It’s an obsolete and relatively obscure word that I think a lot of people don’t know - because if most people did know it, no one would ever have gotten into trouble for using it.

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

No one mentioned “niggardly” yet? What’s going on?

Yes, I learned English here in Austria and I remember classmates asking the teacher how to say “vorgestern” and “übermorgen” in English.

We didn’t learn the words “ereyesterday” and “overmorrow” that day, only “the day before yesterday” and “the day after tomorrow”. :(

Wo? Deutschland? Hier in Österreich haben mE die meisten Diskonter sowas, zB HoT flex.

mission accomplished? That has the same effect as making it private, doesn’t it?

because you’re here bringing down the average

obvious troll is obvious

Apple used to be the underdog in comparison to Microsoft before the iPhone existed.

Mozilla, well I tend to defend FOSS organizations, but this particular one isn’t very easy to defend.

This is why US First Amendment standards for freedom of speech need to be adopted everywhere, not with hundreds of “but this kind of speech is harmful to society” exceptions.

Aren’t Austrians just Germans pretty much?

The FPÖ certainly thinks so, yeah. Most of the rest of us do not.

and require two-thirds of the Supreme Court and federal circuit courts of appeals to overturn any law passed by Congress

Netanyahu would be proud.

Was Ron Wyden not usually one of the few forces for good in relation to internet bills, like SOPA and such? Now he’s proposing something like this.

The other things mentioned in the article are unobjectionable, some of them even good, but this?!