mardoz

What free speech advocates ignore here is that even they generally draw a line somewhere. Death threats, defamation, pedophilia, sharing bomb making materials etc are usually accepted by everyone to not be acceptable.

'But those are different' is usually the argument here. But why though? Because they cause harm? Doesn't inciting racial hatred cause harm?

Once we stop arguing over the issue being black/white but instead discuss _where exactly_ we draw the line then I think we are finally having a far more honest discussion. Just because some speech is illegal and other speech isn't illegal shouldn't be the deciding factor on whether someone (or some company) needs to platform that view. That's then leaving it to governments to decide what is ok and what isn't, instead leave it to society to choose not to propogate hateful and distasteful messages.

I also find it frustrating that some armchair psychologists have decided that people like me with more nuanced views simply want to repress and censor things that we disagree with which is not what it's about at all.

I think this needs some clarification. From my reading of the issue the Modernizr library and its NPM entry were never compromised, instead the version hosted by BA on their website was overwritten by the hackers with one that exfiltrated the sensitive data from the payments pages.

Not only is the version of Modernizr used on the BA website extremely old (2.6.2 was released in 2012) but for hackers to be able to modify hosted scripts demonstrates an extreme lack of care; I wouldn't be entirely surprised if they just hadn't updated the CMS hosting the script.

Some people have been saying that anyone could be caught by this but I do think that the lack of process to allow this sort of thing to happen warrants this sort of fine.

I wholeheartedly disagree with the UK's mass surveillance and the media/public's wilful ignorance of the issue but Assange is suspected of sexual assault and broke bail. He's expected to face the law in the same way as anybody else.

Straw man, no one claimed that there will be a complete extinction of coral, only that it will be 2 million years for coral to recover to pre-industrial levels.