BentFranklin 's Techdirt Comments

Latest Comments (1028)

• On the post: NSA's XKeyscore Source Code Leaked! Shows Tor Users Classified As 'Extremists'

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 03 Jul, 2014 @ 08:55am

  The extremists are the ones who say "anything is permissible" in the fight against what ever it is they are fighting. that is probably the number one hallmark of extremism. So on that basis I put NSA and Al Qaeda in the same bin.

• On the post: Everyone Agrees They Don't Know Why Teenager Committed Suicide, So Helpful Coroner Shouts Video Games

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 30 May, 2014 @ 06:55am

  I can name something else these three teenagers had in common: they all lived in the same town as South Manchester Coroner John Pollard. What is the effect that living in the same town as South Manchester Coroner John Pollard has on teenagers? It concerns me greatly.

• On the post: Proud Voters Tweeting In The UK Could Receive Jail Time And A Fine

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 23 May, 2014 @ 03:24pm

  You're wrong to belittle this regulation. If a person can prove how they voted they can be forced to prove it, and that is dangerous.

• On the post: Keith Alexander: We Need More Spying In The Future Because All Of Our Previous Spying Has Only Increased The Number Of Terrorist Attacks

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 20 May, 2014 @ 07:21am

  Terrorism is the use of fear to affect policy. General Alexander uses fear to affect policy.

• On the post: Destructive DRM Strikes Again: Creative Professionals Blocked From Using Adobe Products For Days

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 19 May, 2014 @ 08:41am

  Re: Re:

  It's a power grab because, DRM or not, they can prevent you from accessing your programs and data.

• On the post: Cisco Goes Straight To The President To Complain About The NSA Intercepting Its Hardware

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 19 May, 2014 @ 07:01am

  Looks like a UPS label on that box.

• On the post: Destructive DRM Strikes Again: Creative Professionals Blocked From Using Adobe Products For Days

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 19 May, 2014 @ 06:55am

  The cloud is a power grab.

• On the post: NY Times And Washington Post Describe Yesterday's Net Neutrality Vote In Diametrically Opposite Ways

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 16 May, 2014 @ 12:59pm

  Re: Re:

  Judith Miller
  
  'nuff said

• On the post: Cable Industry's Own Numbers Show General Decline In Investment Over Past Seven Years

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 14 May, 2014 @ 03:37pm

  Cincinnatus was the pseudonym Snowden used to contact Greenwald. Edward is that you?

• On the post: How The US Gov't Destroyed The Lives Of A Muslim American Man's Entire Family After He Refused To Become An Informant

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 07 May, 2014 @ 05:53am

  Re: Seems familiar

  Yes, my main impression is that of the East Germany's Stasi. Every third person was an informant.

• On the post: How The US Gov't Destroyed The Lives Of A Muslim American Man's Entire Family After He Refused To Become An Informant

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 07 May, 2014 @ 05:54am

  If you're not an informant you must be a terrorist.

• On the post: Congress Has Voted Proactively To Remain Clueless About Technology

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 05 May, 2014 @ 09:49am

  At least the good news is this is one more positive sign for Rush Holt. He is definitely on the right side of voting machine technology. I hope this fellow hangs in there.

• On the post: DOJ Morality Police May Be Behind Chase Closing Bank Accounts Of Adult Film Actors

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 01 May, 2014 @ 08:48am

  This is a result of the intentional and deliberate takeover of the justice system by graduates of Oral Roberts University and Liberty University.

• On the post: DOJ Morality Police May Be Behind Chase Closing Bank Accounts Of Adult Film Actors

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 01 May, 2014 @ 07:42am

  If they are going to drive rogue businesses into the ground, why don't they start with the banks themselves?

• On the post: White House Says It Can Withhold Vulnerabilities If It Will Help Them Catch 'Intellectual Property Thieves'

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2014 @ 09:52am

  They will have to explain how keeping 0days open stops IP thieves.

• On the post: Why Do So Many People Describe Aereo 'Complying' With Copyright Law As The Company 'Circumventing' Copyright Law?

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 23 Apr, 2014 @ 10:20am

  That's a great point. Thanks for pointing out the implicit lies they use to frame the debate and not just the over ones.

• On the post: Why Is The US Gov't Arguing In The Supreme Court To Reshape The Internet The Way Broadcasters Want It?

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2014 @ 11:23am

  This is what they had to give Chris Dodd after failing on SOPA.

• On the post: Tom Lehrer, Culture And Copyright After Death

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2014 @ 09:40am

  Re: Re: Doing The Vatican Rag

  Also on the Germans:
  
  They say all the Germans are warlike and mean,
  But that couldn't happen again.
  We taught them a lesson in 1919,
  And they've hardly bothered us since then!

• On the post: Intuit Does Subterfuge To Combat Free-Filing Tax Returns

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2014 @ 07:00am

  Re: Why do they need Intuit?

  Java is insecure.

• On the post: Intuit Does Subterfuge To Combat Free-Filing Tax Returns

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2014 @ 06:59am

  Re: Re: Right idea, wrong strategy

  Knowing what I know about government programming, the websites would only run on IE6.

Next >>