I am literally going to be boycott Slashdot if it keeps up with these stupid scare headlines. I feel like I am discussing politics with crazy rednecks or conspiracy theorists.
"Science" is not under attack. This was simply a zoning issue. Western democracies have decided that it is ok to demarcate certain areas of a town for certain uses so people can't build a cement factory next to your home. Call me a fascist, but I wouldn't like my neighbor using his house as a chemistry lab where he could (potentially) have explosive or radioactive stuff.
Furthermore, "The Government" is a stupid term because there is no connection between what state, federal, and local governments do. The country comptroller has absolutely no connection whatsoever to the Bush administration.
I feel like Slashdot is turning into an alarmist, sky-is-falling extremist website.
All TFA says is that a Congressman's website wants to embed content from an outside site, it has to follow the rules for official government websites. If you have a problem with this rule, why didn't anybody speak up before? These rules for official governmental websites have existed for a while? Nobody is stifling Congressional free speech; they can have outside websites if they please, they just can't link or embed them to their official websites.
The cycle is the same; somebody posts a link to a marginally interesting article; posts a crazy headline on it; and tons of slashdotters who didn't RTFA start talking about how the stormtroopers are out to get us. Come on. This desensitizes people to the times when the government REALLY IS taking away our freedoms.
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I am literally going to be boycott Slashdot if it keeps up with these stupid scare headlines. I feel like I am discussing politics with crazy rednecks or conspiracy theorists. "Science" is not under attack. This was simply a zoning issue. Western democracies have decided that it is ok to demarcate certain areas of a town for certain uses so people can't build a cement factory next to your home. Call me a fascist, but I wouldn't like my neighbor using his house as a chemistry lab where he could (potentially) have explosive or radioactive stuff. Furthermore, "The Government" is a stupid term because there is no connection between what state, federal, and local governments do. The country comptroller has absolutely no connection whatsoever to the Bush administration.
I feel like Slashdot is turning into an alarmist, sky-is-falling extremist website. All TFA says is that a Congressman's website wants to embed content from an outside site, it has to follow the rules for official government websites. If you have a problem with this rule, why didn't anybody speak up before? These rules for official governmental websites have existed for a while? Nobody is stifling Congressional free speech; they can have outside websites if they please, they just can't link or embed them to their official websites. The cycle is the same; somebody posts a link to a marginally interesting article; posts a crazy headline on it; and tons of slashdotters who didn't RTFA start talking about how the stormtroopers are out to get us. Come on. This desensitizes people to the times when the government REALLY IS taking away our freedoms.