Seems like a reasonable guy. His rants on gun rights are very well balanced. "Gun-free zones don't work," apparently.
Microsoft Bans “Offensive Language” from Skype
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#12> When investigating alleged violations of these Terms, Microsoft reserves the right to review Your Content in order to resolve the issue. This is actually the most scary part of it. Not only you give up your freedom of speech when using their services, but you grant MS the rights to actively review all your data. That includes all your documents, emails, skype calls, etc. Basically you give up any remaining online p…
And anyone who has ever moderated a community knows how frequently people get reporting for having a contrarian or unpopular opinions. This is ripe for abuse and setting a path for MS to castigate thoughtcrime.
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#13What is up with the sudden intense push for all of this Orwellian censorship lately? Between this, Facebook, Google, and reddit trying to censor anything they deem to be wrongthink and the very hard push to deny American citizens their Second Amendment rights, I may have to consider purchasing some tin foil headgear. It's become open season on the Bill of Rights lately. It's starting to get more than just a little bi…
Even here in Sweden, we have a new law that the goverment is trying to push through that will severely limit free speech.
https://www.thelocal.se/20180313/opinion-proposed-law-change...
A movement trying to stop it:
https://www.stoppagrundlagsandringen.com/ (In swedish)
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#14I thought Skype was now encrypted?
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#15Seems like a reasonable guy. His rants on gun rights are very well balanced. "Gun-free zones don't work," apparently.
Are you being sarcastic? I can't tell.
He's right, gun free zones don't work. Every school shooting in this country was in a gun free zone.
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#16Seems like a reasonable guy. His rants on gun rights are very well balanced. "Gun-free zones don't work," apparently.
Are you being sarcastic? I can't tell. He's right, gun free zones don't work. Every school shooting in this country was in a gun free zone.
Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Most of the western world is a gun-free zone, and there are very very few shootings, except in the US, where there are apparently more guns than people.
Only in the US would it be argued that taking away guns would result in more shootings.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you being sarcastic? I can't tell. He's right, gun free zones don't work. Every school shooting in this country was in a gun free zone.
Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Most of the western world is a gun-free zone, and there are very very few shootings, except in the US, where there are apparently more guns than people. Only in the US would it be argued that taking away guns would result in more shootings.
That's because the issue is a lot more complicated than that.
I'm going to make the assumption that you are not from the United States.
In a lot of ways the United States is not like the rest of the western world.
The right to bear arms was so important to our founding fathers that it is the Second Amendment to our Constitution (right after the guarantee of freedom of speech, religion, etc.). The fact that American colonists were so well armed is probably a major reason for their success during the American Revolution. The idea was that so long as we retained the right to bear arms we would be able to keep tyranny in check. History shows that calls for sweeping gun control are often a canary for planned authoritarian infringements upon our other rights.
A lot of the gun statistics that are reported are quite misleading.
For example, more than 60% of gun deaths in America are suicides. [1] I would suspect that the majority of these individuals would simply choose another means of suicide. From everything I have read our suicide rate is no worse than other similar developed nations.
We also have a massive inner city gang homicide problem. No matter how many gun control laws we pass, these individuals will continue to obtain guns through illegal means.
There are wide swaths of this country that are very rural and very remote. The police response times are over an hour in some parts of the country. Self defense via a firearm could actually be life saving. Additionally, as the recent Parkland shooting demonstrates, law enforcement is not guaranteed or even required to intervene to defend anyone from homicide.
[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/09/upshot/gun-deaths-are-mos...
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#18Seems like a reasonable guy. His rants on gun rights are very well balanced. "Gun-free zones don't work," apparently.
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#19What is up with the sudden intense push for all of this Orwellian censorship lately? Between this, Facebook, Google, and reddit trying to censor anything they deem to be wrongthink and the very hard push to deny American citizens their Second Amendment rights, I may have to consider purchasing some tin foil headgear. It's become open season on the Bill of Rights lately. It's starting to get more than just a little bi…
Its an attempt at shaming and shunning "wrongthink". They can't get much done via laws, or they feel its not enough. So people who think the "wrong" things need to be punished and ostracized from society.
Its not going to go they way they think it is.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Most of the western world is a gun-free zone, and there are very very few shootings, except in the US, where there are apparently more guns than people. Only in the US would it be argued that taking away guns would result in more shootings.
That's because the issue is a lot more complicated than that. I'm going to make the assumption that you are not from the United States. In a lot of ways the United States is not like the rest of the western world. The right to bear arms was so important to our founding fathers that it is the Second Amendment to our Constitution (right after the guarantee of freedom of speech, religion, etc.). The fact that American c…
> The idea was that so long as we retained the right to bear arms we would be able to keep tyranny in check.
How's that working out for you? The vast majority of my 2nd Amendment-supporting friends seem to support Trump, whose authoritarian statements and actions are like nothing seen in a US President.
Possessing the means of insurrection doesn't entail having the judgment to use it appropriately.