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• On the post: UK Parliament Makes A Mockery Of Itself Interrogating Guardian Editor

  

  Alana ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2013 @ 09:02pm

  Re: Re:

  It's a meme. The joke is that it's nonsensical.

• On the post: MPAA 'Settles' Another 'Victory' Against Hotfile For $80 Million That No Artists Will Ever See

  

  Alana ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2013 @ 09:17pm

  For those that use these to suggest that cyberlockers are illegal: The one site that is actually fighting back keeps having it's trial pushed back and back and back and back because they have no case against it.

• On the post: Clueless French Court Orders Search Engines To Disappear Entire Sites For Copyright Infringement

  

  Alana ( profile ), 02 Dec, 2013 @ 02:57pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  "unlawfully"
  
  Citation needed.
  
  Even you said "Aereo won for now."

• On the post: Surprise: MPAA Told It Can't Use Terms 'Piracy,' 'Theft' Or 'Stealing' During Hotfile Trial

  

  Alana ( profile ), 02 Dec, 2013 @ 02:39pm

  Re: Re: Ok then, they dont get to use terms like "sale"

  Actually, sounds like a good lawsuit, period.
  
  Would love to see something like this brought to court.

• On the post: Facebook Needs To Learn It Can't Teach Tolerance By Acting As An Overzealous Censor

  

  Alana ( profile ), 02 Dec, 2013 @ 01:44pm

  Re: Re:

  I think Techdirt is actually pretty good about the whole "I disagree" over actual report issue.
  
  See, there's a line between "I disagree" and "Only serves as flame bait and doesn't add to the discussion at all" like pretty much all of OOTB's posts.
  
  I've seen a lot of people here have debates with people in the comments that have polar opposite views (Including pro-copyright ones) without usage of the "Report" button unless a party started attacking the other baselessly.
  
  Here's the thing. If your comment is destructive instead of constructive, it is going to be reported. That is how it works here. I rarely, if ever, see it used as an "I disagree" button unless the person has already proved that he is not willing to have a constructive conversation.

• On the post: Wall Street Journal Columnist Repeatedly Gets His Facts Wrong About NSA Surveillance

  

  Alana ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2013 @ 01:35am

  Re: Re: Why is it that so many columnists

  Why the needless homophobia? Isn't "midget porn" enough for you?

• On the post: Copyright Maximalist Talking Points On Leaked TPP Draft

  

  Alana ( profile ), 20 Nov, 2013 @ 08:39pm

  Re:

  I'm pretty sure he'd love it if prejury were enforced.

• On the post: The Day Counterfeit Jerseys Saved Soccer

  

  Alana ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2013 @ 04:12pm

  Re: Re: Saved soccer? Down with counterfeit jerseys for SURE, then.

  The user is not worth any attention, and has constantly, continually been destructive to conversations, spewed lies and falsehoods, and attacked people who run this site and the people who comment.
  
  Why are you defending him now?

• On the post: AOL Unclear On The Concept: Threatens Startup For Properly Using Creative Commons Content

  

  Alana ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2013 @ 08:42pm

  Re: Re: Re: I've suggested: prohibit ALL copyright to corporations!

  Except he never reads anything and ignores facts left right and centre and only exists to pitifully attempt to derail conversations and sling personal attacks.

• On the post: How NSA Spying On Angela Merkel May Scuttle TAFTA/TTIP Trade Agreement

  

  Alana ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2013 @ 06:06pm

  Here's hoping they shelve it fore--PFFFFFFFFFFF yeah like that will ever happen. The motto is "Try, try again". This is the same country that allowed butthurt republicans to try to repeal obamacare over fourty damn times, each unsuccessful. And let's not forget the "Not-SOPA"'s everywhere that keep on trying to get rammed in.

• On the post: GitHub Bug Opened: Government Occasionally Shuts Down; Conflicting Error Messages

  

  Alana ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2013 @ 06:10pm

  (A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail?
  
  ://F

• On the post: MPAA Gets Its Wish: Court Basically Says It Can File Bogus DMCA Takedowns Without Concern For Fair Use

  

  Alana ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2013 @ 01:42pm

  Re: Re: hmmm

  Except this isn't censoring. This is a time out.
  
  We are sending OOTB to the naughty corner. People can still look on him, but they look down in scorn.

• On the post: Kim Dotcom Forming New Political Party In New Zealand

  

  Alana ( profile ), 03 Sep, 2013 @ 03:42pm

  I'd vote for him. Trust him more than Key.
  
  Plus I'm a New Zealander.

• On the post: Man Who Raped 14-Year-Old Sentenced To 30 Days In Jail Because Girl Looked Kinda Old And The Internet Is Mean

  

  Alana ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2013 @ 11:12pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Because it was sentenced to 30 days due to "the internet being mean".
  
  All there in the title.

• On the post: CA High School Students Kill A First Amendment-Violating 'Social Media Contract'

  

  Alana ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2013 @ 05:29pm

  "But sir! We were /cyberbullied/ to take the contract down!"

• On the post: Steve Jobs' Email Shows Apple Changed In-App Purchasing Rules Specifically To Retaliate Against Amazon

  

  Alana ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2013 @ 03:20pm

  Re: Well, what did anybody expect?

  Anything to stop competition.

• On the post: Did New Zealand Spooks Tap Into PRISM To Spy On Dotcom?

  

  Alana ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2013 @ 03:14pm

  Notice the censored letters have enough words to spell out "PRISM".

• On the post: Journalist For Time Magazine Announces His Eagerness To Defend US Drone Strike Killing Julian Assange

  

  Alana ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2013 @ 02:45pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  The "/s" tag indicates sarcasm.
  
  And, I said that because of the many times the US has taken someone in for speaking like that on the internet.

• On the post: Down To Just A Few Possibilities: President Obama Either Lied Or Is Ignorant About The NSA

  

  Alana ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2013 @ 05:19pm

  He's the president.
  
  Lying is his job.

• On the post: Blatant Intimidation: Glenn Greenwald's Partner Detained At Heathrow Under Terrorism Law, All His Electronics Seized

  

  Alana ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2013 @ 03:55am

  Re:

  Also, I should note, I'm not from the US, but I'm damn well sure it effects me too. (I'm posting this because I accidentally typed "Our" in that post-- A shame there isn't an edit function, but I can see why an edit function could sometimes be counter productive.)

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