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

    Cdaragorn ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2019 @ 07:57am

    Re: Re: it actually is Amazon's fault, not Rings

    That's only half true. Yes the podcast is at fault for choosing to break into the devices, but the users that chose not to secure them absolutely bear some responsibility for choosing not to keep a camera they knew they stuck on the internet and pointed at their children locked.

  • On the post: Judge Orders Man Who Violated Recording Ban To Publish An Essay About Respecting The Court AND To Delete All Negative Comments From Readers

    Cdaragorn ( profile ), 11 Dec, 2019 @ 08:02am

    Re: Re:

    Nah, we solved that problem a long time ago. We just throw anyone that refuses in jail. Easy peasy. In all reasonable seriousness, though, this argument doesn't make any sense in regards to whether or not someone should be able to record public court proceedings. If anyone actually wanted to go after the jury they can just come in and see you themselves. Preventing recording isn't accomplishing what you claim it is. The First Amendment concerns here are still very much more important than the perceived harm.

  • On the post: Prison Telecom Monopolies Bring Their 'Innovation' To Prison Ebooks

    Cdaragorn ( profile ), 02 Dec, 2019 @ 12:24pm

    Re: Innovation, the spawn of capitalism

    Among most company innovations, lobbying state officials yields the highest rate of returns No more common or erroneous than that. Only true for those currently enjoying monopoly level power over their markets.

  • On the post: Andrew Yang's Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Tech Policy

    Cdaragorn ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2019 @ 02:57pm

    Re:

    Literally none of this nonsense is true. S230 was built to do the EXACT OPPOSITE of this. It was built expressly to protect biased companies and individuals in order to allow and encourage everyone to censor and influence content. Because we want them to do what the government is expressly forbidden from doing: encourage those using their platforms to speak to not run off with speech we generally consider poor or bad for a variety of reasons.

  • On the post: Blizzcon: Blizzard Apologizes For Banning Blitzchung, Keeps Him Banned, More Fallout Ensues

    Cdaragorn ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2019 @ 12:08pm

    Re: Re: Blizzard Boycott?

    Kind of early to tell how this is actually going to affect them, don't you think?

  • On the post: Blizzcon: Blizzard Apologizes For Banning Blitzchung, Keeps Him Banned, More Fallout Ensues

    Cdaragorn ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2019 @ 12:05pm

    Re:

    More like they're so big they don't realize just how seriously some bad choices can affect them until it's almost too late.

  • On the post: The Race Is On To Create A Federal Online Privacy Law: First Entry From Reps. Eshoo & Lofgren

    Cdaragorn ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2019 @ 11:47am

    Re: One other thought.....

    The army has a long history of just ignoring the law and making their own up on the fly. It is well established law already that you can't require anyone give up any rights under the law just to provide service to them. The army just doesn't care and no one holds them accountable for it almost ever.

  • On the post: Appeals Court Says It's OK For Cops To Destroy Someone Else's House To Apprehend A Criminal Suspect

    Cdaragorn ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2019 @ 07:58am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    because most countries with fewer guns don't have the same issues with shootings Another strongly held belief that is completely false. http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/mass-shootings-by-country/ People shooting other innocent people is a sick and terrible thing and causes a lot of people to react in extremely emotional ways. This often leads to a lot of people assuming that what sounds plausible must be true and refuse to actually look for evidence that might suggest it isn't.

  • On the post: Freelance Columnist Suggests Workaround To California's AB5: Submit One Giant, Regularly Edited, Column

    Cdaragorn ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2019 @ 07:54am

    Re: The problem with a workaround...

    The problem still remains that you're trying to solve problems you pretend exist that aren't really there.
    No one is "forced" to work as a freelancer. There are still plenty of jobs available everywhere that insisting you are being forced is just you not being willing to do what you are perfectly capable of doing to change your situation.

  • On the post: Cop Peforming A Welfare Check Kills Woman By Shooting Her Through Her Own Backyard Window

    Cdaragorn ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2019 @ 03:58pm

    Re: 'Hello, police? I'd like someone to be killed.'

    Some cops behaving like this doesn't make the act of calling any cops to the scene the equivalent of guaranteeing this kind of reaction. Or even making it remotely likely. You may choose to distrust every single police officer everywhere because there have been a disturbing number willing to behave like this. Those facts don't make calling police in unreasonable.

  • On the post: Cop Peforming A Welfare Check Kills Woman By Shooting Her Through Her Own Backyard Window

    Cdaragorn ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2019 @ 03:52pm

    Re:

    The problem with all of these suggestions is that the core issue here was never a lack of rules. There are plenty of rules already established around what cops can and can't do when they approach a home. There are even rules between when they do have a warrant and when they don't. The problem here is that they broke all of them. You can't solve that problem by making more.

  • On the post: Cop Peforming A Welfare Check Kills Woman By Shooting Her Through Her Own Backyard Window

    Cdaragorn ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2019 @ 03:25pm

    Re: Re: Everyone is armed so everyone is a threat.

    Nice strawman. Keep running down that road if you like.

  • On the post: Cop Peforming A Welfare Check Kills Woman By Shooting Her Through Her Own Backyard Window

    Cdaragorn ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2019 @ 03:21pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    Honestly that just makes your comment about it being SWAT style meaningless. If any style can be called SWAT style they don't actually have a style, do they?

  • On the post: FBI Director Deploys Straw Men While Calling For The End Of Straw Men Arguments In The Encryption War

    Cdaragorn ( profile ), 07 Oct, 2019 @ 12:13pm

    Re:

    Any code that can be created can be broken Nope. If this were honestly true encryption wouldn't be an issue for these people. Whether or not it's possible depends. Most modern encryption methods are basically impossible to crack. The "take a while" is literally measured in billions of years. The much more important point here is that this is ok. We need to accept that not all bad things will be punished or stopped because the consequences of trying to get to that extreme destroy any reasons we could possibly have to care about punishing bad things. What does it matter if we're all effectively in prison our entire lives anyway?

  • On the post: The Differences Between Copyright And Possession: Gilda Radner Interview Copyright Lawsuit Dismissed For Lack Of Registration

    Cdaragorn ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2019 @ 07:47am

    Re: how hard is it to register a copyright in the first place?

    Considering the entire point of Copyright is to allow you to be the only person in all existence that can make money creating something for a limited period in return for you having created and provided it to society, can you give any reason why you should get Copyright on something if you honestly don't think you could make more than $100 selling copies of it during the time you have a forced monopoly on it?

  • On the post: Nintendo's ROM Site War Continues With Huge Lawsuit Against Site Despite Not Sending DMCA Notices

    Cdaragorn ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2019 @ 09:31am

    Re:

    It's really easy. You just choose to ignore it. In all seriousness, though, what gets me most is the common assumption that there's no possible way to legally offer current copies of games like this. In the US at least it's very easy for this kind of service to be 100% legal. Format shifting is fair use for good reasons here. It's a perfectly reasonable and legal argument that I wanted to play on my PC instead of having to own their console. As long as I bought my own legal copy of the game downloading a version that had been changed so I can play it somewhere else is absolutely legal. Unfortunately too often it's decided that because someone could use it to obtain a copy illegally it's somehow ok to blame the site for that. I often wonder how far down this selfish rabbit hole we're going to have to get before most people start realizing just how bad giving people monopolies really is.

  • On the post: Nintendo's ROM Site War Continues With Huge Lawsuit Against Site Despite Not Sending DMCA Notices

    Cdaragorn ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2019 @ 09:19am

    Re: Re:

    Paying for the bandwidth necessary to maintain the site is not even remotely the same as paying for the individual content being downloaded. Nothing about this makes DMCA claims "not the right option in this case".

  • On the post: Former Hotel Exec Gets Elected To Congress, Decides First Order Of Business Is To Destroy Airbnb

    Cdaragorn ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2019 @ 08:26am

    Re: I can't say I wholly disagree with the idea

    forums, search engines and social media sites are all selling things just as much as anyone who directly accepts payments does. The idea that if someone is selling something they shouldn't get this protection is ridiculous. The only point of the protection here is to force people to hold those who are actually responsible for actions or speech accountable and not some other party that didn't do anything wrong. The fact that they were involved in the transaction doesn't make them party to the illegal acts.

  • On the post: Missouri Attorney General Claims The First Amendment Allows Him To Withhold Public Records

    Cdaragorn ( profile ), 26 Aug, 2019 @ 12:05pm

    Re: Re:

    The fact that the information is part of a public record doesn't mean you can get it without an information request. That's not how public records work.
    You gave that information to your government official. If you expected it to remain private you were mistaken and no the government is not obligated to follow your false expectation. They never told you it would be kept private so you had no business expecting it to be.
    Comparing a private forum that intentionally hides your personal details with the public government that does not is clearly comparing apples and oranges.

  • On the post: What3words Is A Clever Way Of Communicating Position Very Simply, But Do We Really Want To Create A Monopoly For Location Look-ups?

    Cdaragorn ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2019 @ 09:12am

    But the user doesn't need to do any of this...

    I'm really lost as to why any of this was even necessary. I helped work on the services that automatically provide emergency services with your devices exact location when you call them here in the US. Is this only an issue in other countries?

    Even if there were some privacy concern you could just ask the person permission to request their location from their provider and record the conversation. There should never be a need for the caller to have to know how to look this up in any form.

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