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• On the post: The FBI Tried To Get A Secure Phone Company To Create A Backdoor In Its Encrypted Network

  

  adaptune ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2019 @ 12:32pm

  Typical government thug trick

  They do this all the time.

  1. Arrest someone on some bogus charge.
  2. Make that dozens of bogus charges, adding up to several lifetimes in prison.
  3. Offer them a "deal". Very little jail time!
  4. Unfortunately, the "deal" requires becoming the government's bitch for the rest of your life.

  The government is a criminal organization.

• On the post: Lawsuit Settlement Over Detainment Of A Journalist Will Force Denver Police Department To Admit The First Amendment Exists

  

  adaptune ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2019 @ 02:57pm

  Cops: worse than useless

  In other words, acting just as they normally do. To state the obvious, these two thugs should pay the $50,000 out of their own pockets. AND be fired.

• On the post: Ninth Circuit Upholds Its Previous Declaration That Cops Stealing Your Stuff Doesn't Violate The Constitution

  

  adaptune ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2019 @ 12:21pm

  Remind me again

• On the post: Intellectual Property Is Neither Intellectual, Nor Property: Discuss

  

  adaptune ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2019 @ 06:42pm

  The usual hatchet job

  I know I'm going to get a hatchet job every time I see "copyrights and patents" bunched together, along with the claim that both illegitimately control "ideas". While patents do attempt to protect ideas, copyright protects only specific implementations of ideas. I consider patents to be illegitimate for that reason, but support copyright. If I write a clever spreadsheet program, copyright prevents you from making money selling my program, but does not prevent you from writing and selling your own program, containing all the features mine has. How can any reasonable person be against this?

• On the post: DOJ Wants Apple, Google To Hand Over Names And Phone Numbers Of 10,000 App Users

  

  adaptune ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2019 @ 01:22pm

  Why don't they save time

  ... and just tell every company to turn over personal information of every buyer everywhere? No, that would be heating up the pot too fast. Give 'em a year or so and see if we're not there.

• On the post: Months After Christchurch Shooting, The Australian Government Is Issuing Site-Blocking Orders Targeting Footage Of The Incident

  

  adaptune ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2019 @ 01:14pm

  It should be amusing ...

  ... to watch the Australian government play Whack-a-Mole as the video gets passed around to more sites. Get a clue, guys, you can't win this one.

• On the post: Investigation Uncovers Mass Purging Of Phoenix Police Department Misconduct Records

  

  adaptune ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2019 @ 07:44am

  And we're surprised because ... ?

  Silly citizens! Don't you know that your betters, in "public service", don't need to share anything with you unless they want to? Some asshole cop mistreated you, you say? Just be glad you're still alive, if you were so stupid as to piss that cop off. You know he can kill you with impunity, don't you? Bend over and take it!

• On the post: Pinterest's Way Of Dealing With Anti-Vax Nonsense And Scams Is Only Possible Because Of Section 230

  

  adaptune ( profile ), 04 Sep, 2019 @ 02:34pm

  Re: Re: Thanks so much for your intolerance!

  I have that effect on some people.

• On the post: Pinterest's Way Of Dealing With Anti-Vax Nonsense And Scams Is Only Possible Because Of Section 230

  

  adaptune ( profile ), 04 Sep, 2019 @ 02:30pm

  Re: myths vs. side effects

  Mr. Masnick is an example of that curious modern species, a human who most of the time seems perfectly rational, but who, at the mention of vaccines and any possible uncertainty regarding them becomes a raving lunatic. For anyone who wants a balanced view, here's a good start: https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2019/07/29/a-second-look-at-vaccination-answers-that-cannot-be-questioned/

• On the post: Pinterest's Way Of Dealing With Anti-Vax Nonsense And Scams Is Only Possible Because Of Section 230

  

  adaptune ( profile ), 04 Sep, 2019 @ 02:25pm

  Thanks so much for your intolerance!

  The author outs himself as an rabid anti-anti-vaxer, apparently labeling any questioning of the efficacy or potential risks associated with a vaccination as automatically "nonsense". It must be swell to be so all-knowing! As for freedom of speech, well, it's fine, as long as the author and his friends deem its content "not dangerous".

• On the post: White House Now Thinks Harvesting Fitness Tracker Data Could Stop The Next Mass Shooting

  

  adaptune ( profile ), 04 Sep, 2019 @ 11:41am

  The best answer to mass shooters with guns is more good guys with guns.

• On the post: Pressured By 'Right To Repair' Movement, Apple Will Sell Parts To Independent Repair Shops

  

  adaptune ( profile ), 03 Sep, 2019 @ 09:34am

  This is an illustration of why it's not necessary to run screaming and whining to legislators to pass a LAW prohibiting this or that and mandating that and this. The marketplace takes care of it.

• On the post: Indiana Appeals Court Decides Badmouthing A Cop On Facebook Is A Crime

  

  adaptune ( profile ), 03 Sep, 2019 @ 09:27am

  Poor pathetic little cops! They're "Special", and they need special protection from things you or I would have to endure and get over.

• On the post: Man Spends Three Months In Jail Because A Drug Dog And A Field Test Said His Honey Was Methamphetamines

  

  adaptune ( profile ), 29 Aug, 2019 @ 04:08am

  The drug war is a crime and anyone who participates in pursuing it is a criminal who should be stopped from further predations by whatever means prove necessary.

• On the post: Do Citizens Have A Right To See The Algorithms Used By Publicly-Funded Software?

  

  adaptune ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2019 @ 01:25am

  Whenever the government spends money on one individual and denies it to another, the reasons should be public knowledge.

• On the post: Trump Decides The State Should Run US Businesses, Orders Them To Stop Doing Business With China

  

  adaptune ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2019 @ 01:21am

  I only wish...

  ... I was running an international business, so I could give Trump the finger in a more tangible way.

• On the post: Don't Let The Bret Stephens Bite: NY Times' Hypocritical 'Free Speech' Columnist Flips Out After Being Called A Bedbug

  

  adaptune ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2019 @ 10:18am

  Har!

  I haven't laughed this much in months.

• On the post: SLAPP Threats Don't Even Need To Become Lawsuits To Be Effective: Cop Gets Columnist Fired For Pointing To Picture Of Him With Racists

  

  adaptune ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2019 @ 06:46am

  Cops are thugs

  And all too many cowardly Americans are intimidated by them.

• On the post: Ninth Circuit Says Warrantless Device Searches At The Border Must Be Limited To Searches For Contraband

  

  adaptune ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2019 @ 06:43am

  Good news, if it sticks. But it'll take a lot more to stop the government's march to run our lives down to the smallest detail.

• On the post: China (Yes, China) Complains About Attack On Its 'Free Speech Rights' After Twitter/Facebook Boot Propaganda Accounts

  

  adaptune ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2019 @ 02:06am

  Re: I guess turnabout ISN'T fair play in China

  "Where's that nano-violin when you need it?" I've got mine right here ... somewhere.

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