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Comment Re:BigTech Censorship (Score 1) 743

Report the messages. Chances are the moderators of those subs actually remove those messages, as opposed to what happened in T_D where the moderators left messages which violated T_D's own rules up.

T_D wasn't quarantined because of what people post (as every sub has people posting violence and nonsense from time to time) - the problem was the moderators weren't moderating it.

Comment Re:BigTech Censorship (Score 0) 743

The problem was the moderators weren't removing posts which violated Reddit's rules and their own subreddit's rules. If a subreddit has poor moderation and is home to threats against people which aren't removed, the subreddit gets quarantined until the moderators show they're actually willing and able to moderate it. This goes for any sub, left or right.

And a subreddit called "fuck the police" is fine unless it contains posts urging people to go out and kill police officers, as happened in T_D, and especially if those messages aren't removed by the moderators.

Comment Re:A bigger mistake than the Brexit referendum? (Score 1) 808

So it's undemocratic to ask the people what they want? If they still believe the same as before, then nothing will change. If they have changed their minds, it's undemocratic to ignore them now. And it's impossible to ask the same question twice in a referendum, so it can't possibly be re-running it.

Comment Re:The Betting Pool is Open... (Score 1) 145

Don't generalise. It destroys your argument. There is still an imbalance in power between an employer and employee, so unions are still terribly important. If one looks at countries with functioning unions (Germany, for example), you'd see they work and work well. They're not going to magically fix shitty business cultures, but they give the employees more of a chance to fix them.

Comment Re:Yeah - they'll be asleep. (Score 1) 122

You really don't seem to understand what the EU is or does. Seriously. You're embarrassing yourself.

Yes, the UK bankrupted itself fighting Nazis - many countries did. The money from the EU to other countries is paid by all members, and all receive benefits from it. Reducing it to a simple "they're spending our money!" shows a staggering ingorance of what's actually happening.

And the ECB is not the EU.

You're not really helping dispel the notion that leavers aren't well informed.

Comment Re:Yeah - they'll be asleep. (Score 1) 122

Throughout the late 1960s and 1970s, the United Kingdom was frequently called the "sick man of Europe", first by foreign commentators, and later at home by critics of the third Wilson/Callaghan ministry, because of industrial strife and poor economic performance compared to other European countries.

It wasn't doing fine. It was doing terribly, actually. Membership of the EEC (and later EU) helped massively. That's why Britain repeatedly tried to join.

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