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Re:West Virginia Wants to Ban Over-the-Air Updates for Cars by t-writescode on Saturday February 26, 2022 @02:08PM (#30480713)
Who says we want them to stop [an arbitrary protest with presently unknown political stance, but argued using a trigger instance to try to get us to agree and comply with the stance the writer is making]?

Freedom is something Americans tend to hold dear; and that does mean “freedom for people that have a stance I don’t like to protest that stance”. Their right to protest keeps me having a right to protest.

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Re:West Virginia Wants to Ban Over-the-Air Updates for Cars by dane-pgp on Saturday February 26, 2022 @09:55PM (#30484908)
> “freedom for people that have a stance I don’t like to protest that stance”

Agreed. I'm saddened (and a little disturbed) that many HN users have such a knee-jerk reaction against the truckers protest that they would downvote a comment that was actually arguing against government backdoors.

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Re:West Virginia Wants to Ban Over-the-Air Updates for Cars by t-writescode on Saturday February 26, 2022 @11:48PM (#30485511)
If you're referring to your own comment, I absolutely read that as encouraging government backdoors and I absolutely downvoted it on that reason.

If there was sarcasm, it wasn't clearly visible to me.

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Re:West Virginia Wants to Ban Over-the-Air Updates for Cars by dane-pgp on Sunday February 27, 2022 @02:38AM (#30486221)
Poe's law strikes again. I should have put a "/s" on there, and I apologise if my comment wasn't as clear written down as it was in my head. The fact that my comment appeared to be condemning all political change was meant as a clue that only a dictator would support such a position, though.
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