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genon

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    Comment #15039269

    Correct. It's odd that someone could contrive a meaning to do pornography. I also don't think "dirty mac" (as in "dirty mac brigade") is a term used in the US.

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    Comment #15035896

    Of course. Otherwise why even provide a service in the first place?

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    Comment #15035742

    Your link does not necessarily refute the post you're replying to. Gay people are not a protected group under Federal law; nor, AIUI, are they in most states.

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    Comment #15035482

    After I warn them that I will cancel the service if they don't stop falsely claiming I endorse the Nazi cause, and they ignore my warning.

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    Comment #15035309

    > "Free speech" on the internet never really existed Long before 4chan repeated everything Usenet had done many years earlier there was plenty of free speech on the Internet. Not b…

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    Comment #15035044

    > Can a bar refuse entry to children? If it's legal for children to enter a bar, I don't see why a bar should be able to refuse entry to children. > Can a cinema kick someone out f…

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    Comment #15034754

    Let's make it even more complicated. Bob believes absolutely everything Al does, in fact his views are somehow even worse than Al's, but because he's not allowed to express his opi…

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    Comment #15034137

    I'm surprised at how many people are pretending not to understand what I wrote, seemingly in order to proclaim how anti-Nazi they are. When I was a teenager and first read Chomsky,…

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    Comment #15034050

    I'm genuinely shocked at how some people can so blithely, and possibly obliviously, throw out textbook pro-discrimination arguments when the target of the discrimination is somethi…

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    Comment #15033909

    > Do you think that businesses shouldn't be allowed to discriminate against skateboarders, or people who refuse to wear shirts and shoes? I don't believe that businesses should be …

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    Comment #15033245

    If you get what I'm saying - comparing two well-known instances from different parts of the political spectrum where businesses try and refuse custom for ideological reasons - why …

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    Comment #15033104

    > Usually you have to do something drastic to actively disprove the libelous claim Yes, that something is called suing for libel and proving it is libel in a court . Simply claimin…

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    Comment #15032978

    Absolutely correct. He is also effectively saying that since he can and will remove sites he personally doesn't like, that he personally approves of every other site using Cloudfla…

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    Comment #15007499

    > Interesting how the British told the French and Belgians to fight on The French only fought because the British (who were not in command) told them to? > They even forced the Fre…

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    Comment #14995953

    > I don't really know anything bad about NZ. https://e2nz.org

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    Comment #14995890

    ARPANET/the Internet was developed to facilitate communication, remote access and data sharing between different computer systems. Are you sticking with "Why not just use a phone?"…

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    Comment #14993316

    I don't know if this just sounded like a zinger to you when you wrote it, but "the Internet" is a prime example of anything but a solution in search of a problem.

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    Comment #14941392

    For people living on the cutting edge of the web, here's a Bootstrap 3 version: https://github.com/abcarroll/geo3-bootstrap

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    Comment #14903484

    > Guns are, on average, not so useful / safe. To be fair, I don't think many people are killed by toy guns . One thing I'll never forget from the land of Orwell is this from 15 yea…