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Re:Google shows support for LGBT Olympians by osipov on Thursday February 06, 2014 @09:54PM (#7194547)
The paper also talks about statistics on how often gay people are beaten in Russia. United States is far worse in this respect. Further United States has a greater incarceration rate for gays than Russia.
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Re:Google shows support for LGBT Olympians by subsection1h on Friday February 07, 2014 @02:02AM (#7195145)
See my reply to boyter. The white paper does not adequately show that fewer "gay people are beaten in Russia".
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Re:Google shows support for LGBT Olympians by Crito on Friday February 07, 2014 @05:32AM (#7195626)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes

Fucking hell, the countries are even the same here...

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Re:Google shows support for LGBT Olympians by mkr-hn on Friday February 07, 2014 @10:16AM (#7196573)
Could Yandex get away with this?
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Re:Google shows support for LGBT Olympians by Crito on Friday February 07, 2014 @02:04PM (#7198061)
The Russian search engine? I'm not sure what you mean.

My comment references a Russian propaganda technique of brushing off human rights violation accusations by saying "Yeah well, the US is shitty", as though that excuses them. I suppose Yandex could in theory be used to distribute this form of propaganda, I don't really know much about them.

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Re:Google shows support for LGBT Olympians by mkr-hn on Friday February 07, 2014 @04:13PM (#7198771)
I misunderstood your intent.
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Re:Google shows support for LGBT Olympians by mkr-hn on Thursday February 06, 2014 @11:47PM (#7194851)
What's your point?
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Re:Google shows support for LGBT Olympians by erichocean on Friday February 07, 2014 @01:16AM (#7195067)
That if you care about what's on paper, yeah, Russia is worse than the US.

But if you care about facts on the ground—what people do, not what they say—then the US is worse than Russia.

I have no idea about any of the facts, but that's what I took to be what he was saying.

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Re:Google shows support for LGBT Olympians by mkr-hn on Friday February 07, 2014 @10:04AM (#7196515)
I get that. I just don't see how it's relevant in a thread about Russia's laws. There's progress to be made and progress to be celebrated all over the world.
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