Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

Re:Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit ... by brightlancer on Sunday July 23, 2023 @05:35PM (#36840097)

In both the book and the film Starship Troopers:

* persons can choose whether or not to do government service

* Rico's parents are quite rich even though neither are citizens

* the Moral Philosophy class tries to _discourage_ individuals from government service

* the instructor for Moral Philosophy explicitly tries to get the students to think for themselves

In the book but not the film:

* the only benefit of government service is the right to vote

* only veterans (i.e. no active service members) can vote

All of these (and more) are contrary to fascism. The book is not fascist. Verhoeven never read the book and didn't satirize fascism -- he satirized a _caricature_ of fascism.

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Re:Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit ... by jowea on Sunday July 23, 2023 @07:08PM (#36840906)

Fascism is ill defined so people call the Terran Federation fascist due to being jingoistic and undemocratic, despite it being quite different from historical fascism as you say.

Also minor detail but in the book there's a few jobs that are reserved for veterans, like IIRC the police.

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