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"The only thing you can say for certain is that people acting intelligently and honestly would never vote such a man into the Presidency. That he's President-elect is a devastating testament to a deep pathology in American politics and culture."

I feel the same way about Hillary: She defended a rapist husband, used the government as her personal piggy bank, used the mainstream media as her attack dog, and conspired against all of her enemies, and tried to steal the white house.

We also have PC culture run amok. Trump is a big 'Fuck You' many intelligent Americans have been waiting for, for many years. It has nothing to do with racism, sexism, or xenophobia.

The saddest thing? The fact that Wikileaks had to bring many of this to light. Julian Assange still hasn't been heard from since his power was cut at the embassy.

During the election, there were countless stories nearly every day. Trump used all of the hyperbole and fake news articles about him to destroy the competition.

These articles were written by the left-leaning mainstream media and repeated ad nauseam over social media.

I see people that still believe that Trump is going to deport all of the 'Brown people'. There isn't one instance where he said this. The media created this fear through lies and propaganda and made Trump out to be a monster.

They are mostly to blame for all of the violence and protests we are seeing today.

But a Trump win still won't force them to tell us the truth. I'm just glad that the American people did.

"Your statement just gave the downstream company your tacit authorization to hack you back in order to "swim upstream" to find the original hacker. Or to destroy their IP on your compromised device. Or to destroy your device altogether"

Do you actually think this is the only way the government knows that an attack took place from a foreign actor?

Botnets exist and our government knows full well that it's an infected machine and not the user of that machine that's attacking websites on the Internet.

"And Trump's cybersecurity advisor (General Flynn) doesn't think it's possible that the FBI could scan 650,000 emails from Anthony Weiner's computer to search for known recipients, keywords, or to de-duplicate the corpus.[1]"

In 8 days? I'm suspect as well that they could actually comb through all of the required emails in only 8 days. I'm not sure if you are intentionally trying to mislead with your comment, but the link you provided doesn't show us that he didn't think the government could do it. Only that it seems unlikely that the government could get through all of the emails in 8 days.

"Where have you been for the past decade?"

Living through the Obama administration and his piss-poor policies on user privacy. My point was that I am trying to be optimistic about Trump's presidency and I hope these things change.

"Even if you don't think your metadata is worth getting worked up about, thermal scopes, your electrical usage, sniff dogs on your front porch, stingrays that affect all cell phone users within their radius. And everything is digital, so there is potential for future abuse both within and without the agency that collects the data."

I don't even want my Metadata being used by the government. I am 100% for privacy of US citizens.

I read the article just fine. It's mentioned in a byline at the bottom of the article.

"could use our high-speed communications network to vote directly on every law."

How can we trust online voting? If you think bad foreign actors somehow control the election now, it will be much worse when it's all online.

"In order to cast my vote, I open my phone, and scroll over to the United States Government Voting App. It has a red badge on it that says 312. I click on the app and log in. It says, “Today you have 312 laws you have to vote on.” I read through each law and hit yes, no, yes, no, yes no. At the end of the day, my vote and everyone else’s are tallied up, and the law passes or not."

How do we prove that you are actually a citizen of the US (or even of the state)? The government is notoriously bad at online security.

Making it too easy also leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. It will be so easy to make snap judgements and quick decisions when voting through an app. There should be at least some effort (besides clicking a few boxes) put forth to vote.

Technology has changed, but human nature hasn't. A fast way to a dictatorship would be a direct democracy.

Why only mention pro-Trump fake news? I know plenty of people spreading fake Propaganda about Trump based on hearsay and false information.

...including links and comments on HN. Maybe HN needs to filter out the fake stuff too?

What if it's not the news that's false, but memes and public opinion?

A friend's opinion is many more times effective than a random, fake, news article.

Are we going to start silencing opinion, because it's not factual? Almost nothing comes down to just True and False.

It feels like we are stating to go into dangerous territory, where we allow sites like Facebook to determine the truth for us.

"The larger problem for Trump and his supporters is that there is very little reason to think that any set of policies could meaningfully reverse the long-term decline in U.S. manufacturing jobs. That decline has been driven by a combination of globalization and automation"

Those jobs are gone forever. We are now a global economy and trying to bring those jobs back will be a race to the bottom.

Trump has proposed a lower tax burden on small business owners. This will make it easier to start a company and give many businesses a way to hire more employees.

We should be concentrating on ways to bring more businesses into the US and less restrictions/lower taxes is a great start.

If FB and other sites truly want to ban 'fake news' sites, the majority of mainstream news organizations will be banned.

There are so many stories, like this, that are based on fake information.

I feel like investigative journalism is dead.

I'm curious to see if this article will be tagged as 'fake news' on Facebook.

What about all of the fake Trump news? My friends on Facebook still think Trump is a rapist (he never raped anyone), Racist (I'm still not sure where this one came from), and homophobic (he is not reversing gay marriage).

When his first speech came out about immigration, he said he wants to deport illegal immigrants (which is actually already law). The media turned it into just 'immigrants' and we now have entire groups of legal immigrants that are afraid Trump will deport them. Did nobody watch the speech or does the mainstream media have problems comprehending English?

There is anti-Trump violence growing in the US and people have been assaulted and harassed for even saying they supported him. The protests aren't 'peaceful', they are riots.

This is all ignored on the news, however. The only thing they can spew out is the story about the girl that got her Hijab pulled, which turned out to be fake. MSNBC still reports it as fact.

Will Facebook ban links to MSNBC for this fake story?

This is exactly why half the country voted Trump into office. Even now, you still can't figure out that it was your own fault and want to blame the rest of American for losing the election.

The other irony is complaining about bias and marginalizing and then painting an entire group of people (Trump supports) as 'racists' and 'islamaphobes'.

It really shows me that all of the people that claim we need more 'love' and 'peace' are just using it for political gain and power. When they don't get what they want, the fangs come out.

You want understanding and compassion when it comes to gay marriage and the transgender community, but give none of it in return.

Millennials are not rebels. They are tools of the political establishment of the left. The rebels are the Conservatives, Republicans, and Libertarians that go against the current narratives being shoved down our throats by the mainstream media.

"course exacerbated by the fact that using them turns you into a criminal."

If you mean just using and nothing more, it's not really true. Junkies don't get arrested for only getting high. It usually involves some other crime like robbery or petty theft.

Legalizing these drugs won't really solve the issue. Opiates are already legal, but expensive. Most addicts start out with the expensive prescriptions and then end up getting street drugs like heroin because it's so much cheaper. Street drugs will always be there because people the government always needs their cut through taxes.

"I do know that treatment instead of jail is a good thing."

..but to what end? If a person chooses over and over to take drugs, It's their freedom to take them, but also their responsibility to figure out a treatment plan.

I'm really tired of people demanding they can do what they want with their body and then demanding that I pay money to fix all of the negative consequences that comes along with it.

"Yes. In America, this is pretty much how it is. Without a violent criminal record or a restraining order for domestic violence, in a lot of states you can go spend a couple hundred bucks and have yourself a nice handgun"

You must not be from the US or ever tried to get a gun. I can't order a gun through the mail, for instance. It needs to be sent to a regulated dealer and I will have to go through a background check.

"I am curious just how deep the "firearms business" goes on the dark web."

According to many of the ant-gun advocates in the US, you can just order it online with no checks or problems. But the reality is much different.