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

  

  Jeff Green ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2022 @ 03:22pm

  No he's the one making idiotic statements!

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

  

  Jeff Green ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2022 @ 12:29pm

  Subservient?

  Is Tim Cushing still sore about the USA getting its arse handed to it on a plate in 1812? Canada subservient to the UK? Australia too? I would suggest not airing those opinions in any bars in downtown Vancouver or Brisbane. It may be worth him noting that the UK law in question was passed as part of the UK's membership of the EU so he is claiming Canada is subservient to the French, Germans and Polish. It is a great pity when otherwise excellent articles are spoiled by childish prejudice.

• On the post: Judge: Clemency Board With Three Cops On It Doesn’t Violate Rule Against More Than Two People From Same Profession

  

  Jeff Green ( profile ), 06 May, 2022 @ 02:15am

  Judges

  Has anyone ever suggested an IQ test for judges?

• On the post: UK Politician Who Had Shows On Russian TV Channel Threatens To Sue Twitter For Noting His Connections To Russian Media

  

  Jeff Green ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2022 @ 02:35pm

  Libelling George Galloway

  Lowering the reputation of George Galloway would be VERY VERY hard. He appeared on celebrity Big Brother!

• On the post: New Right To Repair Bill Targets Obnoxious Auto Industry Behavior

  

  Jeff Green ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2022 @ 06:58am

  Re: Re: I just hope…

  I believe there is a constitutional amendment requiring all US Bills to either have a cutesy title or be named after a victim to a crime that was already covered by other legislation.

• On the post: Tenth Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity To Social Worker Who Fabricated A Mother's Confession Of Child Abuse

  

  Jeff Green ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2022 @ 04:45am

  Worrying thought

  Is the dissenting judge worried that she has been misapplying the law for years and is worried that someone might think a judge should know that throwing-people-in-jail-because-you-don't-like-them-even-though-they've-not-broken-any-laws was wrong and she could end up in trouble? I REALLY hope that isn't the case and she is simply an idiot but who knows?

• On the post: Commentator Insists That Fact Checking Is An Attack On Free Speech

  

  Jeff Green ( profile ), 19 Sep, 2021 @ 01:42pm

  Re:

  The argument against fact checkers contains an interesting little snippet. If doing research can constitute fact checking and it is illegal to post fact checks it follows that anything published on the internet cannot be researched but has to be made up by the author or else it is illegal.

• On the post: Court Calls Bullshit On Cop Who Claimed He Could Smell Weed In Sealed Bags In A Moving Car From His Own Moving Cruiser

  

  Jeff Green ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2021 @ 12:32am

  When do we expect

  The perjury prosecution?

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

  

  Jeff Green ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2021 @ 04:31pm

  Re: Public and private, and SEPARATE.

  Just remember you get the lizards you voted for. (See Douglas Adams' So Long and Thanks for All the Fish for details)

• On the post: Fuck This Cheer In Particular Says The Supreme Court In Decision Upholding Students' Free Speech Rights

  

  Jeff Green ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2021 @ 01:48pm

  Re:

  "Clarence Thomas" and "sounds insane" in one sentence. Where have I seen or thought that before ...

• On the post: Devin Nunes' Family's Bizarrely Stupid Defamation Lawsuit Goes Off The Rails

  

  Jeff Green ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2021 @ 01:14pm

  Re: I'm Having Trouble Keeping Up

  Surely it would be more apposite to ask if DevinNunes'cow has a Devin Nunes?

• On the post: EFF Sues California Law Enforcement Training Entity Over Its BS Use Of Copyright Law To Deny Public Records Requests

  

  Jeff Green ( profile ), 24 May, 2021 @ 03:28pm

  MArket for training materials

  Since the law requires that training material for Police officers is made public then surely any material that cannot be published cannot be used for training police officers and thus has no commercial value as training material.

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

  

  Jeff Green ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2021 @ 02:29am

  Re: Re:

  Actually the link you needed was to /var/lib/satire ...

• On the post: Facial Recognition Helps New Jersey Cops Jail The Wrong Man For Ten Days [Update]

  

  Jeff Green ( profile ), 29 Dec, 2020 @ 07:38am

  Re: Keystone Kops

  The Keystone Kops were funny, these clowns are not.

• On the post: EU Court Backs Austrian Court, Says Local Libel Law Applies Everywhere In The World

  

  Jeff Green ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2020 @ 05:37am

  What this decision is really about

  Is a decision by the EU court that multinational companies cannot be allowed to exist. Facebook choose to do business in the EU and in other countries, the European Courts have decided that "Facebook" is an individual and has decided to be in the EU so is subject to their laws. A US court can make the same decision and a British Court and a Chinese Court. All these judgements could be contradictory yet Facebook must obey them all. The only alternative they have is to do no business and have no assets in the EU or any other coun try that expects its judgements to be enforced Worldwide. A case the other way around with the US government demanding data from Microsoft that it would be illegal for Microsoft to give in the EU (where the data resided) was decided in the US courts as applying US law to that circumstance.
  If we want the World to continue as it does now we need some new international treaties to limit this stupidity. Until then we must get used to the idea that multinationals are doomed.

• On the post: Japan's Top Court Says 45 Million Twitter Users Must Check That Anything They Retweet Is Not A Copyright Infringement

  

  Jeff Green ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2020 @ 04:23pm

  but ...

  Twitter has a relatively easy get out here, just stop autocropping images if doing so could cause their users a problem. I am not saying I believe (I don't) that all such alleged infringements of copyright should be acted upon or should be able to be acted upon, merely that Twitter's own actions, entirely voluntary actions, put their customers at risk and they do not have to.

• On the post: No, Trademark Trolls Collecting Various Fake Names For A Washington Football Team Will Not Get In The Way Of The NFL Team's Renaming

  

  Jeff Green ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2020 @ 01:39pm

  Keep the spirit of the old name

  Call themselves the Washington Americans. They claimed the name 'honoured' native Americans, this still would and I'd love to see the looney right get upset about that name!

• On the post: Police Memo Says Officers Raiding A Journalist's Home Were Instructed To Turn Off Their Body Cameras

  

  Jeff Green ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2020 @ 03:16am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: 'Camera is off = You're not a cop'

  Why unreasonable? Police departments are all in favour of putting cameras everywhere they aren't, to quote far too many policemen far too often. If they are behaving themselves they have nothing to fear. The only people with access to the cameras would be the police and anyone who can obtain a court order, based on appropriate evidence of misbehaviour.
  The police assure us they would never abuse their access to private data, so that cannot be their problem, so if the police are still objecting it must mean they don't respect the courts.

• On the post: Police Memo Says Officers Raiding A Journalist's Home Were Instructed To Turn Off Their Body Cameras

  

  Jeff Green ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2020 @ 03:08am

  Re:

  If they have evidence there is no need to trust them. Trust is for when there is no evidence and that is what this group of criminals has abused.

• On the post: UPDATED: GDPR (Briefly) Blocked Grocers From Accessing Lists Of 'At Risk' People In Need Of Food Packages

  

  Jeff Green ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2020 @ 04:21am

  What one must remember

  When rightly criticising this madness is why it exists. Partly to punish "those horrible Americans" is true but it is mainly because governments and big business blatantly abused the freedom they used to have.
  Most of life works like a pendulum, one side swings it hard there way and then the other side pushes back just as hard. Neither want a reasonable resolution, both want to win. Until we all learn that compromise isn't a dirty word we will have these problems. Not everything governments do should be public as it happens, not everything governments do is entitled to secrecy. Not all of our data should be private nor should all of it be on the front page of the paper.
  The GDPR is a terrible law but no GDPR was worse law.

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