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• On the post: Appeals Court Says It’s Perfectly Fine For Cops To Unreasonably Extend Traffic Stops

  

  dbrower ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2022 @ 08:56pm

  irrelevant spam

  if true, you have sympathy, but this doesn't belong here.

• On the post: Thanks To Crappy Cable Channel Bundles, Non-Watchers Hugely Subsidize Tucker Carlson And Fox News

  

  dbrower ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2022 @ 07:02pm

  Rats!

  I just looked around for streaming alternatives to cable, and didn't find any that don't carry Fox News and presumably pay for the carriage. There don't seem to be alternatives.

• On the post: Josh Hawley Introduces Laughably Stupid Copyright Term Reduction Bill

  

  dbrower ( profile ), 12 May, 2022 @ 01:55pm

  Takings of extensions

  IIRC, Takings from the Public Domain when copyright terms were extended didn't do well as an argument in Eldred v. Ashcroft.

• On the post: Bar Security Camera Exposes Off-Duty Officers’ Lies About Their Unprovoked Assault Of Another Bar Patron

  

  dbrower ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2022 @ 10:48am

  who is driving into the parking lot of a bar at 12:45 in the morning. No reason to victim-blame, but if we’re going to bring up his newborn at all, what’s he doing out? shopping for formula?

• On the post: How Would Senator James Lankford React If A Democratic Senator Demanded Fox News Explain Its Editorial Policies?

  

  dbrower ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2022 @ 10:39am

  There’s an experiment to run

  Some Senator should send Fox that letter, modified as suggested, just to get a catalog of the ensuing outrage. Then use that as counterpoint whenever this shit comes up in original form.

• On the post: Streaming Providers Tell FCC That Taxing Streaming TV Would Be Dumb

  

  dbrower ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2022 @ 10:35am

  usf in general

  the really partisan argument is that USF in general is unnecessary socialism and shouldn’t exist at all. It’s hard to have a serious policy discussion when some people carry “there should be no government policy or taxation” as their starting point.

• On the post: Apple Opposes Trademark For Indie Film 'Apple-Man' Claiming Potential Confusion

  

  dbrower ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2022 @ 09:43pm

  They may have a point

  If the example of "Florida Man" is of any indication, "Apple Man" may be indicative of something they don't want associated with the brans.

• On the post: The Internet Wins: Adblocking (And Other Extensions) Don't Violate Copyright Law In Germany

  

  dbrower ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2022 @ 12:10pm

  Reminds me of previous iterations of this

  Such as when the TV broadcasters were up in arms about the ability of a TiVO or other DVR skipping commercials on playback, on the belief that that was somehow violating something -- like the social contract, maybe.

  Nevertheless, even today a TiVO doesn't completely skip forward, but forces you to watch blip-verts of the things being fast-forwarded through.

• On the post: New Study Indicates Recreational Screen Time For Kids Makes Very Little Difference

  

  dbrower ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2021 @ 09:52pm

  This is the content I came here for.

  My priors are firmly reinforced!

• On the post: Musk's Starlink Pre-Order Subscribers Say Customer Service Is A No Show

  

  dbrower ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2021 @ 09:44am

  Re:

  Different companies, to be pedantic.

• On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 297: The Future Of Libraries

  

  dbrower ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2021 @ 09:40am

  Transcript?

  A while back there was a an inkling that transcripts were soon to be available.

  Is that happening yet? I don't see a visible link anywhere.

  thx.

• On the post: Body Cam Video Shows Cop Killing A Harmless Dog Within 15 Seconds Of Arriving At The Scene

  

  dbrower ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2021 @ 01:46pm

  "Cops are like a box of chocolates

  They'll kill your dog."

• On the post: Rupert Murdoch Learns Why Intermediary Liability Protections Matter: Australia Says Media Orgs Can Be Sued Over Facebook Comments

  

  dbrower ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2021 @ 01:27pm

  Actually consistent for the Murdochs

  They’d far rather have all speech but their own suppressed, and user generated content has always been something they do because they feel they have to rather than something they want.

  “They’ll think what I tell them to think!” — Charles Foster Kane

• On the post: The Role Of Confirmation Bias In Spreading Misinformation

  

  dbrower ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2021 @ 09:54am

  Works for me!

  I saw one yesterday that claimed 85% of men who take ivermectin become sterile.

  True or not, I'd like that to go wildly viral.

• On the post: Brooklyn DA Releases 10,000 Police Misconduct Records To Gothamist, Exposing Cops Prosecutors Don't Want In Their Courtrooms

  

  dbrower ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2021 @ 07:24pm

  That site looks scrapable

  I leave it to someone with more time than me to explore the NYPD link

  https://nypdonline.org/link/2

  and see how hard it is to go to the "disciplnary history" tab of the popup for each and every office and scrape any data.

• On the post: Twitch Finally Gets Around To Letting Banned Streamers Know Why They Were Banned

  

  dbrower ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2021 @ 07:07pm

  Eagerly looking forward to the first examples of notification

  When people get these notifications, I expect some of them will post the charges somewhere. It'll be interesting to see the specifics and how contentious the cases become. It seems likely some of the takedowns will result in, "Oh, yeah, I guess so", a lot of "Mah Freedom!", and some "Oh, come on."

• On the post: Cable Giant Altice Demonstrates Why A Lack Of Broadband Competition Matters

  

  dbrower ( profile ), 29 Jun, 2021 @ 09:37am

  Re:

  What is the antitrust violation in this? I don't see where they conspired with competitors. We might like it to be a violation of the law, but I'm not clear it is anything beyond rent-seeking asshattery.

• On the post: The New York Times (Falsely) Informs Its 7 Million Readers Net Neutrality Is 'Pointless'

  

  dbrower ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2021 @ 11:35am

  Please stop saying "The says" when it is some columnist

  Just because they published the opinion doesn't make it the view of the editorial board or the news department.

  I just hate this kind of headline.

  Fair to complain about giving somebody space, but ascribing the views to the outlet is just incorrect and inflammatory.

• On the post: The New York Times (Falsely) Informs Its 7 Million Readers Net Neutrality Is 'Pointless'

  

  dbrower ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2021 @ 11:28am

  Please stop saying 'The [outlet] says' when it is a column

  It's not the view of the outlet, it's the view of the person that wrote it.

  Fair to complain about giving them space, but it's inflammatory to ascribe the opinions to the outlet itself.

  I just hate that.

• On the post: Inconceivable: TikToker Who Made Paint Mixing Very, Very Cool… Is Fired From Sherwin-Williams For Doing So

  

  dbrower ( profile ), 30 Nov, 2020 @ 09:09pm

  Re: Re: 'First our sales tank, now theirs is spiking, what's goi

  In my neighborhood, they just put a paint store basically across the street from the store of a somewhat loved semi-local brand. That seems... dubious.

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