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therealdkz

main page links says there are 20 comments here

but i see only 6

why?

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I definitely recommend reading the dead postings. Sometimes they're nuts. But often they're just speaking truths that the dominant moderators don't want you to hear.

For instance, I'm routinely voted down for speaking of the needs of the artists and writers who are damaged by piracy. The downvoters seem to hate the mention that piracy corrodes the free market and denies rewards to the artists. The downvoters like to imagine that they're keeping the discussion free from Holocaust deniers but stomping on political ideas they don't like is a big part of it.

my comment was made dead for backing up the claim that US funding to the Ukrainian government pays for Ukrainian government salaries. Hardly conspiriatorial and completely what you'd expect the money to be doing if you are trying to help a country not collapse. Nonetheless, I get downvoted and flagged because I didn't google it for people. Maybe they think that all the money sent goes to buying Eee PC's so the children of Ukraine can learn to read and write good.

Is there evidence that "piracy corrodes the free market"?

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