Because the government has to pay her legal fees perhaps.

Best of the year, in January? 🤔

Scone should be pronounced scone. Scon is unacceptable.

I never thought I would find myself living in Dickensian England.

That’s how far democracy has gone down the drain, that even criticising cancel culture is ‘brave’.

Careful with that pitchfork, Eugene. Free speech is a civil liberty, not right wing.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/civil-liberty

Take it to a witch-burning.

Perhaps he can get a job at the Daily Mail.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12636545/cartoonist-steve-bell-refuses-apologist-anti-Semitic-Netanyahu-sketch.html

The Guardian was started by Unitarians who are supposed to be open to ideas, but now it fully embraces cancel culture and censorship, like any orthodoxy.

Let’s make farting in public a crime.

Cancel culture is fine as long as the majority is right. But gay people were once a victim of cancel culture.

This is old news.

But what browser should I use? Do I have to check the politics of every employee or volunteer?

How do you make steel for wind turbines without fossil fuels? How do you build a nuclear power station without fossil fuels? How do you replace all the petrol and diesel cars in the country with electric ones, without using fossil fuels? Where is all the electricity going to come from? It’s complicated.

First principle: “To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles

The original purpose of the police was crime prevention. They should be out on the beat, not sitting in the office staring at screens. Having police wandering around deters crime.

People on Mastodon are complaining about people talking about twitter, and posting their complaints to the hashtag #twitter which is very odd, as they could filter it.

I expect there will be filters on Lemmy eventually.

The EU is a corrupt totalitarian regime run by banks for their own benefit. The reason we have private finance initiatives which force public services to pay high interest rates is because of EU laws preventing borrowing from central banks.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jp5a77/google-a-search-company-has-made-its-internet-archive-impossible-to-search

Why doesn’t the EU stop doing protectionism and reform itself?

You can see what the problem is every time you see the EU cookie notice.

I remember it filling groups with non-text posts which could not be read by Usenet clients, among other things.

I’m not on Facebook but I know people who are, and they are just ordinary people who made a poor choice and didn’t read the terms and conditions. It’s all those people who you are excluding, not just Facebook employees.