Kaspersky Quits BSA Over SOPA Support

First time accepted submitter Cmdrm writes with an article about Kaspersky Lab quitting the BSA over their (now lukewarm) support of SOPA. From the press release: "Kaspersky Lab would like to clarify that the company did not participate in the elaboration or discussion of the SOPA initiative and does not support it. Moreover, the company believes that the SOPA initiative might actually be counter-productive for the public interest, and decided to discontinue its membership in the BSA as of January 1, 2012.'"

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Re:Difference between Europe and USA

[Anonymous Coward]

Boy Scouts of America is a private organization and as such has the right to set requirements for membership. The Scout Law explicitly states that a scout is reverent. The Scout Oath states that a scout will "do my duty to God and my country." You can see how an atheist could not recite the Scout Law or the Oath with a clear conscious. The only way atheists could participate in Scouting would be if BSA changed the Law and the Oath, but neither of those things have changed since their adoption in 1911. To change them would be to compromise the principles on which Scouting was founded.

These are precisely the reasons I would never let my own child participate in anything like this. Both faith and patriotism are terrible, irrational things. It constantly astounds me that people choose to conflate religion/patriotism with being a good person.

Re:Difference between Europe and USA

[BitZtream]

Its ironic to watch atheists shout out loud how proud you are of believing in nothing.

Why do you feel the need to advertise it if you don't believe in it?

Let me answer that for you ... because you've just picked a different religion to worship.

You're so proud of how you're were smart enough to not be fooled by some magical entity that controls the universe ... that instead you worship the non-existance of such being. You want to talk about fucked up ignorance, that tops the scale right there. At least religious zealots are worshiping something they think exists, you go off extolling the virtues of nothingness ... of something you DON'T believe in.

If you were half as sure of the non-existence of a god as you claim to be, you'd not have bothered to tell us all. Bragging about your religion makes you just as much of a religious idiot as any other, even if your religion is anti-religon compared to everyone else.

You're just an ignorant douche who thinks he's better than everyone else, too stupid to realize you're doing exactly what you rage against. You go boy, stick it too'em!