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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Let me guess: while these videos are hidden, you can still find all the ISIS propaganda videos you want.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
I don't think there's any kind of actual conspiracy going on; it's just that this argument is a convenient political soldier. If these companies were censoring the other side politically, it's the other political side th
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
You might want to take this up with that "rdtsc" guy who wrote "As someone else pointed out this is a classic false flag operation." He seems to disagree with you on those points.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
And the ratio of false flag operations to false accusations of false flag operations is about 1:99. Lots of unlikely things "do happen," but if that's the immediate explanation you reach for you're going to be wrong most
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That doesn't make their behavior automatically good or beyond criticism.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
>It's amazing how people act like they have the "right" to post some content anywhere. It's amazing how, every time a private organization is criticized for how it handles speech on its platform, some tedious rando ju
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
>To pin it on someone else? That's... kind of conspiratorial thinking? Would you cut off your own hand so you could blame it on someone else?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Why the USA?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
What makes you think it's not inclusive?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
I have no idea what trap you think you're setting here. Perhaps you should rephrase your statement in a less roundabout way.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
>The word has two meanings, and the one you invoke in your latter example is gendered. Oh, tptacek, maybe you need to go outside and get some air. You really think that people are leafing through unabridged Latin dictionaries looking for
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
It's unfortunate that you have such a strong desire to use clearly sexist language, to the extent that you'll write at such length defending it. This is your right, of course, but please keep it off HN, which is an inclusive site.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Those "threats" were prominent politicians saying negative things about the businesses. So the blacklists were exactly as "government-imposed" as boycotts of Trump, given the many prominent politicians saying negative th
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
>The number where you use it to harass others? Who, specifically, is Thiel harassing? Let's have some names, since you seem so confident in your accusation. >"Political beliefs" is another word for "opinions",
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Because armies of Democrats, including pundits, elected officials, party functionaries, and the action Presidential nominees, never claimed 2000 or 2004 were rigged in any way. Please, spare us the pearl-clutching. You're only fooling
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
What was your opinion of the Hollywood blacklists?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Exactly. Because those writers and directors held Communist views, Hollywood executives chose not to engage in business with them. That may have resulted in firing. So it goes. Or is that different somehow?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
>Woe is me, poor little billionaire... What's the monetary threshold beyond which it's okay to harass people and fire them for their jobs for their political beliefs? Let's have a number.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Sure, but is it okay with you if these "consequences" are being unable to work and provide for one's family? Because that's the sort of "consequences" the media -- and useful idiots like the author of the origi
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
There's a difference between having the ability to tune out noise when you come across it, and deliberately seeking it out -- or not avoiding it if you are warned in advance. Furthermore, this type of noise in particular is generally a
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
>Just trim down the first 2 paragraphs and the last one and you will filter out the noise without any lose of the actual signal. No. It's not the readers' responsibility to approach an article and then have explicitly filter ou
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
We'd have to stop linking to most online journalism if we did that.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
North Korea requires a far bigger army of policemen to keep everyone in line than South Korea. Do you want to be North Korea, or South Korea?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Gary Johnson and Jill Stein should have a seat at the table, too.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
>Has more progress been made through war/assassinations/violence/riots/protest, or empathy/reasoned appeals? You can bully people into a resentful silence temporarily with war, assassinations, violence, riots, (a
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
You are spectacularly missing the point. You are not required to listen to anything Thiel says. But you are required to tolerate the fact that he says things.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Okay, now we're talking. So what's the maximum amount of money someone is allowed to have before they are no longer allowed to express political opinions you, personally, don't like? $10 million? $1 million? $100,000?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Go right ahead and judge all you want. The question is, are you then going to try to get that person fired for the crime of stating their beliefs in public?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
To be more precise, you're here to make demands that people who disagree with you politically be exiled from polite society. No. In fact, not just no, but hell no.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
No, shame on Marco, barking orders to other people about what politics they should or should not support. If one cannot be a professional and calmly interact with people who have wildly varying opinions, even opinions one finds despicable,

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