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MPAA Shuts Down Town's Municipal WiFi Over 1 Download
nam37 writes with this BoingBoing snippet "The MPAA has successfully shut down an entire town's municipal WiFi because a single user was found to be downloading a copyrighted movie. Rather than being embarrassed by this gross example of collective punishment (a practice outlawed in the Geneva conventions) against Coshocton, OH, the MPAA's spokeslizard took the opportunity to cry poor (even though the studios are bringing in record box-office and aftermarket receipts)."
This is part of the reason why I think government-funded Internet access is generally a bad idea. Governments are too trigger-happy with regard to avoiding liability, and are otherwise too censor-prone to properly deal with the significant responsibility of administering the local population's Internet connection.
"In prison you just have to shut your eyes and take it. Here you have to shut your eyes and give it."
DON'T FUCK WITH THE MAN, MAN, BECAUSE FUCKING WITH OTHER MEN MAKES YOU GAY!
P.S.: Darn. Tried to preview this, like, 5 times. Stupid filter won't let me yell over the Internet at all. Why won't it let me yell over the Internet with perfect spelling, but it will let me write in all lowercase letters while endlessly confusing your/you're, its/it's, and their/there/they're? If I can type a coherent English sentence, the ratio of capital letters to lowercase letters shouldn't be such a big deal. Stupid site is stupidly broken.
Cory Doctroll strikes again.
By the way, if you ever want to see some SERIOUS censorship - just get a BoingBoing account and mention something about the great work Violet Blue is doing for the sex positive community these days. Or mention anything at all negative about one of BB's sponsors. You'll be shut down faster than Sarah Conner at a Terminator class reunion.
George Orwell wept - Jesus just laughed.
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A disarmed populace is only a good thing for an armed criminal or an armed government (possible redundancy noted).
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You're just regurgitating an NRA pamphlet there. If you looked at other countries, you'd see that an armed armed populous makes one hell of a target for both armed criminals and armed govenments.
In countries with stricter gun control, sure, criminals that *really* want guns can still get them, but they tend to just shoot each other. In the cases that guns are used to rob banks or whatever (although in practice that's normally done with replicas), it's just money - it's not worth someone dying over. Rather than being a Hollywood hero today, let the police deal with it tomorrow.
It's the police forces' job to deal with them. The moment you have vigilantes running around trying to police the criminals, you end up with more dead criminals, vigilantes and innocent bystanders alike.
What tighter gun control does, is prevent the guy who decides to pop one in his neighbour for looking at him the wrong way. He's forced to thinks about how he's going to do the job, and realises 5 minutes later than it's not worth it.
If you think a few hicks with hunting rifles and handguns are going to have any chance against a modern defence force with their missile launched from a couple of hundred miles away, you're just deluded.
Your second amendment was meant for a different time, when the only difference between an army and a militia was the uniform they wore. The world has changed in the past 200 years, and the rest of the world has moved on.
But ISPs aren't common carriers. How many times does this need to be repeated?
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What the fuck is your problem?
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