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Originally Posted by kane
In a nutshell the only posts Gideon ever makes is about copyright stuff and almost all of them are some kind of pro-piracy/pro-torrent ruling or news. The exception was when he took time away from copyright stuff to post a thread where he bashed the people who raised money to help a woman who had breast cancer get a breast implant. Here is that thread if you care to read it. |
I'll end up being way off topic, but that thread you linked me to.. I didn't see the episode, so I'm not fully informed, all the info I have is from that thread.
So first, before someone misquotes me or tries to misrepresent me, I do care about cancer and cancer patients, my brother lost a nut and my step-mom lost a tit, so this actually hits pretty close to home.
It seems to me that your thread was largely around the use off the term 'charity', which in the US is a legal term that describes a 501c3 registered entity. Unlike some other countries, I don't believe there are limits as to what percentage of money raised needs to go to whatever cause vs administrative overhead, so that event could have been through a 501c3 organization. Either way, the claimed financial data looks pretty bad, although it got the job done, so kudos on that. If I was from a country where a charity had to show 80% or whatever of funds going to whatever cause, I'd probably take exception with the ratio.
Otherwise, it didn't take long for the discussion to fall apart and not really related to anything, I wouldn't say that either side was representing themselve in a very positive light.