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> No-one (left or right) would have found a word-fight between evenly-wrong grey characters very interesting if that was the story in the first place. That you would rank the Covin…

Yes, some "sides" of some issues are objectively false. But the problem is that even where facts are not in dispute, the mainstream press's strong left-bias influences the facts it…

I agree that cutting the stream was the best thing to do in this situation. But if you want to troll people about lacking reading comprehension, try fixing your grammar and punctua…

The reaction to this ad is predictably absurd. The far left's constant push to draw increasingly unremarkable positions like "US jobs should go to US workers" as beyond the pale is…

Nervous? Not at all. My point is, it isn't my responsibility to ban them or take any other action on my end. That's a problem to be resolved between the EU's governments and its ci…

No, if I want to have a physical presence in the EU I have to follow EU law. But if I'm residing entirely in another country, and EU citizens want to do business with me over the i…

> You might just wake up one morning with your bank accounts frozen and your credit cards revoked if you violate the GDPR. Please, spare me. I'm no more worried about EU laws than …

I would continue to do nothing special to support the EU's provincial laws. If EU citizens want to send me money, fine. If the EU decides to block its citizens from doing so, that'…

I have no business assets connected to any EU countries, and I don't have any desire to cross any EU borders. So I will continue to enjoy life in my home country and ignore your pr…

Exactly, that's the distinction.

No, you're confused. Google has a physical presence and business partners in Europe; I do not. (Profiting from EU citizens is beside the point.)

> the EU is saying "You can't do these things to our citizens without their explicit consent, and we will punish you if you do, regardless of where you host your website." The EU h…

Right, hypothetically if I were to physically enter the EU I could expect trouble, and that's the EU's right. But in the meanwhile, if EU citizens wanted to do business with me, th…

A lot of the GDPR's provisions are admirable, and fundamentally good for citizens. I'd like (some) similar rules in my country. I just wish they'd drop the absurd pretense that the…

What makes you imagine your government has any jurisdiction over me? EU citizens can choose to use services offered under other countries' laws, or not. The EU can choose to implem…

Yet it is fundamentally incorrect. I'm not an EU citizen, so I have zero reason to care about their laws. I will simply ignore them, and the EU has no recourse, other than possibly…

It isn't my responsibility to block them, or to take any action whatsoever to comply with another country's laws.

> This regulation is not limited to companies based in the EU—it applies to any service anywhere in the world that can be used by citizens of the EU. That's fundamentally incorrect…

Widening our spheres of empathy means we can't predicate empathy on finding a label that fits people into an orthodox feminist understanding of privilege. The key takeaway from Far…

Companies will always comply with valid warrants for data in their possession, and it would be ridiculous to expect them to do otherwise. What made this case different was that it …

Thanks for the explanation.

Am I missing something here, or is there no reason the FBI couldn't desolder the 5C's Toshiba NAND flash chip, read its encrypted contents, and perform the desired offline brute-fo…

It seems the Justice Department admits that Apple's reputation for privacy and security is of great value to the company. I wonder how it intends to argue, then, that forcing Apple…

> It is none of my business how other people lead their lives, even if I disagree with their lifestyle, as long as their actions do not harm me or the society as a whole. Willful d…

I haven't done a ton of reading on the movement, but I can point to Warren Farrell as a thoughtful author who has important things to say about men's issues.