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Comment by toomuchtodo

9 years ago

> And why is it a surprise that media pirates or gangs weren't enough to change their minds, but Nazis are?

Cloudflare: "Its okay if you break the law, but say offensive words that don't break the law and you are outta here."

Hence, my surprise. Criminal acts = ok. Offensive legal speech = not okay.

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mikeash  9 years ago

You don't see why someone might be more opposed to actual literal swastika-carrying roman-saluting Hitler-worshipping Nazis who would be out exterminating inferior races right now if they had more followers, than to a web site that helps you download movies without paying for them?

Criminality isn't the only thing people look at for this stuff.

  • yongjik  9 years ago

    2017 - when people are comparing illegal downloads to Nazis, but not in a way you'd expect to. (Does this count as Godwin's law?)

    • mikeash  9 years ago

      This whole episode has been a vigorous reminder that many nerds are extremely rigid thinkers.

    • RandVal30142  9 years ago

      Since 2012 I've been dealing with right wingers coming onto the subject of Syria to denigrate victims of SyAAF bombing runs, justify the bombing of civilian clinics and hospitals, claim desperately that victims of Sarin attacks were dolls.

      Many of them were coming from right wing circles, white nationalists. They have a thing for Assad[1], this is white nationalist group leader Matthew Heimbach promoting Assad. Many of them from different nations have been making pilgrimage to Damascus to meet with the regime[2].

      Then one of these Nazi Assad fanboys runs down people in my own nation in a terrorist ramming attack.. I'm heartbroken. Many of us have been detailing this lot in great length for years but no one seems to of listened until we had a martyr in the US.

      This is 2017, half a decade of this.

      [1] http://archive.is/Xb0fk

      [2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/13...

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