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• On the post: Pro Tip: Don't Send A Completely Bogus Defamation Threat To A Website That Employs A Former ACLU Badass

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 04 Sep, 2019 @ 10:39am

  I for one am getting tired of these novelty legal letters. Also, in this case (as opposed to Bob vs HBO), it feels like punching down.

• On the post: Man Spends Three Months In Jail Because A Drug Dog And A Field Test Said His Honey Was Methamphetamines

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 29 Aug, 2019 @ 06:21am

  I knew before looking that man was black.

• On the post: Do Citizens Have A Right To See The Algorithms Used By Publicly-Funded Software?

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2019 @ 06:08am

  On the case of voting machine software, most definitely.

• On the post: AT&T Will Now Filter Robocall Spam, If You Pay Them Extra

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2019 @ 07:18am

  Blocking by phone number does nothing when robots are spoofing the numbers in the first place.

• On the post: Shallow Fakes: Why Facebook Was Right Not To Delete The Doctored Video Of Nancy Pelosi

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2019 @ 05:41am

  I grow weary of this site's bothsidesism, which plays directly into one side's game.

• On the post: Ex-NSA Personnel Spied On Americans And Journalists For The United Arab Emirates

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2019 @ 11:16am

  I don't know what UAE has to do with Jamal Khashoggi. It was Saudi Arabia's MBS ("Mohammed Bone Saw") who murdered Khashoggi.

  Other than that, a fine article sir.

• On the post: Court: Qualified Immunity Protects District Attorney Who Lied To State Legislators About A Wrongfully-Convicted Man

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2019 @ 07:35am

  fair notice

  The district attorney did not receive fair notice of what constitutes libel? Wasn't four years of law school sufficient notice? This is nothing more than lawyers protecting other lawyers here.

• On the post: Federal Judge Says Boycotts Aren't Protected Speech

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2019 @ 09:50am

  So Citizens United tells us that spending money is a form of speech. So not spending money is a form of silence. Is this judge saying that we don't have the right to not speak? More broadly, we see this all the time, where the right frequently insists that we spend our money in certain ways, which is now a form of compelling speech.

• On the post: A Nesting Doll Of Stupidity: Rudy Giuliani's Twitter Typo Leads To Bogus Trademark Threat Letter

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2019 @ 03:52pm

  What a bunch of asos.

• On the post: As A Final Fuck You To Free Speech On Tumblr, Verizon Blocked Archivists

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2018 @ 09:37am

  Re: Re:

  You may be right Thad, but just to respond to Hanlon's Razor: never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice masquerading as stupidity.
  Because there's a lot of that going around these days.

• On the post: Investigation Finds Philly PD Officers Bought Forfeited Houses Seized During Drug Arrests

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2018 @ 08:41pm

  This article doesn't really attack forfeiture the way we'd like it to. Presumably these houses were bought at auctions which were advertised and to which the public was invited. So out of thousands of houses sold over the years, a handful going to policemen seems normal actually.

• On the post: As A Final Fuck You To Free Speech On Tumblr, Verizon Blocked Archivists

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2018 @ 03:28pm

  Verizon got what they wanted when they bought Tumblr: knowledge of each and every person's kinks. So now why would they need Tumblr anymore? Want to run for Congress? Better not cross Verizon! Oh, and the Russians probably got all that too when they hacked Yahoo.
  
  Well, maybe not, but who knows? I'd sure rather it wasn't even a possibility.

• On the post: If You're Surprised By Verizon's AOL, Yahoo Face Plant, You Don't Know Verizon

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2018 @ 12:23pm

  Re: Dear Verizon...

  Yeah! As I like to say, "Stay in your lane." But they never do.

• On the post: Rudy Giuliani's Paranoid Nonsense Tweet Is A Good Reminder That We Need Actual Cybersecurity Experts In Government

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2018 @ 12:31pm

  Here's another one, with a better payload:
  
  https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1041168209074941952

• On the post: Our Bipolar Free-Speech Disorder And How To Fix It (Part 1)

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2018 @ 07:14am

  This is really good and I eagerly await the other parts.
  
  To individuals or small businesses, the industry behemoths might as well be the government because (1) they are orders of magnitude larger, (2) we can rarely say no, and (3) we have little to no direct influence over them.

• On the post: To Obtain Documents About Facebook Data-Sharing, UK Gov't Seizes And Detains A US Executive Working For A Different Company

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 26 Nov, 2018 @ 06:44am

  From The Guardian: "Six4Three alleges the cache shows Facebook was not only aware of the implications of its privacy policy, but actively exploited them, intentionally creating and effectively flagging up the loophole that Cambridge Analytica used to collect data."
  
  There's your tech dirt, and the reason I posted the link to the insider chat.

• On the post: Manhattan DA Cy Vance Says The Only Solution To Device Encryption Is Federally-Mandated Backdoors

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2018 @ 11:25am

  "It was reported here last week that, in 2012, Vance ordered his prosecutors to drop a promising criminal-fraud investigation against Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump, Jr., who were suspected of misleading potential buyers of condos in the Trump SoHo building; the order came after their father’s attorney, Marc Kasowitz, paid Vance a visit. Soon after Vance’s office dropped the investigation, Kasowitz donated and raised a combined total of more than fifty thousand dollars for Vance’s reëlection campaign."
  
  https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/why-didnt-manhattan-da-cyrus-vance-prosecute-the-trumps-or-harvey-weinstein

• On the post: Apple Demands Retraction Of Bloomberg's Big 'Chip Infiltration' Story; Bloomberg Has Some Explaining To Do

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2018 @ 07:47pm

  Re: Re: Denials everywhere...

  Came here to say this.

• On the post: DOJ Rings Up Another Leaker, Nailing Financial Investigation Official For Handing Docs To Buzzfeed

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2018 @ 07:46pm

  Re: Re:

  Well, I'm assuming that because the investigation is sensitive that means there is an investigation. Of course, not by Trump but it's happening!
  
  I guess when you are a whistle blower you just better know what you are talking about, like Snowden was. Even if you're right it will blow back hard on you, but if you are wrong, well, then you threw your life away for almost nothing.

• On the post: Apple Demands Retraction Of Bloomberg's Big 'Chip Infiltration' Story; Bloomberg Has Some Explaining To Do

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2018 @ 08:01pm

  "pathological liar and his oligarch cronies" applies to Trump and Greenwald.

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