Time was Slashdot had relevance. Now it's sunk to the level of using Newsweek and Trump-bashing. What's next? The Top 10 Ways to Roast Your Coffee?

Let's allow that QAnon is nonsense. But so is socialism. By Facebook picking sides, it has injected itself into the conversation and must be liable not only for the opinions that it expresses, but, now, by the opinions it allows to be expressed.

I watched a few minutes of the video. I'm not qualified to weigh in on the substance, but the speakers, for me, seemed to be acting a part rather than behaving genuinely. But so what? This censorship is in itself enough to strip youtube, et al., of Safe Harbor protection. Frankly, given the level of active censorship they're already doing, I doubt that the loss of protection will require a lot more censorship/curating efforts to avoid most libel suits.

I see two problems with this. First, limiting the dataset will have the effect of limiting the communication of information. I knew a person whose first language was Russian, and even though his English seemed excellent to me, he once told me his frustration in fully expressing his thoughts in English. Second, to the extent that such communication is possible, it seems to me that all that will happen is that a perjorative is expunged from the language, the actual concept might not be, and will result in language that will fall to the next little Hitler witchhunt of the perpetually offended.

I actually listened to the press conference when Trump talked about that, and he didn't say any such thing. So-called news agencies that report such rubbish are either political operatives or too lazy to back check. They should be ashamed of themselves, and it's telling that they're issuing no retractions.

I agree that transparency and raw data is key to weed out pseudo-scientific studies that exist solely to advance a political agenda. The question of patient confidentiality is hardly insolutble, and I suspect is merely a ruse by those who have up to now made their living by sweetening their data.

I have never seen anti-police comments there. Whoever at reddit did this is either a dupe or a bigot.

Thanks to this person, reddit has opened a can of worms, in that the other areas on that site, some well-known for advocating violence, will now be exposed for what they are.

Can you imagine a physics paper that shows that Einstein's GR has been vindicated once again, and then ends by urging the establishment of an International Einstein Day? When you make the transition from saying what is to what should be, then you've climbed down from your scientist pedestal and joined the rest of us riff-raff know-it-alls.

Once upon a time, when Microsoft ruled the world, its Internet Explorer was undisputed King of browsers. But when upstart browsers started to make inroads, Microsoft baked its browser into the bowels of Windows, making it not only preinstalled, but impossible to remove. Believe it or not, Microsoft spun this borgian action as a Good Thing, making sure that the "user experience" was up to Microsoft's standards. Now, however, it seems to be Google that is swinging its hefty weight around, positioning its ever growing assimilation of the Internet as something it's doing for our own good.

Hilarious answer (and too true).

For what it's worth, there are claims that transgender folk have a high risk of attempted suicide. If true, this alone is an indication that mental fitness is a question mark. Also, Chelsea Manning's betrayal of trust is at least suggestive, given the small number of transgenders in the military, of possibly bigger security risks. Finally, let's keep in mind that physical and mental fitness, as well as age, are all bars to military participation, and it would be silly to claim that this means those kept out of the military are somehow second-class citizens.

Wrong. The Queen is Head of State. Only the very uneducated think otherwise, and it has never been a "common aspect of successive governments for decades". The website of the Governor General plainly states: "Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is Queen of Canada and Head of State. The Governor General is the representative of the Queen in Canada."

Case closed.

It sounds like the organization is basing its complaint on headlines, instead of what was actually requested. The committee did not ask for private information, or for information that it would be illegal to provide. Rather, the committee asked for information that was available to the public. Essentially, it seems to me, the committee was looking to save a few bucks by getting the data gift-wrapped, instead of going out and getting the data itself.

Given Trump's penchant for conferring with CEOs and movers and shakers, it's more likely that his administration is using "big league" advisors, rather than ordinary policy wonks.

What rings so false about the hacking claims is that a presumed elite hacker or hacking team would be so clumsy as to leave evidence of its true origins. I think that the more valuable question is to ask "who benefits from leaving Russian fingerprints?" The Democrats, obviously, because it feeds into their pre-built narrative, but from all appearances, they're too technologically inept. If it truly was a state actor, then my guess would be China or North Korea, since both have the skill, and both would benefit from the ensuing political chaos, giving them more latitude to advance their interests. More likely, however, is that the Russia connection was simply a by-product of the hackers covering their tracks.