This Week In Techdirt History: November 10th – 16th
from the that-was-that dept
Five Years Ago
This week in 2019, Biden was spreading myths about Section 230, Microsoft was giving the go-ahead to California’s new privacy law, and the Supreme Court agreed to hear the Google v. Oracle case about APIs and copyright. A copyright troll lawyer faced sanctions and arrest over some courtroom shenanigans, Universal Music was claiming copyright over one of the first newly public domain songs in over two decades, and we dedicated an episode of the podcast to the simple fact that copying is not theft. Also, John Oliver famously took on SLAPP suits and anti-SLAPP laws with a grand musical number.
Ten Years Ago
This week in 2014, the latest era of the crypto wars was heating up, and folks were trying to push legal liability up the stack to domain registrars. The broadband industry was still fighting against Title II and Comcast was professing support for only the unimportant parts of net neutrality, while the FCC was calling AT&T’s bluff about fiber investment and Verizon was admitting the wireless industry is not really competitive. The Roca Labs saga continued with a lawsuit against Marc Randazza and more bogus DMCA takedowns. Also, though we totally missed this ten-year anniversary this week, we officially launched the Techdirt Podcast with a debut episode about privacy, surveillance, and transparency.
Fifteen Years Ago
This week in 2009, Rupert Murdoch was going to war with fair use and Google and being joined by others in the newspaper industry. The IFPI was threatening to ramp up its enforcement efforts in Denmark, while we looked at whether Google would be liable under Sweden’s Pirate Bay ruling. We also looked at the conflict between copyright and education and a clear and concise explanation of why software patents harm innovation. We launched one of our most popular (and still available, in an updated design) t-shirts, mocking the DMCA, and witnessed the birth of now-ubiquitous cookie notices on websites when the EU started requiring consent for cookies.
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Libs 🚨 URGENTLY 🚨 need reeducation and ideological programming to counteract the misinformation they have been consuming and election denialism they are endorsing.
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(Libs are so annoying to so many people that being ‘anti lib’ alone is a sufficient basis for broad, coherent, coalitional politics.)
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It’s revealing how you got everything you wanted and you still feel the need to fight a straw man culture war, indicating that you’ll never be happy regardless of what happens. It’s almost as if you’ve volunteered to be manipulated by your own echo chamber to be a useless idiot all for the diminishing return of dopamine hits. Keep posting. You’re just telling on yourself.
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It’s because people like them have nothing else to do than to try and ruin whatever joy or hope people have in them. Any shred of decency.
People like them are just sad, confused and angry husks who probably haven’t had anyone show them genuine affection in years.
Or maybe they just suck, that’s also an option.
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When you applied for your present position on the trump team, were you required to submit, in addition to your resume, a detailed account of your past support for his hole-y-ness?
Would you care to share your submittal with the rest of the class?
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I read the comment you replied to as agreeing with the comment it was responding to and referencing the person who posted the first comment in the thread.
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I think you misunderstood my comment.
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Every accusation, a confession.
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Yes, I confess to – over a week later – still delighting in drinking liberal tears!! 😀
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When you take joy in the pain of those you hate, you will never feel real joy. You will hate others for what you think they’ve done to you; you will hate yourself for what you know you’ve done to yourself. All the “liberal tears” in the world won’t save you from the hate that will eat your sense of humanity. Your wins will mean nothing to you, for they will come with hate instead of joy. Even now, if you were to get all you ever wanted, you would hate it because it can’t sate your desire to hate and hurt others—because, deep down, you hate yourself.
You don’t have to love “liberals”. But you don’t have to hate them, either. You worry so much about appearing to be a clichéd conservative that you end up going down roads of thought and feeling that you might otherwise have avoided. Is getting one iota of dopamine really worth what you do to yourself?
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Hey man I’m sorry that your candidate burned a billion dollars just to lose all swing states. Have you considered another sabbatical instead of replying to obvious trolls about it?
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I dunno. Have you considered not caring about the life of a complete stranger that you’re apparently stalking online?
Well, HR 9495 is coming back as early as this monday. Likely gonna only need a majority vote to pass the house.
I don’t know if it’ll pass or not, pass the senate or not, or even be defeated in the courts.
I’m exhausted.
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The fascists want you tired. When you keep yourself in a state of constant worry, you will soon tire of trying to fight, and you eventually will give up. That’s how they win.
You don’t need to fight all the fights. You don’t even need to fight one fight all day every day. Stay in the loop about that bill, tell others why it’s bad, and do whatever you can (within reason) to keep it from becoming a law. That’s all any of us can do. No one, including me, expects you to hold a 24/7 protest or call every lawmaker in the country or whatever you think you’re expected to do.
Am I worried about this bill? Yes. Am I going to let that worry turn into despair and consume me? No. And I don’t see why you have to do that to yourself.
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Yeah, I feel less bad after sleeping. Even if it does pass the house, there’s a good chance it’ll not be able to overcome the filibuster in the senate.
Even then, it’s far from impossible for it to get challenged in the courts.
I’ll be keeping track of it for the next week and see how things go from there.
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Libtards may have only recently been abandoned by the electoral college, but they were abandoned by God long ago
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I guess you must live a particularly pathetic life and lacking any impetus to change it. There’s a word for people who live like that: losers.
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Jesus put shitposters in the same basket as moneylenders.
The illegitimate government in waiting will self consume critical energy needed to sustain their bullshit balloon, watch it as it deflates whilst flying gracefully across the empty room.