@simon friendly reminder that you need root access to fully remove Google from many android phones and tablets and that root access generally voids your warranty. That said, most warranties don't last longer than a couple years so if you've had your phone for 2 or more years then you likely have little to lose by ripping your *.google.com applications out and replacing them with much more secure applications.

If you don't want to do that, the paid version of #netguard can at least lock down your phone's network traffic app by app and web address by web address.

@Akido37 The problem isn't its technical effectiveness because it very much reduces the number of repeat offenders and intimidates others into avoiding those actions. The problem is the accuracy and integrity of the systems that determine guilt.

The more extreme the risk, the greater lengths someone will go to not be caught. Rape victims become abduction/slavery/murder victims and their property destroyed, likely with indiscriminant and possibly spreading means like fire to remove as much evidence as possible and cause as much confusion as possible. This is compounded with false evidence to incriminate someone else to stop further investigation.

On that note, it also makes the system an effective way to murder someone you otherwise wouldn't get away with. Frame them for a crime and manipulate the system from a position of power to output the result you want to get them killed by the state.

@TomSwirly

No, though you're not stupid for defining them as such, a religion is a system of interconnected beliefs with enough followers and structure to create a community based on it.

Beliefs are synonymous with theories, theories can, with enough proof, become fact but are not inherently facts. Claiming a theory is a fact without proof, is a lie, but it doesn't make the theory not a theory by itself, that requires enough disproof for the theory itself to become a lie.

A religion based on lies should be called a scam or whatever you would call a system of beliefs based on false premises.

EDIT:(Altered response to be less of a dick)

@TomSwirly

I suppose context is important, but it's still treating religion as if it's not just some theory a bunch of people have accepted as fact and decided to base their policies on. I honestly had an idea to try and formalize the findings of the scientific method as a religion to get similar rights and exceptions that churches enjoy... And that's how I found out scientology was a cult before it got famous as a cult. Kinda ruined the naming scheme I had in mind as a young adult.

@fortune

True enough, but it does plenty of harm to be told I will suffer eternally for choosing not to believe them, that I am less worthy as a person for if God condemns me, why shouldn't they?

It does plenty of harm that should a woman I care for decide to prevent a life she cannot care for and would suffer accordingly, that she be called a murderer for a being that didn't even know it was alive nor have good prospects to enough life in a world already heavily populated.

It does plenty of harm that those who grew up in a religion and have doubts so much so that they renounce their faith would be outcast, persecuted, and attacked by those who claimed to love them. That some would even demand an official execution for a so called "treachery".

It does plenty of harm when someone is called an abomination for loving who they love. When violence, fear, and rage come from appearing in as others would, but not how they expect you to.

Keep your cult out of politics.

@memerly

I've seen that comic and wish I could remember where because it was good.