joyfulmantis
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Comment · 2 years ago
Location: USA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Mostly Haskell and Flutter, but also experience in Scala, Java, and Python
Résumé/CV: available upon request
Github: http://github.com/joyfulmantis
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Comment · 6 years ago
This is a fork of iamadev's extension on github https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome . Is there a specific reason why that's not mentioned and what is different/better about this fork then the original?
Comment · 6 years ago
Yes it is, no matter how good you think your values are the end never justifies the means
Comment · 6 years ago
Here I would disagree, freedom of speech is an ideal, and the constitutional amendment was based on that ideal. Universal platforms for speech are somewhat of a new concept, but there is still some precedent against de-platforming, for example with John Adams and his defense of the British soldiers in the Boston massacare[1], a precedent that still holds (held) with attorneys defending very unsavory characters not because they ideologically support them but because the basis of a healthy society depends upon it.
John F. Kennedy famously said "We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." [2]
The time has come when America is afraid of it's own citizenry.
[1] https://www.history.com/news/boston-massacre-trial-john-adam...
[2] https://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfkvoiceofamerica.htm
Comment · 6 years ago
In response to the first point most countries retain the right to prosecute their citizens for crimes committed overseas even if it wasn't a crime where it was committed.
For the application of US law on US citizens abroad see https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/6503/are-there-an...
Comment · 6 years ago
It is very hard to objectively judge laws specifically and political systems in general. The only way to do so is to look at their outcome, but with the large amount of variables, and the time it takes to draw conclusions, objective facts about them are hard to make.
The world in general has concluded that planned economies (communism) is strongly inferior to market economies, but during the early days of communism it was not so obvious. Even in modern times there are people that argue communism was implemented prematurely and would be able to thrive during "end-stage capitalism". You also have plenty of people who while disagreeing with a complete communist revolution would still support nationalisation of key companies or even the more radical "workers being in control of the means of production".
Free speech is even less clear. With america winning the cold war there was a recognition of the american way including the strong support of freedom of speech being the superior system. However lately, especially after 2016 the west seems to have lost confidence in the absolute freedom of speech. Challenging the supremacy of the freedom of speech is the idea that citizens are not capable of judging speech on it's own merit and "misinformation" "speech glorifying violence" etc should be banned. It's not really a clear cut issue, you can for example argue that limiting free speech leads to a more harmonious society (the position taken by China, and also lately the reason given by New Zealand for their decision to ban the Christchurch manifesto)
I graduated from Tianjin Foreign Studies University in 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Language. My thesis title was: Research on the effect of tone drills on Chinese learner’s tone differentiation ability
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