MikeUt

I am shocked to hear that that assaulting wheelchair-bound people is legal in Italy, especially given its aging population. I agree, this law is badly needed!

> Italy’s rightwing press has been stirring up the issue by referencing the application of anti-homophobia laws in other countries. “Absurd examples have been used to say, ‘Look, this is what’s going to happen if the law passes in Italy,’” said Mickens.

Does absurd mean false? What are these examples? It seems unusual to only present Mickens' rebuttal to the arguments, and not the arguments themselves.

What bothers me is that granting a patent is easy, but invalidating one requires a "principal officer" and is treated as a huge infringement on property rights. What about the rights of everyone else, who are forbidden from using a technology by the patent-holder? Isn't that a much greater infringement upon liberty or property, than invalidating a patent?

*https://work.chron.com/state-requirements-auto-mechanic-3013...

> apple doesn’t have an obligation to make it easy

Nor do countries have an obligation to allow Apple access to their markets if Apple refuses to respect user freedom, should that be legally required.

That's very sneaky phrasing, implying that the 1 million Black people in Central Europe today come from this thousand year old Black Diaspora of undefined size, instead of being recent arrivals.

Population statistics are oddly absent on blackcentraleurope.com, but according to [1], "there are roughly 12.5 million Black people in Europe" and "More than 1,000,000 sub-Saharan Africans had settled in Europe between 2010 and 2017."

At that immigration rate, it would take only 87 years (one lifetime) for all of those 12.5 million to enter Europe (ignoring death and birth-rate). That immigration rate was probably not constant [2], but it's more than enough to say that the vast majority are "a relatively new presence".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Europeans_of_African_anc...

[2] Finding Black population history numbers in Europe is surprisingly difficult, possibly because "many European countries refuse to collect racial data on their citizens": https://qz.com/1236213/europes-black-population-has-increase...

> Since then, English [global] freezing orders, backed by international respect for England’s courts and London’s centrality as a financial hub, have become unparalleled in power and reach, experts say. The orders can be applied to an individual target with even a loose link to Britain, and courts have ruled they can also apply to connected companies, trusts and associates anywhere in the world.

The implication that countries are complying with this unilateral expansion of English jurisdiction because of "international respect" is laughable. The US even passed the SPEECH act [1] specifically to prevent libel tourism using English courts [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPEECH_Act

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/03/21/394273902/...

Who knew that heritability and geographic separation don't affect humans. Then these genetic distance maps [1], and certainly this one [2], are just complete nonsense? They must be, since we already know race has no basis in nature, so any evidence showing otherwise is by definition flawed. I believe dismissing it as "subjective" is the usual approach (whereas evidence that emphasizes similarities is, of course, fully objective).

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Principal_compon...

[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Individual-level_hum...

There's a reason this was done so discreetly.

Evocative rhetoric, that falls apart upon examination. Is it your claim that if only most Americans bought fair-trade coffee instead of the cheap stuff, the CIA would start to behave?

What about Americans that voted for politicians and presidents that promised fewer wars, or to clean up the deep state? Are they absolved of this guilt?

The CCP's tactic is to conflate criticism of the Party with criticism of the Chinese people and China itself, so that when the Party is attacked, the Chinese will also feel attacked, and rush to its defense. You are doing the same for the CIA.

You're asking Americans to feel shame for the actions of an unelected agency that has subverted their democracy? And lied to them and hid those actions? Americans, as a whole, should be ashamed, not just the CIA?

Do you also demand Russians feel guilty for allowing Stalin to take power?

Germany Raids Homes of 36 People Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/world/europe/germany-36-a... (a few of the arrests were for threats and coercion, I'm sure you'll prefer to focus on those)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27417789

Would you call this nearly-perfect free-speech?

This is false, even if we limit ourselves to only legal danger. If you say something to two people, and one of them repeats your words to the police, the police can easily ask the second person for confirmation. Add a few vague "lying to the police is very serious" threats, and there's a good chance the second person will betray you.

The video had long segments without cuts, that seemed to include enough context. Do you have any examples from that video in mind as to how it could have been misleading despite this?

> Meanwhile the person interviewed was a technical director, as I understand it meaning an audiovisual equipment guy, so I don't know why you'd consider him an authority on editorial decisions.

If I recall correctly, he only spoke of his first-hand experiences. So even if he were just a janitor, that would not cast doubt on his claims.