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What, the champions of consumer justice and ethics haven't replied? Can't believe it...

Actually, it's about ethics in free speech fundamentalism to the point of funding the exchange of child exploitation imagery.

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He's either a troll or from that ST:TOS mirror universe where everyone is evil.

They spend lots of time making collages.

there was a Reddit AMA with Simon Barry http://www.reddit.com/r/TheContinuum/comments/2p3fo9/i_am_simon_barry_the_creator_of_continuum_ask_me/

Well quite, it's hardly worth you spending an hour on the phone, let alone queuing up in CAB or filing with small claims. If it were £400 it would be a different story. And they know that. Really the bad press angle, which you're trying in cooperation with others, seems the best approach. Also contact Trading Standards. And maybe the police. If they're interested, great. If they're not interested you have more material for the press to run with: "... and what's worse is there is no practical way to hold Sony to account." [edit] Maybe contact self-proclaimed consumer justice warriors (CJW), too, like TotalBiscuit (over 300k Twitter followers and over 1m YouTube subscribers).

I think you would. I'm not so sure about them evil multinational corporations.

They claim they 'know'. It may be true. It may not be true. They may believe it to be true, or they may just say it because they think it's expedient. After all, no-one is likely to take them to court (even small claims), the authorities aren't interested unless there is a big enough fuss at which point Sony can say, "after careful consideration blah blah blah we have decided to refund these customers blah lessons have been learned." You know, the usual guff. They don't need to do anything until there is a big enough fuss. Whatever; AFAICS, they are presently complicit in the fraud they agree is occurring and they have stolen money from the innocent customer. They would be compelled to do something if the amount was ten or a hundred times as much.

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I didn't intend to suggest otherwise (although I wouldn't use the word leap). But the coalition's filter wasn't conceived of internally, a very vocal, tiny minority persuaded the coalition to make ISPs deploy filters.

The slippery slope isn't always a fallacy. Some of the people opposing the UK government's plans to filter extreme porn from the internet weren't concerned they would no longer be able to jerk off to extreme porn, they (rightly, as it turns out) feared other things would be filtered out including political speech and inoffensive things like Childline (yes, Childline the counselling service for children and young people, which was at one point filtered by O2). Assuming you don't want what might be at the bottom of the slope it is wise to keep an eye on things like that and consider them carefully, even if you wouldn't go so far as Voltaire in being prepared to die for them.

They can see a fair distance from atop their ivory tower, you know.

yeah, what do Western European ivory tower academics know about the suffering of Poland's ubermensch, eh?

"Captain Phasma" phasma - abbr. phantasm high ranking ghost, an allusion to the Holy Ghost. /jerellis

They could publish it themselves online and receive 100% of the revenue instead of 70% (the remainder going to Steam). 13,000 at $10 $130,000 70% $91,000 30% $39,000 big difference. $39,000 is about median full time income in the USA, iow one person's salary for a year.

[–]Logan_Mac 6 points 3 hours ago Imo this will look nice as "history" books of sorts, what led to GamerGate and what impact it had, it could be timeless [–]yiannopoulos_mActual Yiannopoulos, and a pretty cool guy 9 points 3 hours ago That is the plan Timeless!

It's really odd. Why not watch a few episodes of ER or something? GH-7 Medical Droid: I'm sorry, we've tried everything we can, but the damage is too severe and extensive. Obi-Wan: She's dying? GH-7 Medical Droid: We need to operate quickly if we are to save the babies. Senator Bail Organa: Babies? GH-7 Medical Droid: She's carrying twins. Obi-Wan: Twins? GH-7 Medical Droid: Yes, twins! Now stop asking stupid questions and give me a signed consent form with her insurance details.

quite, she was Queen of a planet at 14, represented the planet as Senator at the galactic senate or whatever at 24, worked for some galaxy-wide disaster relief organisation and went on lots of adventures across the galaxy, became pregnant with twins, had faith in her lover's essential goodness despite him becoming a baddy and beating her up and then... just gives up. Why did that make more sense to Lucas than her suffering a fatal injury that she bravely fought but her will and medical science were insufficient to save her life?

We don't know he's dead. He was shot and he was apparently incapacitated - that's all we saw.

She is the worst character.

your a elaborately decorated shoebox diorama