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An anonymous reader writes to recommend TechDirt's take on the dustup over at the Escapist, which recently tried on banning users from their forums for the mere mention of AdBlock. In the thread in which the trouble started, a user complained that an ad for Time Warner Cable was slowing down his computer. Users who responded to the poster by suggesting "get Firefox and AdBlock" found themselves banned from the forums. The banned parties didn't even need to admit they used AdBlock, they simply had to recommend it as a solution to a troublesome ad. The forum's recently amended posting guidelines do indeed confirm that the folks at the Escapist believe that giving browsing preference advice is a "non forgivable" offense. After a lot of user protest, the forum unbanned the transgressors but heaped on the guilt.
Hamas runs several orphanages and public welfare organizations. They accept donations, as do many humanitarian agencies do.
The whole thing is rooted in overpopulation again...
Fine, kill yourself and be part of the solution. Or just STFU.
Or if you won't do either, back up your claimed fact with data.
Now that you explain it this way, it makes the baffling Obama worship a lot more understandable. Honestly, who could ever support a slippery politician from the south side of Chicago?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
I hope it wasn't the Republicans, since the bailout that was required to prevent a depression directly resulting from years of irresponsible lack of oversight was initiated by George W. Bush and merely completed by Obama.
FAIL: I would have thought, as a slashdotter, you were more interested in the facts. Do some homework: The banks were bullied into lowering their lending standards by left-wing idealists intent on equal opportunities at any cost. Great in theory, but in practice, we really got screwed.
If you want to see our country recover, you'd be best suited by starting with the actual truth and not a terrific marketing campaign by the people who made sure this happened.
Actually, It was the Clinton administration that started the deregulation with it's push for everyone to own a house. They started the push to make getting a mortgage easier. When the Bush Administration tried to regulate the banks, the democratic run congress, with backing from the big banks, shot down any regulation. Then the same democrats were the first to start shouting about how more regulation was needed.