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Comment Re:Police States (Score 1) 82

Do you work at a backbone site?

If you had any idea what you were talking about, you'd know that was a meaningless question.

If not, your lack of an anecdote is typically worthless

Still talking out of your ass.

not that if you said you did it would be credible given your typical game-playing bullshit.

Could have saved yourself a lot of words and just said, "You're right- I should shut up about things I know nothing about."

Comment Re:Police States (Score 1) 82

That isn't even surveillance. It's much worse.
It's a layer of middle-men misusing information to circumvent constitutional measures that are still very much intact.
This is still absolutely a problem- but it's a very different problem, and also a very solvable problem.

It is not analogous to a diktat from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

Comment Re:Police States (Score 1) 82

That was in the link you provided. So perhaps we should treat everything you say as "bullshit, really" til proven differently.

You could have saved yourself a lot of words by merely typing: "I'm illiterate."

I followed the links in the link provided to find the technical details- you know, how wiki is supposed to be used. Class dismissed.

Comment Re:Police States (Score 1) 82

No, it's not happening here.

I'm as against this ICE horse-shit as the next guy, but the fact of the matter is, this has been an unenforced law for a long fucking time. It should have been removed. There was always the risk that someone would enforce it. Now you're shocked that someone is, and pretending like they're afoul of the law, rather than the preceding Presidents that chose not to enforce.

Further, these fuckers aren't disappearing.
If they were, they wouldn't be all over the fucking news. Habeas Corpus has not been suspended for them. I do, however, consider that a red line that I wouldn't be surprised if Trump crossed.

Comment Re:Police States (Score 1) 82

Whether it is done by "the State" or not may depend on your definition of "the State". If it's done by a corporation, and the government has access, then I feel it's done by "the State".

No. There is absolutely distinction there, and trying to pretend that there isn't is just a shithead tactic to merge different problems into one for the sake of ease of argument.

Claiming it's actually done by "a private corporation" if petty word-play, when the government controls which corporations are allowed to exist and what they can do (and how profitable they are ... see tax law).

The Federal Government has no such control. Corporations are incorporated by the state they "reside" in.
Sure, the IRS acting afoul of the law can make life difficult tax wise, but that's it.

FWIW, "The power to tax is the power to destroy!", so corporations are not independent of the government.

Pure fucking poppycock.
When a bill of attainder is passed taxing Microsoft into oblivion, then we can talk.

Comment Re:Police States (Score 1) 82

There's no willful ignorance involved, rather informed opinion- something you don't have here.

I work in the industry. They didn't tap my lines.
Sure, they got a bunch of shithead corporations to give them shit-tons of data, something that now that it has seen the light of day, doesn't happen anymore- but it was never some kind of universal tap. They don't have the resources, or the authority for it. What they had were bootlickers who went along with it.

Comment Re: They're going to come for vpn's next (Score 1) 47

Why would I address your claim?
I can't remember the last time I was very stimulated at all by porn, so I sincerely doubt it's true; however even if it were, it's frankly none of your fucking business.
Lots of things are a "hyperstimulus".
You seem to think it's ok to legislate which are ok, and which are not. Legislating your morality is some christofascist bullshit, christofascist.

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