Asking the U.S. to allow Google to publish more national security request data

Re:Asking the U.S. to allow Google to publish more national ... by haberman on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @02:14PM (#5863653)

It's one thing to care about privacy issues, it's another to believe (and react to, and soapbox about) a distorted and inaccurate version of reality. A lot of the "nerd rage" has involved people assuming facts that may not in fact be true. People who do this marginalize themselves. In general we call them "conspiracy theorists."

For the facts that do indeed turn out to be true, soapbox away.

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Re:Asking the U.S. to allow Google to publish more national ... by jlgreco on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @02:58PM (#5863962)

As I have seen it used, "nerd rage" is really just a way of saying "if you care about this, you are a nerd", which is implicitly wrong. If the intent is to call into question the accuracy of statements, then there are better ways to do that.

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