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• On the post: Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk Very Mad At Disney For Its Speech, Funds At Least One SLAPP Suit

  

  Trails ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2024 @ 06:59am

  Oh no

  Agreed. Now I have to go watch... the Marvels...

• On the post: FTC Moves For A Restraining Order Stop Microsoft, Activision Blizzard Merger From Consummating

  

  Trails ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2023 @ 07:57am

  Title missing a word?

  FTC Moves For A Restraining Order To Stop Microsoft, Activision Blizzard Merger From Consummating

  FYI

• On the post: Ted Cruz Goes After ‘Woke’ Microsoft Over Xbox Power Saving Settings Update

  

  Trails ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2023 @ 09:34am

  It's funny to see these guy rally to the defence of the "simple childlike joy of gaming" one second then flip to manufactured hysteria about gaming turning kids into monsters or corrupting them the next.

• On the post: Ted Cruz Goes After ‘Woke’ Microsoft Over Xbox Power Saving Settings Update

  

  Trails ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2023 @ 09:31am

  Maybe getting upset about xbox sleep cycles is a little dumb (increased boot times suck tho)

  Backhanded justification

  Well yes, it was, actually.

  Unsupported claim

  CSPC is a (too) powerful agency

  Overbearing gov't boogey man

  Talking about the possibility and “a need to study” is how that process starts.

  Slippery slope pearl clutching.

  it’s at the direction of administration higher-ups who really are doing it cuz they hate fossil fuels

  Biden's fault.

  There aren’t tho. That simply isn’t true at all.

  Unsupported claim.

  activist enviro group

  Ad homs when party line isn't toed. Surprised you didn't add socialist here.

  I hate your ideas, you’re a fucking idiot

  Ad homs on article author. I think I won conservative troll bingo. What's my prize?

• On the post: Trump’s Truth Social Big Payday May Be Falling Apart

  

  Trails ( profile ), 29 Jun, 2022 @ 09:21am

  Techdirt, for all your German plumbing needs.

• On the post: How Would Senator James Lankford React If A Democratic Senator Demanded Fox News Explain Its Editorial Policies?

  

  Trails ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2022 @ 07:02am

  Aim Higher

  For example, big-tech pushes its liberal ideology in America while submitting to authoritarian regimes and censoring that same ideology in other countries. Further, those same regimes are provided a platform and rarely face the same censorship shown toward conservatives in the United States.

  Pretty black and white: "We aspire to be like those regimes!"

• On the post: Exec That Tried To Send Critical Reporters A Dead Pig Blames 'The Drinking Culture At eBay'

  

  Trails ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2021 @ 08:57am

  What did the Steiners write?

  So, I'm just curious what the Steiners actually wrote that provoked this.

  To be clear, I'm not suggesting it's their fault or they deserved this, I would just love to see what must be the most brilliant pieces of biting sarcasm ever produced.

  Ebay's behaviour in this, as an org, is fucking disgusting and their claims of "this isn't our corporate culture" ring pretty flat given the sanctioning of this on record.

• On the post: Naturopath Sues Twitter After It Bans Her Account For Spreading Medical Misinformation

  

  Trails ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2021 @ 09:47pm

  Typo 7th paragraph

  Not sure what that has to do with suing Twitter on behalf of someone helping spread disinformation about COIVD

  COVID spelt "COIVD" in this case. Appreciate the article as always :).

• On the post: Milwaukee Sewerage District Threatens Menards Over Fertilizer Sales

  

  Trails ( profile ), 25 May, 2021 @ 06:40am

  Anti competitive?

  So the trademark thing is patently ridiculous. The Menards brand communicates "We're like Milorganite", not "We are Milorganite".

  I'm sorta surprised they didn't take a more anti-competitive slant to their claim. Menards is obviously leveraging its position as a distributor of fertilizers to encourage users to buy their product. I'm not close enough to anti-competition nuances to know if it's over the line, but it certainly seems closer to it here than the trademark claim of "their lawn fertilizer shows a lawn, just like ours".

• On the post: Devin Nunes' Favorite Lawyer On The Hook For Over $20k In Sanctions

  

  Trails ( profile ), 07 May, 2021 @ 09:20am

  Moooooo

  I bet they make Devin Nunes' Cow pay for this.

• On the post: Tennessee Lawmakers Decide Chris Sevier Has Good Ideas, Push His Bill To Compel Speech From Media Outlets

  

  Trails ( profile ), 13 Apr, 2021 @ 11:30am

  Re: Walk it Back

  So apparently, you need two line breaks after a blockquote....

• On the post: Tennessee Lawmakers Decide Chris Sevier Has Good Ideas, Push His Bill To Compel Speech From Media Outlets

  

  Trails ( profile ), 13 Apr, 2021 @ 11:29am

  Walk it Back

  WHEREAS, the general assembly finds that the first amendment of the United States constitution asserts that the government "shall make no law abridging the freedom of the press";
  The first amendment is great.

  and WHEREAS, freedom of the press in the United States is not absolute and is subject to certain restrictions, such as defamation law;
  Haha, just kidding.

• On the post: Forfeiture In Theory: TAKING DOWN DRUG LORDS! Forfeiture In Practice: Taking A Guy's TV And PlayStation During A Drug Raid

  

  Trails ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2021 @ 02:32pm

  Re: Oh, look: ANOTHER RARE commentor among the few!

  Your tears are like a delicious angsty candy. Thank you for coming here and taking the time to inform everyone how dead this site is.

• On the post: Copyright Trolling/SEO Scam, Changing The Photo Credits On Wikimedia Commons

  

  Trails ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2020 @ 02:56pm

  Hmm

  Green crap marketing's stie has the following phone number: Phone: 800-136-446

  This is not, to my knowledge, a valid phone number.

• On the post: Zuckerberg And Facebook Throw The Open Internet Under The Bus; Support Section 230 Reform

  

  Trails ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2020 @ 06:16am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Maz

  Goddamit, Cartman, stop trying to make "Maz" happen.

• On the post: Harper's Gives Prestigious Platform To Famous Writers So They Can Whine About Being Silenced

  

  Trails ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2020 @ 11:13am

  Re:

  Agreed.

• On the post: Harper's Gives Prestigious Platform To Famous Writers So They Can Whine About Being Silenced

  

  Trails ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2020 @ 11:12am

  Re: Re: Blech

  I disagree with this. Having private opinions vs. expressing them are two different things. Free speech is speech free from government censure, not free from consequences. Employers making decisions based on expressed opinion is completely reasonable.

• On the post: Harper's Gives Prestigious Platform To Famous Writers So They Can Whine About Being Silenced

  

  Trails ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2020 @ 10:36am

  Blech

  Let's posit a scenario:

  Famous author G.C. Paddleling, known for publishing the wildly successful "Fuzzy Paner" series, publishes a tweet along the lines of:

  Everyone with brown eyes should have their left arm gnawed off by rabid dogs because [REASONS]

  Are we supposed to just nod and say "Interesting?". It's an outrageous statement and the societal consequences of making such a statement are how individuals and private entities choose to respond to those statements. Those responses are themselves open to debate, but this argument is pretty weak.

  I do think some of the debates can get a little... intense, but a lot of the stuff triggering this seems pretty objectionable to me, and worthy of some intensity in the response. Threats and violence aren't ok in these debates, so that certainly needs to be a line, but that's not what this letter is complaining about.

• On the post: Dallas PD Asks Residents To Snitch On Protesters, Gets A Load Of K-Pop Videos Instead

  

  Trails ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2020 @ 08:37am

  Mistake in article

  Once again, the people that are supposed to serve the public have failed to understand the public.

  FTFY

• On the post: Mississippi Governor Extends Middle Finger To Constitution On Twitter While Applauding Asset Forfeiture

  

  Trails ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2019 @ 09:41am

  Re:

  U mad, bro?

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