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Re:European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing dominance on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @06:50AM (#14644073) 

  It's not that complex!
Corporate law is extremely complex.
Re:A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Effects on t... on Sunday June 25, 2017 @11:11AM (#14630334)
>the Bush/early Obama years

That was 4chan's "Ron Paul for President" and "Jews did 9/11" phase.

4chan was never liberal.

Re:A Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Effects on t... on Sunday June 25, 2017 @10:59AM (#14630279)
The GamerGate drama turned many subreddits and the non-/pol/ parts of 4chan into right-wing echo chambers.
Re:Wikileaks reveals CIA’s ‘Brutal Kangaroo’ toolkit for hacking air-g... on Saturday June 24, 2017 @02:59PM (#14626931)
I agree with your assumption that most US leakers being treated like heroes/celebs will put the US in a disadvantage against geopolitically rival countries, where leakers are considered to be traitors.

But I'm not American and neither are you. Why do we care?