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• Jan 11, 2024 @ 01:55pm
  on Florida Senator Introduces Bill That Would Make Accusations Of Racism, Transphobia De Facto Defamation

  Free gun with every abortion!

• Jan 11, 2024 @ 10:34am

  Hyperbole a bit much?

  on Florida Senator Introduces Bill That Would Make Accusations Of Racism, Transphobia De Facto Defamation

  Apparently, the state’s government won’t be satisfied until it’s attempted to violate every single constitutional amendment (except the 2nd!) via godawful bills crafted by godawful people.

  Hey now, let's not be overly dramatic. I doubt even Florida Man would put up with violations the the most universally uncontroversial and upheld amendment. I mean really, no one messes with the 3rd...

• Jul 07, 2022 @ 12:12pm
  on The Moral Panic Is Spreading: Think Tank Proposes Banning Teens From Social Media; Texas Rep Promises To Intro Bill

  The hat, I’m pretty sure it’s the hat.

• Jul 07, 2022 @ 12:08pm
  on The Moral Panic Is Spreading: Think Tank Proposes Banning Teens From Social Media; Texas Rep Promises To Intro Bill

  I’ve never read that in my copy of the Bible, and it includes the Gnostic Gospels, so it’s pretty complete.

  After extensively thinking about pretending to be a theologian, I have found that it is written in a secret message right between “Do not judge, and you will not be judged; and do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; pardon, and you will be pardoned” and “Therefore, all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them; for this is the Law and the Prophets”. I mean it cannot be more obvious that you can only read these an the rest of the Bible as that “Thou shall be a dick to those who are obviously not you”.

• Jun 24, 2022 @ 11:05am

  A good thing you can only spy on videos...

  on The Myopic Focus On TikTok Privacy Issues Remains Kind Of Weird

  But the press likes to single out TikTok’s shitty privacy and security standards — and the data TikTok collects — as somehow unique. Usually because it’s Chinese.

  I'm just glad that I don't have to worry about any of my electronics potentially being compromised because er... because um... Yeah, because if all the monies make people I like rich then that will protect me from the .

• Oct 25, 2021 @ 03:43pm

  Investing in a divide-by-zero-problem

  on Trump's Broken Social Media Venture Is Valued At Billions Of Dollars And Its Breaking Experts' Brains

  Here you're investing in the infinite supply of Stupid™ but the supply-demand curve jumped the divide-by-zero shark, and now, somehow making more available Stupid™ causing the demand for more Stupid™. Thus this is obviously the most genius investment plan ever as it is obviously a perpetual money (and Stupid™) making scheme!

• Sep 01, 2021 @ 03:19pm

  I'm curious, but what about Mexico itself?

  on Ninth Circuit: Sorry, But We Have No Way To Hold Border Patrol Agents Accountable For Killing People In Mexico

  I know there are at least some cases where a foreign power can sue in US courts. Is there an (at least somewhat reasonable) cause of action that Mexico could pursue against the officers/agency? I am not that optimistic but somehow I think that would be more likely than Congress doing anything to allow foreign citizens to sue federal officers for wrongful if they refuse to do so for US citizens :(

• May 03, 2021 @ 03:22pm

  Public-Private Partnerships

  on Only 14% Of Americans Think Communities Shouldn't Be Allowed To Build Their Own Broadband Networks

  I love how the large Internet providers have shape the discussion. Given how much money has been tossed at them collectively by the public sector to build networks I have a hard time distinguishing between the huge multi-billion partnerships vs the smaller "community" ones. Except that I image that if someone compared how many "boondoggles" happened at a small scale vs say JUST the ones involving Frontier the community ones would come out on top.

• Aug 28, 2020 @ 10:26pm

  Re: Re: Confused

  on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Insanely Stupid Lawsuit Against Facebook

  Oh good. I was worried for a bit there.

• Aug 27, 2020 @ 04:37pm

  Confused

  on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Insanely Stupid Lawsuit Against Facebook

  I must have missed it, what page has the gratuitous RICO complaint?

• Aug 04, 2020 @ 02:40pm

  Who cares about the Constitution, it only applies to lesser gods

  on Josh Hawley Introduces His Latest Attack On Section 230

  There are, of course, also significant Constitutional questions about this. Why should liability for 3rd party content depend on what kind of business model your site uses?

  The Constitution only interferes with his garbage and grand-standing well after the sound-bytes have gone out. Who cares about the impact that will happen before the courts deal with it? By that point he'll probably be back up for reelection, and can rant against liberal judges or something.

• Jul 01, 2020 @ 07:15pm
  on How An NYPD Officer Can Hit A Teen With His Car In Front Of Several Witnesses And Get Away With It

  They cannot record anything or use footage they see of abuse that happens to be different from the specific incident they’re investigating.

  Goodness, I wish that applied to the police too.

• Jul 01, 2020 @ 05:37pm

  A safe space

  on Parler Speedruns The Content Moderation Learning Curve; Goes From 'We Allow Everything' To 'We're The Good Censors' In Days

  If I'm understanding it, Parler is working hard to become the space space for people who think the existence of safe spaces are a symptom of everything wrong with this country....

• Jun 26, 2020 @ 12:46pm

  Depressed by the reality

  on Author Of Section 230 Chris Cox Says All The Critics Are Wrong About The History And Intent Of 230

  Between:

  The Senate negotiators, anxious to protect their colleagues from being accused of taking both sides of the question, stood firm. They were willing to accept Cox-Wyden, but Exon would have to be included, too.

  And:

  With the exception of its most passionate supporters, few tears were shed for the CDA at its final demise in 1997.

  It is not exactly new or shocking that it was more important to let Senators look good than to not pass something they apparently all agreed was bad law. The reminder however, is still depressing.

• Jun 22, 2020 @ 02:27pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  on It's Long Past Time To Encrypt The Entire DNS

  I would just like for there to be more competition. I say it would begin to solve a lot of problems, like DNS privacy. Without competition, outsiders like Mozilla will be the most disruptive factor in this space.

  Honestly, I don't care how many options I have. I don't want any of my phone companies being able to record my calls and I don't see why my ISP should be able to record my traffic. Of course the difference is we say that phone calls are protected and the internet is not. I agree that DNS over TLS or HTTPS are good ideas to combat rogue actors. I just have this silly idea that no provider should be able to listen in or record my communications. It does not matter if it is a phone call, a letter, or an IP packet. Before anyone makes a comment about traffic engineering, I am a network engineer and have worked for ISPs in the past. There is a HUGE difference between marking a packet for QoS and having any actual recording, logging, or any other information about a packet leave the ingress / marking device in any way. After that, my ISP should have zero input to what packets I ask them to carry. If I'm not sending said packets to their devices it's none of their business. Even if my payload is "illegal", well again, we don't allow the phone company to listen in to my calls in order to drop the ones that are making threats or playing music in the background. In summary, communications should be treated the same no matter the technology, and middle-men in the process should never dig deeper than needed to deliver, even if I am sending a post-card or plain-text packet.

• Jun 18, 2020 @ 01:53pm

  Re: Re: Re: Takedown Challenges in progess?

  on Copyright Gets In The Way Of Chef Andres' 'Recipes For The People'; Because The DMCA Takedown System Is Still Broken

  This is basically what I meant. Someone suing the Government saying their First or Fifth Amendment rights were harmed because the Government placed a law that puts liability on a third party if they don't censor based on an accusation. However I already see a potential issue with this as someone could say they already have that liability, this just gives them a quicker out and thus the law doesn't "censor".

• Jun 18, 2020 @ 12:18pm

  Takedown Challenges in progess?

  on Copyright Gets In The Way Of Chef Andres' 'Recipes For The People'; Because The DMCA Takedown System Is Still Broken

  I might have missed them, but is there anyone (ok anyone close to sane) challenging the takedown provision on first amendment grounds? I don't even recall if anyone tried before it rolled out as unconstitutional per-se but even if they had it seems obvious that any assumptions used there might be invalid.

• Apr 17, 2020 @ 08:26am

  Re: Re: but what if ResMed is right?

  on Over-The-Air Updates Could Turn Millions Of Inexpensive Devices Into Much-Needed Ventilators To Treat Seriously-Ill COVID-19 Patients — If Manufacturer Helps

  You might have been right from the start. Think of all the wallets that will starve if we could use the things we own already for whatever purpose we wanted instead of buying new things. After all, this is obviously the only part of the economy doing well and magic Wall Street numbers are way more important than people. Or something.

• Mar 24, 2020 @ 12:32pm

  Those darn Nation States!

  on Houston Police Chief Says He'll Prosecute People For False Statements About COVID-19 Response; Won't Debate 1st Amendment

  You know like Italy, Spain, France, and United Kingdom are all out to destroy our economies with all of that false "Please, don't do what we did. You still have time." nonsense.

  This is of course coming from the same place whose Lieutenant Governor is speaking on the behalf of every Grandparent saying they would be cool with dying for their Grandkid's financial benefit or some such.

  https://twitter.com/DanPatrick/status/1242280376069959680

  https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1242245135129346050

• Mar 18, 2020 @ 03:23pm

  Re:

  on Volunteers 3D-Print Unobtainable $11,000 Valve For $1 To Keep Covid-19 Patients Alive; Original Manufacturer Threatens To Sue

  Nah, I have nothing against profiting from patents in theory. I do have a problem with excessive profits and the many shady things that have been done by organizations producing medicine and medical things. That being said, I have no information to say one way or another if this particular company has done anything I would object to. That doesn't mean that something like this ,added to the recent joy people who need insulin and EpiPens, won't be the trigger for enough public outrage to cause a massive overhaul of the medical patent system.

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