RustyWizard

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

You can say fuck on the Internet, champ.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Which is a fine stance in the large, but not applicable to the current story. Assisting someone in leaking classified information being illegal is not some moral injustice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm really not sure what your argument is. Sometimes journalists and whistleblowers have to break the law? Sure. However, they are still breaking the law. Certainly, an adult who is breaking the law should know that they are subject to consequences and need to suck it up and live with those consequences. Rosa Parks had her day in court and was convicted of a crime. She accepted that she broke the law, regardless of how unjust it was, and did the time. That was enough to affect change.

If Assange, or anyone else, insists on breaking the law to be able to publish information, then they need to accept that they will be held accountable. Chelsea Manning served her time. Assange finally had his day in court. Snowden, hopefully, will get his day in court as well.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 9 months ago

I feel bad for the folks that need and deserve that money from the settlement, but it was unconscionable to allow the Sackler fucks to walk away immune with their billions. Fuck that family. I hope they get sued all the way to the poor house and found criminally liable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

That’s a straw man. We’re talking about journalists enticing someone to break the law. I already provided Greenwald and Poitras as examples of journalists who had a far larger impact with their coverage and did so without breaking the law.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (6 children)

No shit, those are called laws. Journalists do not get a free pass to break laws. Imagine that was the case for a second. How quickly would the Sun or any other shit rag convince someone to murder someone so they can report on it?

This is an absurd stance. The dude broke the law, he has now had his day in court.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (8 children)

That’s journalism.

Uh, no it fucking isn’t. Journalists absolutely are not permitted to entice people to commit crimes more than any other person. This is exactly why Greenwald and Poitras were not indicted, they didn’t ask Snowden to do anything, they just reported what he had already stolen.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Copyright terms are so fucking stupid. Imagine getting into trouble for using Popeye. Make it the same as a patent duration and be done with it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (3 children)

And then you can go through and delete all your comments, lessening the value of Reddit as a platform.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I have USAA, and if you use that app you’re eligible for discounts on your insurance.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Something something broken clock. Absolutely fuck Ken Paxton, but this is the right thing to do.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Huh? What do you think they promised that wasn’t delivered that would’ve made this anything that a phone app couldn’t do better? Fundamentally, talking to things sucks, but phones support that anyway. The gimmicky interface is worse than just a touch screen. You have to wear the fucking thing which makes it useless if I’m in bed or whatever. The AI was shit but could just as easily be integrated into an app. It was a shit product from design to execution.

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