"Buc-ee’s also appears to not have any concept of parody and parody’s protected status."
Why even bring it up? It seems far simpler because they compete in completely disjunct segments of the market. The underwear company doesn't open massive interstate gas stations, and... ok, I may be the last Texan who has never been inside of a Buc'ees, but I don't think they sell underwear, certainly not suggestive risque underwear. How it would lead to market confusion is a mystery.
There's another problem here: Another proposition (one of our new "HERO" amendments: several propositions backed by shadowy right-wing orgs that just throw monkey wrenches in the gears of any functioning city) that passed this election waives sovereign immunity and gives every Dallas resident standing to sue city officials to get injunctive relief (plus a recoup of legal costs) when the city fails to follow or enforce the city charter, city law, or any Texas state law.
Whether the new decriminalization can survive that is an open question right now.
Ha, Mike posting my donation where he immediately critiqued my choice of words: "censorious" vs "censorial". I'm not a particular fan of MM and they're not the type of organization I typically donate to, but I do this to support their right to freely speak and criticize Twitter and Elon.
Cylinder deactivation (by shutting off valves and turning off injection) is already a thing to improve gas mileage. I've been predicting a couple years that the next logical step is a subscription basis to activate more than, say, a default two cylinders in your car.
The 5G packet core in its pure form is a big improvement: diameter is all but gone! It's all HTTP, and that means a lot of mature, fast, transparent, non-proprietary libraries. It also is vastly more flexible for specialized use cases. In reality, we're not done with diameter yet in most providers' environments, but it's a good start.
I don't have an opinion on the RAN: that's something I never deal with directly.
"FCC fined robocallers $208 million between 2015 and 2019, but only $6,790 (!!) was ever collected"
If only there were some way, possibly automated, that could reach out to people to remind them that they have outstanding fines and should pay them up. Perhaps once every 15 minutes?
There's the Academia della Crusca, which was the inspiration for the Acadamie Française. But it's always had a sense of humor about language matters.
Most of Italy's languages fights the past century were just about trying to get people to speak and write an artificial, literary language (standard Italian) that when the country was founded, was spoken by less than 5% of the population.
Odd that Al Jazeera has escaped that labeling, even though they're explicitly state-owned by Qatar and is famous for avoiding any critical position against the Qatar government... I wonder why...
ooooh, "Qatar's sovereign wealth fund — which invested $375 million in Elon Musk's Twitter buyout". Well, I'm sure that's just happenstance.
You cannot just read communication between a UE and an eNB or gNB with "the right equipment", unless your equipment includes a quantum computer to decrypt the transmission.
"Just as an aside, um, who the fuck searches for “#boobs” and what is wrong with them?"
As a champion bird identifier (at least 79% of the time, I am able to correctly identify an animal as either a bird or not a bird), I only search for "#boobies". Or else "#tits" or sometimes "#greattits".
"You just keep on with that right-wing talking point that "it's a private company" nonsense"
Please, I think you mean "first amendment talking point".
"public utility of all social media"
ALL social media? What would "public utility" even mean? In the US we have "telecommunication common carriers for hire" in 47 USC, where carriers get certain legal protections in agreeing to accept any customer able to pay for their services. All the social media companies I know don't require subscription payments from their customers. Do we convert them all into user-paid services? I'm wondering how this business model works.
An HOA is not typically a state actor, bound by the first amendment. Some states do provide some speech-like protections for political signs--for instance, here in Texas, HOAs must allow you at least a single political sign around the time of elections: https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/EL/htm/EL.259.htm
Likewise, during the Bush admin, Congress passed a federal law that blocks HOAs and condominiums restricting the display of the US flag.
But in general, clauses restricting speech are allowed and are enforceable.
The license to remove content is the First Amendment. Section 230's (c)(2) just explicitly declares publisher liability isn't changed when content is removed for basically any reason. This confuses a lot of people. It's questionable whether it's even needed, because (c)(1) is so strongly worded about 3rd party content.
If (c)(2) were deleted entirely from the law, it would introduce no cause of action for people whose content is removed. It was added as a backup to the NY state decision Stratton Oakmont v Prodigy, that because Prodigy had a naughty words filter and a policy on posting, plus board administrators that enforced the latter, it made Prodigy a publisher. Say that situation is added: it still gives you absolutely zero rights to sue if your post is deleted. It gives you less than zero standing. The whole thing about the court case was Prodigy didn't censor the content.
'Section 230 requires all moderation to be in "good faith"'
And "in good faith" is a famously vague term, but there is a vast amount of common and case law, for centuries, on what it means in context of contract law, where the term most frequently appears--at its root, not twisting the contract wording by one party to give themselves an unfair advantage. Here, the terms of service act as a contract, and the amount of "bad faith" re-interpretation of rules that were written by teams of well-paid lawyers, that typically allow the platform the complete right to remove any content at will, is asymptotic to 0.
"In good faith" occurs in a LOT of statutory law. A search restricted to the US code at law.cornell.edu/uscode shows just shy of 1000 hits. You're not going to be able to create some off-the-wall bullshit interpretation of the phrase and get any court to agree with you.
Why is parody relevant?
"Buc-ee’s also appears to not have any concept of parody and parody’s protected status." Why even bring it up? It seems far simpler because they compete in completely disjunct segments of the market. The underwear company doesn't open massive interstate gas stations, and... ok, I may be the last Texan who has never been inside of a Buc'ees, but I don't think they sell underwear, certainly not suggestive risque underwear. How it would lead to market confusion is a mystery.
Another problem for Dallas
There's another problem here: Another proposition (one of our new "HERO" amendments: several propositions backed by shadowy right-wing orgs that just throw monkey wrenches in the gears of any functioning city) that passed this election waives sovereign immunity and gives every Dallas resident standing to sue city officials to get injunctive relief (plus a recoup of legal costs) when the city fails to follow or enforce the city charter, city law, or any Texas state law. Whether the new decriminalization can survive that is an open question right now.
They're already involved! An amicus: https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/2022.12.12-En-Banc-Brief-of-Amicus-Curiae-Institute-for-Justice.pdf
Ha, Mike posting my donation where he immediately critiqued my choice of words: "censorious" vs "censorial". I'm not a particular fan of MM and they're not the type of organization I typically donate to, but I do this to support their right to freely speak and criticize Twitter and Elon.
Cylinder subscriptions!
Cylinder deactivation (by shutting off valves and turning off injection) is already a thing to improve gas mileage. I've been predicting a couple years that the next logical step is a subscription basis to activate more than, say, a default two cylinders in your car.
It's one banana, Michael. After copay and max annual out-of-pocket payments, how much could it cost, $6,000?
The packet core is an improvement!
The 5G packet core in its pure form is a big improvement: diameter is all but gone! It's all HTTP, and that means a lot of mature, fast, transparent, non-proprietary libraries. It also is vastly more flexible for specialized use cases. In reality, we're not done with diameter yet in most providers' environments, but it's a good start. I don't have an opinion on the RAN: that's something I never deal with directly.
"FCC fined robocallers $208 million between 2015 and 2019, but only $6,790 (!!) was ever collected" If only there were some way, possibly automated, that could reach out to people to remind them that they have outstanding fines and should pay them up. Perhaps once every 15 minutes?
How did NPR miss the opportunity to reply with a poop emoji, instantly elevating them to god tier status?
There's the Academia della Crusca, which was the inspiration for the Acadamie Française. But it's always had a sense of humor about language matters. Most of Italy's languages fights the past century were just about trying to get people to speak and write an artificial, literary language (standard Italian) that when the country was founded, was spoken by less than 5% of the population.
Al Jazeera
Odd that Al Jazeera has escaped that labeling, even though they're explicitly state-owned by Qatar and is famous for avoiding any critical position against the Qatar government... I wonder why... ooooh, "Qatar's sovereign wealth fund — which invested $375 million in Elon Musk's Twitter buyout". Well, I'm sure that's just happenstance.
Still, more competent than David Blade, attorney at law. (https://www.techdirt.com/tag/david-blade/)
You cannot just read communication between a UE and an eNB or gNB with "the right equipment", unless your equipment includes a quantum computer to decrypt the transmission.
"boobs"
"Just as an aside, um, who the fuck searches for “#boobs” and what is wrong with them?" As a champion bird identifier (at least 79% of the time, I am able to correctly identify an animal as either a bird or not a bird), I only search for "#boobies". Or else "#tits" or sometimes "#greattits".
Re: Headline
Or get Nick Lutsko to write the theme song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09Nan-uARF4
Re: Pity
"You just keep on with that right-wing talking point that "it's a private company" nonsense" Please, I think you mean "first amendment talking point". "public utility of all social media" ALL social media? What would "public utility" even mean? In the US we have "telecommunication common carriers for hire" in 47 USC, where carriers get certain legal protections in agreeing to accept any customer able to pay for their services. All the social media companies I know don't require subscription payments from their customers. Do we convert them all into user-paid services? I'm wondering how this business model works.
Re: Fixed that for you
Relevant: https://reductress.com/post/wow-this-woman-found-out-she-was-a-robot-by-failing-a-captcha-11-times/
Re: Re:
An HOA is not typically a state actor, bound by the first amendment. Some states do provide some speech-like protections for political signs--for instance, here in Texas, HOAs must allow you at least a single political sign around the time of elections: https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/EL/htm/EL.259.htm Likewise, during the Bush admin, Congress passed a federal law that blocks HOAs and condominiums restricting the display of the US flag. But in general, clauses restricting speech are allowed and are enforceable.
Re:
The license to remove content is the First Amendment. Section 230's (c)(2) just explicitly declares publisher liability isn't changed when content is removed for basically any reason. This confuses a lot of people. It's questionable whether it's even needed, because (c)(1) is so strongly worded about 3rd party content. If (c)(2) were deleted entirely from the law, it would introduce no cause of action for people whose content is removed. It was added as a backup to the NY state decision Stratton Oakmont v Prodigy, that because Prodigy had a naughty words filter and a policy on posting, plus board administrators that enforced the latter, it made Prodigy a publisher. Say that situation is added: it still gives you absolutely zero rights to sue if your post is deleted. It gives you less than zero standing. The whole thing about the court case was Prodigy didn't censor the content.
Re: Reform
'Section 230 requires all moderation to be in "good faith"' And "in good faith" is a famously vague term, but there is a vast amount of common and case law, for centuries, on what it means in context of contract law, where the term most frequently appears--at its root, not twisting the contract wording by one party to give themselves an unfair advantage. Here, the terms of service act as a contract, and the amount of "bad faith" re-interpretation of rules that were written by teams of well-paid lawyers, that typically allow the platform the complete right to remove any content at will, is asymptotic to 0. "In good faith" occurs in a LOT of statutory law. A search restricted to the US code at law.cornell.edu/uscode shows just shy of 1000 hits. You're not going to be able to create some off-the-wall bullshit interpretation of the phrase and get any court to agree with you.