Doxxing is not "free speech."
SWATTing is not "free speech."
Fraud. Identity Theft. Death threats. Bomb threats. Physical stalking. Phone harassment. Suicide demands.
None of these are "free speech." They are terrorism. They stifle the free speech of targets and victims.
Rob here runs an ISP that hosts Kiwifarms on its servers. A website dedicated utterly to the doxxing, harassment, stalking, and even causing the deaths of their targets. A website that celebrates a "kill count" of the number of vulnerable people it has driven to suicide.
Rob sees no problem at all with stochastic terrorism, so long as he can make a buck off the Nazis literally silencing their victims, permanently, while he hides behind the paper thin veneer of defending their "free speech."
A surprising, counter-intuitive consensus I've seen emerge among western security and military experts is not even tactical nukes can save Russia's war against Ukraine now.
Let me explain. 1/
There is considerable worry among NATO and our irher allies that Putin will use tactical nukes or chemical weapons to regain the upper hand outside Kherson, or at least to halt the Ukrainian advance.
But nukes and chemical weapons work against massed military formations. 2/
The sort of warfare envisioned in an WWIII scenario with tens of thousands of tanks and hundreds of thousands of troops moving across Europe in a blitzkrieg.
There, a single nuke could wipe out entire armored divisions in one blow.
The new GOP messaging is a nationwide 15 week total abortion ban would make is "Just like Europe."
Let's dig into that, because it's a clever bit of marketing that makes the proposal sound moderate, almost mainstream.
First of all, it's horseshit. Europe doesn't have a ban. 1/
Laws vary enormously from country to country. Lichtenstein for example has a near total abortion ban, as does Poland and Vatican City. But Great Britain has unrestricted abortion out to 24 weeks. Most of the rest of the continent falls somewhere in between. 2/
But in nearly all countries, there are big exceptions to any cutoff. Rape, incest, health of the mother, or inviability of the fetus are almost universally excepted at any point during pregnancy.
The GOP isn't making these exceptions in their national bill. 3/
Thread. In the run up to WorldCon in Chicago last week, one of our cyberstalkers resumed sending detailed, explicit death threats against me to organizers of the convention.
This was not the first time. They have left me many dozens of voicemail death threats. 1/
They have sent similar death threat emails to attendees and organizers of other conventions I've attended in the past year. They've gone so far as to calling in a bomb threat to local police during one of them which required a sweep of the hotel with bomb-sniffing dogs. 2/
And, just to put icing on the cake, they have physically stalked me across multiple states, from D.C., to Michigan, to Illinois, where they take spyshots of me from as far away as their camera phones can reach. 3/
Reminder the entire "But her emails" scandal was about 3 emails, that Clinton was copied on and did not send, as part of her job as Secretary of State, stored on a server more secure than the one at her office, that were not designated classified until well after they were sent.
Clinton did not take 27 boxes of highly-classifed materials from her office once her term was done.
She did not store boxes of Top Secret/SCI material in the unsecured basement of a country club.
She didn't keep them in her desk next to her passports.
She didn't hide them from the National Archives for over a year.
She didn't refuse to return them to the FBI for months.
She didn't turn over half of them and hide the rest.
She didn't order her lawyers to lie about the half she hide.
She didn't get searched with a lawful warrant
Both of these men have since passed. George long ago. This wasn't a premonition. This is what he saw happening in his own time and space, thirty years ago.
The fact nothing has changed and he's still right doesn't mean he was a prophet. It means we failed to listen.
I was fortunate to see George Carlin perform live three times. My love of his stand up is a gift from my father, who watched him get arrested live, in Milwaukee at Summerfest, for public obscenity when he closed his show with his 7 dirty words bit after being told not to.