"withdrawing [...] rights from lawbreakers" I don't think that's how rights work?

How's their colony on LV-426 doing?

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yes - a third of the american population don't have a basic science education

don't be so sure about that - there are cases where something in the public domain has been recopyrighted and removed by changes to the law

I take it you've been dealt an above average hand then.

Yeah I think this a lot. The US has a government, their job is to govern, and yet it's always news when the government governs in a way the people don't like. And here I am just like HELLO, they're a government: it's their job to govern things JEEZ.

"surveillance being subject to judicial and legislative oversight" I guess you missed all the leaks which revealed that oversight is utterly useless?

Can we stop saying "females" when we mean "women". We're not Ferengi.

I like it, but pleeeease do not keep the moderations in all caps

Swedish FRA were part of the conspiracy to weaken encryption implementations along with GCHQ and the NSA :(

what about every single average joe using netflix you're sharing your wireless with?

I feel like I'm living in a world full of awful people. All this shit is happening and half the people I see claim to have known all along but just conveniently forgot to make the biggest fucking deal about it. Why are so many smug to be living under this?

reality check: there already exist more quality pirateable games than any single person could ever play in their lifetime.

Actually being an adult means you are free to make the call about whether you can have your own way or not - it's children who must be blindly obedient to their parents.