You don't need to "cut down government" to deal with ICE's excessive behaviour and you don't need "big government" to protect consumers and workers. Those are both things any normal government should do. Why does it have to be one extreme or the other?
"The names on the comments to the FCC are utterly unimportant..."
So you're perfectly ok with thousands of people's identities being used fraudulently? I'm pretty sure if your name was used to used in opposition to your paymasters' anti-consumer wishes you'd being throwing quite the shit-fit.
"Regulatory agencies are NOT created to help you citizens. They are there to lul you into a false sense of security..."
Have you not yet noticed that nobody believes your paranoid ravings? You have absolutely no support for your position, but apparently it's everybody else that doesn't get it, right?
But they're a legal requirement, and the gross abuse of the comment process by the FCC could weigh heavily against them in the coming lawsuits challenging the rules repeal.
You've been around here long enough to know that just because someone did A Bad Thing over a decade ago, the government does not earn a free pass to grossly abuse their powers and lock someone away for six months on a completely bogus charge. A misdemeanor domestic assault charge is not the most significant thing in the article.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Yeah, it's a crime how trolls don't get protected!
"It should be Neutral..."
I would love to hear your legal and moral justifications for not allowing the owners of a privately owned website to have complete control of what appears on it. It should be good for a laugh if nothing else.
"This kid is a giant asshole and his mother enabled him to become this blight on humanity."
He cheated at a video game. Say that repeatedly to yourself until the worldly insignificance sinks in. I love gaming but appreciate how low it ranks in the the list of things humanity is blighted by.
I'm genuinely curious to know if this cop was simply intellectually stunted enough to think that we was ok using a non-lethal weapon, and simply couldn't process the consequences of incapacitating someone driving a vehicle at 35mph. Because it's either that or he was a brutal monster.
"The kid didn't need to die and the cop shouldn't have tased the kid on a moving vehicle but the kid put himself in harms way running from the cops."
Your horrific attitude is a significant part of the problem. You say he didn't need to die, instead of saying there is absolutely no sane, humane reason why he should have been deliberately put at serious risk of death. What else did the cop think was going to happen? If instead of weak platitudes like yours, a lot more people spoke out against egregious police behavior, real change for the better might be achievable. Too many give this sort of shit a pass.
"Suicide is such a high risk at the factories that they've had to add nets throughout the compound."
This is to avoid bad publicity, not because there's an excessive suicide problem. At first glance the raw numbers look horrific, but that's because most people don't understand the scale of these factories. As JoeCool said, the suicide rate in the Foxconn factory population is lower than the national average, and not by a small amount. But this is never clarified in the media stories about the issue because that would suggest the opposite of the narrative being pushed.
"I remember when the new FCC shitshow started and Mike tried to be reasonable saying Pai was generally thoughtful about stuff."
Really? I can remember Techdirt strongly criticizing Pai a long time ago. He's been pedalling these crappy ideas for years, it's only recently he got the power to implement them.
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Re: coming out of the woodwork
"...but not Masnick, who has quite possibly written more anti-copyright-abuse articles over the last 20 years than all the others put together."
FTFY
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"Sure it was a freedom of speech issue but they don't have that in the UK."
Um, yeah they do. It may be different to the US, but it's silly to say they just "don't have that".
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Re: Re: So what?
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Re: Just can't win...
You don't need to "cut down government" to deal with ICE's excessive behaviour and you don't need "big government" to protect consumers and workers. Those are both things any normal government should do. Why does it have to be one extreme or the other?
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Re: Liberal hysteria
"The names on the comments to the FCC are utterly unimportant..."
So you're perfectly ok with thousands of people's identities being used fraudulently? I'm pretty sure if your name was used to used in opposition to your paymasters' anti-consumer wishes you'd being throwing quite the shit-fit.
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Re: Re: Re: so what?
"Regulatory agencies are NOT created to help you citizens. They are there to lul you into a false sense of security..."
Have you not yet noticed that nobody believes your paranoid ravings? You have absolutely no support for your position, but apparently it's everybody else that doesn't get it, right?
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Re: Re: How silly.
"The comments are a formality."
But they're a legal requirement, and the gross abuse of the comment process by the FCC could weigh heavily against them in the coming lawsuits challenging the rules repeal.
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Re: Re: Re: Mountain or molehill?
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Re:
You've been around here long enough to know that just because someone did A Bad Thing over a decade ago, the government does not earn a free pass to grossly abuse their powers and lock someone away for six months on a completely bogus charge. A misdemeanor domestic assault charge is not the most significant thing in the article.
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Re: Re: Censored! Yeah, it's a crime how outlaws don't get protected!
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Least it's easy
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Yeah, it's a crime how trolls don't get protected!
"It should be Neutral..."
I would love to hear your legal and moral justifications for not allowing the owners of a privately owned website to have complete control of what appears on it. It should be good for a laugh if nothing else.
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Re: This kid is a POS
"This kid is a giant asshole and his mother enabled him to become this blight on humanity."
He cheated at a video game. Say that repeatedly to yourself until the worldly insignificance sinks in. I love gaming but appreciate how low it ranks in the the list of things humanity is blighted by.
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Re: I agree but have another opinion
"The kid didn't need to die and the cop shouldn't have tased the kid on a moving vehicle but the kid put himself in harms way running from the cops."
Your horrific attitude is a significant part of the problem. You say he didn't need to die, instead of saying there is absolutely no sane, humane reason why he should have been deliberately put at serious risk of death. What else did the cop think was going to happen? If instead of weak platitudes like yours, a lot more people spoke out against egregious police behavior, real change for the better might be achievable. Too many give this sort of shit a pass.
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Re: Re: Re: Was a good cop, now a silent cop.
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Re: Re: Re: Was a good cop, now a silent cop.
"Suicide is such a high risk at the factories that they've had to add nets throughout the compound."
This is to avoid bad publicity, not because there's an excessive suicide problem. At first glance the raw numbers look horrific, but that's because most people don't understand the scale of these factories. As JoeCool said, the suicide rate in the Foxconn factory population is lower than the national average, and not by a small amount. But this is never clarified in the media stories about the issue because that would suggest the opposite of the narrative being pushed.
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"I remember when the new FCC shitshow started and Mike tried to be reasonable saying Pai was generally thoughtful about stuff."
Really? I can remember Techdirt strongly criticizing Pai a long time ago. He's been pedalling these crappy ideas for years, it's only recently he got the power to implement them.
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