bhull242 's Techdirt Comments

Latest Comments (6617)

• On the post: California Senator Nancy Skinner Falls For Junk Science Moral Panic; Makes Blatantly False Claims In Support Of Social Media Addiction Bill

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2023 @ 11:06am

  This commenter is disagreeing with Hyman, saying that they are the one not accepting that reality is messy.

• On the post: California Senator Nancy Skinner Falls For Junk Science Moral Panic; Makes Blatantly False Claims In Support Of Social Media Addiction Bill

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2023 @ 11:00am

  It has nothing to do with homophobia. That’s a completely different sort of bigotry. More importantly, no one is saying that all drag queens are pure and wholesome. It’s that many (though not all) of them aren’t lewd or grooming children and are family-friendly.

• On the post: California Senator Nancy Skinner Falls For Junk Science Moral Panic; Makes Blatantly False Claims In Support Of Social Media Addiction Bill

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2023 @ 10:57am

  You know very well that “drag mothers” are acclaimed and revered members of the [degenerate] drag community who, because of their experience and/or talent & success as performers, have transitioned into super-gro0mer/mentor roles, much like prostitutes with good business sense can become madames.

  Yeah, to my knowledge, none of that is true. I’ve certainly never even heard of the term “drag mothers”. To say that we “know” any part of that to be true is just pure assumption on your part. Do you have any evidence of this from a reliable source?

  But unlike the female head of a house of prostitution, Kelsey Meta Boren, subject of the second article I cited, is a biological male.

  Which is completely and utterly irrelevant. The sex or gender of the perpetrator has no bearing on this. It’s just as wrong for a woman or female to do it as it is for a man or male to do it. Not that I’m convinced that it’s happening in the first place.

• On the post: Have We Considered That Maybe Elon Musk Just Hated Twitter & The People Who Use It All Along?

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2023 @ 08:42am

  Where did you get the idea that Mike hates Twitter’s users?

• On the post: Have We Considered That Maybe Elon Musk Just Hated Twitter & The People Who Use It All Along?

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2023 @ 08:41am

  Yup, the fed gov very obviously engaged in censorship by proxy.

  No, no it didn’t.

  Nope, Twitter wasn’t-sorta-kinda-not-really profitable. Not even if you say ridiculous shit like “They were profitable X of the law blah quarters”. They were losing money, the whole time, unless you try to cherry pick the peaks for some dumb reason. It’s fucking ridiculous, stop it.

  “Losing money the whole time,” means “there were never times where it wasn’t losing money.” You don’t just get to ignore the times it gained money, either.

  Twitter blocked the laptop story for close to two weeks, not a day or whatever stupid thing you claim. Stop lying.

  No, it only kept a post of the laptop story removed for two weeks. Blocking the story would mean that it also removed other posts during the two weeks, but it didn’t.

  Twitter absolutely used Shadowbans as the word is used and yes, several Twitter execs absolutely commited perjury.

  Those execs explicitly said what they meant by “shadowbans” during that testimony, and it didn’t describe anything that Twitter was doing at the time. Whether or not other people used it differently is irrelevant, though I will note that I never heard your definition used until fairly recently.

  Lol, no, Barnes v Yahoo didn’t rule Section 203 covers publishers, the plain text of the law says otherwise, and Barnes lost the lawsuit, get a life.

  No, it ruled that Section 230 prevents ICSs from being held liable for any actions taken as publishers of third-party content they didn’t at least help develop, regardless of whether they are actually publishers. Basically, it didn’t matter whether or not Yahoo was a publisher; only that it was an ICS, and Barnes was trying to hold it liable as a publisher of third-party content (even though she tried to came she wasn’t) which it didn’t develop. Nothing in Barnes says anything about losing §230 protections if you actually are a publisher, which is what you were claiming. Maybe you should get a life and go bug people on some other site.

• On the post: Have We Considered That Maybe Elon Musk Just Hated Twitter & The People Who Use It All Along?

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2023 @ 08:25am

  Likely a backronym: he came up with the abbreviation first.

• On the post: Reddit Kicks Out Protesting Mods, As Reddit Users Continue To Find Creative Ways To Protest

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2023 @ 08:17am

  One who lives in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. Also, you never actually answered the question.

• On the post: Techdirt Has Been Deleted From Bing And DuckDuckGo

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2023 @ 07:35am

  Linux is rarely used by people unfamiliar with technology. Windows and Bing absolutely are. As such, a lot of people calling Microsoft’s tech support are not familiar with troubleshooting at all, so they start off with the simplest fix first before moving on to the rest. Eventually, Microsoft tech support will ask for more details, but they have to start off with the simple stuff.

• On the post: Techdirt Has Been Deleted From Bing And DuckDuckGo

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2023 @ 07:30am

  Wikipedia is owned by a nonprofit organization founded by Jimmy Wales. Twitter is a private for-profit corporation owned by Elon Musk. How are those even remotely connected?

• On the post: Elon’s ‘Zero Tolerance’ Policy On CSAM Apparently Does Not Apply To Conspiracy Theorist Accounts He Likes

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2023 @ 07:23am

  That’s about depictions of actual children, not purely fictional ones.

• On the post: Elon’s ‘Zero Tolerance’ Policy On CSAM Apparently Does Not Apply To Conspiracy Theorist Accounts He Likes

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2023 @ 07:22am

  I think it’s to avoid the whole argument over how broad the term “abuse” is. No one except pedophiles is going to argue that it isn’t, at a minimum, exploitation, but there are some who insist that abuse must involve violence and/or negative emotions, not just manipulating. I don’t agree, but it is easier to just avoid the argument altogether.

• On the post: Tesla Lied About EV Range, Then Created A Team Built Specifically To Undermine Customer Attempts To Get Help

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2023 @ 07:01am

  TD criticized Tesla well before Elon said anything about buying Twitter, and they’re generally critical of this sort of practice in general.

• On the post: Stability AI And DeviantArt Ask Court To Dismiss Artists’ Silly Lawsuit Against Generative Art

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2023 @ 06:47am

  I’m sorry you are confused so easily.

• On the post: Stability AI And DeviantArt Ask Court To Dismiss Artists’ Silly Lawsuit Against Generative Art

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2023 @ 06:36am

  I don’t believe the philosophical question of whether sentience is necessary to create art is relevant to anything I said.

• On the post: Stability AI And DeviantArt Ask Court To Dismiss Artists’ Silly Lawsuit Against Generative Art

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2023 @ 06:30am

  He defended cryptocurrency hypothetically, but he was also very cautious about it. As for NFTs, he was pretty clear from the start that it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, and he poked holes in them all the time. He also said that both were essentially fads among corporations.

• On the post: Stability AI And DeviantArt Ask Court To Dismiss Artists’ Silly Lawsuit Against Generative Art

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2023 @ 06:25am

  I don’t think anyone has claimed that.

• On the post: A Bunch Of Authors Sue OpenAI Claiming Copyright Infringement, Because They Don’t Understand Copyright

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2023 @ 02:26pm

  I’ve never accused SEGA of intelligence or for non-hyperbolic marketing.

• On the post: A Bunch Of Authors Sue OpenAI Claiming Copyright Infringement, Because They Don’t Understand Copyright

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2023 @ 08:12pm

  It does mean they perform similar functions in an analogous manner.

• On the post: A Bunch Of Authors Sue OpenAI Claiming Copyright Infringement, Because They Don’t Understand Copyright

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2023 @ 08:08pm

  You’d have to create a completely new AI to do that. You’d be starting from scratch. My point is that, unlike previous cases, you can’t simply remove the allegedly infringing content and be all set. At any rate, the use is minimal and transformative, so there’s a strong argument for fair use.

• On the post: A Bunch Of Authors Sue OpenAI Claiming Copyright Infringement, Because They Don’t Understand Copyright

  

  bhull242 ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2023 @ 12:47am

  As a programmer, let me tell you that computers absolutely can read and learn, even if it’s not exactly the same way humans do. And yes, when an AI is trained on certain data, it has to read that data. (Seriously, a command common to just about every programming language is “read”.) As for thinking, no one claims that it does.

Next >>