How is a state which allows and encourages wage labour and trade 'communist'? Totalitarian everyone agrees on, as to whether it is Communist or Socialist other than in name is heavily doubtful. State intervention in a…
>Here it is again 'CP isn't wrong'. Yes it is, I don't see how you can think it's not. You haven't defined any criteria for 'wrong'; the person you are replying to is taking issue with the fact that the harm principle…
The PROTECT Act specifically had provisions against even drawings of any kind, however those parts to my knowledge were ruled unconstitutional. On the other hand, there are various state laws against the material; I…
>But what if it's artificial child porn that looks like your child? I don't understand the problem. Let's assume that no real images are used as input to the artificial child image creation process. So what if it looks…
Out of interest, in what way is harm increased? Does the same harm occur in cases in which the image is only being viewed?
I know you're being facetious, but under a Communist society it's likely that there would be several popular hobby projects, similar to open source community's efforts. Things like AIM would be developed in private or…
This was not a problem with Socialism, it was a problem with the form of economic planning used. We must also bear in mind that there are forms such as market Socialism. Neither the USSR nor Venezuela paid attention to…
Automation certainly can benefit society (the majority of whom are workers), but in the way in which it is used at the moment does not benefit them in the fullest sense; they can take advantage of lower prices, but they…
>You're attempting to redefine the meaning of words to create a strawman Isn't this exactly what post-Marxian authors did? By the time Marx was writing, it was clear what capitalism was - the predominant employment of…
>Capitalism is inseparable from a free market system. No, it's not; there exists market Socialism, for example. There also exists mutualism. I don't know where you're getting this from other than the idea that authors…
>The US isn't even remotely close to being a free market system and hasn't been for decades. Where exactly did GP claim that it is? And why is regulation incompatible with a capitalist system? You are making the…
>American medical system is not capitalist but mercantilist. This distinction is made on the fallacious idea that "capitalism" is equal to a totally free market. This is a common confusion but false nevertheless. There…
>When Venezuela's economic ministers say things like "the law of supply and demand is a lie" to justify price controls They can't be very good Socialists then; Marx was a supporter of the law of supply and demand, and…
But nevertheless in intrudes on the public sphere, to simply deny its effect on the culture surrounding it and the society which uses it is naive. The idea that businesses exist apart from everyone and everything is a…
>So, I'm not sure if that's really xenophobic. A little nitpick, but "-phobia" suffix does not strictly mean fear, though that is its origin. It can also mean hatred. >Should a Mexican restaurant be pressured into…
>We're primates, not pure energy beings that we can reprogram at will. Nobody doubts this; my point is that our current mode of production has a very strong effect on how we go about our daily lives and the attitudes…
That said, there are modern Communist projects which rely not at all on agrarian population; they believe that education should be tailored to fit the current mode of production; for a view on this, you may be…
>It's because utopian projects are at odds with human nature This asks the question - what isn't at odds with human nature? Why do you think that utopian projects are necessarily at odds with human nature? Marx and…
>did you ever stop to wonder why every communist state ends up the same? Communists have. Anarchists have. I know you're using the question rhetorically, it deserves an answer. Some say that it lies in praxis - the…
Marginal economics seems to be rather popular, but I'm still a stickler for classical ideas of value personally.
>I mean, you were wrong then, and you're wrong now, and if you read the law you'd see that. Wrong about what, exactly? Images of children in sexual situations, or rather, as is described in the act, is illegal even to…
Would someone mind explaining why my comment was downvoted, and how I can improve my comments in future please?
As for drawings, the CAJA 2009 section 62 onwards deals with it.[0] As for publishing text online, there was a case of a man who wrote stories and was convicted I believe under the Obscene Publications Act, though the…
No. Canadian too, Canada has frankly draconian laws when it comes to free expression and possession of pornographic fiction.
How do I chain VPNs together where I'm not giving my Tor requests to any of the computers between mine and the Tor network? I use a server at the moment to tunnel but French law requires them to store my history for a…
How is a state which allows and encourages wage labour and trade 'communist'? Totalitarian everyone agrees on, as to whether it is Communist or Socialist other than in name is heavily doubtful. State intervention in a…
>Here it is again 'CP isn't wrong'. Yes it is, I don't see how you can think it's not. You haven't defined any criteria for 'wrong'; the person you are replying to is taking issue with the fact that the harm principle…
The PROTECT Act specifically had provisions against even drawings of any kind, however those parts to my knowledge were ruled unconstitutional. On the other hand, there are various state laws against the material; I…
>But what if it's artificial child porn that looks like your child? I don't understand the problem. Let's assume that no real images are used as input to the artificial child image creation process. So what if it looks…
Out of interest, in what way is harm increased? Does the same harm occur in cases in which the image is only being viewed?
I know you're being facetious, but under a Communist society it's likely that there would be several popular hobby projects, similar to open source community's efforts. Things like AIM would be developed in private or…
This was not a problem with Socialism, it was a problem with the form of economic planning used. We must also bear in mind that there are forms such as market Socialism. Neither the USSR nor Venezuela paid attention to…
Automation certainly can benefit society (the majority of whom are workers), but in the way in which it is used at the moment does not benefit them in the fullest sense; they can take advantage of lower prices, but they…
>You're attempting to redefine the meaning of words to create a strawman Isn't this exactly what post-Marxian authors did? By the time Marx was writing, it was clear what capitalism was - the predominant employment of…
>Capitalism is inseparable from a free market system. No, it's not; there exists market Socialism, for example. There also exists mutualism. I don't know where you're getting this from other than the idea that authors…
>The US isn't even remotely close to being a free market system and hasn't been for decades. Where exactly did GP claim that it is? And why is regulation incompatible with a capitalist system? You are making the…
>American medical system is not capitalist but mercantilist. This distinction is made on the fallacious idea that "capitalism" is equal to a totally free market. This is a common confusion but false nevertheless. There…
>When Venezuela's economic ministers say things like "the law of supply and demand is a lie" to justify price controls They can't be very good Socialists then; Marx was a supporter of the law of supply and demand, and…
But nevertheless in intrudes on the public sphere, to simply deny its effect on the culture surrounding it and the society which uses it is naive. The idea that businesses exist apart from everyone and everything is a…
>So, I'm not sure if that's really xenophobic. A little nitpick, but "-phobia" suffix does not strictly mean fear, though that is its origin. It can also mean hatred. >Should a Mexican restaurant be pressured into…
>We're primates, not pure energy beings that we can reprogram at will. Nobody doubts this; my point is that our current mode of production has a very strong effect on how we go about our daily lives and the attitudes…
That said, there are modern Communist projects which rely not at all on agrarian population; they believe that education should be tailored to fit the current mode of production; for a view on this, you may be…
>It's because utopian projects are at odds with human nature This asks the question - what isn't at odds with human nature? Why do you think that utopian projects are necessarily at odds with human nature? Marx and…
>did you ever stop to wonder why every communist state ends up the same? Communists have. Anarchists have. I know you're using the question rhetorically, it deserves an answer. Some say that it lies in praxis - the…
Marginal economics seems to be rather popular, but I'm still a stickler for classical ideas of value personally.
>I mean, you were wrong then, and you're wrong now, and if you read the law you'd see that. Wrong about what, exactly? Images of children in sexual situations, or rather, as is described in the act, is illegal even to…
Would someone mind explaining why my comment was downvoted, and how I can improve my comments in future please?
As for drawings, the CAJA 2009 section 62 onwards deals with it.[0] As for publishing text online, there was a case of a man who wrote stories and was convicted I believe under the Obscene Publications Act, though the…
No. Canadian too, Canada has frankly draconian laws when it comes to free expression and possession of pornographic fiction.
How do I chain VPNs together where I'm not giving my Tor requests to any of the computers between mine and the Tor network? I use a server at the moment to tunnel but French law requires them to store my history for a…