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  1. Re:truth in advertising on Ask Slashdot: Is Deliberately Misleading People On the Internet Free Speech? · · Score: 1

    Excuse me, did you have an actual point beyond playing Alex the parrot?

  2. Re:Short view, Long view on Ask Slashdot: Is Deliberately Misleading People On the Internet Free Speech? · · Score: 1

    It's not the average German who is naÃve about restriction on Nazi propaganda. But it does appear that the average alt-right fanboi who is all about freeze peach is

  3. Re:truth in advertising on Ask Slashdot: Is Deliberately Misleading People On the Internet Free Speech? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually, laws against false adevertising are a free speech violation. That's because those laws were made in the realisation that no right can be absolute, that in any society there will always be rights that clash, and that the right to make a buck does not extend to lying to impact someone else's health and property.

    It is people who actually want their speech to be privileged, or immature teenagers, who think that free speech is absolute, without actually checking their facts. It has always been subject to prescribed limits, all society is is haggling over the price.

  4. Re:That's not their job on Google and Facebook Failed Us (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Quite frankly, if the defense is "They don't literally label it news, so anything goes", the argument is weak. It's on a part with "I'm not touching him!", it's childish and not worthy of adult discussion.

  5. Re:That's not their job on Google and Facebook Failed Us (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    If you (generic) admit it is reasonble to expect news to contain verifiable facts, then any provider proclaiming to give you 'news' should in fact filter for hoaxes. So yes, I maintain that it is Google and Facebook's job to filter the likes of 4chan and Infowars.

  6. Re:That's not their job on Google and Facebook Failed Us (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're getting results from creationist while searching for articles on evolution, you're doing it wrong.

    I suggest you go back and read what I actually wrote, not the strawman you're attacking right now.

  7. Re:That's not their job on Google and Facebook Failed Us (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It isn't incumbent upon Google or Facebook to separate fact from fictionIt isn't incumbent upon Google or Facebook to separate fact from fiction

    That's an assertion that needs some backup. It's called "News" in the search result, not "Fiction". One reasonable claim you could make about news is that it contains verifiable facts.

    What I see here in the discussion is the fallacy of the excluded middle: just because some sources state another version of reality does not mean they are equally important, and should get the same amount of attention.

    Surely you wouldn't plead for creationists getting top billing in the Science section in searches on the origin of life? I would even think a case could be made they should be put under serious cosmology and evolutionary biology sources in the main page.

    Of course the reality is that most of the whining is butt-hurt alt-righters who see their 15 minutes of fame quickly counting down.

  8. Re:What about the working poor? on California Considers Banning Internal Combustion Engines To Meet Emissions Goals (sacbee.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    you would have to pay for exhaust of the power plant that produces the electricity your tesla is using.

    We already do. Depending on local emissions standards, electricity companies have fairly strong pollution controls on their exhaust. And of course this is reflected in the cost of electricity.

    And of course I'm not even talking about what method of generation you use. Some of them are even emissionless.

    In short: fuck off with your false equivalency.

  9. Re:This sounds great until... on Court Rules That Imported Solar Panels Are Bad For US Manufacturing (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    From the Detroit Big Three to Harley-Davidson to this, has American industry ever reacted to competition in any other way than to go crying to mama Government for import tariffs?

  10. Re:Globalization is inevitable on Silicon Valley Bosses Are Globalists, Not Libertarians (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    What do you think is going to happen when the global community tries to pressure Saudi Arabia into permitting gay marriage?

    Why in the name of all that's unholy would anyone consider this a possible scenario? Except for paranoid sheltered right-wing man boys who see feminist collectivist plots in even the rising of the Sun?

    And what kind of absolute fucking waste of carbon moderated this up?!

  11. Re:The key with businessmen like Trump on How Techies Rescued Food Stamps (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Others have done the work to refute your cluelessness, so let me be succinct: Fuck you.

  12. bitcoin's disruption in their own markets?

    The only thing I have BitCoin seen reliably disrupt is the wallets of the gullible.

  13. Re:It's not strictly a "flat" problem on It's Official: Users Navigate Flat UI Designs 22 Percent Slower (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    In the early eighties we had this fad for 'digital' controls on photography equipment. Turned out that knobs, dials and switches may look complicated, but when you're holding an SLR in front of your eye, being able to fiddle with the controls on feel alone is worth a lot more.

  14. Re:It's OK...... on The IRS Decides Who To Audit By Data Mining Social Media (typepad.com) · · Score: 1

    And some people know how to read. And some people are just plain stupid.

  15. Re:It's OK...... on The IRS Decides Who To Audit By Data Mining Social Media (typepad.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm speaking out in favour of investigating those who have openly professed motives to not to want to pay tax.

  16. Re:It's OK...... on The IRS Decides Who To Audit By Data Mining Social Media (typepad.com) · · Score: 1

    You advocate against government taxation and you whine about getting audited?

    Boo fucking hoo. Cry me a river.

  17. Re:Who appointed them arbiters of free speech on Google and ProPublica Team Up To Build a National Hate Crime Database (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought we were supposed to be tolerant of everyone.

    You obviously do not think very much. Last time we had a Nazi infestation we bombed and hanged them.

    And how many nazis are there? I have never met one,

    How about paying attention? There was an entire march of them last week. It only made the Slashdot frontpage about, oh, every day, since?

  18. Re:What's the point? on Google and ProPublica Team Up To Build a National Hate Crime Database (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh you poor Nazi. You are facing social opprobrium for wanting to kill undesirables. How will you ever survive?

    On second thoughts, we might as well use the 1946 solution and hang you.

  19. Re:Yay for censorship technology on Google and ProPublica Team Up To Build a National Hate Crime Database (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Got it in one. Unfortunately you are too blind to see why this is correct.

    Hint: it has something to do with power disparities.

  20. Re:Sounds like on Bitcoin Is Forking. Again. (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "paper money is at least backed by ... the full faith and credit of the US Government" What does that even mean? Paper is backed by... the promise of printing more paper?

    How about future tax receipts?

  21. History has proven you wrong. Nazism has never thrived in societies that actively suppressed it, starting with hanging the bastards at Nuremberg.

    Even now Germany has a lesser extreme right presence in politics than the rest of Europe. The AfD has trouble even reaching the minimum 5% votes threshold. The numbers give the lie to your Nazi apologia.

  22. eventually everyone will end up on the dark web Yes, Germany is such a good example of a state where noone ever says anything because it all got pushed underground after they outlawed Nazism.

    Stop being stupid. There are two sides here: Nazism, and the right side. Pick yours.

  23. Re:How about telling it like it is? on GoDaddy Expels Neo-Nazi Site Over Article On Charlottesville Victim (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Dodge noted.

  24. Re:How about telling it like it is? on GoDaddy Expels Neo-Nazi Site Over Article On Charlottesville Victim (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The minute you allow for limitations it's no longer inalienable.

    Do you have to work at being that stupid, or does it come naturally?

  25. Re:How about telling it like it is? on GoDaddy Expels Neo-Nazi Site Over Article On Charlottesville Victim (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Well here's news for you sunshine: freedom of speech is not inalienable. The very fact that you have laws against slander, libel and yes, incitement, is proof of that. Speech is not without consequences, and calling for genocide as Nazis do is not speech worth protecting. If you think it is, you're a Nazi apologist, it's as simple as that.

    I don't conflate anything. Your own words condemn you.