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• On the post: Section 230, Which Donald Trump Wants Repealed, Protects Donald Trump For Retweeting

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 01 May, 2024 @ 05:07pm

  Because they recognize the rights of other people and Koby is only interested in his own rights.

• On the post: Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile Finally Fined $192 Million For Abuse Of User Location Data

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 01 May, 2024 @ 10:22am

  Because quarterly earnings aren't going to continue to infinitely grow forever if they give anything away for free. Also, we're reintroducing pay-per-text just because you complained...

• On the post: European Law Enforcement Officials Declare Encryption Must Be Broken To Ensure Public Safety

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2024 @ 02:11pm

  "If we can't just walk into your house and see if you're breaking the law, we'd have to do real work to find out what crimes you're committing."

• On the post: Court Dismisses Mark Zuckerberg Personally From Massive ‘Social Media Addicts Children’ Lawsuit

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2024 @ 11:43am

  "I'll just believe what I want because I didn't seek out anything that might contradict my pre-existing beliefs."

• On the post: DeSantis Signs Law Limiting Book Challenges After The Shitty People He Encouraged To Be Shitty Proved To Be Even Shittier Than He Thought They’d Be

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2024 @ 01:13pm

  It’s literally, literally, the dictionary definition.

  No, it's literally a dictionary definition. There are multiple dictionaries with different variations on a definition of the word. You chose one. That's a decision you made, so it's relevant to criticize your choice. That you rely on a general definition shows you don't have an academic understanding of how the term is used. Definitions are also not prescriptive, but rather descriptive. It's how the dictionary entry writer chose to describe how the word has been used by some people.

  So take it up with the official “authorized” sources you love so much.

  There's no official "authorized" source for a definition. You also don't know anything about what I love.

  As long as you ignore: Censorship of speech by the government, even the attempt at it, suppression, etc.

  Trump wanted to control the media. He just failed at doing so. He wants to violate the 1st Amendment and open up libel laws so you can sue people for speaking verifiable facts that aren't flattering. You're ignoring his machinations. Most of the "censorship" claims about the Biden Administration is conservatives pretending the government just communicating with a media company is a form of censorship.

  “But our patience is WEARING THIN” and other outright threats to those who don’t fall in line

  Conservatives arguing that they should be free to infect others with a deadly virus isn't the hill I'd recommend dying on. It's not an example of fascism. An actual threat to public safety can warrant restrictions on freedoms. Constitutional rights aren't unlimited. We literally hundreds of years of case law on the topic. Your right to free speech doesn't cover fraud, libel, slander, threats of violence, and some other examples. Fascist governments have used manufactured crises like "The Jews caused us to lose the Great War" to restrict the freedoms and reduce the rights of people.

  The outright persecution of anyone who thinks differently than the “approved” narratives by the left/gov.

  That's just a propaganda take. You're literally on a website expressing how you disagree. Your comment undermines your own argument. Nobody from the government is coming after you for saying stupid things.

  Absolute unequal justice applied to the populace based on race, political affiliation and other “Social” factors (and you can throw “in hiring practices” to boot, a violation of EE laws)

  Ah, yes, the "white people are the most persecuted Americans" racist rant. Totally real. Not a bullshit privileged take for people who need a persecution complex to make it about them.

  ALL coming from the Left and this administration.

  The administration isn't "the Left." You're just repeating bullshit from conservative media propaganda.

  Denial that any of this has and is happening under this administration would prove you are actively subverting the truth to blindly support your ideological position in ignorance of objective reality.

  Your entire rant was very general and uneducated. You didn't actually prove any of your assertions. Just saying "if you disagree, then you're blindly ideological" doesn't actually make it true. The irony is that the accusation is a confession. You're just admitting with your talking points that you consume very biased conservative media and you don't analyze the news for the actual truth. I'm not a democrat. I don't blindly support this administration. I'd have voted for someone other than Biden. I did vote for someone else in the primary. I do disagree with many stances of this government.

  Oh wait, right. Liberal. So the above is a redundant statement.

  I'm not a liberal. Try again.

• On the post: DeSantis Signs Law Limiting Book Challenges After The Shitty People He Encouraged To Be Shitty Proved To Be Even Shittier Than He Thought They’d Be

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2024 @ 11:25am

  Someone else misinterpreting my claim doesn't involve my claim switching. You also don't know what a troll is.

• On the post: DeSantis Signs Law Limiting Book Challenges After The Shitty People He Encouraged To Be Shitty Proved To Be Even Shittier Than He Thought They’d Be

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2024 @ 11:24am

  Inversely, nobody should have to have the reading comprehension of an omniscient deity to know who actually wrote a comment when people write comments that a PHD linguistics expert wouldn't have enough information to differentiate. Most comments can only be distinguished based on patterns of vocabulary usage or chronic misspellings which may not actually come up in every comment a person makes. FYI, most kindergartners in the US don't have reading comprehension skills.

• On the post: Net Neutrality Is Back! For Now.

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2024 @ 11:19am

  No, ISP’s were always Title I until the Obama drive to Title II in 2015

  Sorry, old timer, times change. Laws are reinterpreted to adjust to newer developments. Or would you assert that the 1st Amendment only applies to the use of technologies that existed in 1791?

• On the post: Italian Government Says Carmaker Can’t Make Its “Milano” Vehicle Outside Of Italy

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2024 @ 11:24pm

  Seems a little redundant. You said "lies" three times.

• On the post: Net Neutrality Is Back! For Now.

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2024 @ 07:25pm

  Tell that to the courts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Telecom_Association_v._FCC_(2016)

• On the post: Net Neutrality Is Back! For Now.

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2024 @ 04:57pm

  The FCC doesn't only have regulatory over common carriers. It regulates "telecommunications services" under authority granted by Title II. The D.C. Circuit Court affirmed the authority to regulate net neutrality in 2015.

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  MrWilson ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2024 @ 04:52pm

  Reading your comments on this website is like watching a dog lick its own butt. You're doing something you enjoy and it's not valuable or useful to anyone else, and it's also awkward to watch, but hey, you do you!

• On the post: DeSantis Signs Law Limiting Book Challenges After The Shitty People He Encouraged To Be Shitty Proved To Be Even Shittier Than He Thought They’d Be

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2024 @ 03:35pm

  First, that's a very general definition. An important detail is that fascism is a right wing ideology. By definition, "far left extremism," which doesn't really exist in the US short of a small number of tankies, cannot be fascist. Second, they you point to the last three years rather than the previous four to the last three years is telling. Trump is farther right and closer to fascism than the Biden Administration, unless maybe you were pointing to all the conservative officials persecuting trans people and applying religious bias to laws in places like Florida and Texas...? Trump is basically a fascist too stupid to do fascism well, but he did try. He talks about being "president for life." The conservatives perpetuate racist theories like white replacement and talk about discrimination against white people. The conservatives persecute minorities. The conservatives are jingoist "patriots" who tried to stage a coup. They persecute gay and trans people and ethnic minorities and Muslims and atheists. So even when you whip out a definition, you still don't understand what it means.

• On the post: DeSantis Signs Law Limiting Book Challenges After The Shitty People He Encouraged To Be Shitty Proved To Be Even Shittier Than He Thought They’d Be

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2024 @ 10:21am

  That wasn't the claim. The point is that religious people are pushing their ideology on public schools through book bans and taking over the school boards, while already having private schools or homeschooling where they can also push their own ideology. It's hypocrisy, but that's not surprising, sadly.

• On the post: DeSantis Signs Law Limiting Book Challenges After The Shitty People He Encouraged To Be Shitty Proved To Be Even Shittier Than He Thought They’d Be

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2024 @ 10:16am

  E.g. some of the comments in this thread are a single sentence or a single word.

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  MrWilson ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2024 @ 11:29pm

  2020 called and it wants its hubris back.

• On the post: DeSantis Signs Law Limiting Book Challenges After The Shitty People He Encouraged To Be Shitty Proved To Be Even Shittier Than He Thought They’d Be

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2024 @ 08:49pm

  I love it when the fascists call other people fascists. It's just tacit admission that they know they're the bad guys and they think other people don't know what words mean because they're convinced they're the smartest guys in the room when they're not fooling anyone.

• On the post: DeSantis Signs Law Limiting Book Challenges After The Shitty People He Encouraged To Be Shitty Proved To Be Even Shittier Than He Thought They’d Be

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2024 @ 10:00am

  parents choose to enrol their children in such schools fully aware of what the curriculum’s likely to contain.

  That sounds like an "ideological joyride" to me. Why would religious parents have the right to choose that but secular parents don't? Of course the answer is right wing hypocrisy...

• On the post: DeSantis Signs Law Limiting Book Challenges After The Shitty People He Encouraged To Be Shitty Proved To Be Even Shittier Than He Thought They’d Be

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2024 @ 09:57am

  Targetable? You're afraid people will target some random anonymous username you might pick? Heck, you could use a different name for each article. With short enough comments, there's little distinction between the writing styles of different people, so confusion is understandable and inevitable. And in long enough threads on multiple articles, you're likely to lose track of your own comments since you have to reread everything without a distinctive name to search for.

• On the post: DeSantis Signs Law Limiting Book Challenges After The Shitty People He Encouraged To Be Shitty Proved To Be Even Shittier Than He Thought They’d Be

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2024 @ 08:48pm

  “Schools are there to serve the community,” DeSantis said Monday during an event touting the legislation. “Schools are not there for you to try to go on some ideological joyride at the expense of our kids.”

  That means religious schools and religious homeschoolers would be illegal, but we know he wouldn't go after his conservative Christian voter base like that. The hypocrisy is on purpose!

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