This Week In Techdirt History: September 22nd – 28th
from the that-was-that dept
Five Years Ago
This week in 2019, we learned more about how easy it was to buy access to people’s movements from companies gathering license plate data, while AT&T was proclaiming that it could not be sued for selling customer location data just as readily. A big EU ruling thankfully said the right to be forgotten was not global, while another required Google to put certain links at the top of search results. A French court declared that Steam gamers really do own the games they buy, while in the US, a court said fair use nullifies a French rightsholder’s attempt to extract money from an art scholar. This was also the week that we announced our anthology of speculative short stories, Working Futures.
Ten Years Ago
This week in 2014, NSA cheerleader Ben Wittes was attempting to attack NSA critics while CIA boss John Brennan was lying about his lies. The Seventh Circuit upheld a fair use win but did so in a convoluted and problematic way, while we looked at a copyright question around taking selfies in museums. Law enforcement was predictably freaking out over Apple and Google’s decision to encrypt phone info by default, leading to lots of attempts to spread FUD, while the EFF offered a rundown of epic failures to regulate cryptography. Meanwhile, a patent troll was brushed off in its attempt to sue the FTC for investigating its shakedown scam.
Fifteen Years Ago
This week in 2009, the case was finally settled over a blogger who tracked patent trolls, while some were defending another patent that was interfering with the sale of Microsoft Word. A court smacked down an attempt to double dip on copyright and trademark damages, the music industry was still pushing for three strike systems, and we wrote about why DMCA safe harbors are so important. The Google books settlement was called off and set to be renegotiated, Eminem’s misguided lawsuit about Apple was getting started, and Elton John was flip-flopping about whether he supported kicking people off the internet. Also, President Obama officially nominated Victorial Espinel to be the first IP Czar.
Comments on “This Week In Techdirt History: September 22nd – 28th”
As someone who resides within the 7th circuit, I have to wonder how their decision 10 years ago (Kienitz v. Sconnie Nation LLC) operates under the new-ish fair use regime as created by the problematic Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith SCOTUS ruling, especially since the former was cited in part in the latter by the 2nd Circuit in their initial ruling for Goldsmith.
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Hm. Another 15 year stretch in which you weren’t pushing transgender propaganda and openly campaigning against women’s single-sex spaces and services.
Wonder what changed?
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You got obsessed with other people’s genitals, that’s what changed.
Fucking pervert.
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Pretty much this. It’s the problem everywhere.
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No, they insist on telling us about theirs and their bedroom habits.
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I’m keeping my bedroom habits to myself, thank you very much.
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Case in point
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Your fantasy is still showing. Cover your feet.
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Huh, so it’s because of my concern for the sex-based rights of women and girls that TD is now pushing transgender propaganda?
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Except you don’t have that concern at all. If you did, you’d be expressing concern for all the LGBTQ people who are persecuted by hateful people like you since that includes many women and girls. But you only pretend to care for them as a means of hating transgender people, the same way conservatives purport to champion the cause of the unborn in order to subjugate women when they themselves don’t care about infant mortality rates or pre-natal welfare, etc.
If you were really concerned, you wouldn’t be spewing hate.
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You don’t know what’s in my heart.
How outrageous to suggest that I don’t have a genuine, sincere, and FIERCE interest in the material conditions faced by my daughters and nieces as their sex-based rights are attacked by degenerate neo-Marxists like you.
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Herman, didn’t you say you were finished with TD? That you wouldn’t post here anymore? I guess that just goes to show how much of a liar you are.
And here’s a little thing you seem to ignore while spreading your bile, it’s illegal to harass people because of their sex, including their sexual orientation, gender identity, or pregnancy.
So while you say you want to defend the rights of women, you are doing it in a way that is entirely unconstructive and illegal you little lawbreaking troglodyte. Your daughters and nieces are far more likely to be raped, subjected to abuse, treated unfairly or passed over at work by men than by a trans person.
TL;DR: You are a stupid bigot that breaks the law every time you open your mouth to let the shit out. Plus, you are a pervert that is obsessed with other peoples genitals. Fucking creepy.
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“Trans”-‘women’ ARE men (disturbed, predatory men. For example, look up: ‘EXCLUSIVE DETAILS: Trans-Identified Male Who Opposed Female-Only Rape Crisis Services Sentenced To Prison For Raping Woman’ September 28, 2024, Reduxx).
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Notably you didn’t actually respond to what he said. Too busy getting you knickers a twist, presumably.
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Okay, let’s unbox this for the bullshit that it is.
You provide one singular example of a person in a different country who sexually assaulted a woman before ever identifying as transgender, who was caught and convicted, so justice was served, yet we could provide thousands of examples of cishet white men committing the same crime and worse in this country, but you’ll still pretend transgender people are predators based on a single example.
Bonus points: Your headline came from an article posted on USSA News, which calls itself “The Tea Party’s Front Page” and has a low rating for credibility and an extreme right rating for bias.
You’re admitting you get your “news” from an unreliable source that posts bigoted lies. This isn’t surprising at all, but hey, good on you for outing yourself that way.
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For once, you’re right. We don’t know if you’re saying outrageous fascist bullshit because you want a cheap dopamine hit from getting a response or if you’re saying outrageous fascist bullshit because you sincerely believe in it. But neither option speaks well of you.
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Oh we know. It’s projection through and through. Holmes is mad because he wants to be, or is attracted to trans people.
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That’s nothing a little hormone injection won’t be able to cure.
Multiple, if necessary. Mmhmm.
Re: Re: Re:6 You put the trans in transparent bro
What/who do you call you trans disassociative state Herman?
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“How outrageous to suggest that I don’t have a genuine, sincere, and FIERCE interest in the material conditions…’
Methinks the ladyboi doth protest too much
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I know that irrational, bigoted hate is in your heart. I know what’s in your words. You persecute LGBTQ people with a blatant disregard for the statistical unlikelihood that a transgender person is a threat to cisgender women.
Transgender people are far more likely to be the victims of sexual assault. You are statistically more likely to commit assault against your female family members than a transgender individual. 8 out of 10 SA perpetrators are known to their victims. Transgender people are less likely to commit sexual assault than cisgender men.
I guarantee you that at least one of your daughters or nieces or other female relatives fall under one of those letters. Would you persecute one of your female relatives if they came out as trans? You’re persecuting victims based on bad propaganda. Pretending you’re doing so out of love and concern is bullshit. You don’t get to persecute people no matter how good of motive you pretend to have for it.
Their sex-based rights are under attack by conservatives in many states.
I’m not a Marxist, neo or otherwise, unless you count the Groucho variety.
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You have no concerns, you are a fucking pervert who spend his days wondering what genitalia people have. It’s sick.
And every time a mentally ill pervert like you attack LGBTQ , it will be talked about.
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No. Your obsession with penises and your alignment with fascist-leaning conservative rhetoric is why you see transgender propaganda everywhere.
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You mad because of a Megan’s Law? Cause you sound like your mad that your not allowed within 1000 feet of a school.
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Both of those things are not true.