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from the can't-they-find-a-new-excuse-to-steal-my-rights dept.
You have too many rights, so it's time for a little rebalancing:
Internet anonymity should be banned and everyone required to carry the equivalent of a license plate when driving around online. That's according to Erik Barnett, the US Department of Homeland Security's attaché to the European Union.
Writing in French policy magazine FIC Observatoire, Barnett somewhat predictably relies on the existence of child abuse images to explain why everyone in the world should be easily monitored. He tells a story about how a Romanian man offered to share sexually explicit images of his daughter with an American man over email. The unnamed email provider uncovered this exchange and forwarded the IP address of the Romanian to the European authorities and a few days later the man was arrested. Job well done.
Before we have an opportunity to celebrate, however, Barnett jumps straight to terrorism. "How much of the potential jihadists' data should intelligence agencies or law enforcement be able to examine to protect citizenry from terrorist attack?", he poses. The answer, of course, is everything. Then the pitch: "As the use of technology by human beings grows and we look at ethical and philosophical questions surrounding ownership of data and privacy interests, we must start to ask how much of the user's data is fair game for law enforcement to protect children from sexual abuse?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 01 2016, @10:46AM
> Men who use "cunt" as an insult, I find, very often do not like vaginas
Does that mean men who "dick" as an insult are self haters?
(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Monday February 01 2016, @11:26AM
Probably. I never grasped the concept of using a genital-name to insult someone. But generally/conceptually, if I relate someone to a substantive in order to express my contempt, it is a strong indication that I don't like the item linked usually referred to by the same substantive.
(Ok, "dick" might try to mock someone with no hair left, who either got bad sunburn on his had (circumcised dick) or someone who always wears turtle-necks with turtle rolled up covering half the head most of the time. But it's also quite shallow to mock people because of their outlook.)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 01 2016, @01:54PM
> Probably. I never grasped the concept of using a genital-name to insult someone.
Which you've just gone on to demonstrate.
Here's the thing about people - we love having multiple meanings that are context dependent. You can call someone a dick for the same reason men keep their dicks hidden from public view - because no one wants to see that.
(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Monday February 01 2016, @02:09PM
What do you base this assumption on? I expect there are enough woman who would like to see a dick once in a while. Maybe not yours, but generally...
BTW: Limited to your little personal universe you do prove my point. You do apparently have a quite difficult relation to sexuality, and if you call women "cunts" because you don't like to see vaginas, it imo kinda proves Azumas point. Do you prefer to see dicks? Or is it sexuality altogether which makes you uneasy?
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(Score: 3, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday February 01 2016, @08:35PM
See this is why I just use "asshole:" it's unisex, and actually rather vile, plus it lends itself to an intensifier ("full of shit"). Gendered insults are dumb. I have problems with people because of what's between their ears, not their thighs.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Monday February 01 2016, @09:40PM
I'm not sure I agree that an asshole (in the sense of the body-part) deserves to be used as swear-word/insult as well, a butt can be quite sensitive as well, I've been told. (I'm straight, so I never got mine penetrated nor do I intend to. I'm just trying to apply my previous logic here as well. I'd concede that "dirty asshole" would be a swear-word, or the "full of shit"-part.
I try not to have problems with people at all. I'd rather them having problems with me :-) But I think I do see your point.
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