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At least it sets an outer bound on what people can do to abuse one another in the courts.

With many of them you risk violence, drugs, abuse, sexual abuse, racism, etc.

At my employer, we receive countless abuse complaints and we handle every single one.

People are willing to put up with all sorts of abuse in order to keep their family afloat, but that doesn't justify anything.

It seems to be deeply embedded in Google's DNA not so much to abuse AdSense users as to treat them like components in a machine.

Charges ranged from domestic abuse to armed robbery.

Like it is not a useful reporting and public debate about government's abuse of power, it is a fun some pests have at the government expense.

Notability is an extremely vague standard, a perfect recipe for abuse and selective enforcement.

Barack Obama will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud, and abuse of authority in government.

The other tenderers were accustomed to dividing the work up amongst themselves at inflated prices, they didn't even know who we were and we received a lot of abuse for breaking up their little scheme.

Mental abuse is no better than physical abuse, and given I don't buy that hitting developers with sticks makes them "better" somehow I'm also not going to buy into clue-by-four beatings being any better.

~Protect Whistleblowers: Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled.

A somewhat related note is that America's culture of sex-negativity, shame and general hysteria around nudity is a required prerequisite for this type of bullying and abuse.

What is this then?If PG does not want to stop this blatant and continuous moderator abuse, he might as well declare HN a Google and Linux fiefdom so that the rest of us using other platforms and who can think for ourselves and are not Microsoft haters can stay away.

If the US is nowhere near being an authoritarian police state, at what point will US become a authoritarian police state?When they have kill lists without any trial, jury or judge?When they keep prisoners in jail indefinitely without a trial?When they torture prisoners?When state officials lie to the public?When state officials lie to public representatives?When the secret police interfere with lawyers communications and interferes with legal cases?When the secret police silence individuals that want to inform about abuse?When the secret police use surveillance for blackmailing?When the state use strip searches and surveillance indiscriminately against the population, including children?When the state implement state censorship?When they use force against peaceful demonstrators?When they utilize military resources against peaceful demonstrators?When they seize bank assets without any trial, any intention of a trial, or even without ever formally serving the individual with criminal papers?Please state what criteria we should use, so we can have a final definition of what an authoritarian police state is.