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by beej71 60 days ago
It is one of the better options. Instead of vaporizing the ship, it only blows it in half at the keel.

As TFA notes, once this is in place, we're behind the eight ball from then on. You want to post something that the government doesn't like, something that insults our Dear Leader or promotes a political alternative? Guess who's getting an "over 21" rating by the feds. We've already seen massive speech pressure brought to bear by the FCC and there's no reason to think this won't continue.

So I'm reluctant to give 'em an inch.