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Where was the tantrum? I think a citation should be provided, else concerns about straw man arguments might not be allayed.

People are still allowed to share their experience and opinions without citations being a requirement.

No UBI, thanks, let's just make them pay for the works they're relying on (as the rest of us would have to).

The facts are: - people are being arrested, charged, and prosecuted, for opinions - that number is greater than 1 - the number of people being arrested under speech laws, per year,…

> For perspective, I was educated in my high school in England, and in my Physics class no muslim scholars name ever mentioned in my many textbooks and in classes. The same goes to…

> they do not arrest thousands of people a year for being mean on twitter, no. It doesn't need to be thousands for it to be worrying. From [1]: > The Metropolitan Police has awarde…

Again, in the link you provided, in the very first paragraph, it mentions several great names who are said to have given frequent credit to muslim scholars. Are you saying that is …

Is Signal morally bankrupt for resisting the UK government's onboard scanning for CSAM?

Firstly, there is a difference between a telescope and the prior advances that led to a telescope being invented. The telescope was not invented by a muslim scholar, hence that bei…

> the capital was raised for AI requires that it produce as many reverse centaurs as possible, because the only way to recoup the farcical sums associated with AI production is to …

> You sign to blog you know exist from elsewhere. And primary elsewhere was google search. I'm going to guess that means "the blogs you know, you primarily found from Google search…

Your assumptions are the opposite of those for an English common law country, which is why those with that background are particularly aghast. > Operating a motor vehicle requires …

> I am not making an argument based on tradition. I know, and neither am I. Perhaps you misread my comment. > I couldn't care less that the web has not been government-gated for th…

Someone else in the thread asked, as others have, but most pithily > How about not needing to do age verification? Which I agree with. However, I think that ship is sailing. Those …

The web has not had age gating via large-scale government coercion since its inception. To claim that it's absurd to think we can do without it is to detach from that reality, and …

A dystopian state?

It does on my balcony where the fan pumps to, which has made doing any gardening difficult, but to the overall outside temperature it's just a drop in the ocean.

Yes, by giving hints it verifies the test because if it can't find it with hints then it shouldn't find it without hints, else there is some other mechanism at work (which would al…

They are told outside the test because if they can't find it when given hints then it's safe to assume it won't find it given no hints. It verifies to test, to an extent, much like…

> Pedantic bootlicker Please, try harder to raise the level of debate.

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. > Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and …

> That's not being a "free speech" absolutist. One doesn't need to be a free speech absolutist to not be a fascist, far from it; and the exceptions prove the rule - those examples …

> i'm sure your reply will be pedantic Have you heard of the term "bad faith argument"? That's a good example. > - Opposition to political and cultural liberalism > Yes, banned spe…

That's not a rebuttal. Claiming to support is not support. Is Musk wielding the apparatus of state to ensure that any speech that he disagrees with is suppressed, e.g. on college c…

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