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Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay

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Post by ClumsyPilot »

Aerroon wrote: post #381
supernova87a wrote: post #55

Now this part is getting a little too carried away. It is one thing for libraries and bookstores to decide not to offer for borrowing or sale things that they disagree with. It is another (and overstepping imo) for Ebay to restrict individual people from selling to others goods that are not illegal or in violation of their other practical rules (no selling jewelry, monetary equivalents, etc). This falls into the cate…

> It is one thing for libraries and bookstores to decide not to offer for borrowing or sale things that they disagree with. If the library is publicly funded, then I don't really think this is OK. They might decide to not purchase additional copies of some books they disagree with, but I certainly don't want them to limit lending of what they have. If the library takes no public money then they can obviously do whate…

This private / publix split is idiotic and gets you nowhere. Either you are censored or you are not.

"Oh sorry, the ISP is private, so they are allowed to disconnect you if they dont like what you wrote on twitter"

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Post by smegger001 »

api wrote: post #180
jeffreyrogers wrote: post #62

About 5 years ago a friend of mine was saying, "yeah, it's bad at the universities but it doesn't affect the real world." Pretty funny how quickly things accelerated. I'd like to get off this ride.

Unfortunately your only choices today are this or overt neo-Naziism. You have to stake out the most extreme, divisive, fanatical position possible. If you try to be nuanced and rational you get attacked by both sides. I think social media has a lot to do with it. We created a global communication medium and then programmed it to prioritize the most "engaging" content, which is of course the most triggering and contro…

Or we could be have like sane rational people and not indulge either sides insane society destroying extremes. you don't defeat extremism by adding to polarizing the situation even more.

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Post by jb1991 »

supernova87a wrote: post #55

Now this part is getting a little too carried away. It is one thing for libraries and bookstores to decide not to offer for borrowing or sale things that they disagree with. It is another (and overstepping imo) for Ebay to restrict individual people from selling to others goods that are not illegal or in violation of their other practical rules (no selling jewelry, monetary equivalents, etc). This falls into the cate…

> This falls into the category of taste / political opinions and has gone too far too quickly.

Welcome to America.

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Post by NoImmatureAdHom »

supernova87a wrote: post #55

Now this part is getting a little too carried away. It is one thing for libraries and bookstores to decide not to offer for borrowing or sale things that they disagree with. It is another (and overstepping imo) for Ebay to restrict individual people from selling to others goods that are not illegal or in violation of their other practical rules (no selling jewelry, monetary equivalents, etc). This falls into the cate…

But what should we all do?

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Post by bpodgursky »

On top of all the censorship concerns, refusing to continue publication of these books actually is a damning indictment of the copyright system.

The author has been dead for decades, and yet these books are still under copyright for decades more — to an organization that refuses to print them!

IMO a copyright holder that REFUSES TO PUBLISH books they hold monopoly rights over should lose that copyright immediately. Anything else is ridiculous.

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Post by Rapzid »

chroem- wrote: post #75

My work sent out a memo today regarding what pronouns I'm allowed to use. We're in the middle of a cultural revolution, and the current trend seems to be for rapid acceleration rather than moderation.

I thought we might work at the same place for a second there but I've not received anything like that today.

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Post by BLKNSLVR »

I speak for the tweetle beetles.

We tweetle beetles may battle with paddles in puddles in bottles on poodles that partake of noodles, but when noodle-eating poodles talk politics in limericks it ticks off their ticks who stick sticks in their backs to start building shacks in which to investigate facts... then our battles are shackled to meanings and leanings and motions of oceans an ocean away from the childish motivations become tired contrivations for sad populations.

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Post by neonological »

unityByFreedom wrote: post #389
refenestrator wrote: post #384

Earlier quoted context omitted.

History is written by the victors in all cases. If Hua and Deng didn't win against the Gang of Four, you'd have a different history of the cultural revolution. Fortunately, they won. America's won too much, even when we're wrong or stupid, and our historical frame has suffered.

Economies are not zero sum. Every transaction has winners on both sides. People need different things at different times.

Economies are zero sum. Your statement is a fallacy I see touted everywhere.

All economic products cost energy to generate and all energy is limited in totality by the available energy on earth.

When someone uses this energy, another person cannot use it.

This holds true even for the most abstract product. Say the economic product of poetry produced/sung by a poet.

The poet needs energy to sustain himself and the time needed to produce the poem. When he uses that energy, entropy increases and someone else now cannot use it.

That is zero sum.

The transaction you are describing is the equivalent of two people taking gold from limited reserves and trading that gold. The fact of the matter is, the gold is still missing from the shared reserve regardless of how fair the trade was.

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