To me, this level of misunderstanding is worse than the whole "series of tubes" garbage from a few years back by Senator Stevens.
I'm not disagreeing, but I'm curious how this is worse than Ted Stevens?
I think Stevens displayed an even thinner grasp of understanding of the internet than Gohmert is doing, currently. I think Gohmert seems to understand how computers work, but is just showing a limited amount of thought into the issue (or a limited ability to reason out his own argument).
Stevens' display of understanding was terrible, and I don't see how this is worse (bad as it is). So my question is whether I'm missing something, myself.
"You'd think someone running a community paper might realize how problematic a call for censorship of unpleasant speech might be."
EXACTLY. We should submit an op-ed to the paper that calls for censorship of his type of calls for censorship. Really drive the point home of how absurd the idea is, and do it in a way that couldn't be too far over his head.
Unless this was an Onion article I just took seriously. Because, c'mon, is this really a thing that happens in America, or did I just fall for satire?
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How is this worse than "Series of Tubes" Stevens?
I'm not disagreeing, but I'm curious how this is worse than Ted Stevens?
I think Stevens displayed an even thinner grasp of understanding of the internet than Gohmert is doing, currently. I think Gohmert seems to understand how computers work, but is just showing a limited amount of thought into the issue (or a limited ability to reason out his own argument).
Stevens' display of understanding was terrible, and I don't see how this is worse (bad as it is). So my question is whether I'm missing something, myself.
Let's censor calls for censorship!
EXACTLY. We should submit an op-ed to the paper that calls for censorship of his type of calls for censorship. Really drive the point home of how absurd the idea is, and do it in a way that couldn't be too far over his head.
Unless this was an Onion article I just took seriously. Because, c'mon, is this really a thing that happens in America, or did I just fall for satire?