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• On the post: AG William Barr Doesn't Want The Government Spying On The President But Thinks It's OK If It Spies On Everyone Else

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2019 @ 10:57am

  It's funny how the Trump supporters always forget that the government wasn't monitoring communications from the Trump campaign at all. They were monitoring communications with a known Russian intelligence operative. The fact that they swept up Trump campaign communications was simply the result of the Trump campaign workers being in contact with known Russian intelligence operatives.

• On the post: FBI And Half The World Bust Operators Of A Site That Made The Dark Web Searchable

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 08 May, 2019 @ 05:08am

  What are the chances that the real goal of this is to get a legal precedent set that says search engines are liable for anything that happens on any web site they list in their search results?

• On the post: Facebook Files Questionable Lawsuit Over Fake Followers And Likes

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2019 @ 06:41pm

  If Facebook wins this, how long before some website sues users for visiting their site while using an adblocker?

• On the post: Texas Senator Pushing A Bill That Would Allow The State To Sue Twitter For Banning Conservatives

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2019 @ 09:49am

  If the Alt-Right movement doesn't like being banned, perhaps they shouldn't be pushing so hard to have social media ban terrorists.

• On the post: Court Says Virginia PD's Use Of Automatic Plate Readers Violates State's Data Privacy Law

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2019 @ 05:16am

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  The police don't have to follow the law. After all, since no court has ever ruled that police must obey court orders, they get a free pass due to qualified immunity.

• On the post: EU Tells Internet Archive That Much Of Its Site Is 'Terrorist Content'

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2019 @ 05:08am

  To the politicians who don't want people to be able to see their past, the Internet Archive IS a terrorist site!

• On the post: New Bill Would Enshrine The FCC's Net Neutrality Rules Into Standalone Federal Law

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2019 @ 07:31am

  The Telecom lobbyists will be all over this bill trying to change it to what they want instead of what's fair to everyone.

• On the post: Who Needs Article 13: Italian Court Finds Facebook Liable For Hosting Links

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2019 @ 11:06am

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  Possibly a Freudian slip, but more likely it's because Autocorrect hates me.

• On the post: Who Needs Article 13: Italian Court Finds Facebook Liable For Hosting Links

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2019 @ 10:03am

  This is not holding the I finger liable, nor a third party. This is all the way up to holding a fourth party liable for the infringement.

  Two more levels and they will be able to arrest Kevin Bacon.

• On the post: One Of The People Suing Fortnite Over 'Stolen' Dance Steps Gets His Dance Rejected By The US Copyright Office

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2019 @ 05:11am

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  Just to point out, anything under Creative Commons is covered by copyright. Creative Commons is not an exception to copyright. CReative Commons is an automatically granted license that the copyright holder has elected to grant to anyone meeting the terms of the license. Without the copyright to back it up, a Creative Commons license is meaningless.

• On the post: DNA-Matching Company Decides To Open Its Doors To The FBI Without Bothering To Inform Its Users

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2019 @ 05:28am

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  You may not have any choice. Remember, you share large amounts of DNA with other members of your family, so if your family members opt into a service like this, they are also making most of your DNA available.

• On the post: FCC Accused Of Colluding With Big Carriers On 5G Policy

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2019 @ 09:51am

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  Oh? Which town is it that is overreaching for the revenues?

• On the post: Appeals Court Says A Person Driving A Registered Vehicle On A Public Road Is Not 'Reasonably Suspicious'

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 01 Feb, 2019 @ 05:01am

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  But a legal drug that anyone can grow in their backyard won't make money for the Pharma Bros.

• On the post: Canadians Pay The Highest Rates For Wireless Data, And The US Is About To Follow Suit

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2019 @ 08:26am

  Re: Three Major Carriers Is Only A Little Correct

  Not quite. Bell and Telus have a tower sharing agreement. Where there is no Bell service, Bell customers will get service via a Telus tower. Similarly where there is no Telus service, Telus customers get service via Bell towers. It means both companies can offer service everywhere in Canada without having to build two separate networks that both cover the whole country.

• On the post: Arizona The Latest To Explore Dumb Porn Filter Law, This Time To Help Fund Trump's Fence

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2019 @ 07:36am

  Yet another politician who thinks math is a foreign language

  As of 2017, the population of Arizona was just a bit over 7 million people. If every single one of them pays that $20 fee, that raises some $140 million. That's not even a rounding error on the $5 billion Trump wants for the wall, let alone the estimates from people with experience in construction projects.

• On the post: Record Labels, Film Studios, Tech Companies And The Public Now All Agreed That Article 13 Is A Disaster

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2019 @ 11:06am

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  The right to steal works will never become a reality.
  
  The record labels have had a 'right to steal' for a very long time.
  
  https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2012/09/19/jamestaylor/

• On the post: Appeals Court: First Amendment Violation To Ban Members Of The Public From Gov't Officials' Facebook Pages

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 11 Jan, 2019 @ 10:05am

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  Who gets to define what is, and is not "legitimate trolls/hecklers"?

• On the post: There's One Encouraging Thought Buried In Zuckerberg's 2019 Challenge

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2019 @ 02:45pm

  > moving to a world of protocols, backed by encryption, rather than being a full platform.
  
  That's not going to happen, and for one simple reason. If the power is moved away from the platform and out to the end user, the platform won't be able to suck up all the private information they make their money from. This undermines the business model of pretty much every internet platform out there.

• On the post: New GDPR Ruling In France Could Dramatically Re-shape Online Advertising

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 27 Nov, 2018 @ 03:30am

  While I think overall the GDPR is a bad law, I won’t be crying any tears over problems it causes for the advertising industry. Laws like the GDPR are a direct result of careless use and abuse of personal data by corporate advertisers.

• On the post: New Acting Attorney General Part Of A Patent Scam Company Recently Shut Down By The FTC And Fined Millions

  

  Chris-Mouse ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2018 @ 11:43am

  Re: Re: Ooh, a "failed politician"! -- He could be part HONEST, then!

  But only after trying every other option first.

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