Calling this a free speech issue is like saying that Reddit inhibits free speech by preventing you from posting personal information online. Not every act of asking you to change or not say something is a violation of free speech.
I Just Gave Up $4000 Per Month to Keep My Freedom of Speech
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
>He was not forced to do anything By that standard, nothing short of cutting your tongue off would be an infringement of your freedom of speech. Under the Sedition Act of 1918, nobody was "forced" to do anything; they were just imprisoned if they said bad things about the government.
This sort of hyperbolic conflation is exactly why it's stupid to relate a business transaction to "free speech." There is exactly zero relationship between what I said and putting people in jail for speech. (FYI: putting people in jail for saying things that you don't want is equivalent to forcing people to say what you do want.) I was tempted to not reply since the comment was being downvoted, but clearly you've gar…
Not only do I entirely agree with this, but the title of the blog post makes it seems like he was acting less out of a concern for free speech and more out of a desire for attention. "Hey guys, look at me! I'm giving up money for free speech!"
Re: I Just Gave Up $4000 Per Month to Keep My Freedom of Speech
#133Oh come on! Calling yourself a financial hacker! A real financial hacker would:
a) Figure out the IP ranges that the chase hoodlums use. b) Setup an alternate banner (without the word badassity in there) to show for those IP ranges. c) Rinse and repeat for any other unreasonable demands.
PROFIT! :D
Re: I Just Gave Up $4000 Per Month to Keep My Freedom of Speech
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
Presumably his readers are smart enough to get a deal. He mentions using Google Calander to cancel cards before fees kick in. So I assume he's not selling his readers down the river, but helping them 'hack' the system.
Yeah I would advise against that. Last time I checked, your credit score will plumet if you do that sort of thing. If you pay off your debts without paying any interest all the time, you're pretty much a terrible person to lend money to. The credit card companies also rely on the fact that however organised people thing they are going to be, a good amount of them slip up. Once they have credit, maybe they dip into it…
You never checked that, because the system is too opaque to check.
Another anecdote: I have three credit cards that I use for various things (recurring payments, real-life purchases, online purchases) and I pay them in full every month. I have a very high credit score. The credit card issuers are making plenty of money off of me; they get 4% of everything I buy.
(Why do I use credit cards? One, convenience. Two, it's an abstraction layer over my own money. If someone mistakenly charges my credit card, they've stolen the bank's money, which the bank will really want to get back. If someone mistakenly debits my checking account, well, so much for paying rent this month...)
Re: I Just Gave Up $4000 Per Month to Keep My Freedom of Speech
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
People get drivers licenses in order to drive, and they get credit cards to take on debt, build their credit, or make payments quicker and easier. Drivers licenses don't make people drive poorly nor do credit cards make people make poor financial decisions. If you're going to convolute the two through some form of causality, the argument you could make is that people who are apt to make poor financial decisions are m…
I'll stand by my original comment - no other single decision that a modern adult can make, than driving (or riding) in an automobile, will more negatively impact their health, or more likely result in a fatality. If you take a representative sample of people who do what you suggest (seat belts, mirrors, tires, breaks) versus a sample of people that I offer (people who just don't drive - I.E. Walk) - I guarantee you t…
Assuming you still need to get from point A to point B, driving is far safer than riding a bike in most places in the US. Granted this is mostly because everyone else is in a car...
I'm not sure where bus-riding fits for safety. Anyone got numbers?