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Citizen LinusCitizen LinusPosted Sep 14, 2010 14:35 UTC (Tue) by jackb (subscriber, #41909)In reply to: Citizen Linus by deepfire Parent article: Citizen Linus
I'll agree with you that the US has become a de facto police state, but it's by no means the most oppressive state on this planet (yet).
Not to say that there's anything good about our situation but at least we we haven't had our freedom to criticize removed via hate crime laws nor do we have trash police going through everyone's garbage. We're also lacking the death penalty for apostasy that some other more oppressive states have.
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Citizen Linus Posted Sep 14, 2010 19:40 UTC (Tue) by deepfire (subscriber, #26138) [Link]
You are not the first in this thread to choose a misguided, uselessly narrow interpretation of the notion of "oppressive state".
Contrary to whatever U.S. citizens might think[1], the rest of the world is much more concerned with its extraborder affairs.
1. If it sounds as an insult, this is only because it is so close to being true, at least judging by statements in the thread.
Citizen Linus Posted Sep 14, 2010 19:45 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] And this is not the first time you've made your point. This discussion is off-topic for LWN, can we please stop it here?Thanks.
Citizen Linus Posted Sep 14, 2010 22:34 UTC (Tue) by bgmarete (subscriber, #47484) [Link]
I can hardly imagine that there can be any meaningful Linux Kernel related - or other technical - comment to such such a story. You posted the story.
Citizenship is an inherently political issue. And in an international forum, the politics will be of an international nature, of course :-)
Citizen Linus Posted Sep 14, 2010 22:42 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] In fact, I debated posting the story for a fair while before deciding that it would be of interest. And it has clearly been of interest. That said, I still don't think that means I necessarily set us up for an extended discussion on the merits of various national governments, death penalty rates, etc. Such things happen, and I let it run for a fair while before I said anything; now I'm simply suggesting that we've done enough.Are you disagreeing with that?
Citizen Linus Posted Sep 16, 2010 19:18 UTC (Thu) by bgmarete (subscriber, #47484) [Link]
Not too much respected Corbet :-) A little politics once in a while never hurt, even in a nominally technical forum.
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