jayess

The most important of the unanswered questions:

"10. You have said you are committed to protecting election integrity and supporting democratic ideals. However, there have been reports that you have built tools to censor speech in certain authoritarian countries, such as China, where you hope to be allowed to operate. How will you choose which elections and democratic processes to protect? When promoting democratic ideals conflicts with your corporate goals, which will you prioritize?"

What happens when they remove an extension and people have installed it? Does the installed extension get disabled somehow?

Is this sarcasm?

Probably when geographic boundaries no longer determine whether one will be subjected to religious law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_system_of_Saudi_Arabia

I like how the article title is "U.S. does not believe Cuba is behind sonic attacks on American diplomats"

Yet the article <title> is "Trump to pull diplomats out of Cuba, but think Havana is behind attacks"

When do they stop executing gays?

How do you show "willful noncompliance" if they were hacked?

I used to be a school board member and have seen this first hand. Our unions preferred that we lay off younger teachers so that the more tenured ones could receive raises.

That event still creeps me out. Clearly a sophisticated attack. Penetration testing? Dry run?

Not sure why you're being downvoted.

I'm becoming more and more convinced that Facebook is simply an evil company, and Google isn't far behind.

Tesla loses $13k on each car sold...

http://www.automobilemag.com/news/tesla-loses-397-million-fi...

Any idea how to do this in 7?

Can't view the page. It blocks me because of ad blocker.

That's not at all what I was saying.

Likely another example of how bureaucracies become complacent, increasingly incompetent, and begin to structurally fail until some sort of catalyzing external event forces a restructuring and systemic reset.

As the saying goes, nothing changes until it has to. The military is a bureaucracy like any other, from personal experience. The problem with government bureaucracies is that there's no market pressure to fix things. Failure is rewarded and even encouraged since there is no real consequence.

Another reason to install ublock and add the social tracking filters.

"which can, by definition, only be for one conviction per pardon"

Not really. You don't even need to be convicted of anything to be pardoned. E.g. Richard Nixon.

You generally sign the envelope in which you send your ballot in, not the ballot itself.

My eyes must be getting old, but black-background web sites are getting harder to read.

Written like a true class action plaintiffs' attorney.

How To Spot And Critique Censorship Tropes In The Media's Coverage Of Free Speech Controversies https://www.popehat.com/2015/05/19/how-to-spot-and-critique-...

Good for you. We hold sacrosanct the view that free speech is free speech and governments shouldn't be the arbiters of what is and isn't "hate."

You're right, this is giving an inordinate amount of free publicity to daily stormer and is making people (like me) who support free speech uncomfortable. I'm now instinctively supporting their right to free speech against the horde of disingenuous virtue signallers.

I don't know about namecheap in particular. The point is that these companies are piling on the same site and they all host sites that are much worse than daily sturmer.

In a sense, I agree with you. These virtual signallers make me feel icky, at the same time it motivates me to support projects to decentralize the web and support free speech for all people.

This is turning into a virtue signalling circle jerk.

The one quote provided is nothing near incitement violence, in the legal sense. I'm now in the icky position of defending Daily Sturmer because I believe in the First Amendment and this latest campaign against one web site feels so contrived and politically correct. Yes yes, I know that the First Amendment doesn't apply to Namecheap or godaddy or cloudflare. But this has gotten downright silly.

As another commenter noted, these large companies have no compunction hosting/registering domains for sites that actually do incite violence and actively ruin people's lives... like jihadist groups or ripoff report, a site that makes it an active business model to defame people online, destroy lives and careers, and then extort people to remove that content.

This whole daily sturmer campaign has gotten to the point of being nothing more than a way for companies to pretend like they care or want to prevent a type of speech they don't like, but in reality is picking on one site that is mild in comparison to the other things these companies tacitly approve of.

Edit to add a link that apropos: The Seductive Appeal of the "Nazi Exception" https://www.popehat.com/2017/04/18/the-seductive-appeal-of-t...

'tolerant urban areas'

LOL

There's more to this story. Hearing loss is one issue, but Cuban intelligence will do random things to US diplomats just to mess with them. From what I understand, families of diplomats have been sent back to the US because of the problems. One story I've heard from a reliable source is that they'll break in to your home while you're out and shave your cat, just to remind you they're watching, among a myriad of other things.