Eric S Raymond: Abolish “Codes of Conduct” and all the Orwellian doublespeak that goes with them. It's less bad that people sometimes got their feelings hurt than it is to institutionalize a means by which dissenting opinions are crushed under the rubric of “not nice”.
100% agreed. And the reason why we can't have nice things. Co-opting by people with bad intentions, posing as saviors.
That was a really long way of not explaining what the US steals, in terms of IP, from other countries.
It was also a pretty lengthy way to mascarade the damning false equivalence. China is, undoubtely, worse, in terms of human rights and development. No, the US is not the best. China is far worse.
100% agreed. And the reason why we can't have nice things. Co-opting by people with bad intentions, posing as saviors.
Edit: for the fast downvoter:
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8609
The cost of a culture in which avoiding offense trumps the liberty to speak is that crybullies control the discourse.