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The Guardian: Senator Lindsey Graham on healthcare: 'I don’t know what the GOP plan is'

lafinjack wrote in ontd_political Mar 08, 2017 14:36

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god damn, change we can believe in, guess who, capitalism fuck yeah, bipartisan my ass, oh shit the internet is here, republican party, bernie sanders side-eyes this, health care, paul ryan, let me tell yall what its like, this looks like a job for cory booker, how to win friends and influence people, totally awesome, factcheck, lindsey graham, intellectual freedom, aww yiss, aca / obamacare, small government fits in my uterus

BBC: Facebook failed to remove sexualised images of children

lafinjack wrote in ontd_political Mar 07, 2017 18:10

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excuze me wtf r u doin, capitalism fuck yeah, flames on the side of my face, child abuse / csa, clusterfuck, somebody please think of the children!, domestic violence, think i just threw up a bit in my mouth, *trigger warning: abuse, america fuck yeah, how to win friends and influence people, children, catholicism, technology / computers, intellectual freedom, *trigger warning: child abuse / csa, this is why we cant have nice things, spying, bbc, pedophilia, invisible hand of the free market, i wish i could delete this

The Onion is Now the Most Trusted Fake News to Be Censored from Epidemic Outbreak.

evildevil wrote in ontd_political Dec 14, 2016 21:55

Government to Regulated Human Stupidity to Keep Us Safe from Our Freedumbs. Corporate Media Celebrates Restriction of Dumb Speech to be Safeguarded in the Confines of DumbTV

A Clinton Fan Manufactured Fake News That MSNBC Personalities Spread to Discredit WikiLeaks DocsThe phrase “Fake News” has exploded in usage since the election, but the term ( Read more... )

media, congress, msnbc, intellectual freedom, harry reid, first amendment, corporations, democratic party, law, free speech, election 2016, democrats, hillary clinton, america fuck yeah

Walmart Is Now The Rightful Owner Of Walmart.Horse

lafinjack wrote in ontd_political May 19, 2015 20:29

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excuze me wtf r u doin, all your post are belong to us, capitalism fuck yeah, ontd_political photo of the day, elle woods would not stand for this, fucking valuable thing, intellectual freedom, oh shit the internet is here, shit just got real, corporations, this is why we cant have nice things, not the onion, foreclosure, invisible hand of the free market

The Internet is Dead. Long Live the Monopoly!

evildevil wrote in ontd_political Feb 25, 2014 22:49

internet is fucked (but we can fix it)Here’s a simple truth: the internet has radically changed the world. Over the course of the past 20 years, the idea of networking all the world’s computers has gone from a research science pipe dream to a necessary condition of economic and social development, from government and university labs to kitchen ( Read more... )

media, capitalism fuck yeah, eat the rich, capitalism, corporations, inequality, economics, telecom, america fuck yeah, incompetence, internet/net neutrality/piracy, economy, technology / computers, wealth, intellectual freedom, deregulation, fuckery, free speech, evil, corruption, invisible hand of the free market, infrastructure

Trademark Troll Sues Original Game Creator for Theft: They Stole Our Idea 2 Years Before Us!!

evildevil wrote in ontd_political Feb 16, 2014 02:40

There is Evil, and Then There is Pure Evil.

Candy Crush Saga makers to sue game they copied‘I hope you’re happy taking the food out of my family’s mouth’, says creator of CandySwipe - as developer King attempts to cancel his trademark ( Read more... )

lawsuits, technology / computers, capitalism fuck yeah, eat the rich, wealth, capitalism, intellectual freedom, corporations, censorship, law, corruption

Copyright Trolls Soon to Trademark the English Dictionary and the Alphabet.

evildevil wrote in ontd_political Jan 24, 2014 21:52

King ARE Trying To Candy-Crush The Banner Saga

Yesterday the internet was alive with the news about King, owners of Candy Crush Saga, their trademarking of the word “Candy”, and their ensuing threats to other developers who are using the word in their game titles. The response from King was to flap their eyelashes and protest innocence - they were ( Read more... )

economy, technology / computers, capitalism fuck yeah, eat the rich, wealth, capitalism, intellectual freedom, corporations, censorship, business, economics, video games, corruption, invisible hand of the free market, internet/net neutrality/piracy

We’re About to Lose Net Neutrality - And the Internet as We Know It

moonbladem wrote in ontd_political Nov 05, 2013 16:44

Net neutrality is a dead man walking. The execution date isn’t set, but it could be days, or months (at best). And since net neutrality is the principle forbidding huge telecommunications companies from treating users, websites, or apps differently - say, by letting some work better than others over their pipes - the dead man walking isn’t some ( Read more... )

discrimination, court/federal court, congress, intellectual freedom, fuckery, corporations, opinion piece, internet/net neutrality/piracy

Anti-Piracy Patent Aims to Stop Students Sharing Textbooks

mandrill wrote in ontd_political Jun 11, 2012 13:08

Professor's patent strangles textbook sharing on and offlineThe realm of academic file-sharing is notorious - is it legal to share these notes, and this is alright because we need it for the course but it’s no longer in print, right? Students sharing textbooks, presentations and notes facilitated by Facebook’s new Group feature came to mind - but ( Read more... )

teachers, education, intellectual freedom, college/university, money, books, students, internet/net neutrality/piracy

Congress sounding increasingly like teenagers, study says

lafinjack wrote in ontd_political May 31, 2012 18:30

If it sounds like the debates in Congress have devolved to that of teenagers, it’s because they have ( Read more... )

lulz, congress, intellectual freedom, teenagers