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by 29athrowaway 703 days ago
Some people forget that everyone is innocent until proven guilty.
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You can’t be innocent or guilty if you’re never accused of anything.
Some people forget the right of free association means companies have a broad (though not universal!) right to reject someone as a customer.

Some people forget that when they signed up to a service, they granted the service provider the right to decide when to cease providing the service, at the service provider's discretion.

In court
Typical sentence of people that are guilty, just like those who pretend they should be able to hide information outside of the protective gaze of the glorious all-powerful elites who know better than thouh.

What are you trying to hide, you seditious terrorist, hmm?

There is a symmetry, an equation if you would prefer. On the left hand side you have rights, on the right hand side you have duties.

    Rights = Duties
Your right of presumption of innocence is your duty to respect the presumption of innocence of others.

If you break this symmetry, now we can look at YOU. Why should we all respect YOUR presumption of innocence if you don't respect others?

If the response is some stereotype related crap I don't want to hear it.

Given your comment and the negative note of its parent, I'm wondering if its sarcastic nature was missed or if people interacting with it did got it was intended to be a caricature but were pissed of by its actual critic of state mass surveillance and its ridiculous "think of the children" pedonazis scarecrow.

I don't buy duality as you present. Two points is just an invitation and opportunity to envision interpolations, extrapolate some spectral scales, wondering about additional dimensions, and fathom how it might interfere with the rest of our representations.

Rights and left are just two points. Intimate mind experiences can modulate interpolations in-between.

Duty and rights are all parts of the same object, it's just a matter of perspective that can make them appear to be separated consideration. Just like creation and constraints. Nothing exists without ontological restrictions that allows its form to happen.

That is a really complicated deflection that I am not going to even bother fully reading as it is flatus vocis.

The person banned from Skype could have been an American dual citizen, nondenominational Christian, calling the Gaza strip from a phone with an American flag case, while listening to country music, from a pickup truck, with multiple bald eagle tattoos, while holding a can of American light beer. Or could have been someone else. There is no way of knowing.

Nice atronym.
Like a typo of aptronym/aptonym or like a neologism mixing -nym and atro- from Latin atrox which gives atrocity in English? :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/atrox#Latin https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/atrocity

Damn, both.