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[RolloTheGreat]

Kiddie porn versus the poison control center. Should they be treated equally?

LOL if you think net neutrality actually makes illegal activity easier to do without getting caught,.

I don't listen to four year olds try and explain general relativity either. You have argued that people who don't support the NSA's mass spying should be executed and that the 1st amendment should be repealed. North Korea really sounds like where you belong. They are actually doing the things you want, why don't you move there?

People who advocate privacy should be executed, as should anyone else who advocates that citizens, not laws, make law enforcement more difficult. Laws should make it more difficult to prosecute for the sake of the people. That's the role of laws that protect everyone, not the role of insanely selfish people.

The 1st Amendment is not a sacred cow, and if the future gets bad enough, we should repeal it and replace it with an amendment that places whatever restrictions on freedom of speech that are required.

Look, I agree with you that we need tougher punishments, and that some freedoms have to be sacrificed to try to catch people like kid porn traders, school shooters, and "radicalized jihaders" or whatever the fuck they are.

Not a doubt in my mind. The people are out there, they endanger citizens, and they're probably not going to wear "I'm a dangerous nut job" t shirts.

BUT the 1st Amendment is pretty much the foundation of this country, and we are a democracy.

Frankly, I don't think most people are smart enough to vote, and I don't think most of those who are take the time to study the issues necessary to make a good choice.

We're a pop culture, sound byte society that thinks posting a serious looking picture of Obama with "Because numbers" photoshopped on it along with some stats that have as much to do with Obama as they do with Rollo constitutes political commentary.

But that is the system and unless we're going to go to an intellectual elite oligarchy, Scooter, Jim Bob, and Fluffy Roundheels all get their say in the process.

We don't kill people here for advocating a position, and if we ever do, I'll be posting from somewhere that does not.