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  • On the post: Kash Patel’s Defamation Suit Against The Atlantic Is Designed To Generate Headlines, Not Win In Court

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2026 @ 04:59am

    What the law is for

    It has long been clear that the law, in most countries but it seems most especially in the USA, is not about justice or writing wrongs, it is about making money for lawyers. This allows the rich and powerful to use it for their own ends because the only way to stop them is to have loads of spare cash to pay lawyers. For actions such as libel complaints should have to be filed in person, in front of a judge, and under oath. The judge being required to test that the case is viable and the complainant having personally (no company or official plastic allowed) paid the court fees in advance.

  • On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2025 @ 03:17am

    No, it isn't. If "None of the above" wins the election must be rerun and no-one who got less than (say, actual figure to be determined) 25% in the first go can stand again. Keep going until a reasonable candidate is presented and garners enough votes to win.

  • On the post: Elon Says Teslas Drive Themselves. The Crash Data Tesla Tried To Hide From A Court Says Otherwise

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2025 @ 10:49am

    It could have been a queue waiting for a school bus that the Tesla hit. Teslas are big heavy cars moving fast, they are perfectly capable of killing a dozen or more people. An aircraft crash where everyone walks away still gets investigated. The car should definitely automatically upload all the data in the system in the event of a crash, to a publicly owned server which can be accessed by all interested parties.

  • On the post: Nevada Court Shuts Down Federal Civil Forfeiture Loophole That Bypassed State Restrictions

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2025 @ 10:27am

    Obeying the law

    This is a simply shocking outcome! US police officers being required to obey the law? What next, will they start saying presidents must too?

  • On the post: 11th Circuit Strips Immunity From Cop Who Shot And Killed Dog That Had Already Been Neutralized By A Taser

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2024 @ 04:40am

    About time

    That the courts took account of who pays the penalty and when this dangerous maniac gets back to court the judge very strongly indicates that he should be prosecuted for the crime and then can be sent to jail. The local government and police unions can't serve time for their tame thugs.

  • On the post: Instead Of Banning Books, Idaho Library Decides To Ban Kids In Response To New Law On ‘Inappropriate Books’

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 24 May, 2024 @ 09:35am

    Just needs another bounty law, allow anyone whose rights to access books the right, indeed duty, to sue anyone who seeks to abridge those rights, including parents being allowed to sue on behalf of their children

  • On the post: Rudy Giuliani On The Hook For $120,000 In Legal Fees In Libel Suit He Already Admitted (In Court!) He Lost

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2023 @ 06:15am

    If you eat a cake you no longer have a cake. Therefore you cannot both have a cake and eat it, all the parts f the cake you eat are no longer cake. It is fashionable to try to poke holes in well established and commonly used language but it just makes the hole poker look silly. Just like those who always insist that double negatives are wrong. Language isn't pure maths, it is communication and the meaning of "have your cake and eat it" is absolutely clear.

  • On the post: Appeals Court Says A Cop Can Violate Another Cop’s Rights By [Squints At Ruling] Shooting At The Other Cop

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2023 @ 09:42am

    The biggest stupidity here, seen from the civillised world, is WHY THE BLOODY HELL WOULD ANYONE EVER SEND A ROOKIE to reports of a disturbed man with a gun? I realise this is because that is seen as routine and run of the mill in too much of the USA but handling a gun near other people, and especially other people with guns should only ever be a job for fully trained and qualified professionals.

  • On the post: A Ton Of Folks Don’t Know What ‘Right To Repair’ Is, But Strongly Support It Once They Do

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2023 @ 02:09am

    But that's the simple change that is needed

    Any component required to repair a device you own must be made available at an economic price. So if you put everything in one chip for a $1000 smart phone that part must be made available for, say, $300. Failure to do so would cancel the copyright protection on that part. When I buy a device I should own it and that means I should have the right to own it, a repair manual must be available and all parts available. It isn't a complicated law.

  • On the post: Meta Launches Threads, And It’s Important For Reasons That Most People Won’t Care About

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2023 @ 12:58pm

    Errrmmmm self hosting problems?

    I self host my email, I also host mail for several other people. Sometimes I have problems, the latest being Spamhaus changing its rules but not telling me in the blacklisting what rule I had broken. Took me a day or two to find and fix. All the information was there, it took a few Google searches to find it. You need to install SSL certificates, these are free and easy, you need to put the right strings into your DNS, fiddly but not hard, you need to make sure the relevant ports are blocked from outside intrusion, but you need to do that anyway. What exactly are the problems?

  • On the post: Top EU Court Advisor Says Technical Standards, Like Laws, Should Not Be Locked Down By Copyright

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 06 Jul, 2023 @ 05:25am

    Just because something entails hours of work doesn't mean it should get copyright protection! If a copyright work is to be included in the law the state must pay for the work before including it. It is putting copyright n things that we are required to read that is absurd maximalism, laws can represent thousands of hours of work from hundreds or thousands of people and they do not get protection.

  • On the post: Court Tosses Evidence After PD’s Own Pole Camera Undercuts Officer’s Claims About Seeing A Gun

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 06 Jul, 2023 @ 02:06am

    And that's the REALLY worrying thing

    Why is the response from the judge, all this evidence must be tossed and I direct the prosecution to issue a warrant for the arrest of the officer on a charge of perjury. That the police and prosecution are not interested in upholding the law is terrible but well known, the fact that courts appear not to care about such major crime and about the obvious and utter contempt for the court is awful.

  • On the post: Now That Elon Musk Is Labeling NPR And The BBC As ‘Government Funded,’ Shouldn’t He Do The Same For Tesla, SpaceX, And Twitter?

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2023 @ 01:24pm

    BBC funding compulsory?

    There is no compulsion to BBC funding. I have several friends without TV licences (and radio is provided free). TV licence is required to watch television programmes that are broadcast over old fashioned signals. If you do not receive any such programmes, and do not "walk around it by receiving the same broadcasts live over cable, satellite or Internet, you do not need a licence. If you exclusively watch programmes not broadcast and not made by the BBC no licence is needed.

  • On the post: Wireless Carriers Find That Nobody Cares About 5G Despite Years Of Hype

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2022 @ 08:02am

    You think anyone at a phone company will understand the phrase "marketing humility"?

  • On the post: Virginia Court Rejects Prior Restraint, Says Old Law Used In Attempt To Ban Books Is Unconstitutional

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2022 @ 10:55am

    That should be a "Die hard conservative" who believes in "a free market". In quotations those terms are magically transformed, the first to mean a right wing control freak and the second to mean a market entirely free for things that make me money or that support my point of view. The difference is slight, in the same sense of slight as in the phrase "the Pacific Ocean is a slightly big puddle".

  • On the post: FBI Lied To Court En Route To Seizing Property Owned By Private Vault Company Customers

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2022 @ 11:18am

    And then ...

    The judge would send a report to the prosecution authorities asking for action on perjury and take action him or herself for contempt of court.

  • On the post: Texas School District Decides To Just Ban All Books Flagged For Review… Including The Bible

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2022 @ 07:16am

    If you name the country in French

    It fits the hats perfectly!

  • On the post: EU To Open New Silicon Valley Office To Figure Out Better And Better Ways To Destroy The Internet

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2022 @ 01:47pm

    Another little American ...

    Of course US companies can ignore the EU if they want. The problem is that although the US economy is large, very large in fact, it is not the whole World's economy. The EU market is more or less exactly the same size as the US and US companies like money, that means they are not happy to throw away a market the same size as their own. US companies also worry that if they ignore a market and local start-ups move in they may prove more popular than the US versions in other countries, they do not want to compete with sites that have an enormous uncontested home market when trying to sell in all the other markets worldwide, would the UK, Australia, India, China, African nations, South American nations and even neighbours like Canada and Mexico prefer the US version or a version from a market that understands multinationalism and multilingualism? Yes the EU is a horrible bureaucratic mess run by idiots who do not understand the Internet and want it to be something different, but then the US is a horribly nationalistic nation run by bureaucrats who have no regard for anyone else's laws or customs. With a national security service that believes it has the right to spy on anyone anywhere in the World and will not respect any international treaties or courts. Both sides need to grow up and work on a compromise because seen from outside they are like a pair of 11 year old bullies demanding each others lunch money.

  • On the post: Why Is Media Lamenting Disney’s ‘Loss’ Of Copyright Instead Of Celebrating The Public Domain?

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2022 @ 07:22am

    Trademark and copyright

    Trademarks and copyrights are intended to protect different things. Media companies have spent decades trying to get them to both protect everything, including things that neither of them are supposed to protect.

  • On the post: UK Government Orders Clearview To Pay $9.4 Million Fine, Delete All UK Residents’ Data

    Jeff Green ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2022 @ 06:26am

    How much evidence do you want? He placed two idiotic statements in the article.

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