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  1. Re:This is the wrong approach on Facebook Begins Hiding Anti-Vaccine Misinformation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, that makes you even more dangerous that the anti-vaxxers: You appear to be rational, but are not.

  2. Re:You dumb. on Facebook Begins Hiding Anti-Vaccine Misinformation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Funny. Does not say anything good about you, but funny nonetheless. Confirms my evaluation of you nicely though. And you know, you are posting as a coward, so I am probably naive to expect even a bit of decency or insight from you.

  3. Re:This is the wrong approach on Facebook Begins Hiding Anti-Vaccine Misinformation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    You wish. But since you lack in education and insight, you cannot actually see how wrong you are. If you should ever get a small glimpse of insight into your true mental capabilities, I recommend starting with reading up on the Dunning-Kruger effect. Yes, that is a serious recommendation.

  4. Re: This is the wrong approach on Facebook Begins Hiding Anti-Vaccine Misinformation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, of course there are actual medical arguments why some (very few) people cannot get vaccinated. And, of course, I am very obviously not talking about them. That I even need to state this just highlight that your mind is broken and that you have no rationality. I am talking about the scum that chooses to not get vaccinated with not valid medical argument and that endanger those that cannot get vaccinated and those where the vaccination doe not take. That I even need to state this is beyond stupid.

  5. Re: This is the wrong approach on Facebook Begins Hiding Anti-Vaccine Misinformation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Valid argument. I agree.

  6. Re:It's not a "crime". on Japanese Police Charge 13-Year-Old Girl For Sharing 'Unclosable Popup' Code Online (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    North Korea and historic Nazi Germany also has different laws. Does not mean these laws are sane, moral or acceptable.

  7. Well, customer stupidity is good for business on Amazon's Charity 'AmazonSmile' Funds Anti-Vaccine Groups (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is just one instance where this becomes glaringly obvious. Personally, I would not mind so much that a lot of people are complete morons. But the anti-vaxxers do harm others and that is not acceptable.

  8. Re:You mean on Facebook Begins Hiding Anti-Vaccine Misinformation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. While I would applaud any anti-vaxxer self-extermination, for every of the 3% or so of _vaccinated_ people were it just does not take and that gets sick, I would support shooting 10 anti-vaxxers at random as a recognition of their positive contribution to safety and health of society.

  9. Re:The vast majority are from Ultra-Othodox Jews on Facebook Begins Hiding Anti-Vaccine Misinformation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0

    Well, any kind of "orthodox" person is by the very definition an anti-science idiot with a deep desire for some fundamentally irrational state of being. But these Jews are just a minority in that, the problem is far, far larger and it is not caused by religion.

  10. Re:So it's Now Facebook Settles Science ? on Facebook Begins Hiding Anti-Vaccine Misinformation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    And fail. A scientific consensus is not a consensus in the ordinary sense. I get the people like you are not equipped to understand that, but to all others, "scientific consensus" means that nobody has come up with a valid counterclaim based on actual science. A normal consensus is that nobody has a different _opinion_ and that is something so much weaker it is not even of the same nature.

  11. Re:This is the wrong approach on Facebook Begins Hiding Anti-Vaccine Misinformation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I have. But most were highly educated and smart and pretty disgusted with the rest of their country. The problem with the morons is that they will feel validated on any censorship and go even deeper into fanaticism.

  12. Re:This is the wrong approach on Facebook Begins Hiding Anti-Vaccine Misinformation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Provably wrong, but it does take a bit of knowledge of human history. I guess you are lacking that or have not understood what you were taught.

  13. Re:This is the wrong approach on Facebook Begins Hiding Anti-Vaccine Misinformation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed.

  14. Re:I disagree on Facebook Begins Hiding Anti-Vaccine Misinformation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, yes. That is indeed a problem. But how do you make sure this will not be the initial push for widespread censorship in the current climate of raising authoritarianism?

  15. Re:What idiots still use Facebook? on Facebook Begins Hiding Anti-Vaccine Misinformation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh? Then explain the "who cares" in detail, please.

  16. Re:This is the wrong approach on Facebook Begins Hiding Anti-Vaccine Misinformation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Even though fundamentally stupid people like you believe this, it is not the case. What actually happens is that complete morons like you have created a real problem (loss of herd immunity) and the authorities are using that as a welcome opportunity to push censorship. But the problem is you. You are responsible for giving them a real, solid reason to do this. Your stupidity and arrogance is astounding and you are guilty of making the world a worse place.

  17. Re: This is the wrong approach on Facebook Begins Hiding Anti-Vaccine Misinformation (usatoday.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    You cannot think. This information does not support not getting vaccinated.

  18. Re:Vaccination = Homeopathy on Facebook Begins Hiding Anti-Vaccine Misinformation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    No. Not even a small chance. Unless you believe the earth is flat as well?

  19. Re: This is the wrong approach on Facebook Begins Hiding Anti-Vaccine Misinformation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Oh, this case is hiding misinformation. There is no information that would support not getting vaccinated against the measles. There is a large body of lies though that support this stance and a large number of stupid and badly educated people that believe these lies. No, the problem is the precedent, and once such censorship has been used to suppress clearly false information, it will be used in successively less clear cases.

  20. Re:What idiots still use Facebook? on Facebook Begins Hiding Anti-Vaccine Misinformation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    As there are plenty of idiots, plenty of people use Facebook. Since you seem to think that vaccination is not an important topic, I must conclude you are one of the non-Facebook using idiots though.

  21. This is the wrong approach on Facebook Begins Hiding Anti-Vaccine Misinformation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The problem is that it makes it very easy to hide correct information as well, if the "authorities" do not like it. The right approach would be better education. But that is also something the "authorities" do not like, as better educated citizen may just spot all their various screw-ups, extreme waste and outright evil machinations.

  22. Re:Not just VPN apps... on Many Android VPN Apps Request 'Dangerous' Permissions They Don't Need (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. I recently needed an app to check on GPS status for another app that needs it to be good but provides no indication whether it is (talk about stupid coding...). It took me about 10 tries until I found one that actually only wanted location access but nothing else. The only explanation I have for this mess is clueless users that give apps all the permissions requested.

  23. Wannabe security coders on Many Android VPN Apps Request 'Dangerous' Permissions They Don't Need (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Coding is already very hard, but coding security critical components is even more so. At the same time, we have coders that are barely computer literate and could not code anything complicated of their life depended on it. The situation is worse wit "apps". Hence it is no surprise at all that VPN apps are generally speaking an insecure mess.

  24. Re:I'm not sure this should have leaked. on US Tech Firms Fear China Could Be Spying On Them Using Power Cords, Report Says (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't need to. I know about that project for around 30 years. The thing discussed in this story is not a TEMPEST attack.

  25. Re:I'm not sure this should have leaked. on US Tech Firms Fear China Could Be Spying On Them Using Power Cords, Report Says (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    USB connectors are easy for this. Mains power connectors and cords are not.