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Richard Stallman: You can get arrested without a reason

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This post has been flagged. Flagging a fairly innocuous interview with Richard Stallman seems like an abuse of the privilege. At the very least, flagging should require a short statement explaining the basis for the action.

> Trump is telling his followers, “you're invulnerable to coronavirus”

That quote is made up.

How is that even relevant? Can't readers make their own determination as to the credibility of an interviewees responses? This is utterly ridiculous and abusive.

Huh? They can! I'm all for free speech. But I'm not gonna applaud this blatant lie. This would not be accepted about other people.

It's clear from the video that that wasn't intended as direct quote. I think it's a fair summary of this actual quote.

"If you look at children, children are almost, I would almost say definitely, but almost immune from this disease. So few. Hard to believe. I don't know how you feel about it but they have much stronger immune systems than we do somehow for this. They don't have a problem."

https://youtu.be/4kberLzSvx0?t=33

But how is this quote not exactly right, and how is the Stallman quote not an incredible misrepresentation of it?

"You're invulnerable to coronavirus" is not a summary of that quote let alone a fair one.

That's the American way, isn't it?

The cops work with incomplete information and have a lot of leeway as to arresting you, but you have a way out

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus_in_the_United_St...

> That's the American way, isn't it?

Not at all. Any state today was so many power that doesn't matter what's written in the law.

We need to put limits in the State, otherwise, they'll continue to increase they own power and bypass the law whenever they want.

And I'm not just talking about politicians: civil servants, security forces (police, army and others), regulatory agencies, judiciary and so on.

Richard Stallman has always been many things, and arguably doesn't communicate very well in this interview, but he is rarely actually wrong.

People might draw their lines in different places, but it's hard to imagine ClearView operations as Free Software.

Russia Today is not reliable source of information about anything for everyone. Don’t support Russian fake news factory.

During the interview he keeps hammering about only using free software. I wonder what technology they used to record this interview.

I'm curious too. This [0] is old but provides some requirements he gives to do such interviews.

[0]https://groups.google.com/a/mysociety.org/g/mysociety-commun...

Covid 1984 is bullshit. Damn I used to think Stallman was intelligent. 99.99% survival rate. I guess I have to vote Trump to get you morons off your fake covid non-scientific fear campaign

"99.99% survival rate"

If it had a 99.99% survival rate, it would mean only 1 out of 10,000 people infected with COVID-19 died.

200k people in the US have died of COVID-19. Mulitply 200k deaths by 10,000 and you get 2 billion people in the US infected with COVID-19. The US has a population of only about 330 million.

> population of 330k

99.9% would have been more precise, which aligns well with the current numbers.

The term "survival rate" applies to the infected, not the entire population. When a plane wipes out against a mountain in the Andes, you don't use the population of the entire country to claim that the survival rate of the crash was high, you count only the people who were actually in the plane.

So 209,454 deaths suggests a 96% survival rate[0], based on our current information.

Perhaps more to the point, since humans are generally bad at visualizing statistics, 209,454 people have died, making COVID-19 the third-highest cause of death[1] in the USA this year so far.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

[1] https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200818/covid-the-third-lea...

Survival rate = 1-Ifr. Ifr is ~0.1% so 99.9% is right. There were no 200k corona deaths in the US.

There have been more than 200k deaths from COVID-19, and the year is not yet over. I linked to information supporting the number I gave.

I actually think the number is a bit higher, since not all deaths triggered by COVID-19 are necessarily reported with COVID-19 as a comorbidity[0]. But there are certainly not fewer!

[0] https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/09/01/comorbidities-and-coronavirus...

Don't misrepresent the seriousness of the pandemic to justify your choice to vote for Trump. Just vote for him if you want to vote for him, but be honest about it.

You are dead wrong about COVID-19, as rudimentary math should tell you.

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