#2 & #4
Wrong!
“Mr. Steele was on the payroll of Fusion GPS, who was being paid by the Democratic Party to do opposition research on Donald Trump. That while he was working with the FBI, he was shopping this dossier all over the world. That’s not what an informant should do.”
— Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Jan. 7, 2018
#1.Crap. non-point. Dossier, Bunch of papers, report, just stfu dude really.
#3 The passport means something, but it's not hard evidence of whether or not he was in Russia, or met with Russians. Only Valid Point You Make.
#5. This is pure conjecture trump-porn, probably sourced from such garbage online sources as salon, or possibly from a Rachel Maddow mono-hysterical rant, which you are passing off as your own analysis.
Haven't we been here before?
Didn't they (the NSA I believe) outlaw certain encryption standards back in the late 90's early Millennium?
That was a completely pointless endeavor and only spurred the creation of better encryption.
While this is 100% aimed at silencing critics of Islam, I won't laboriously point out the hypocrisy.
the larger application is to begin the process of silencing speech altogether, to consolidate the power of the EU technocrats.
What is my own advice? To support open and honest discussions in internet 'public spaces' free from zealous partisan moderation?
If Roy Moore was proven to be a pedophile, you wouldn't anyone defending him.
It's only because there is a high degree of doubt as to the credibility of many of the accusations against him.
As a matter of fact, the only pedophile, who publicly and openly supports pedophilia, that I am aware of works at Salon:
https://medium.com/@harperreginald1/salon-writer-todd-nickson-in-his-own-words-why-pedophiles-are-better-qualified-than-you-to-teach-21781e6329b4
I think something which both sides won't admit, but equally despise is hypocrisy. So from your point of view, that's what you see, but from their point of view, they don't think the accusations are credible.
You can't possibly, with any degree of intellectual honesty, say that the moderation practices of such sites as twitter and reddit have been objectively and equally enforced across the political spectrum.
It's absurd to even discuss, and this articles title already pre-supposes that everything the author doesn't like fits into the bucket of the senators 'alt-right buddies'
It's sad, but inevitable, as the next generation leave universities which have indoctrinated their students with the idea that free speech can only be tolerated as long as it doesn't hurt other people's feelings.
Nobody will say it was an assassination. If they do, just call them conspiracy theorists.
Hastings told neighbors he was being followed, was scared, even asked a next door neighbor to borrow her car because he thought his own had been tampered with.
....and none of that mattered.
You're stupid because you seem to think without a "Civil Rights Act" there is no such concept as civil rights.
Is this stated plain enough for you?
BECAUSE your site wants a NEW PASSWORD for my OLD ACCOUNT because apparently a TECH BLOG could not manage to maintain even the most basic of security precautions.
Unfortunately I long since forgot what email address I used for the account.
Check and Mate! ...and have a blessed day!
They could have just set up an unfortunate accident, like when Michael Hastings published private conversations he had with McChrystal in Afghanistan.
because I dared disagree with Tim Cushing in another article. How droll.
Erdogan is Trump's pal? Since when? Are you sure Trump even understands that Turkey refers to a country?
Well that's why we elect people to pass laws. This would officially make it censorship for all you narrow-cast minds which cannot think outside the confines of language and law.
Fact is, we don't have a good term for the concept of censorship outside of the legal system, so many people use the closest term to the concept of removing or stopping certain ideas or speech.
Let me guess, anyone you disagree with is a troll?
This is why it's becoming increasingly difficult to ascertain whether this is Techdirt or Jezebel?
...such as when you try to point out how backward and misogynist Muslim countries are in relation to human rights on reddit, for example.
Readers. The above comment is a perfect example of the comical ignorance of the modern progressive movement.
The Fairness Doctrine:
The Fairness Doctrine was a policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was—in the Commission's view—honest, equitable, and balanced.
It was a policy which originated from progressives who wanted to control talk radio shows from being 100% right wing circle jerks, an irony lost on this poster.
While Ironic and entertaining, this is the type of uneducated dumbass is exactly the type who allowed Obama to campaign on Single Payer and not call him on it when we ended up with RomneyCare.
Yes stupid. Saying mean things which people don't agree with, is a VERY important part of freedom of speech.
The IDEA & PHILOSOPHY & FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT not the Constitutional Amendment.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry when I see something so stupid posted.
What's even sadder is that this poster thinks he just got a check mate, but he's playing checkers...
That's why Tim Cushing is so triggered by this.
The hypocrisy of a web site like TechDirt Arguing that censorship through moderation is a right is clearly lost on the now deranged Techdirt editorial staff.
Re:
Probably because unlike a cellphone, you can't effectively isolate a computer from all potential threat vectors as effectively.