The FBI has a reputation allright. One for those who are not paying attention, and another for those who have. For those who watch what the FBI has been up to for at least the last 50 years, that reputation is no better than Joe Arpaio's.
I am 70, and from what I see there is little difference in the desire for First Amendment freedom by age. It is based more upon religious upbringing and education. To wit, Utah is the biggest consumer of porn in the US.
This is nothing new. Among other such instances, one group stands out. The identification of Anthrax terrorist "persons of interest." Who had their lives ruined, and one reputedly drive to "suicide." Though no scientist would use acetaminophen as a means of doing themselves in. There are any number of ways to do oneself in that are quick and either painless, or relatively painless. Acetaminophen poisoning is a drawn out, and terribly painful way to die.
Perhaps the FBI is hoping to achieve the same goal with Ms Clinton as they have accomplished in the past. Provide some basis for believing that a person is despondent, and drive them to suicide, or what looks like suicide.
Antitrust is dead. One of the first, and most useful, applications would be for the ISPs, but that is not going to happen. Legislators and agencies are bribed and extorted to deny competition in that area.
Men also develop breast cancer. And when they do it tends to be far more malignant than that found in women. Facebook is not simply misogynistic, it is anti-human.
I can not think that any reasonable person, who does not get their bread buttered by the industry, would refuse to have a choice in the selection of cable boxes. Any member of the "public" who does not choose choice is likely a shill for the industry.
There is a gross excess of attorneys, far beyond the needs of even our litigious system. They have to find some way of making a living. And most are bright enough, and sufficiently familiar with the system to provide all sorts of creditable, if illicit, scams.
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I am sympathetic to what you say. But the problem is that legal bullying will become even more widespread.
I might be willing to pay a local lawyer to take a reasonable case where the opposition has roughly the same legal resources I have.
But faced with the possibility of additionally paying for the $1K/hour attorneys for politically connected individuals, I would probably have no choice but to back down no matter how good my case was.
That would leave the legal bullies with a clear field to behave any way they wished.
And no, I have no solution. But I do wonder just how wide spread this problem really is, and how much of it is propaganda.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Twain: "A lie can travel halfway around the world..."
When I see something on the net that I find questionable, I can search for alternating positions from a dozen different sources in minutes. Weighting them from past experience and judging the apparent veracity by self contradiction gives me a pretty good idea of what is happening.
Your logical fallacy indicate to me that your opinion is based purely on bias, not experience or capability.
So where do you come up with your "facts" and opinions? If you don't believe anything that you find on the net, what do you do? Make them up? On that I would have to congratulate you. It is pretty hard to consistently find an opinion or claimed fact that doesn't appear on the net. You must have a wild imagination.
Re: Re: Twain: "A lie can travel halfway around the world..."
Then you need to learn how to use the net. Far and away above all other sources of the news you have the ability to check and countercheck all statements. That is of course not a guarantee that truth will be exposed at all , but it is far superior to reading one paper, or worse watching one one TV channel.
With responses like @9:19 it makes me wonder how many ringers are on Techdirt.
Truth and/or opposition is pro-American. Our government has its own reasons to act in just the opposite. But then our government itself is rather anti-American.
How many "conspiracy theories" have later turned out to be closer to truth than the propaganda that we are fed?
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Catching syphilis or gonorrhea was a court martial offense in the US military until someone realized that hiding the occurrences of these diseases was far worse than exposing them. Not just for the infected individual, but also for spreading those infections.
The more truth that is known, the safer that we all are. The NYTimes was aware of the extent of torture in Gitmo a year before the 2004 election, but decided that it couldn't release that information because it would "interfere" with the election. From a legal, moral and pragmatic stance, it have an obligation to make sure that horror was cleansed with sunlight before Bush got another four years to innure the public to what was happening.
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Perhaps the FBI is hoping to achieve the same goal with Ms Clinton as they have accomplished in the past. Provide some basis for believing that a person is despondent, and drive them to suicide, or what looks like suicide.
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The antitrust action against Microsoft did not go well despite many reputed malpractice examples, and questionable business practices.
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Re: Sigh
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Unlike the TimeWarner, Comcast, AT&T cable cabal. There just are no alternatives where I live.
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Re: I imagine a future when we've had enough of this.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Something something image is more important that truth.
I might be willing to pay a local lawyer to take a reasonable case where the opposition has roughly the same legal resources I have.
But faced with the possibility of additionally paying for the $1K/hour attorneys for politically connected individuals, I would probably have no choice but to back down no matter how good my case was.
That would leave the legal bullies with a clear field to behave any way they wished.
And no, I have no solution. But I do wonder just how wide spread this problem really is, and how much of it is propaganda.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Twain: "A lie can travel halfway around the world..."
Your logical fallacy indicate to me that your opinion is based purely on bias, not experience or capability.
So where do you come up with your "facts" and opinions? If you don't believe anything that you find on the net, what do you do? Make them up? On that I would have to congratulate you. It is pretty hard to consistently find an opinion or claimed fact that doesn't appear on the net. You must have a wild imagination.
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Re: Re: Twain: "A lie can travel halfway around the world..."
With responses like @9:19 it makes me wonder how many ringers are on Techdirt.
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Re: "Wikileaks is not explicitly anti-American."
How many "conspiracy theories" have later turned out to be closer to truth than the propaganda that we are fed?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: "Wikileaks is not explicitly anti-American."
The more truth that is known, the safer that we all are. The NYTimes was aware of the extent of torture in Gitmo a year before the 2004 election, but decided that it couldn't release that information because it would "interfere" with the election. From a legal, moral and pragmatic stance, it have an obligation to make sure that horror was cleansed with sunlight before Bush got another four years to innure the public to what was happening.
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