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• On the post: New York Court Says Fox, Rudy Giuliani Can’t Escape Defamation Lawsuit Over BS Stolen Election Claims

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2023 @ 03:56pm

  Forget it, Nonny, it's Masochism Boy. He dun like MJ because it's not a right wing rag, end of. David Corn is a well-respected reporter, and that report is solid.

• On the post: New York Court Says Fox, Rudy Giuliani Can’t Escape Defamation Lawsuit Over BS Stolen Election Claims

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2023 @ 09:45pm

  "The Corruption at Fox News Is Worse Than You Assumed" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/02/the-corruption-at-fox-news-is-worse-than-you-assumed/

• On the post: New York Court Says Fox, Rudy Giuliani Can’t Escape Defamation Lawsuit Over BS Stolen Election Claims

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2023 @ 09:08pm

  If you comment on a legal term which is central to whether someone has been defamed, then you should realise that words matter, and be quiet if you don't know what they mean in the precise context you are commenting on. 'Stupidity' isn't actionable, no. But wilful negligence, or wilful ignorance of widely proved and accepted facts (like Joe Biden winning the election), certainly is if it ends up hurting a company or human beings.

• On the post: New York Court Says Fox, Rudy Giuliani Can’t Escape Defamation Lawsuit Over BS Stolen Election Claims

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2023 @ 09:06pm

  In fact, since the judge(s) has just decided that Smartmatic isn't a limited public figure or a public figure at all for the purposes of a defamation suit, then all they have to prove is negligence or lies. No malice needs to be proved at all. They're going to win.

• On the post: Meta Following Elon Down The Road Of Making Verification An Upsell Is A Terrible Idea

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2023 @ 09:03pm

  "You want to communicate with someone, pick up a phone and call them." I literally have friends and family all over the world, in many time zones, with different daily habits and work patterns. I could email them, sure. I hate Facebook and wish my friends and family would all migrate somewhere nicer, like Mastodon. But since they can't or won't, I go where they are to see their news. Stop laying down social 'rules' about situations you know nothing about.

• On the post: Meta Following Elon Down The Road Of Making Verification An Upsell Is A Terrible Idea

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2023 @ 09:58pm

  Silly me

  I forgot I was dealing with someone with both the short attention span and a reading age of of a child of five. Poor Master Matthew M for Masochist Bennett. The undersized barely fledged cockerel preening and shaking his sad little tail in hopes of catching a hen, while all the ladies are sticking with the full-grown roosters who can give them some proper bang for their buck. You can't be taught, you won't learn, you can't be reasoned with or persuaded or advised, you don't read, and you never change. Sad, rigid, and ignorant is no way to go through life.

• On the post: Meta Following Elon Down The Road Of Making Verification An Upsell Is A Terrible Idea

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2023 @ 06:55pm

  "Not gonna take life advice from someone using diminutives to make themselves feel more secure." You behave like a child, so diminutives will happens to you "my happiness is not tied to that" It's very difficult to tell what might make you happy because you come across as frustrated, angry, ineducable, and bewildered by the smallest objective facts. That you hang around on a blog where you learn absolutely nothing to your benefit, where - I am confident in saying - you are loathed and despised by 100% of the commenters who are not you, and where you are derided by every single person who can be bothered replying to you, indicates that you really do not have any happiness in your life, and you consider humiliation and abuse better than no attention at all. For which you should - and I mean this sincerely - speak to a therapist, because this is tremendously unhealthy and not going to end well. If, as seems unlikely, you actually get off on being abused and humiliated, it's extremely rude of you to involve the rest of us involuntarily in your sex life. BDSM should be safe, sane, and consensual, and what you are doing is none of that. Go find someone you can pay to be really nasty to you, and who'll enjoy it. I would feel immense pity for the man you present yourself to be, but, in the deathless words of Dr Sidney Freedman, "you're such an unbelievable example of walking fertilizer, it's hard for me to care".

• On the post: Meta Following Elon Down The Road Of Making Verification An Upsell Is A Terrible Idea

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2023 @ 02:25pm

  Here's an idea

  Matty, I suggest the following to make your life happier:

  1. Start your own blog. You can rant and rage all day there and no one can flag your stuff to hide it because it's such...nonsense
  2. Stop visiting TechDirt. It's clear it serves no purpose but to upset you and rile people who actually like Mike and co's posts.

  That's it. Go your own way. Be the person you dream you are, and let Mike and co do their thing in peace.

• On the post: Extraordinarily Confused Congressional Rep. Thinks Social Media Companies Are Secretly Communicating With Gov’t Censors… Via Jira

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2023 @ 05:21pm

  She's Republican because she's confused

• On the post: Kathryn Tewson Invites DoNotPay To Use Its AI Lawyer In Court… To Address Her Petition For Pre-Action Discovery For A Consumer Rights Claim

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2023 @ 02:31pm

  I <3 Kathryn Tewson ::fan girl eyes::

• On the post: The LDS Church Opposes ‘Bad Mormon’ Trademark Application Over ‘Tarnishment’ Concerns

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2023 @ 09:49pm

  And a trademark doesn't protect a term - it protects the expression of a term. They can't go after her just for using the word 'Mormon' - it has to look like the way the LDS use it enough that people could be confused it was an official LDS book. I dare say friendly judges in Utah might support it, but I doubt it would get past even this SCOTUS.

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2023 @ 03:08pm

  "the magnitude of CSAM on Twitter might have been small enough to be silly" Don't kid yourself. It was better under pre-Musk Twitter, but the problem was never small or silly. CSAM is a massive, never-ending issue for all social media platforms, and it's like trying to hold back the tide. The best you can do is build break walls and barriers to reduce the damage. Musk is not even as smart as King Cnut.

• On the post: GOP Stops Pretending It Ever Actually Cared About ‘Antitrust Reform’

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2023 @ 02:54pm

  How can you tell the difference between ChatGPT and the usual trolls? They're all equally incoherent and fact free.

• On the post: UK Government Still Looking For Ways To Criminalize Encryption

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2023 @ 02:53pm

  He's a former prosecutor. Not surprised :(

• On the post: Elon Musk Throws A Shit Fit And Fires Engineer Because Not Enough People Are Viewing His Personal Tweets

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2023 @ 02:00pm

  Snaptinkletinkletinkle

  That's the sound of you clutching your pearls so hard, you broke the necklace. So go pick your little balls and go home, like a good little boy.

• On the post: Elon Musk Throws A Shit Fit And Fires Engineer Because Not Enough People Are Viewing His Personal Tweets

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2023 @ 01:52pm

  "I’m not particularly a Musk fan" Let's see. Does he only jump up and down when Twitter is mentioned? Does he also jump up and down when Tesla is mentioned? Does he also jump up and down when Musk is mentioned outside those two companies? Does he spend all his waking hours jumping up and down about matters involving or even tangential to Musk? He's right. He's not a Musk fan. He's a Musk SUPERfan. About a baby step from being a psychotic stalker, in fact. If Musk actually gave a monkey's about the safety of his offspring, he'd be hiring a large number of private dicks to track our persistent little chum to make sure he goes nowhere near the Musk family.

• On the post: Elon Musk Throws A Shit Fit And Fires Engineer Because Not Enough People Are Viewing His Personal Tweets

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2023 @ 01:46pm

  The ones who show up here are just desperate out-of-work North Korean news presenters. Unfortunately the market is already oversaturated. Time for another gig, little boys. Have you considered starting a megachurch? I hear they go great for those who prefer belief over facts.

• On the post: UK Government Still Looking For Ways To Criminalize Encryption

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2023 @ 01:40pm

  Nothing wrong with beans for breakfast! They're good for what ails you :)

• On the post: UK Government Still Looking For Ways To Criminalize Encryption

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2023 @ 01:36pm

  The UK Government isn't interested in *criminal* activity

  Since the worst criminals in the UK are either in government or Tory party donors, it's pretty obvious that like much of its recent lawmaking, the Conservative government is only interested in suppressing protest against it and other power brokers. I just wish I believe Keir Starmer would role back these repressive laws when he is PM. As in the USA, once this kind of law is made, it tends to hang around for decades, regardless of administration.

• On the post: GOP Stops Pretending It Ever Actually Cared About ‘Antitrust Reform’

  

  Anathema Device ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2023 @ 01:30pm

  What?

  "Internet 2.0 is already a done deal!" Yeah? So what is it?

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