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• On the post: Over 120 Rights And Religious Groups Join ACLU In Call For DOJ To Investigate NYPD's Surveillance Of Muslims

  

  Josef Anvil ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2013 @ 01:45am

  Re: Re:Seriously???

  You try to brush off the IRA analogy because the group wasn't large enough? Ok fair point, it's not a big enough chunk of Christianity.
  
  Try to explain this one away. The KKK
  
  Largest domestic terrorist group ever and in the name of Christ.

• On the post: India Wants Students And Researchers To Have The Right To Photocopy Books

  

  Josef Anvil ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2013 @ 02:53am

  WTF?

  The people are confused. Tech has advanced such that many people can now do things for themselves that previously they would have had to pay for.
  
  People use libraries when it is too time consuming or inefficient to copy a book. Now its easily done. Publishers may whine about the loss of profits, but that's a pricing issue for their business model. The majority of textbooks are just facts. No one wants to hear about copyrights on facts.
  
  What about all of the professional printers that lost business because people can print at home? What about the recording studios that are losing business because people can record at home? What about all the other businesses that have been impacted by home computing?
  
  You adapt your business model or become the next Kodak or buggy whip manufacturer.

• On the post: Facebook Re-Opens The Door To Videos Featuring Beheadings; Breasts? Not So Much

  

  Josef Anvil ( profile ), 23 Oct, 2013 @ 09:33am

  Re: Re: DAMN!!!!!

  LOL
  
  Someone got a common sense bomb dropped on them.

• On the post: Facebook Re-Opens The Door To Videos Featuring Beheadings; Breasts? Not So Much

  

  Josef Anvil ( profile ), 23 Oct, 2013 @ 09:00am

  Re: Re: Oh, the moral outrage

  WTF????
  
  Someone needs to drop a common sense bomb on all these "save the poor children online" types.
  
  HELLO???? McFLY????
  
  If these children are old enough to be unsupervised on the net, then why do they not know that murder is wrong, or beheading is wrong, or rape is wrong (oh wait... Steubenville).

• On the post: Facebook Re-Opens The Door To Videos Featuring Beheadings; Breasts? Not So Much

  

  Josef Anvil ( profile ), 23 Oct, 2013 @ 08:56am

  Re: Re: Re: Oh, the moral outrage

  Actually the response was so incredibly stupid that there was no need to correct the pronoun.
  
  Using my or your mom in the example didn't add any logic to your argument.
  
  
  Just for laughs I should add... Once you begin viewing content, it is not TOO LATE to decide if you like it or not.

• On the post: Facebook Re-Opens The Door To Videos Featuring Beheadings; Breasts? Not So Much

  

  Josef Anvil ( profile ), 23 Oct, 2013 @ 03:09am

  Oh, the moral outrage

  My devices have off switches. If I don't like what I'm looking at or listening to, then I have the option to NOT consume.
  
  I've seen exactly one beheading online. I watched it, found it distasteful and never looked for one again. I've never encountered one on Facebook, nor looked for one there. If I ever do get a beheading in my feed, I know how to delete it.
  
  Limiting a person's options does not change the nature of a person. People who like to watch horrible things will still continue to do so.

• On the post: Lobbyists Looking To Call Themselves Something Else: Here Are A Few Suggestions

  

  Josef Anvil ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2013 @ 03:23am

  Bribetards

• On the post: Europe's Largest Internet Exchange Decides To Open US Office, Risks Making Itself Subject To NSA Demands

  

  Josef Anvil ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2013 @ 12:02am

  Not a big deal

  It may be time to ease off the NSA and turn the camera lens elsewhere. Yes the NSA got caught.
  
  Now the whole world is pointing at the US for spying on its citizens. The USA is not alone in that activity, it's just public information now.
  
  You can be assured that most of the governments in the EU are snooping through their citizens' data as well.

• On the post: Large Coalition Of Tech Companies And Advocacy Groups Demand Greater Transparency About NSA Surveillance

  

  Josef Anvil ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2013 @ 02:42am

  Where are the trolls???

  Whenever there is an article about surveillance, the trolls usually say...
  
  If you've done nothing wrong then you have nothing to hide.

• On the post: Another Court Won't Block Dish's AutoHopper; TV Networks Plan To Shoot Selves In Foot In Response

  

  Josef Anvil ( profile ), 19 Sep, 2013 @ 11:39am

  Tech doesn't care

  No matter how much influence a company has and no matter how much an industry tries to fight, tech moves forward.
  
  It does not care about protecting your business model. We moved to gasoline powered cars, we switched to email, we moved to mobile devices, we share content on the net, we will copy in 3D.
  
  Adapt or die. Ask the good people at Kodak that thought film would never go away. Think TV won't move to a net based model???? Dream on.

• On the post: RIAA Whines To Congress That It Doesn't Like Google's Search Results

  

  Josef Anvil ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2013 @ 10:23am

  Dear MPAA/RIAA...

  IF Google changed the algo so that whenever ANY search for the pirate bay turned up ALL of the MPAA/RIAA sites first, here is what would happen.
  
  The user would search through the results til they found the link for the pirate bay, then they would bookmark it or remember the page it showed up in the results.
  
  Net effect on piracy? 0

• On the post: Shield Law Moves Forward, Defines Journalism So That It Leaves Out Wikileaks & Random Bloggers

  

  Josef Anvil ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2013 @ 01:25pm

  Merriam-Webster doesn't make the law

  Congress makes the laws, so they should leave the definitions to the people that make dictionaries.
  
  journalist
  1
  a : a person engaged in journalism; especially : a writer or editor for a news medium
  b : a writer who aims at a mass audience
  2
  : a person who keeps a journal
  
  Seems easy enough. Those are the people that the shield law should protect.

• On the post: Another Teen's Facebook 'Threat' Results In Criminal Charges Being Filed

  

  Josef Anvil ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2013 @ 12:11pm

  Ummmm

  If your Call of Duty CV can be taken as a threat, then we have a generation of Super Sniper Badass Seal Uber Agents out there ready to strike.
  
  Online.

• On the post: Canada's Copyright Board Shuts Down Industry's Request For 'You Must Be A Criminal Tax' On MicroSD Cards

  

  Josef Anvil ( profile ), 05 Sep, 2013 @ 04:56am

  Wrong Target

  Stop complaining about pirates. Things will even out once we get rid of the leeches in the industry.
  
  Pirates do not steal, they infringe. Leeches are directly taking real money they haven't earned.

• On the post: Desperate To Sew Up TPP Negotiations At Any Cost, Politicians Agree All Future Meetings Will Be Completely Secret

  

  Josef Anvil ( profile ), 04 Sep, 2013 @ 12:14am

  Who says politicians don't learn from the internet???

  TPP negotiation routes around transparency.

• On the post: MLK Jr.'s Sons Celebrate 50th Anniversary Of 'I Have A Dream' By Suing His Daughter

  

  Josef Anvil ( profile ), 03 Sep, 2013 @ 11:20am

  Don't forget Bob Jones

  http://vimeo.com/53743428#at=0

• On the post: MP Keith Vaz: If Anti-Terrorist Law Is Going To Be Abused To Detain Non-Terrorists, We Should At Least Be Upfront About It

  

  Josef Anvil ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2013 @ 12:39am

  Please Please Please

  "...there appeared to be little evidence that he was involved in terrorism."
  
  I would just LOVE to see what the little evidence of terrorism is. Show us so we can finally see what it looks like.

• On the post: Journalist For Time Magazine Announces His Eagerness To Defend US Drone Strike Killing Julian Assange

  

  Josef Anvil ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2013 @ 07:30am

  And now you know...

  This is a perfect example of why the government is in favor of supporting "professional" journalists and not lowly bloggers.

• On the post: Yet Another Newspaper Paywall Goes Bust: SF Chronicle Gives Up After Just Four Months

  

  Josef Anvil ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2013 @ 03:59am

  Re: Where all the freeloaders are

  I love when people talk about all the freeloaders online.
  
  It's as if online is some magical place where there is an entirely different population of humans.

• On the post: UK Prime Minister Calls ask.fm A 'Vile Site,' Blames It For The Behavior Of Some Vile Users

  

  Josef Anvil ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2013 @ 08:37am

  Help has arrived!!!!

  "Even a behemoth like Facebook is unable to control every instance of offensive behavior that occurs under its purview".
  
  So the NSA has a monitoring program to assist with that on a global scale.

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