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  • On the post: Losing Streak Continues For Litigants Suing Social Media Companies Over Violence Committed By Terrorists

    anonymousanonymouscoward ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2019 @ 10:44am

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    Why would I be embarrassed by stating an analogy? Are you arguing for the sake of argument, or do you have an actual point to make? I get that you don't think the analogy is good, but that is not my problem, it's yours.

  • On the post: New Bill Introduced To Study Impact Of SESTA/FOSTA On Sex Workers

    anonymousanonymouscoward ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2019 @ 10:26am

    Re: Re: Fox to conduct study of chickens welfare in the hen hous

    You forgot the /s. If you didn't, however, how about the dogs hired to protect the hen house from the foxes. In this instance, some external organization that has a reputation for integrity and pure scientific and statistical rigor and is reasonably removed from governmental influences. Better, several organizations that will conduct independent surveys where results could be compared by any Joe or Jane sixpack.

  • On the post: Losing Streak Continues For Litigants Suing Social Media Companies Over Violence Committed By Terrorists

    anonymousanonymouscoward ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2019 @ 10:02am

    Re: Re: Re:

    I never said the first sentence (you seem to have imagined that), I did say the second sentence. Just because users use private platforms like public squares does not change the fact that they are privately owned. If there is confusion in this, look to the private platforms allowing themselves to be used as public squares used to be used. Something I do not think is actually wrong. The difference is, that it is really hard to ban someone from a real public square, but it is not all that hard to ban someone from a platform, for legitimate or other reasons. The point about differences in reach, stands.

  • On the post: Losing Streak Continues For Litigants Suing Social Media Companies Over Violence Committed By Terrorists

    anonymousanonymouscoward ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2019 @ 09:39am

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    Social media is analogous to the town square and the soapbox these days, with better reach. That they are privately owned has stopped very few from expressing things that a couple of hundred years ago was relegated to the town square, on the soapbox.

  • On the post: Losing Streak Continues For Litigants Suing Social Media Companies Over Violence Committed By Terrorists

    anonymousanonymouscoward ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2019 @ 09:02am

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    deplatform — verb

    1. when the soapbox is removed from the town square
    2. when the town square is denied to the speaker

  • On the post: New Bill Introduced To Study Impact Of SESTA/FOSTA On Sex Workers

    anonymousanonymouscoward ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2019 @ 10:07am

    Fox to conduct study of chickens welfare in the hen house

    I applaud the intent, but I worry about putting the studies in the hands of an Executive branch that has been un-shameful in directing agencies to pursue their political agendas rather than serve the people.

  • On the post: Beyond The Taco: Someone Is Now Trying To Trademark 'Breakfast Burrito'

    anonymousanonymouscoward ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2019 @ 06:53am

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    I was under the impression that prior art was a thing in patents, not trademark. I suppose it could be a thing in copyright (aka plagiarism) but no impact on trademarks.

  • On the post: FISA Court Benchslaps FBI For Its Abuse Of The FISA Warrant Process During The Trump Campaign Investigation

    anonymousanonymouscoward ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2019 @ 10:05am

    Wrist slap, not bench slap

    So when will the FBI, or at least the agents who participated in this latest example of misdeeds (along with their supervisors and managers), be actually punished? Stand in the corner and admit your shameful behavior does not seem much like punishment. Nor does it seem likely to deter future incidents.

    Given that the FBI is part and parcel of the process to punish criminals, it should be fair to punish them for like behavior. What they did was actually illegal, and I see no good reason not to treat it, and those responsible, that way. Oh, except that the Justice Department will probably protect its own, which isn't a good reason.

  • On the post: AG William Barr Attacks Section 230… Even Though It Doesn't Hinder The DOJ At All

    anonymousanonymouscoward ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2019 @ 06:46am

    Shhhh, don't talk, don't think, just listen

    Well, we know that Barr is trying to censor something, the question is what is he trying to censor? If he gets his way and Section 230 is dismantled, then the places where free speech is currently being expressed will either drastically impair that free speech, or quit allowing speech altogether (which would kind of eliminate one of the major reasons for their existence).

    One the of principles of authoritarian governments is that communication goes from the government to the people, and not the other way around. So, at least in Barr's mind, this is just another step in quieting dissent, keeping the people in their places, and giving the government more authority to be authoritarian. Dismantling those pesky big tech companies who have too much money, and therefore too much power, is just a side bonus. Though targeting them acts as cover for his real intent.

  • On the post: Trinidad And Tobago's 'You Can't Afford That' Forfeiture Law Claims Its First Victims

    anonymousanonymouscoward ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2019 @ 07:03am

    Impossible expectations, totally expected.

    I would like to see if anyone in the Trinidad and Tobago government has receipts for every cash expenditure they ever made. Even leaving out food and drink, do they have a receipt for the shirt they are wearing? How about that 12 year old watch. Oh, those shoes look expensive, how expensive were they? Can you prove that?

    Without the government having to prove their allegations to begin with, this is merely a witch hunt, I mean money hunt. The piece above doesn't say what the seized equity will be used for, but I bet they don't want an audit of the disbursement.

  • On the post: Tennessee Deputy Who Baptised An Arrestee And Strip Searched A Minor Now Dealing With 44 Criminal Charges And Five Lawsuits

    anonymousanonymouscoward ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2019 @ 06:20pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    Just because someone has been emulating ostrich's in the past and has now raised their level of awareness of the world around them does not mean they are either boomers or even old. I know a couple of dozen millennial's who meet this criteria, but are slowly putting their iPhone's down and looking around at reality, with some coaxing.

  • On the post: Copyright Trolls Go Mostly Silent In US Federal Courts

    anonymousanonymouscoward ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2019 @ 04:52pm

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    It may not be a happy holiday (or new year depending upon the timing) for those on the receiving end of those discovery requests, especially if they are not legitimate. As the saying goes, an IP address is not a person and IP addresses don't get sued people do. All they have are IP addresses and attempts to pull the wool over a state courts eyes, and all because the federal courts caught them out at that game. They just might get away with it, for a while at least.

  • On the post: Sons Of Confederate Veterans Sued Over Bogus DMCA Takedown

    anonymousanonymouscoward ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2019 @ 12:30pm

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    Nah, Randazza reads (and posts) on Popehat, so even if they didn't teach that in law school, he already knows what is or isn't RICO. Now if the RICO charge came from the Sons Of Confederate Veterans, or UNC (we already know they didn't consult their own law school, or competent lawyers) it could be understood, even if still wrong.

  • On the post: Tennessee Deputy Who Baptised An Arrestee And Strip Searched A Minor Now Dealing With 44 Criminal Charges And Five Lawsuits

    anonymousanonymouscoward ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2019 @ 01:02pm

    Just a few bad apples...HAH

    Those three who stood by and watched while citizens rights were being violated, and their supervisors who put them back to work are not good apples.

  • On the post: Why Are Members Of Congress Telling A Private Organization Not To Comment On Copyright Law?

    anonymousanonymouscoward ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2019 @ 08:37am

    I would suggest...

    ...that Senator Thom Tillis, and Representatives Ben Cline, Ted Deutch, Martha Roby, and Harley Rouda should answer those questions themselves, first. When they do, they should take the position that copyright law's ability to exist extends from the Constitution, and that the Constitution is about and for the people, not a particular business or advocacy group..

    Article 1
    Section 8
    Clause 8
    To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

    If they exert a modicum of intellectual honesty, they should come to the conclusion that current copyright law is not about benefiting the public, nor is it legitimately about limited Times as more than many peoples entire lifetimes isn't a practical limitation benefiting the public and does nothing to promote progress (aka new works by authors and inventors).

    But expecting intellectual honesty from elected officials who desire funding for re-election is not what the electorate has come to expect. They have learned that the current system engenders hypocrisy where the stated campaign promises are co-opted in favor of satisfying the biggest contributors and the populace tends to vote along party lines or for whomever promises something they want, even if everything else that candidate stands for does violence to their individual rights. That the electorate is OK with this status quo is disheartening.

  • On the post: Robyn Openshaw, 'The Green Smoothie Girl,' Threatening SLAPP Suits Over Mediocre Reviews

    anonymousanonymouscoward ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2019 @ 12:00pm

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    Is that the start of "The Crumbling Green Smoothie Girl?"

  • On the post: Online Forum Members Exploited Weak Credentials To Turn Ring Cameras Against Their Owners

    anonymousanonymouscoward ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2019 @ 11:58am

    Re: Re: Re: Education

    Sorry, I missed the new math by a couple or three decades, but I still value why I might need to know the volume of a cone, even if I have to look up how to calculate it these days. (For those not thinking, the value is in determining how much ice cream you can stuff into it) -:)

  • On the post: Online Forum Members Exploited Weak Credentials To Turn Ring Cameras Against Their Owners

    anonymousanonymouscoward ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2019 @ 07:16am

    Re: Re: I would say that a better question to ask

    Right, and you can teach the kids to cover up the camera when they are changing clothes too. Oh...wait...if you do that some smart ass kid will also learn to cover up the camera when they are doing something they don't want their parents to see. How long then till they figure out that loud music will cover up their plotting being captured by the microphone. Actions have consequences. Who would have thought. Apparently not these parents.

  • On the post: Online Forum Members Exploited Weak Credentials To Turn Ring Cameras Against Their Owners

    anonymousanonymouscoward ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2019 @ 07:12am

    Re: Education

    It's kind of like that math forced upon you in school where both you and the teacher had a hard time expressing how one might use it later in life. Until it has some personal impact on you, that is voraciously shoved down your throat, it is more like a spring shower. Annoying but un-impactful, unless your vegetation. The question then becomes, how does one make IoT security voracious enough to impact all the Joe and Jane six packs of the world? Knowing about this might be a start, but I doubt it will be sufficient.

  • On the post: Robyn Openshaw, 'The Green Smoothie Girl,' Threatening SLAPP Suits Over Mediocre Reviews

    anonymousanonymouscoward ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2019 @ 08:30am

    What goes in tends to come out

    Does the paranoia Robyn Openshaw seems to be experiencing come from drinking Green Smoothies? If so, there is no better negative review available.

    Then again I have never heard of paranoia coming from consuming anything. Does that mean the paranoia is inherent?

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