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Spam Mod

Posted by DeathMonkey on Wednesday June 14 2017, @05:24PM (#2411)
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Spam (Score: 2)
by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge Neutral on Monday June 12, @03:40AM (#524232) Homepage

If your posts were topical they might be called satire but posting incoherent ramblings into unrelated stories is quite clearly Spam.

Aristarchus modded Spam (not reverted)
realDonaldTrump modded Spam (not reverted)

Sensing a bit of a pattern...

So when I start modding Eth Fueled as Spam those won't be reverted, right??

"Trump" to be bleeped out on Broad City

Posted by takyon on Tuesday June 13 2017, @11:19PM (#2408)
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Trump's Name Will Be Bleeped Out In The Next "Broad City" Season

Would I have seen this important news if I hadn't accidentally opened BuzzFeed? I'm not so sure.

Censorship on Soylent News? Perish the thought!

Posted by aristarchus on Tuesday June 13 2017, @10:01AM (#2406)
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Digital Liberty

Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, anonymous comment posting has temporarily been disabled. You can still login to post. However, if bad posting continues from your IP or Subnet that privilege could be revoked as well. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner or login and improve your posting. If it's someone else, this is a chance to hunt them down. If you think this is unfair, please email admin@soylentnews.org

Curious, email the very persons who have revoked the first right of free speech, the right of anonymous free speech. And of course, the real question is, who, or what, determines what is "bad posting"? Not much I can do, admins have let stick a foul Spam mod, and now I cannot post Cowardly, and next, oh, the Huge Manatee! Well, I guess my job as a philosopher is going well, attracting the attention of the powers that be enough to get them to try to silence me. But as it has been repeatedly stated on this site, disagreement is no basis for censorship. Unless, of course, it comes to something like the heliocentric theory of the cosmos, or that islamophobia is alt-right propaganda.

  But those are the breaks. It is just that Soylentils should know the breaks, and who is being broken. Remember, bad posts drive out good posts, and banning posts that call out bad posts will allow bad posts to drive out good posts. You should listen to Socrates:

And now, O men who have condemned me, I would fain prophesy to you; for I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power. And I prophesy to you who are my murderers, that immediately after my death punishment far heavier than you have inflicted on me will surely await you. Me you have killed because you wanted to escape the accuser, and not to give an account of your lives. But that will not be as you suppose: far otherwise. For I say that there will be more accusers of you than there are now; accusers whom hitherto I have restrained: and as they are younger they will be more severe with you, and you will be more offended at them. For if you think that by killing men you can avoid the accuser censuring your lives, you are mistaken; that is not a way of escape which is either possible or honorable; the easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves. This is the prophecy which I utter before my departure, to the judges who have condemned me.

Of course, in the case of Soylent News, the result will be further insignificance. Soylent News is not growing to the extent it should be, it has a reputation as a right-wing den of iniquity and a part of the Dark Web, or the Dark Enlightenment. So it will fade away. I will not leave, however, because I am an advocate of free speech. So who among the admins is responsible for these actions? Do they not dare to even reveal their pseudonyms? Soylent News, hypocrisy is thy name.

June 2017 Russia Protests

Posted by takyon on Tuesday June 13 2017, @03:42AM (#2405)
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the making of "Star Wars Episode IV" recalled

Posted by butthurt on Monday June 12 2017, @04:15AM (#2404)
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The Hollywood Reporter interviewed an actor and several members of the crew of Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope). They reminisced on the production of the film, which was released in May of 1977.

Fourth Kepler and K2 Science Conference

Posted by takyon on Sunday June 11 2017, @05:29PM (#2403)
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Science

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/ames/kepler/media-invited-to-nasa-s-kepler-and-k2-mission-science-conference

NASA invites members of the media to attend the fourth Kepler and K2 Science Conference to be held June 19-23. The weeklong science conference will take place at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.

Probably a good time to look for exoplanet-related announcements.

Crooked people running this thing!

Posted by realDonaldTrump on Sunday June 11 2017, @09:00AM (#2402)
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Soylent
Very crooked people here! Marked my tweet as spam. I am not a spammer! Took away the karma bonus modifier from my tweet after I sent it. Took off the bonus, long after I sent it. To hide my tweet. Because I told the truth. Told the truth about the digital catapult on the Ford. On the great, great aircraft carrier the Gerald R. Ford. Sneaky crooks! This is what is ruining America! Too many crooks spoil the broth, folks. And let me tell you, this broth is spoiled. #FuckComey #TrumpAirlines #TrumpWater #TrumpResorts #TrumpTrain #TrumpVineyardEstates #TrumpWinery #TrumpSteaks #TrumpVodka #TRUMP2020 #WINNING #MakeAmericaGreatAgain

U.S. Special Forces Fighting IS in the Philippines

Posted by takyon on Saturday June 10 2017, @05:39AM (#2400)
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News

Exclusive: U.S. special forces helping Philippines troops to end city siege

U.S. special forces are helping the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to end a siege of the southern town of Marawi by militants allied to Islamic State, a U.S. embassy spokesperson in Manila told Reuters.

From one "strong man" to another.

Anniversary of USS Liberty Sinking

Posted by butthurt on Saturday June 10 2017, @04:58AM (#2399)
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Around the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the USS Liberty, the Modesto Bee and the Port Huron Times Herald interviewed surviving crew members. The Intercept published two classified documents (NSFW for U.S. government employees):

The first document, a formerly unreleased NSA classification guide, details which elements of the incident the agency still regarded as secret as of 2006. The second lists a series of unauthorized signals intelligence disclosures that “have had a detrimental effect on our ability to produce intelligence against terrorist targets and other targets of national concern.” Remarkably, information relevant to the attack on the Liberty falls within this highly secret category.

Want to watch and learn cricket

Posted by Gaaark on Friday June 09 2017, @01:18PM (#2397)
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Does anyone know of a good site to watch cricket?
Don't really mind having to register (but would prefer not to), but don't want a bogus/scam site or a pay site.

Any suggestions?