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• On the post: Sure, There’s Disinfo On ExTwitter, But The EU Should Not Be Demanding Censorship

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2023 @ 08:57pm

  Wrong Paul. Try again.

• On the post: Sure, There’s Disinfo On ExTwitter, But The EU Should Not Be Demanding Censorship

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2023 @ 08:55pm

  “Lawfare” isn’t a thing. It’s a buzzword some people made up that gets used to reference a bunch of things with virtually nothing in common except that the speaker doesn’t like it. Since lawfare isn’t a thing, neither is genocidal lawfare.

• On the post: Sure, There’s Disinfo On ExTwitter, But The EU Should Not Be Demanding Censorship

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2023 @ 08:54pm

  I’m sorry, but when people start making up words, I can’t always figure out what they’re talking about. And as for the legislation mentioned, I have repeatedly and consistently spoken out against that. It just has nothing to do with this discussion.

• On the post: Sure, There’s Disinfo On ExTwitter, But The EU Should Not Be Demanding Censorship

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2023 @ 08:52pm

  That’s not genocidal lawfare simply because that’s a nonce term with no meaning. Lawfare isn’t a word. And, as I said, none of that is relevant to this discussion, so my point stands.

• On the post: Sure, There’s Disinfo On ExTwitter, But The EU Should Not Be Demanding Censorship

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2023 @ 08:50pm

  It has nothing to do with the topic at hand, reality or not.

• On the post: Sure, There’s Disinfo On ExTwitter, But The EU Should Not Be Demanding Censorship

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2023 @ 08:48pm

  Learn the difference between regulate and dictate.

• On the post: Sure, There’s Disinfo On ExTwitter, But The EU Should Not Be Demanding Censorship

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2023 @ 08:44pm

  But due to how it came forth and what it’s being used for, it’s not the kind of “censorship” that people talk about to scare people away from taking action on issues like this, or scaring people away from empowering their governments to take action.

  You don’t know America at all, do you? There is no difference.

  Europe’s nations have had decades of practice with empowering governments to tackle hate speech and inciteful falsehoods.

  Which has led directly to those laws being abused, as Mike has pointed out. Forgive me for not wanting to follow your example on this.

  Let functional democracies and the laws that they pass do their jobs while we flail about trying to get the House to become functional again before the government shuts down.

  Yeah, no.

• On the post: Sure, There’s Disinfo On ExTwitter, But The EU Should Not Be Demanding Censorship

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2023 @ 08:37pm

  Again, be specific.

• On the post: A Gentle Reminder That Censoring Books Is Never A ‘Reasonable’ Solution

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2023 @ 08:31pm

  I don’t, especially not for young children.

• On the post: A Gentle Reminder That Censoring Books Is Never A ‘Reasonable’ Solution

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2023 @ 08:30pm

  For what reason?

• On the post: A Gentle Reminder That Censoring Books Is Never A ‘Reasonable’ Solution

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2023 @ 08:26pm

  We’re not talking about librarians or schools making such a decision; we’re talking about state governments. Also, have you been to a school library? There are tons of romance novels there.

• On the post: A Gentle Reminder That Censoring Books Is Never A ‘Reasonable’ Solution

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2023 @ 08:23pm

  This is funny, cux the lot of you insisted that censorship on Twitter wasn’t “censorship” cuz you could say that shit somewhere else.

  And because the government wasn’t imposing it.

  The library (government) is just refusing to distribute your porn.

  The library isn’t refusing to do so. The government is refusing to allow the library to do so. And the government is bound by the first amendment, which says that they can’t discriminate speech based on content, which this absolutely is. And that is absolutely a ban.

  You seem awfully hung up on whether “X” is porn, but the thing is, it doesn’t matter, what matters is that the majority of people don’t want it to be in the library.

  It’s not the majority of people, but either way, that doesn’t matter. The government cannot discriminate based on content, with obscenity being the only real, relevant exception there. If it’s not porn, it necessarily isn’t obscene.

• On the post: Denmark Trying To Brainwash Schoolchildren With The Tired Old Lie That Copying Is Theft

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2023 @ 08:09pm

  So, what you’re saying it that people don’t own their own work.

  That is not what they said. They said that copying a work is not theft because no one is deprived of the copy or the original as a result.

• On the post: Elon Musk Seems Really, Deeply Committed To Making Sure The FTC Has More To Investigate

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2023 @ 11:13pm

  If you don’t like Mike’s articles about Musk, don’t read them. It’s not like you can’t figure out the topic and author of each article without actually clicking to read any of it. If all you’re here for is KB’s stuff, the solution is simple: only read stuff with KB’s name in the byline. That you expect a tech-focused news blog to not comment on Elon Musk’s handling of ExTwitter is just absurd. Oh, and as for this:

  a company he now hates because its chief censor was fired

  You clearly haven’t been paying attention. He doesn’t hate Twitter now; he just thinks the leadership is incompetent, and the platform is less functional for his own purposes for a social media site. That’s not hate. And that position dates back to before the “chief censor” was fired, it was never the only reason for the problems, and if it was only that one guy who got fired, that wouldn’t have even been that big of a problem.

• On the post: Judge Is Rightly Skeptical That Montana Can Just Ban TikTok

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2023 @ 11:04pm

  Personally? If and when I respond to them, it’s because I have fun doing so, so I’m not exactly getting upset about it. Case in point: This guy says that China is causing TikTok to promote “transgenderism” to the outside world. That’s just so absurdly stupid it’s hilarious!

• On the post: A Gentle Reminder That Censoring Books Is Never A ‘Reasonable’ Solution

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2023 @ 05:54pm

  Yeah, I sense the indignance is only because of the content.

  Considering I genuinely don’t care about the content except to note that it’s not actually porn or the library also serves adults or older teens, and I’d be okay with things like Mein Kampf or other racist or far right content being even in elementary school libraries, I think you’re full of it.

  Can I solicit everyone’s support to stop banning Uncle Remus books and Dr. Seuss’s McElligot’s Pool? How about some Huckleberry Finn?

  I’m not aware of anyone banning those in the first place. I’m aware that some publishers/authors’ estates have decided not to publish at least some of those, but that’s not a ban. A refusal to publish additional copies of a given book is not a book ban if the government is not involved. That’s just discretion on the part of the publishers/estates. I’m never happy when someone stops publishing a book, but it was bound to happen someday, and it’s ultimately their decision, not mine. If you’re blaming people pressuring these companies to do so, a) I have seen no evidence that that is even the case, and b) that’s their right under the 1st Amendment. Either way, though, it’s still not a book ban. If you have evidence that the government is banning (or attempting to ban) these books, please present it. If that is the case, I will happily support efforts to stop those bans to the extent I am able. Otherwise, there’s nothing relevant for me to support ending here.

  The left is about nothing but book bans and censorship and are now angry they’re being stopped from sexually grooming children.

  The left isn’t trying to groom children. That is a myth, and propagating this myth is doing a massive disservice to victims of actual grooming.

• On the post: A Gentle Reminder That Censoring Books Is Never A ‘Reasonable’ Solution

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2023 @ 05:30pm

  Banning a book from public libraries is censorship. It’s the government imposing the restriction, and the presumption is that public libraries don’t refuse to stock texts if they receive them. Also, I’m pretty sure that Gender Queer isn’t porn, and I don’t see why it should be removed from high schools.

• On the post: A Gentle Reminder That Censoring Books Is Never A ‘Reasonable’ Solution

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2023 @ 05:27pm

  Not requiring a given text to be read is not censorship. The point is that no one is doing the thing the censorship is supposedly trying to prevent, so the alleged reasons given make no sense.

• On the post: A Gentle Reminder That Censoring Books Is Never A ‘Reasonable’ Solution

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2023 @ 05:24pm

  He wasn’t. Gender Queer isn’t even porn, from what I can tell. Stephen was talking about simply being gay or trans, not sex or nudity. Note that being gay includes just having a romantic relationship with someone of the same sex even if no sex actually occurs, or just two guys kissing. That’s not porn. He also said this:

  Nobody with any sense of reason wants children exposed to hardcore pornography.

  In other words, he’s not trying to show porn to children at all. Quite the opposite.

• On the post: Not In Kansas Anymore? Police Chief Suspended Following Raid Of Small Town Newspaper

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 11 Oct, 2023 @ 05:17pm

  A claim cannot be evidence for itself.

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