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• On the post: TikTok Law Threatening A Ban If The App Isn’t Sold Raises First Amendment Concerns

  

  Diogenes ( profile ), 29 May, 2024 @ 02:13pm

  what good does that law even do?

  If you arent going to pass a law forbidding the sales of data then whats to stop them from selling tiktok to someone willing to sell them the data?

• On the post: Another Billionaire Pushes A Bid For TikTok, But To Decentralize It

  

  Diogenes ( profile ), 17 May, 2024 @ 03:07pm

  yea right

  Elon musk has mostly stock, not cash. He used up his credit buying Twitter.

• On the post: Another Billionaire Pushes A Bid For TikTok, But To Decentralize It

  

  Diogenes ( profile ), 17 May, 2024 @ 12:43pm

  If I were Bytedance..

  Id ask a price that is well above what its worth. If you want to force someone to sell something you should be prepared to pay extra.

• On the post: TikTok Users Challenge Court To Save Their Favorite App

  

  Diogenes ( profile ), 16 May, 2024 @ 11:03am

  banning tiktok wont even solve the problem they think exists

  So they think Tiktok is beholden to China and may be secretly breaking the law by sending China user data. And they think that if its sold the new owner can be trusted not to do that. How does that make sense? If China and Tiktok are conspiring to steal user data now, then obviously Bytedance would just sell to someone loyal to china so it could continue. And you couldnt stop that because you would have no way of knowing where the new owners loyalties lie.

• On the post: Former FCC Chair Pai Stumbles Over First Amendment, And Text Of The Law, In Supporting TikTok Ban

  

  Diogenes ( profile ), 14 May, 2024 @ 01:48pm

  that clause is not going to work

  "Clauses iii/iv or part B cover that. They can’t prevent a sale, but the new owner would just get labeled as a “foreign adversary controlled application”." How would you know the buyer is a "foreign adversary controlled application"? There is no test that could tell that for sure, unless they are obvious about it. Its trivially easy to hide the loyalties of the new owner.

• On the post: Former FCC Chair Pai Stumbles Over First Amendment, And Text Of The Law, In Supporting TikTok Ban

  

  Diogenes ( profile ), 14 May, 2024 @ 11:05am

  even if they did sell it, what difference would it make?

  I mean they could easily sell it to a friend to China and you would still have no idea if that person or corp was passing information. How would you prevent it? Will you make the prospective buyer pinky swear? Take a patriot pledge? Or if its about propaganda will you monitor the posts and make them sell again if things are too much what you dont approve of?

• On the post: TikTok Dances Into Court, Slams Ban As Unconstitutional

  

  Diogenes ( profile ), 08 May, 2024 @ 02:20pm

  that analogy isnt really correct

  This is more like your neighbor handing the remote to his friend and you trying to tell him he cant do that because you dont want his friend telling him what to watch.

• On the post: TikTok Dances Into Court, Slams Ban As Unconstitutional

  

  Diogenes ( profile ), 08 May, 2024 @ 11:41am

  you gotta be kidding smh

  Dont use buzzfeed as a citeable source. Thats like 3 levels worse than wikipedia.

• On the post: TikTok Dances Into Court, Slams Ban As Unconstitutional

  

  Diogenes ( profile ), 08 May, 2024 @ 11:38am

  ridiculous

  Even if you can force a sale they could just sell to someone that is friendly to China.

• On the post: Three Cities Sue Axon; Claim It Has A Monopoly On Body Cams, Electronic Weapons

  

  Diogenes ( profile ), 03 May, 2024 @ 08:22pm

  yea its a monopoly

  If you buy out all your competitors till there is effectively no other choice that is by definition a monopoly. Not that having a monopoly is illegal, but you do expose yourself to increased regulation. And thats fair.

• On the post: Nurses Say Hospital Adoption Of Half-Cooked ‘AI’ Is Reckless

  

  Diogenes ( profile ), 02 May, 2024 @ 08:08am

  you cant trust an AI

  Never let an AI make a non-trivial decision. Before you commit to its result get a human to check it.

• On the post: Biden Signs TikTok Ban Bill; Expect A Lawsuit By The Time You Finish Reading This Article

  

  Diogenes ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2024 @ 07:16pm

  bill of attainder in disguise

  A bill of attainder is where you declare someone guilty by passing a law saying they are guilty. This is exactly that except they arent saying tiktok did anything, but instead that tiktok might do something illegal sometime in the future. Even worse than a bill of attainder. Writing laws to punish someone you dont like is very wrong.

• On the post: FTC Bans Non-Competes, Sparks Instant Lawsuit: The War For Worker Freedom

  

  Diogenes ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2024 @ 07:08pm

  the legislative process created the FTC

  "This, unfortunately, is for the legislative process" The legislature created the FTC to regulate business to prevent anti-competitive behavior. This is exactly in their domain. Just as they can break up pre-existing monopolies if the monopoly is abusive, they can also break anti-competitive contracts that are abusive.

• On the post: FTC Bans Non-Competes, Sparks Instant Lawsuit: The War For Worker Freedom

  

  Diogenes ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2024 @ 10:44am

  This is what congress made the ftc to do

  Clearly congress delegated to the FTC the power to make rules and regulations to prevent anti-competitive behavior. And telling employees they may not switch to another employer who is offering more pay is anti competitive in the wage market. This is like telling a customer they may not buy from another vendor and if they do they are liable for damages. Anticompetitive and illegal.

• On the post: Sextortion Is A Real & Serious Criminal Issue; Blaming Section 230 For It Is Not

  

  Diogenes ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2024 @ 07:04am

  edit:

  No phones either!

• On the post: Sextortion Is A Real & Serious Criminal Issue; Blaming Section 230 For It Is Not

  

  Diogenes ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2024 @ 06:56am

  the only real solution

  I guess these people think we shouldnt let kids communicate with each other. Youre all grounded. No computers till youre 18. (21 in Az)

• On the post: Cops Claim Body Cam Footage Of Wrong Address Raid Would Be ‘Dangerous’ To Release To General Public

  

  Diogenes ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2024 @ 11:41am

  you got something coming...

  One of these days an officer will be shot dead while executing a no-knock and it will be no fault of the shooter.

• On the post: Court Rules For Paramount In Lawsuit Over ‘Top Gun’ Movies

  

  Diogenes ( profile ), 13 Apr, 2024 @ 08:22am

  the original license

  I think the original license was to prevent bad pr if the author got the idea to get pushy at a bad time. His relatives dont have that leverage at this late date.

• On the post: Putin Orders Russian Tech Companies To Somehow Make Competitive Game Console In 3 Months

  

  Diogenes ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2024 @ 05:16am

  well not that shocked

  If you are allowed to ignore copyright and patent issues its not so difficult to reverse engineer/copy something that was already invented. Though 3 months is pushing it, I think they could do it in a year.

• On the post: Bungie, YouTuber Settle Lawsuit Over Fraudulent DMCA Takedowns For YouTube Videos

  

  Diogenes ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2024 @ 08:22pm

  anyone buying this excuse?

  sure

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