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Didn't organisations like TSA already have rights to look through your phone/laptop at the US customs? I read quite a few articles urging foreigners to wipe their personal devices before coming to US if they care about their privacy.

Every time Gosduma passes some law restricting citizen's freedom for the sake of security we have morons bleating "Don't worry, guys, the strictness of Russian laws is compensated by the optionality of compliance".

Yet in the past few years we had hundreds of people jailed and/or fined for the content they posted on social media or even for reposts and likes. Yet the morons do not learn. Can't wait for Yarovaya's law to come in full effect.

Well, kind of. In BNW population too was controlled by government, but not through means of warmongering, fear and hate, but through pleasure inducing drug that made people numb to anything happening outside of their daily routine (and eugenics, mostly).

So I think banning is more Orwellian. But sure there are a lot of people who wouldn't care about censorship on the internet, even if it would affect them too.

CSS Purge 10 years ago

It's funny how they say CSS should be optimized, while they use 6 different JS files for particle animation (one for each site + header, the only difference being canvas size, particle count and color)

not wanting sexuality jammed down your throat

How is a couple go-go dancers are 'jamming down your throat'? Really, if they are the first thing you see at a party and can't focus, maybe the problem is with you?

a technology event

It was an afterparty, nothing to do with the main event.