The Good News About Coronavirus: We Have Less Than Half the Greek Alphabet Left!

I mean, when we're done with the Greek letters, we've got to be done, right? Right?

The bad news: You think o-micron is contagious, just wait until o-mega.

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[AmosArch]

good thing we removed more descriptive names because wuhan and china are races that can be discriminated against.

[Creekan]

Omicron will always be the nu xi virus to me.

[AtR]

We're skipping around the politically incorrect letters ... and, anyway, we can always go to two letters or more, as needed.

[Eugene Volokh]

Or to alef, bet, gimel, dalet -- because, you know, the Jews.

[Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf]

Hey, what about O Boy, or O E Vey?!?!?!

[PeterB]

This reads like an xkcd comic, with 'The bad news...' being the alt-text.

What can we do to speed up variant creation so we can exhaust these letters?

[Don Nico]

From WaPo
“Omicron … will, ultimately, find just about everybody,” Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. expert on such things, said Tuesday.
“Most people are going to get covid,” the head of the FDA said at a Senate hearing that same day.

These two are undercutting their own story... but wait this is only about the pandemic of the unvaccinated.

[arch1]

(Psi)

[Noscitur a sociis]

You think o-micron is contagious, just wait until o-mega.

I am not proud of how old I was when I realized what the letter names meant. (Likewise epsilon/upsilon.)

[dwb68]

Why is the Greek alphabet used for scary things like viruses and math, while the English alphabet is used for things like bra cup sizes and grades? No one is scared of an F, or a DD cup size. Version covid with the English alphabet people will stop freaking out.

[Holden C]

Eugene Volokh is a sadistic, unethical liar of the highest order. He gets paid by Google so that's why he's purposely ignores the pain to victims of online harassment, cyberstalking, and related crimes. He doesn't care because he gets richer if laws are not passed to make Google remove harmful material. But these laws are necessary because otherwise victims have no recourse, and criminals are having a field day online. Eugene helps criminals and lines his own pockets with money.

People on this forum who support Eugene Volokh are nothing but domestic terrorists who support using "speech" that is part of criminal conduct to justify online harms. America is screwed if people don't have the civility to agree that things like online harassment, cyberstalking, doxing are malicious and illegal. It means the people in this country have totally lost it and have no value of decency whatsoever. Free Speech is being weaponized to hurt the fabric of society and people are drunk on it.

Eugene Volokh is a sadistic piece of shit for trying to harm the US social fabric and leave victims of heinous online crimes with no recourse.

If you look through these forums, many others have called out Eugene's hypocritical analysis. The sadistic guy (Volokh) seems to take extreme pleasure in people getting their lives destroyed by harassers online and coming out and defending the harassers while leaving the victims to hang. He takes pleasure when people lose their jobs and livelihoods over doxing. He takes pleasure when plaintiffs cannot file suits using a pseudonym even when they are doing so to protect being re-victimized by the court system. He does not ever talk about how malicious the perpetrators are - they use VPN to hide their own privacy while purposefully, intentionally trying to destroy the lives of innocent victims. He never talks about whether it's fair or not for perpetrators to be able to hide behind "Free Speech" while all the friction to justice in the legal system fall on innocent victims. He never talks about how Section 230 has enabled intermediaries to contribute to the abuse by not removing harmful content in time. He never talks about the suicides that come with cyberharassment and bullying and how victims cannot ever get away from the tormentors. He doesn't give a shit, that's why he's a psychopath that is dangerous for society.

Most people who take an absolutist view on the 1A have low empathy for people's sufferings, and are obsessed with defending the rights of a bunch of pervs, assholes, psychos, and low-life criminals of society who do not deserve defending and should be punished (fines or jail or both). Bad people deserve to be punished, but Eugene is advocating to punish the good people instead. Eugene Volokh is a grade A sadistic liar and a borderline psychopath based on his behaviour. He enjoys seeing people in pain and then coming out with his BS "Free Speech" arguments to make victims suffer more. You can see it in his eyes, he loves to destroy people using the "Free Speech" shield.

Eugene Volokh's approach would give victims of malicious targeted online harassment NO legal recourse, even if their lives have been turned upside down by the malicious stalking or harassment from these individuals, and the speech does not implicate public interests and are purely aimed to harm the victims. For Eugene, Free Speech trumps all - deaths, suicides, victims be damned.

Volokh has been trying his best to strike down all laws that would criminalize malicious online behavior like doxing, cyberstalking, harassment. This guy is grade-A liar and a psychopath who is harmful for society.

Volokh purposefully ignores talking about the huge impact to the lives of victims of cyberharassers who target these people for years because the harasser has a mental issue. The reality is that Free Speech should be balanced with safety and appropriate privacy for citizens online, otherwise it's been weaponized by sick and sadistic bastards and criminals, and Eugene is fighting hard for these sadistic bastards and criminals to keep harming people.

Eugene has never given two shits about the victims of cyber-harassment, never in any of his papers does he even consider the unique nature of the internet and the ability for malicious actors to ruin private individuals who are not in the public eye. Eugene Volokh has opposed laws banning doxing, revenge porn, Section 230 reform, etc... anything that would put more legal responsibility on platforms, ISPs, and intermediaries to make their products safer for people and to balance Free Speech with privacy.

That's what's wrong with the USA today, it's maniacal focus on Free Speech to the extent of allowing social harms is what will destroy this country. All the countries around the world like EU, UK, Hong Kong, Australia, NZ, Canada, Brazil, Argentina are all passing legislation to criminalize doxing, online stalking, online harassment as it should, as these are crimes against human dignity. Is the right to be "free from harassment" not a fundamental right? Eugene doesn't think so. He fights for criminals to continue harming people online. Eugene is a threat to the American public and to the future of the country. He is basically fighting for America to be lawless online. Why should something be legal online when it is illegal offline?

Volokh is a dishonest liar and sadistic human being with no ethics or morals. He only cares about superficial "speech", with no understanding (or even effort to understand) the fact that the internet has made it possible for anyone to use "speech" to wreak another's life, with or without justification, and many times, purely out of spite. This is why cases of cyberharassment, doxing, cyberstalking, revenge porn, blackmail are going through the roof, yet Eugene doesn't say a word about this. Has Eugene Volokh ever honestly asked himself, is it fair that the OFFENDERS CAN CONVENIENTLY HIDE BEHIND THE EXCUSE OF FREE SPEECH BUT WRECK HAVOC TO THE EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL LIVES OF THEIR VICTIMS? Does Eugene give a damn? This is part of the problem. Free Speech should only be free to the extent your rights don't interfere with those of others to live their lives free from your interference. "Your rights end under my nose".

Yet Eugene doesn't care about the victims, the people who are harmed by malicious, low-value-add free speech that is solely meant to harm and torment private individuals. He wants every single law that would help victims of these crimes get redress to be cut down, so that criminals can run freely on the internet, and maximize the lethality of revealing victim's private information, doxing them, causing them emotional and social upheaval. The real reason Eugene supports this dangerous view is because it enriches Big Tech like Google, which then give kickbacks behind the scenes to Eugene Volokh. Eugene indirectly makes money from the pain and suffering of victims.

Eugene Volokh is an emotionless being who doesn't weigh both sides of the arguments. For this robotic, emotionless “lawyer”, it's either Free Speech or nothing. His textualist interpretation of the First Amendment doesn't take into account that the Framers likely never even imagined the advent of the Internet, in which case an overly expansive view of the First Amendment can actually cause social harms because there is no barrier to entry, no cost of publishing cheap, harmful, malicious speech. Combined with Google's search engine, this means any malicious actor can type harmful things about someone, with or without justification, and this has a disproportionately large and negative impact on the victims' life, just for the sake of protecting the speaker's "freedom". But no consideration is made to balance the rights of the speaker against the rights of the victims, including the right of the victim to be free from harassment, free from stalking, privacy rights, freedom from intrusion into their lives. These are also Constitutional Rights (4th Amendment and elsewhere) Eugene ignores all of this and still adheres to his sadistic and dangerous view that it's all about the speaker and the rights of the victims be damned, even if they are bullied to suicide.

How come Eugene has never addressed the fact that cyber-harassment and cyberstalking hurt and suppress the FREE SPEECH rights of victims? Isn't that a violation of the free speech rights of victims? Not surprisingly, Eugene is completely silent on this. That’s because he has an ulterior motive.
Eugene Volokh's views are dangerous to the social fabric of America.

The fact that no one on this forum, including himself, can respond to my points in a rational way shows that Eugene himself knows my arguments to be correct. I've exposed him as a biased, partisan, dishonest mouthpiece of Big Tech (especially Google), not dissimilar to other dishonest organizations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), who wants to strike down consumer protection laws online to enrich themselves at the expense of protecting Americas. Eugene is a dishonest individual with a hidden agenda to enrich Big Tech. He doesn't care about Free Speech at much as you think, what he cares about is making money by peddling dangerous views. If you notice, all of his views are exactly what Google would like to see, and he has written papers directly funded by Google absolving Google of all platform/ISP liability.

Prove me wrong Eugene. Your sad and pathetic lack of ability to rationally respond to my points suggests you admit them to be true.

Prolonged cyber-harassment, multiple instances of doxing, prolonged cyberstalking that can be shown to have malicious intent, will be categorized as "courses of conduct", and not "speech", hence will not receive First Amendment protections. They will be prosecuted for the crimes against individuals that they are, and malicious online stalkers who try to stay in the shadows and destroy innocent victims' lives will be locked up and fined, or both.

If telephone harassment is illegal in states like California (PC 653m), then why the hell is doxing and online harassment NOT illegal and a crime? Makes zero sense.

What's your view on this Eugene Volokh? Do you just think the world is better off if cyberstalkers are allowed to run amok and damage the fabric of society?

Stalkers who use the anonymity of the internet to hide in the shadows, hide behind Free Speech, to try to ruin people's lives, are cowards and scum of the earth.

The people who actively help these scum to hide from the law and hurt their victims without legal recourse are worse than scum.

Volokh's interpretation of the 1A is borderless sadistic.
Under Eugene Volokh’s asinine interpretation of the First Amendment, there would be NO such thing as cyberstalking or cyber-harassment! These crimes would simply not exist in his world. Because these actions are performed with words, Eugene would have the 1A apply to anything that involves words (or by extension, pixels). No course of conduct that involves typing words on a screen would be subject to any civil or criminal liability regardless of content, form, or intention. This mean in Eugene’s warped world, revenge porn, doxing, public disclosure of private fact, privacy violations, even swatting would be perfectly legal, and even encouraged!

Ludicrously, he argues that these malicious acts are actually “valuable” because they provide value to “at least some people.” That’s a BS argument, because anyone can argue that say doxing material provides value to “someone” – yeah, the doxers and the criminals doing the harassment of course! A person’s credit card can be posted and it would provide value to someone, the thieves. A person’s revenge porn pictures can be posted and it would be obviously valuable to countless shady people on the internet. Eugene’s 1A internet speech test is: as long as the information posted is “of value” to someone, that content doesn’t qualify as harassment! This insanely warped logic is beyond asinine that I wonder how Eugene can say this with a straight face. There is no discussion at all from him on the rights of the victims and their constitutional right to be free from malicious harassment (4th Amendment). Eugene Volokh is borderline sadist who just wants to see people’s lives get wrecked and he takes enjoyment in seeing victims suffer.

No civilized society would just let victims take the brunt of harassment while online criminals can get away by hiding behind a warped definition of the First Amendment. If the constitution says “Congress shall make no law” then maybe the 1A needs a new interpretation in the age of the internet! Because the current approach is leading to very bad social results and instability when people can just say whatever they want online with no liability. Volokh is insane.

Eugene Volokh is dangerous to the public safety and to America.

[Eugene Volokh]

Holden C: At this point your comments, repetitively posted on many threads entirely without regard to topic, have devolved into spam (as they would have if you had decided to post repetitive rants criticizing, or for that matter praising, anyone else in entirely unrelated comments threads).

I will delete all such repetitive off-topic comments from you from now on. If you'd like to criticize my views about, say, pseudonymity, or injunctions against supposed "harassment," or the privacy torts, or what have you in threads that actually deal with those subjects, that's a different matter.

[Cal Cetín]

This must be the Board of Censors the Rev. has been trying to warn us about!!!

[Holden C]

Volokh is censoring my comments, when he peddles his "Free Speech" nostrums all over the world when the victim of harassment is not himself. You can see how hypocritical he is. It's all fine for psychos and pervs to harm other victims but when HE doesn't like someone's speech and it affects him, HE WANTS IT CENSORED.

I'm sorry Volokh, but Free Speech, like you say yourself, is FREE!!! I can say whatever I want, even when it's about you. That's what you've argued for, and hence you would agree that my speech is VALUABLE!!!!! My speech contributes to the "marketplace of ideas!!!"

You will never censor me, Volokh.

[Bubba Jones]

A wall of text suggesting we follow the legal precedents of Hong Kong would not be my choice of argument.

[m4019597]

He’s still here? I muted him a few weeks ago.

[Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf]

Thank you.

[Holden C]

The most disgusting part of Volokh's view is that he thinks malicious doxing should NOT be a crime. Posting someone's public information for the purpose of harassing or intimidating them online should NOT be a crime, even if it leads to financial or emotional ruin for the victims. Eugene doesn't give two shits about the right of the victim to be FREE FROM HARASSMENT, he fights tooth and nail so that psychos, mentally ill pervs, stalkers can do whatever they want online to ruin peoples' lives in the false name of "Free Speech."

I have a hard time understanding which side Volokh is on. He is paid by Google behind the scenes to fight against laws that would force Google to delete harmful content to protect Americans' privacy online.

Volokh is nothing but pure evil.

[Holden C]

"I will delete all such repetitive off-topic comments from you from now on. "

Hahahaha! The great Eugene Volokh CENSORING my speech because he doesn't like the content! What a fucken hypocrite!

[Bored Lawyer]

Dude. Take my advice. Find a paper bag, stick it on your face, and breath in and out repeatedly.

[Ridgeway]

TL;dr: Eugene Volokh is a phony.

[Intelligent Mr Toad]

No problem. Dr. Seuss has the answer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnsM5VxAR68&t=13s

[John F. Carr]

The good news, we could teach the world a new alphabet every year:

α β υ δ ...

ا ب پ ت ث ...

ა ბ ც დ ...

The bad news, President Gaetz nuked Ethiopia in revenge for the Amharic year.

[Doug Sundseth]

O-micron, being small and all, will sneak up on you. Now O-mega, I can hit with a tennis racket, though it's not clear that my feeble efforts will have any effect,

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