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• On the post: Jim Jordan Demands Major Ad Companies Explain Why They Won’t Advertise On Truth Social

  

  SteveMB ( profile ), 08 Apr, 2024 @ 10:30am

  Major Ad Companies Explain Why They Won’t Advertise On Truth Social

  "None of our clients are in the business of selling TruckNutz, coal-rolling fittings, tacky gold sneakers, Bibles with "not" omitted from the Sixth through Eights Commandments, or any other product likely to appeal to the 'Truth Social' demographic."

• On the post: Self-Proclaimed 9/11 Hero Rudy Giuliani Now Owes Election Workers He Defamed $148 Million

  

  SteveMB ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2023 @ 09:42am

  Sad

  Remedy when getting punked by Borat was the most embarrassing moment of his career? Now it wouldn't make the top ten....

• On the post: Elon Musk Demonstrates How Little He Understands About Content Moderation

  

  SteveMB ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2022 @ 10:20am

  Whether or not conservatives have been disproportionately and unfairly stifled on Twitter is not the primary issue here

  The important point is that the two are separate issues. In the situation described by the evidence (conservatives are more likely to violate various basic "no shirt no shoes no service" type rules), they are indeed disproportionately sanctioned, but there is no unfairness involved.

• On the post: Sidney Powell Asks Court To Dismiss Defamation Lawsuit Because She Was Just Engaging In Heated Hyperbole… Even When She Was Filing Lawsuits

  

  SteveMB ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2021 @ 06:12am

  Re: Re: You're all reasonable, right? AND DIDN'T BELIEVE HER!

  Search results "The Storm": none found

  Every time this bit of QAnonsense gets referenced, the "I summon the full power of the storm!" line from the 90s X-Men animated series ear-worms me again.

• On the post: Sidney Powell Asks Court To Dismiss Defamation Lawsuit Because She Was Just Engaging In Heated Hyperbole… Even When She Was Filing Lawsuits

  

  SteveMB ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2021 @ 06:08am

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  It takes two to settle. I get the distinct impression that Dominion is more interested in salvaging its good name than in the money (which Sidney can't produce more than a tiny fraction of in any case, especially if Sponge Blob Golf Pants sends forth his legal beagles to squelch her efforts to work his side of Grift Street). At best, any settlement would require her to undertake the most grueling apology tour since Henry IV's submission to Gregory VII at Canossa.

• On the post: Sidney Powell Asks Court To Dismiss Defamation Lawsuit Because She Was Just Engaging In Heated Hyperbole… Even When She Was Filing Lawsuits

  

  SteveMB ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2021 @ 05:58am

  Re: Re: Schooling

  Sidney's lying there in wait
  Sidney's lying at the gate
  Sidney's lying to the court
  Sidney's lying with a snort
  Please, dear reader, do not butt in
  With the red-flag "cancel" button!

• On the post: Court To Cop: We Don't Need On-Point Precedent To Deny You Immunity For Killing A Dog That Couldn't Hurt You

  

  SteveMB ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2020 @ 12:41pm

  Re:

  Oh, and he should carry a nice big cudgel or knife or something, and state that he's ready to do the deed right there and then.

• On the post: Enough With The Myth That Big Tech Is 'Censoring' Conservatives AND That The Law Requires Them To Be Neutral

  

  SteveMB ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2019 @ 05:45pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: It's Adorable

  So, are you actually stupid enough to not understand the difference between personal disrespect (e.g. referring to Caitlin Jenner as "Bruce") and political commentary (e.g. referring to Trump and McConnell as "Napoleon Boneyspurs" and "Moscow Mitch", respectively), or are you just pretending to be?

• On the post: Enough With The Myth That Big Tech Is 'Censoring' Conservatives AND That The Law Requires Them To Be Neutral

  

  SteveMB ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2019 @ 05:40pm

  Re:

  You, uh…you wanna rethink that post of yours, there, champ?

  It's impossible to rethink that which was never thought through i the first place.

• On the post: Police Union Responds To Outing Of Officers' Bigoted Social Media Posts By Offering To Erase Officers' Online Presences

  

  SteveMB ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2019 @ 06:00am

  Re:

  Hmmmm... if the scrubbing service puts fine print in the contract warning of possible "extra fees" and reserving the right to report "particularly problematic" content rather than scrub it, would that basically put them in a position to blackmail the customer with impunity? It'd serve them right....

• On the post: Section 230 Works: Russian Trolls Don't Get To Sue Facebook For Being Kicked Off Facebook

  

  SteveMB ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2019 @ 06:04am

  Section 230 Works: Russian Trolls Don't Get To Sue Facebook For Being Kicked Off Facebook

  Hence the butthurt bleats from Republicans.

• On the post: Amazon, Law Enforcement Joining Forces To Turn Your Front Door Into An Integral Part Of The Surveillance State

  

  SteveMB ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2019 @ 07:09am

  Re: Re:

  The Ring doorbell, and probably all the others, only record video when they detect motion.

  That's another advantage to the obvious method of avoiding the whole issue -- configure things so that your camera doesn't see the street, just the area right in front of your door (e.g. put up a bit of privacy fencing or shrubbery).

• On the post: Catholic School Teen's Lawyers File $250M Defamation Suit Against The Washington Post; Fail To List Any Actual Defamation

  

  SteveMB ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2019 @ 10:11am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  For example, "there's no such thing as the biggest natural number, because if there were such a number, I could add 1 to it and have an even bigger number."

  I'm waiting to see if there is any more information out there before jumping to any conclusions on this.

• On the post: Catholic School Teen's Lawyers File $250M Defamation Suit Against The Washington Post; Fail To List Any Actual Defamation

  

  SteveMB ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2019 @ 10:03am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Since there will always be the possibility of currently unknown details becoming known later changing a story it may be hyperbolic to spin it as needing to know ''100% of the details' before it's no longer 'reckless' to report

  It's not hyperbolic at all; in fact, it understates the absurdity of MW's argument. Even if a news publisher does have 100% of the relevant details, MW's standard would still require them to hold publication until they can prove that there is no more relevant information out there somewhere.

• On the post: Catholic School Teen's Lawyers File $250M Defamation Suit Against The Washington Post; Fail To List Any Actual Defamation

  

  SteveMB ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2019 @ 10:00am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  At no point did I say "100% of the details" or anything even close to that.

  Yes you did:

  There was more information that was relevant to the story, and they did not wait until they had that information

  A policy of waiting because there is "more information" out there inherently requires waiting until "100% of the details" are in. QED.

• On the post: EU Commission Decides To Mock The Public; Insists Fears About EU Copyright Directive Are All Myths

  

  SteveMB ( profile ), 19 Feb, 2019 @ 09:15am

  Re:

  Total bullshit from a cowardly, sniveling little twerp

  You're supposed to put your signature at the end, not the beginning.

• On the post: Article 13 Was Purposefully Designed To Be Awful For The Internet; EU Moves Forward With It Anyway

  

  SteveMB ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2019 @ 06:53am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Cool story bro.

• On the post: Italy Tells Rest Of EU To Drop Articles 11 And 13 From The Copyright Directive

  

  SteveMB ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2019 @ 10:24am

  Re: CopyMax

  Maybe the Russian Troll industry has figured out that the Trump Train is derailing so they're branching out into new fields of endeavor.

• On the post: Italy Tells Rest Of EU To Drop Articles 11 And 13 From The Copyright Directive

  

  SteveMB ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2019 @ 07:03am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  If I weren't an alias, you'd have just committed libel.

  No, no, no; the correct answer is "If what you just said weren't so obviously true, you'd have just committed libel". Please try to keep up with the class.

• On the post: Italy Tells Rest Of EU To Drop Articles 11 And 13 From The Copyright Directive

  

  SteveMB ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2019 @ 06:56am

  Re: Re: The Killing of Patreon and their Ilk

  Before all these independent platforms sprung up, it was actually easier to build an audience because the few hundred people on a given message board didn't know where to look either, and a post or two would scoop them all up, leading to thousands of dollars in sales.

  Ah, so your business model is "fleece suckers who don't know about the existence of better alternatives to your snake oil". And now you're butthurt because the proliferation of platforms makes it much easier for the (former) suckers to learn their options. Explains a lot....

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