The murkin legal system is utterly fubar'd: having an ad-blocker setup for your browser is illegal according to the letter of the law as it's "contributory copyright infringement" not to watch all the blinking lies.

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They're out of their minds collectively. (Fuck them all, then!) Next thing will be mandatory handcuffs on your lounge recliner so as not to let you go to the potty while the now better brighter cleaner faster less-fat extra-value commercials provide revenue to the lying greedy bastards.

Along these lines: I pronounce being a proud "copyright criminal" snort by maintaining Jesred (a general-purpose web crap zapper) for Debian.

If you outlaw reason, only outlaws will have any brains left.

Link to Ed Felten's course blog, where this insane discussion is taking place