Comment by Terr_
7 hours ago
To turn to other, much older publications... The US Constitution was written ~230 year ago, when the state of the art was carrying letters by horse, and it explicitly authorized making a public service to provide it scale, which became the US Postal Service.
If the same ideals and priorities had been applied against today's technology, we'd have the US Networking Service. Certainly not a deluxe ISP (even today USPS exists alongside other package companies and couriers) but an affordable baseline available to all residents.
I’ve always thought it a travesty that USPS doesn’t provide a public email service
And pgp certificate signing
I completely agree with this sentiment. Good luck getting anything like that locked, sadly.
It’s simple. We just need to defenestrate all Republicans.
there are many democrats who would block such a thing as well.
historically there is always the one or two who (perhaps too conveniently?) block or water down legislation: joe lieberman against public option [0], two democrats block student debt relief [1], the dynamic duo of manchin and sinema blocking voting rights legislation and build back better [2] [3]...
you don't need to blame republicans for democrats sabotaging themselves over and over.
[0] https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/12/joe-liebermans-...
[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/which-democrats-voted-to-blo...
[2] https://apnews.com/article/biden-voting-rights-bill-collapse...
[3] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/manchin-says-he-no...
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I’m not going to let you hide behind a big word.
You are publicly proposing “throwing all Republicans through a window to their death”.
This isn’t normal, and it isn’t right. If we allow anyone to call for political violence, then we become numb to it. Worse still, your call to violence against Republicans gives them a call to defence, and then a call to preemptive action.
“It was ok for us to shutdown HackerNews because they called for our deaths.”
We shouldn’t tolerate calls to political violence from anyone. Be better.