genon

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by genon 9y ago
Of course. Otherwise why even provide a service in the first place?
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by genon 9y ago
Your link does not necessarily refute the post you're replying to. Gay people are not a protected group under Federal law; nor, AIUI, are they in most states.
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by genon 9y ago
After I warn them that I will cancel the service if they don't stop falsely claiming I endorse the Nazi cause, and they ignore my warning.
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by genon 9y ago
> "Free speech" on the internet never really existed Long before 4chan repeated everything Usenet had done many years earlier there was plenty of free speech on the Internet. Not because nobody was in control to prevent it, but
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by genon 9y ago
> Can a bar refuse entry to children? If it's legal for children to enter a bar, I don't see why a bar should be able to refuse entry to children. > Can a cinema kick someone out for talking during a movie? If they're c
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by genon 9y ago
Let's make it even more complicated. Bob believes absolutely everything Al does, in fact his views are somehow even worse than Al's, but because he's not allowed to express his opinion nobody knows what he really thinks and h
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by genon 9y ago
I'm surprised at how many people are pretending not to understand what I wrote, seemingly in order to proclaim how anti-Nazi they are. When I was a teenager and first read Chomsky, being anti-censorship was a left-wing thing. I don&#x2
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by genon 9y ago
I'm genuinely shocked at how some people can so blithely, and possibly obliviously, throw out textbook pro-discrimination arguments when the target of the discrimination is something they don't happen to support.
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by genon 9y ago
> Do you think that businesses shouldn't be allowed to discriminate against skateboarders, or people who refuse to wear shirts and shoes? I don't believe that businesses should be allowed to discriminate against anyone who is
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by genon 9y ago
If you get what I'm saying - comparing two well-known instances from different parts of the political spectrum where businesses try and refuse custom for ideological reasons - why are you pretending I'm comparing gay people to neo
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by genon 9y ago
> Usually you have to do something drastic to actively disprove the libelous claim Yes, that something is called suing for libel and proving it is libel in a court . Simply claiming something is libel (which Prince doesn't even do
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by genon 9y ago
Absolutely correct. He is also effectively saying that since he can and will remove sites he personally doesn't like, that he personally approves of every other site using Cloudflare. The excuse he uses for terminating TDS is an absolu
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by genon 9y ago
> Interesting how the British told the French and Belgians to fight on The French only fought because the British (who were not in command) told them to? > They even forced the French at gunpoint who wanted to defend Dunkirk to destro
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by genon 9y ago
> I don't really know anything bad about NZ. https://e2nz.org
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by genon 9y ago
ARPANET/the Internet was developed to facilitate communication, remote access and data sharing between different computer systems. Are you sticking with "Why not just use a phone?".
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by genon 9y ago
I don't know if this just sounded like a zinger to you when you wrote it, but "the Internet" is a prime example of anything but a solution in search of a problem.
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by genon 9y ago
For people living on the cutting edge of the web, here's a Bootstrap 3 version: https://github.com/abcarroll/geo3-bootstrap
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by genon 9y ago
> Guns are, on average, not so useful / safe. To be fair, I don't think many people are killed by toy guns . One thing I'll never forget from the land of Orwell is this from 15 years ago (virtually to the day, ironicall