This Week In Techdirt History: October 22nd – 28th
from the as-you-were dept
Five Years Ago
This week in 2018, the broadband industry sued Vermont over consumer protections and net neutrality, while a few states got into the broadband fight on the side of the FCC, and we noted how perfect the coordination was between the agency and telecom lobbyists. Another report showed that FOSTA increased sex trafficking, and we saw a lawsuit over the “Shitty Media Men” list. The UK government banned officials from using the term “fake news”, and there was a narrow breath of hope that link taxes and upload filters could be stopped in the EU. Also, we were surprised and slightly amused when Google decided that our post about the difficulty of content moderation was dangerous content.
Ten Years Ago
This week in 2013, a new leak revealed the astonishing number of French phone calls surveilled by the NSA, leading to more denial word games from James Clapper, while the White House was assuring the German chancellor it would not monitor her calls (but stayed notably silent on what had happened in the past). The claims of the NSA’s success in stopping terror attacks were spreading without evidence, and we wondered why the agency didn’t focus more on its real success stories related to cybersecurity. We also learned that the NSA urged US officials to “share their rolodexes” so it could find world leaders to track, and Congress was gearing up to drop a new anti-NSA bill.
Fifteen Years Ago
This week in 2008, we were disappointed to see a lack of transparency in government bailouts during the financial crisis, and we wrote more about the risk of the crisis to venture capital and startups, plus took a look at some of the spectacularly bad ideas going around. We also wrote about why ISPs shouldn’t be copyright cops, and wondered if either presidential candidate would commit to DMCA reform. Meanwhile, it was the era of online issues spilling over into the real world and resulting in some confused legal fights, from some Dutch kids being convicted for theft of a virtual magic amulet (which seemed like the wrong law to cover the horrible things they did), and a woman in Japan arrested for deleting her virtual husband’s avatar.
Comments on “This Week In Techdirt History: October 22nd – 28th”
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Wow, again another 15 year slice of TecHDirt history in which the site wasn’t pushing either the homosexual or the transsexual agendas. Wonder what changed?
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Arrival of people like you who make an issues about how other people live their lives.
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I don’t care about mentally-ill consenting adults paying ghoulish doctors to sterilize and mutilate them. (In fact, sterilize all of them, please!)
I do, however, object to taxpayer-funded primary and secondary schools trying to indoctrinate children into thinking they can ever be anything other than their biological sex.
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Something that only happens in your imagination, and used by you to justify your bigotry.
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I bet his bigotry comes from him picking up a hooker and then finding out she didn’t have the expected plumbing.
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Talk about a cope. Grooming and indoctrination of vulnerable children into the gender ideology cult happens every day in public schools in the U.S. and on weekends at publicly funded libraries.
If you support telling kids that they have magical gendered souls and might’ve been born in the wrong body, you should own it and admit what’s going on. That you don’t shows what a craven, pathetic, creepy coward you are.
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“holy shit! gay and transgender people have existed for as long as we have history, but it’s truly terrible to simply acknowledge reality and tell children that these people exist but maybe we can stamp them out if we don’t allow them to be seen or heard!”
Is that what you wanted to say? I think that’s the stupidity you were trying to say 🙂
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Straight people don’t understand that before they came along, we were there before them. But they’ve enjoyed their positions of power for far longer and have proven to have overstayed their welcome.
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Hyman Rosen continues to censor the truth. But he won’t have his way for much longer. Or, should we say, “she” won’t have “her” way for much longer.
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The creepy people are people like you who obsess about peoples sexuality, and there is nothing creepy about telling children that people hwo don’t fit a strict male/female, or only fall in love with people of the opposite division exist, and it is not grooming or trying to convince children that they are different. Children knowing that there are people that are different in the world helps them if, and not I said if, they find that they do not fit the mold that most people fit into.
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Not only is it creepy, it’s an abomination, and completely in contravention of science and natural law. There are only two sexes in humans – male or female.
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What is really creepy is your mono mania and obsession with how people present their sexuality to the world.
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Someone needs a safe space because reality is to scary to deal with.
If you ever studied biology, which I highly doubt, you would have flunked it.
I’m sure you like to think so, actual science says differently but you are too scared to accept reality.
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We are whatever the fuck gender we want to be and no Andrew Tate clone is going to tell us otherwise.
Cope.
Rope.
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Pretty much every post you make here is evidence of the contrary.
Re: Re: Cant even see the org post..BUT
there is a debate over Adam and eve….Even.
Being Futa? Combined sexes,
And if you REALLY want to go there…
Science has taken the idea, OUT.
really.
They see in nature a SMALL % of creature who are both sexes, and consider then abhorrent. AND will not count them.
YES, its a very small amount.
Bout would also account on MANY STRANGE THINGS from the past.
Like the human species Dropping to UNDER 100k on the WHOLE world and still Surviving.
It would give HUMANS a BETTER chance of survival in many circumstances.
If adam and eve were Hermaphrodites, it would REALLY help the Idea that we CAME from 1 central group. And the first persons from that groups created everyone.
NOT>>>> that 1 Lady created all of human kind.
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Only your terminal case of cognitive degeneration.
Since this is the site it is...
What are the chances, that as a site changes its USE’ of adverts, we can personally send them a change in What we expect?
If YT is increasing their Adverts to every few minutes, and REQUIRING us to turn OFF adblock, That we can as this contract TO Customers is a personal one, as WE had to make changes. That WE can make a demnad to THEM?
I would love to sit here, let my computer run with 4 windows open and let the adverts run. At $0.02 per advert.
What do you think? Suggest? As a contract is supposed to be an equal exchange. And every Rich person demands ‘Their TIME is Money’.
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Unless you are logging in, clear your cookies when YouTube complains, and reload the page and you can continue to use adblocking.
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But it would be nice to get paid to watch adverts.
LOTS of adverts.
I could pay for a nice holiday.