beever · HackerTrans

4 yıl öncediscuss

The consumer protection aspects of this law are simply cover for its real purpose: installing tighter controls on what people are allowed to say and read on the internet, in the convenient guise of clamping down on "disinformation" and "hate speech". The ruling elite are furiously scrambling to censor, stamp out and criminalize any mass communication that they perceive as a threat to their entrenched power.

beever

4 yıl öncediscuss

Seems like you're insinuating the public should blame the individual peons doing the shitty corporation's bidding rather than the shitty corporation itself. What do you want to do? Do you want to dox a bunch of engineers and middle managers and "cancel" them or something? How about just not buying Vizio products anymore? You can also spread the word and tell others not to patronize companies that do this sort of thing, as well. No need to start mobbing up on a bunch of low level schleps.

beever

5 yıl öncediscuss

Obviously, possessing or expressing an idea is not the same as these "practical horrors" you list. This unfortunately too common line of thinking attempts to rationalize violence against people who think differently than you. There's nothing "liberal" about it. It's nakedly totalitarian.

beever

6 yıl öncediscuss

Tipping is out of control in The US. Everyday it seems we're being asked to tip in new situations where there never was such an expectation before. This is really just employers passing their staff costs on to customers.

Also, if you have a "tip" jar on the counter at a takeout joint or convenience store you're not asking for a tip, you're panhandling at work. I really don't appreciate the attempt to guilt me into paying extra for a gallon of milk or whatever.

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