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• On the post: Border Device Searches Continue To Increase, Threatening More Than Just The 4th Amendment

  

  Advocate ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2017 @ 12:04pm

  Re: Re: Re: ?? What 4th Amendment

  ...and yet if you do a quick reversal before they get to you, you'll be celebrated moreso than people who never believed the bullshit or did the harmful thing in the first place.

• On the post: Border Device Searches Continue To Increase, Threatening More Than Just The 4th Amendment

  

  Advocate ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2017 @ 12:01pm

  Re:

  Noop. The "search" way more of the mail than they do of people, like 100%.

• On the post: Court Strips Immunity From Bite Mark Experts Who Put Wrong Man In Jail For 23 Years

  

  Advocate ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2017 @ 12:25pm

  Well, now that he sat in prison for 23 years with sub-poverty dental care, he doesn't have to worry about teeth any longer.

• On the post: YouTube Briefly Nukes Video Of Nazi Symbol Destruction For Violating Hate Speech Rules

  

  Advocate ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2017 @ 07:42am

  If the choice is between racist freedom fighters and fascist egalitarians, i'm going with the racists.

• On the post: Court Tells Government Sticking FOIA Waivers In Plea Agreements Is Probably A Bad Idea

  

  Advocate ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2017 @ 04:42am

  Re: Sin is unbelief…

  "By your fruits you shall know them." By that standard the average atheist is a better person than the average Christian.

• On the post: Elsevier Continues To Build Its Monopoly Solution For All Aspects Of Scholarly Communication

  

  Advocate ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2017 @ 06:38am

  Re: Anagramography

  Helpful to use non-graduated list so people don't try to draw the connections between in order.

• On the post: ACLU Sues DC Metro For Banning 'First Amendment' (Literally) And Other Controversial Content

  

  Advocate ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2017 @ 07:20pm

  Re:

  You mean like how i'd have to be not broke to promote your comment?

• On the post: North Carolina Passes An Entirely Misguided Restore Campus Free Speech Act

  

  Advocate ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2017 @ 07:27pm

  Preventing others from speaking is not free speech. But then, you'd already know that if you understand anything about what you're talking about in the slightest respect.

• On the post: Canadian Telcos Lose Their Goddamn Minds Over TVAddons

  

  Advocate ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2017 @ 03:09pm

  The answer is clear. Eliminate copyright. It serves no useful purpose in modern society.

• On the post: Federal Court Strips Immunity From Sheriff Who Tried To Silence A Critic By Having Him Arrested

  

  Advocate ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2017 @ 07:28am

  So now you're going to have to prove your "firmness" level if you want to defend yourself against illegal law enforcement activities. That's nice. What if you've been harassed for so long that your firmness level is low?

• On the post: Cable's Latest Great Idea: Speed Up Programs So They Can Stuff More Ads Into Every Hour

  

  Advocate ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2017 @ 07:23am

  Just wait until they start expanding episodes by 12.5% for the DVD release.

• On the post: Cable's New Brilliant Idea: Charging You More Money To Skip Ads

  

  Advocate ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2017 @ 07:15am

  Eliminate copyright!

• On the post: Trump Says Cops Should Rough Up Suspects; Receives Backlash From Police Officials

  

  Advocate ( profile ), 02 Aug, 2017 @ 09:18am

  Turns out the president, in charge of upholding the law, doesn't like the First Law: innocent until proven guilty.

• On the post: DHS Goes Biometric, Says Travelers Can Opt Out Of Face Scans By Not Traveling

  

  Advocate ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2017 @ 07:40am

  "this deletion promise may morph into data segregation" If you mean "this deletion promise is about as certain to be broken as the sun is to rise in the morning", then yes. Otherwise, no.

• On the post: Copyright Madness: Blurred Lines Mess Means Artists Now Afraid To Name Their Inspirations

  

  Advocate ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2017 @ 03:39pm

  also... blah blah, Hitler.

• On the post: Copyright Madness: Blurred Lines Mess Means Artists Now Afraid To Name Their Inspirations

  

  Advocate ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2017 @ 03:35pm

  Eliminate copyright!

• On the post: Court: State Not Justified In Seizing Grandmother's House After Her Son Sold $140 Of Marijuana

  

  Advocate ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2017 @ 10:45am

  Legal fictions are still fictions and ought to be treated as such. And incidentally, fiction has no place in justice. You'd think someone would see that by now.

• On the post: Copyright Trolls… But For Houses

  

  Advocate ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2017 @ 12:06pm

  ALL of copyright is counter-productive to the good of society since the dissemination of the internet. Eliminate Copyright!

• On the post: Copyright Law In Europe Could Be About To Get Ridiculously Stupidly Bad In Ways That Will Undermine The Internet

  

  Advocate ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2017 @ 12:37pm

  h We're in an attention bubble. The value of clicks and so forth cannot be readily converted to external value without extreme externalities.. which is what capitalism is perfect for.

• On the post: Fifth Circuit Says No Warrants Needed To Obtain Near-Real Time Cell Site Location Info

  

  Advocate ( profile ), 31 May, 2017 @ 08:06am

  Search? You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

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