If you don't want search sites listing your site, there's a free and simple way to effect that. Without search engines Murdoch's garbage and a lot of other worthless sites would be nowhere at all. This is nonsense legislation which will backfire spectacularly. Can't wait to see it.

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  Anathema Device ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2023 @ 02:57pm

  Serious question - is there a reason you ACs can't get a throwaway email account and sign in like anyone else? If Mike wanted to track you, he has access to your IP information. Using an email you use nowhere else gives him nothing except the ability to ban certain immature, potty-mouthed children with an abuse fetish. I appreciate the ability to sign in without a real name. More than that, I don't want or need, and if it cuts down on the stupidity, I'm happy about it. Moderation isn't censorship, as every second post on TD reminds us!

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  Anathema Device ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2023 @ 12:53am

  Here's a link which might help understand my expression.

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  Anathema Device ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2023 @ 11:01pm

  Everytime you call someone a moron, a mouthbreather, or stupid, we know it's all projection from a scared, not very bright, angry little child. You don't impress anyone by telling, kid. You have to show them. All you're showing us with remarks like that is that you're an ableist bigot. If you want to sit at the big table, you have pull on your big boy pants and behave like a grown up. Planning to start anytime soon?

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  Anathema Device ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2023 @ 10:59pm

  Why don't you post a source if the rightwing Politico isn't pure enough for you? Why don't you explain what it says instead of forcing us to work for free? Or has your mother cut off your internet access again?

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  Anathema Device ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2023 @ 10:47pm

  Earlier this month, DeSantis held a roundtable with a collection of right-wing personalities and attorneys who he said were media libel law experts. The main takeaway from the roundtable, which foreshadowed forthcoming legislation, was that DeSantis believes some journalists make things up. “The idea that they would create narratives that are contrary to discovering facts, I don’t know that was the standard,” DeSantis said during the roundtable. “Now it seems you pursue the narrative, you’re trying to advance the narrative and trying to get the clicks, and the fact-checking and contrary facts have just fallen by the wayside.” Andrade’s proposal incorporates many of the elements DeSantis called for during the roundtable, including: — allowing plaintiffs who sue media outlets for defamation to collect attorneys fees; — adding a provision to state law specifying that comments made by anonymous sources are presumed false for the purposes of defamation lawsuits; — lowering the legal threshold for a “public figure” to successfully sue for defamation; — repealing the “journalist’s privilege” section of state law, which protects journalists from being compelled to do things like reveal the identity of sources in court, for defamation lawsuits.

  Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/23/florida-gop-desantis-proposal-sue-media-00084023 Seems like you're the one who doesn't understand the proposed law.

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  Anathema Device ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2023 @ 10:39pm

  "the massive amounts of engagement Matt brings to the site" How does that make Mike any money since there is no advertising. As for me, Matthew is a positive deterrent to engaging with this site.

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  Anathema Device ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2023 @ 10:39pm

  "only to be told that it’s not my job to complain about trolls" I want to make it clear that Mike didn't say this. It was another commenter here.

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  Anathema Device ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2023 @ 09:30pm

  that too :)

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  Anathema Device ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2023 @ 08:10pm

  Proper data is important, especially in an information-averse reality such as the one baby MMB lives in.

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  Anathema Device ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2023 @ 06:41pm

  I've made the same plea a few times, only to be told that it's not my job to complain about trolls sucking up all the oxygen. I mean, the little arsehole uses gendered, homophobic and transphobic slurs with abandon, repeatedly, even today and in the same thread told different commenters to 'get fucked', and isn't even creative with his abuse, for all his self-vaunted and little evidenced intelligence. On any other blog or forum, he'd have been permabanned in a week or less. But Mike's commitment to free speech apparently outweighs the feelings and rights of his female, gay, trans, and minority commenters here. I mean, we could go elsewhere to avoid Pottymouth Matthew, but why should a dozen of us go, when one troll could just be removed? I agree with your comment, but nothing will change until Matthews grows old (which will take another 60 years) or Mike gives up on the blog, which will take less time.

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  Anathema Device ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2023 @ 06:35pm

  Your limitations of experience and imagination aren't my problem, little boy. Why don't you piss off and play on the freeway? At least as roadkill, you might feed a hungry wild animal, which will be more use than you can possibly be to anyone or anything else at the moment.

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  Anathema Device ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2023 @ 06:33pm

  "Democrats are firmly right-center" Not all of them. There's a solid progressive minority which is growing with every election, and they've been pushing Biden leftwards, which is good. The Democrats are now on the left of our conservatives here in Australia, in that they recognise climate change is real, trans people are human beings with rights, and they support gay marriage and abortion rights. You really don't make progress by shitting on the people who are on your side :(

• On the post: Italy Decides That Leonardo da Vinci’s 500 Year Old Works Are Not In The Public Domain

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2023 @ 06:29pm

  1. Which cowardly arsehole are you? Do you think I feel like answering every twit who pops up without bothering to sign in?
  2. If you want to do the work this time and look up the letter of Italian law, you go right ahead. You buggers are way too lazy to be bothered attempting to educate.
  3. It's not a stupid decision under Italian law. It's a stupid decision under the Berne agreement. I suggest you do the legwork and tell us all how this time.

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