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Did you even watch the video? The VERY FIRST thing he said was "turn it (his girlfriends dog) into the most unfunny thing I could think of...a Nazi". This was a joke, nothing more, nothing less.

Now, the real scandal was that the courts just assumed his intent and just assumed he wanted to harass jews. Which is ridiculous.

Given you are calling Sargon and Count Dankula alt-right shows how little you know about them.

> In August, a discussion started among GNU package maintainers about the problem that GNU development often pushes women away

I'm not trying to offend people or anything, but where is the evidence for this in GNU specifically?

I disagree with "I still feel people are looking for as much personal freedom as possible while maintaining high personal safety". If we're talking about leftists, not (classical) liberals, it is abundantly clear that they don't want personal freedom, but government control

Why do you assume he's a Republican? He didn't even mention Democrats. You don't have to be a Republican to see that many people on social media and in social media companies are close minded.

Jones was just the start. Why shouldn't conspiracy theorists have the right to use social media? What's next? Can they have a back account? Credit card? Just a month later, we had a huge purge on Facebook and Twitter, targeting mostly left wingers, libertarians and alternative news sites. Sure, some of these are wacky people, but some provided honest content from a different, anti-government viewpoint, like Dan Dicks from Press For Truth for example. Why shouldn't those voices be heard? https://uk.pcmag.com/facebook/117908/news/facebook-purges-80...

https://www.rt.com/usa/441140-facebook-purge-victims-speak/

We should be careful cheering social media giants just banning people. It will backfire

What do you expect from a newspaper that has people on their editorial board like Sara Jeong, who openly tells us all on twitter how she likes to see old white people suffer?

American culture is shaped largely by costal cities, especially towards the outwards world. Don't you think its fair to say those regions have a liberal bias?

We can never reach the point of spirited debate, when any opinion that goes against popular opinion is immediately labelled as "hate speech", "bigoted" or "ignorance". Good point

"Conservatives “feel like the big social platforms, Facebook and Twitter, are not sympathetic to their views,”. Uhm. yes. But this is not a "feeling". Jack Dorsey and Zuckerberg have both admitted the echo chamber their companies are in. You don't have to be conservative, or even American, to see that Silicon Valley is definitely left leaning, which will be reflected in the content social media giants allow.

If this is good or bad is another question. Everyone builds their own echo chamber, consciously or unconsciously. Thats why I don't appreciate the one-sidedness of the article. They make it sound like only republicans like to live in their bubble.

Why is anyone taking the veto diet seriously?

I really want to love DuckDuckGo, but for programming things I search for the results are simply to weak.

EVERYONE has anecdotes of things they had to fight. Only large scale data shows us if there is specific discrimination in an industry or not.

American women are not far behind Scandinavian women on the equality index. Same applies to them.

I said "opposite opinion"

Then I provided data. I don't care about anecdotes

So, all these women present anecdotal evidence.

If you are interested in an opposite opinion from another woman coder: https://medium.com/@marlene.jaeckel/the-empress-has-no-cloth...

Reality looks very different.

Women have a 2:1 chance over men to get a job in STEM: https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2015/11/04/women-favored-2-...

more detailed research on this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4611984/

Then there's the Scandinavian gender paradox, which states that women are LESS likely to choose a career in STEM the more equal society becomes. This is because there's no more economic necessity, and other reasons. See http://www.thejournal.ie/gender-equality-countries-stem-girl...

I'm not surprised by the responses of these women. They represent the acceptable opinion of Silicon Valley.

Really? Read the news: https://nypost.com/2018/07/18/san-francisco-allows-non-citiz...

Try again, kiddo.

This is not about conservatives, it hits everyone, ESPECIALLY LEFT WINGERS: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/3/17644180/po...

Making this issue a conservative vs liberal issue is dishonest and doesn't get us anywhere

This is not about conservatives, it hits everyone: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/3/17644180/po...

Making this issue a conservative vs liberal issue is dishonest and doesn't get us anywhere

Voting: https://nypost.com/2018/07/18/san-francisco-allows-non-citiz...

Look at what's happening at college campuses. Students and administrators are openly against free speech, because it "harms minorities"

No it's not.

- Most unequal state in America

- VERY high taxes (that are supposed to stop inequality, but it doesn't. Surprise)

- skyrocketing housing prices

- Very illiberal mindset towards the first amendment, especially on college campuses and in younger generations

- Allows illegal citizens to vote

- Very "shallow" show-off culture due to the show biz

Yeah, double standards. Unbelievable

It's a NYT journalist that stated multiple times she hates white people. Like, really vile stuff. No ban, no 7 day suspension. Nothing. The NYT even defended her (Sarah Jong).

Now, the crazy annoying right-winger Candance Owens just copied the same tweets and replaced white with black. What followed? Banned.

Twitter does not uphold their now standard independent from political affiliation. They can do that, it's a private company, but they should not LIE about it.

No matter what you think of Jones: Silicon Valley is digging their own grave with their blatantly obvious double standards towards "hate speech" and other forms of harassment.

great discussion

well put! Most people don't realise how divisive identity politics is.

what's the issue. I stated by opinion. If you don't like it, well, so be it

I get that. These types of headlines tend to try to highlight the fact, that these programmers are WOMEN. Well, yeah, ok, I don't care, and people shouldn't care, if programmers want to have an "inclusive" community.

Do you understand where I'm coming from?

Why does the gender matter? I hate headlines like this

how was the will of the people ignored in the 2016 election?

I agree in the larger sense though. In my opinion, the only way to stop a corrupt government is to shrink it.

How come "democracy is broken", only when people get voted into power, that you don't like? Well, that's democracy. I believe an every increasing government is broken, how about we start with that? Democracy doesn't help anybody, if government is broken.

This comment vastly understates the effects of this law. Social Media companies are scared af to be fined by the German government, so the filters are so strong, that it targets the wrong people. A couple of comedians and satire magazines have been hit, left leaning people as well as right leaning people alike.

In general, I don't think it's a good idea for the government to decide what I can post on social media or not. There are already laws against defamation and "volksverhetzung" (sry I don't no the translation, basically it means I can't say "kill all the jews/muslims, they are filthy swines"), so keep the internet free from more regulation on speech. The internet is one of the last places where people have some sort of freedom of opinion/listening to different opinions, and our lawmakers make it more and more unfree.