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I wouldn't block the number, to keep gathering evidence if any comes, but I 100% agree with reporting to HR. And the police. Depending on the details, you being in his car and them refusing your explicit request to be free of the situation may have been a crime.

It's unlikely that anything will happen to him, but having a police report on file will (a) be a useful piece of information to have recorded objectively, if in the future he does anything else to you or someone else (b) be a deterrent; it will dramatically increase your safety if he knows that you're okay with involving the law to protect yourself against him.

He'll probably be upset, if it goes anywhere. Fuck him. That's a tactic to put pressure on to discourage you from protecting yourself.

You could add anyone as a mod to a sub you moderated, he was added as a joke

Even more context they did give the guy who ran it and most the other nswf subs a special award

Fair point. He could be just an absolute bonehead who for whatever reason wasn't able to process that he needed to get the avowed overt pedophilic activity off his server, and didn't see the problem even with them joking around about how he was on their side and giving them an award. There's no particular reason to think that he himself has any inclination that way.

The comment editing was clearly a joke

This is a perfect example of something that's a joke when you're the one with the power, but if you're the one on the receiving end is absolutely not a joke.

I suspect that if someone at Google (or whatever) was editing spez's emails for any reason "as a joke" then he wouldn't be entertained by it in any capacity or think it was okay, however harmless their edits were according to them.

This has more to do with how Hamas are deliberately embedding themselves within civilians

"Deliberately"?

Can you lay out for me what you think members of Hamas should do in order to avoid being "embedded" in this way? Should they, for example, abandon their residences as individuals and go to live somewhere else where there are no people, so they can be clearly identified as enemy combatants, so that Israel won't be tempted into destroying the entire apartment building where is their private residence?

Would this also have applied to, for example, Jewish resistance fighters during the holocaust? Would it be reasonable to say that someone in the Warsaw ghetto who has weapons is "embedded" in the civilian population there, and shares some responsibility if innocent people in the ghetto are killed during the uprising?

preventing them from fleeing

Citation?

I actually think Hamas is a deeply corrupt and violent organization; most bad things that someone would say about them, I probably would agree with. Trying to use that as some kind of excuse for "and that's why it's their fault that Israel is indiscriminately bombing, shooting, and starving an entire civilian population even the most well-armed of which pose a very minor threat to them" isn't something I'll agree with.

the IDF deciding to deliberately murder children

Here's video of the IDF shooting two children including an 8 year old

Here's the IDF killing 11 children in a refugee camp

Here's the IDF attacking a school and killing children

Should I keep going? I can, if you want to try to paint the idea that the IDF is deliberately killing children as in any way untrue or exaggerated.

I am not aware of any other armed forces going even remotely to the same lengths to warn civilians as the IDF

Did you read the Foreign Affairs article I linked to? It goes into quite a bit of detail about this claim from a dispassionate and evidence based perspective.

which Palestinians trust so much that they are standing within meters of a marked building

Can you give some instances? E.g. link to a video where Palestinians are standing calmly next to a building which is being attacked by the IDF, trusting that they won't be harmed?

Your second link does not support your claim that Israel said they are only killing Hamas.

They said civilian casualties are very very low. I interpret that as meaning that most of the thousands of dead people are Hamas fighters. No?

What would be your assessment of the number of people killed in the fighting and what amount of them are Hamas vs innocent men vs innocent women or children? Just trying to get a frame of reference of what you think / assert is happening.

I have heard good things about the decoy keyboard approach

So one part:

The protests in support of Gaza are testing the bounds of students’ rights to free speech

This was not the viewpoint that led to the creation of the first amendment and all. The actual viewpoint of the founding fathers was that certain things are just inseparable parts of being human -- you're going to talk with people around you, if you're so inclined.

It's not for a government to "regulate" what people are and aren't allowed to say to one another, any more than they could regulate how many bones are in the body. A lot of those foundational documents weren't meant to lay out what the government would and wouldn't allow people to do and the boundaries of government's permissible control -- they were simple acknowledgements of the reality that they were outside the possible control of any government, and that a government that tried to tell people they could say certain things to each other but not other things, was engaged in an impossibility (as well as betraying its own illegitimacy to govern).

Look how happy

Are you suggesting that the IDF doesn’t kill toddlers, or absurdly claim that they are killing only Hamas and not the population of Gaza in general?

Prediction: It's shit

Yeah I was 100% wrong about it, I read the article for some weird reason as "northern North America" = "all of North America". My apologies.

What?

I am comparing the question, is my traffic being spied on by the ISP (in practice, passed off from the ISP to the NSA for sure and in practice maybe whoever else) actively as I'm running my connection, versus is my traffic being spied on by my fellow patrons. I would describe harvesting all my traffic and giving it to the government as "malicious." That, to me, is more likely (I mean, more or less 100% chance, within the US) than someone randomly being at the cafe acting maliciously to the point of setting up a spoof DHCP server randomly during the time that I am there.

(Part of the Snowden revelations were that the NSA had deals with more or less every major data carrier to harvest in bulk more or less everything that goes over the long-distance internet.)

What percentage of people in the world do you imagine set up spoof DHCP servers at cafes? 1%? And what percent of their time do you imagine they spend doing it? I cannot possibly make the math work out to make it make sense unless the cafe literally has at bare minimum thousands of people in it at all times. I mean, sure, it's worth making sure your VPN is secure against it.

I don't really want to argue continuously back and forth about this for too too long. I feel like I've said what I needed to say to communicate my piece about it at this point.

Ukraine actually did find a few Russian drones connected by an incredibly long thin tether. Since jamming drones' control channels is a massive issue on both sides and it would be nice just not to have to worry about it, it does make some level of sense. As far as I'm aware from public sources, the ultimate conclusion after not very many experiments was that it's way too much of a pain in the ass to be worthwhile.

Okay, how much?

I can enumerate the ISPs that have will-hand-your-traffic-over-for-general-vacuuming-up deals with the American government, and the ISPs worldwide that do some form of traffic editing on behalf of differently-repressive-than-the-US regimes, and I can go to Starbucks tomorrow and we can compare that proportion of ISPs to the proportion of people I find actively tampering with my traffic from the cafe.