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csdffsdfsdfsdfs··on My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison
Not "nobody should give them a job", just not a job with ability to do harm. But that's for every employer to decide for themselves.

If you don't think somebody having done X before makes them more likely to do it again than normal people, I don't know. (More accurately, people who did X are more likely to be people who would do X again). We just have to disagree - but you can not enshrine such beliefs in law.

As I said, trust has to be regained, merely doing something you are forced to do anyways does not prove anything about your real attitudes.

In "How To Change Your Life In 7 Steps", the founder of the homeless magazine "The Big Issue" John Bird describes what he had to do to be able to have homeless people work for him. I have high respect for people like him.

csdffsdfsdfsdfs··on My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison
No they should find jobs where they have less opportunity to cause harm.
csdffsdfsdfsdfs··on My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison
"Same rights" - no sorry, somebody who stole before will be regarded with higher suspicion than other people, and that's OK.

How do you know they "learned not to steal"? Can you look inside of their heads?

There are jobs with less opportunities to steal, for example. Trust has to be regained, simply "having been in prison" is not really worth much in that respect. You would stay in prison, regardless of your mindset, because you are forced to be there.

csdffsdfsdfsdfs··on One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020
I fail to see how that person can be blamed for making a video showing how to make pull requests.

It's the organizers of the Hacktoberfest who make people look for his tutorial.

What's next, blaming people who create "Learning To Program" videos on all the bad code that exists in the world?

csdffsdfsdfsdfs··on Social Cooling (2017)
I don't say that there is no danger, just that at the current time (in the West), actual humans monitoring you is a much bigger issue.
csdffsdfsdfsdfs··on Social Cooling (2017)
I'm sorry, but real people judging me is orders of magnitude worse than the Big Data thing they describe. They don't even provide any citations for the impact of Big Data they claim.
csdffsdfsdfsdfs··on Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads from U.S. app stores
So our freedoms are not actually under threat? Not even the freedom to use TikTok, I guess, despite of the US government trying to ban it?

Everything is fine!