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You're not correcting anything. Nothing in my comment suggested I don't know what qualified immunity is or I don't understand the difference between criminal and civil liability. Q…

This was clarifying? It reads like a sleepy undergrad's first attempt, complete with the constant meandering to satisfy some word count. The irony is a SOTA AI could make this pers…

Are you aware that the current US president won the popular vote? What redistricting and voter suppression came into play in that case? I'm supposed to conclude from this election …

Wow yes excellent point, because of course a police officer facing the threat of legal action would never attempt such a low bar lie. Oops my boss told me to. Oops I didn't know. C…

You are missing the point. The point is you can still sue the McDonalds. With the police there is a human intuition to also want to sue the officer, given the officer is a human be…

Police officers are human. In the United States in the vast majority of cases you can't sue the police, only the community responsible for them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quali…

If your point is to suggest no alternatives have ever been contemplated then that is simply factually untrue and I think you know that. In some cases, such people succeed locally/s…

The Iran war is unpopular because of prices at the pump. Prior interventions in Iran (and elsewhere) that also violated rights did not garner the same reaction because to the avera…

Very few? Try none. Unless the moral position is something akin to realist self interest, in which case the apparent "inconsistency" is actually internally quite consistent. Perhap…

But is it not consistent to be consistently inconsistent? But is it not consistent to be consistently inconsistent? But is it not consistent to be consistently inconsistent?

I appreciate your optimism actually. Someone (it's me) can also share your ideal for social media while also having slightly different takes on what makes the prevailing model wron…

Indeed. Qualified immunity is a stain on American jurisprudence. You can almost never hold anyone in government accountable. You are forced to sue your own community to get some sh…

Fair enough, I appreciate the response. Just note in this case I think the precedent should not be private company can ignore public demand. If they can unilaterally ignore the dem…

The problem with this summation is the government is complicit in their actions. Thus it undermines this simple private gain, public pain argument. A lot of the times when Meta doe…

Whatever he had in mind there is surely a warning in how rapidly his efforts were reversed once he passed from the scene. This is not merely a matter of "favorites" or "imitation" …

By virtue of its position, the state often does things it forbids all other actors under its jurisdiction from doing. Thus your comment has much less force than it would seem, even…

That may all be true. However it seems odd to not follow your ending paragraph with more circumspection re the earlier ones. If we stipulate that the USA is ending a trend of relat…

The term/design is not his but he offered an interpretation or extrapolation inspired by the concept that was unique enough that if you mention panopticon in the context of Foucaul…

It is good to diversify but people should really not make Europe out to be some sanctuary. European governments (and thus companies) are still going to cooperate with America. When…

Just to volunteer an example: An editorial by Assange that explicitly called out the panopticon was on my mind today. The rise of "meta glasses" and reading ICE also wishes to empl…