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  • On the post: Now It's Harvard Business Review Getting Section 230 Very, Very Wrong

    Derek Kerton ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2021 @ 12:16pm

    Try Harder...Charles Harder

    "Yeah, but you only find that out after your dead, spending a million dollars defending it in court."

    Oh, come on, Mike. Quit being so dramatic. What do you know about a small company facing death because of some frivolous lawsuit trying to stifle the websites right to free speech by ruining it with legal costs and distraction?

    Could never happen. The Law and the Courts are perfect, and could never by abused in such a way.

    Try Harder. I'm Gawking at your Hulking Hoagie hyperlinks in Teal. This is like getting a Shiv-a prison knife- SLAPPed across your genuine articles.

  • On the post: Home Depot Tech Will Brick Power Tools If They're Stolen. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

    Derek Kerton ( profile ), 05 Aug, 2021 @ 05:15pm

    I'm Kinda Stealing This Take

    I can't stand it, I know you planned it
    I'm gonna set it straight, this Watergate
    I can't stand rocking when I'm in here
    'Cause your crystal ball ain't so crystal clear
    So while you sit back and wonder why
    I got this fucking thorn in my side
    Oh my God, it's a mirage
    I'm tellin' y'all, it's a sabotage

  • On the post: Canadian Government Continues Its War On Internet Freedom With New 'Online Harms' Legislation

    Derek Kerton ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2021 @ 11:58am

    Conventional Media

    We need "...pressure on Members of Parliament and some good old public outrage, to stand a chance of making this government pause before barreling forward with this disastrous plan."

    Good thing we can count on conventional media to raise the level of awareness of this Bill. We know how much they will move mountains to protect free expression on the Internet, and the big social networks.

    Oh oh.

  • On the post: Techdirt Has Been Released From A Gag Order Regarding A Federal Investigation Into A Silly Comment

    Derek Kerton ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2021 @ 02:29pm

    Re: Re: To the Popehatmobile!

    Sounds great to me.
    Ever corporate legal team I ever worked under, if I dared to ask, would start with "NO! Do nothing." cuz that was the zero risk move. And you'd have to claw your way back to something you could actually do.

  • On the post: Techdirt Has Been Released From A Gag Order Regarding A Federal Investigation Into A Silly Comment

    Derek Kerton ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2021 @ 02:27pm

    Re: To the Popehatmobile!

    Goddamit. I read your headline and immediately heard the spinny bat trumpet riff in my head.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDMSRY3HMdM

  • On the post: Techdirt Has Been Released From A Gag Order Regarding A Federal Investigation Into A Silly Comment

    Derek Kerton ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2021 @ 02:17pm

    Re: In fairness to the Marshalls...

    I agree with you, Samuel.
    Trump made hundreds of threats in that manner as President. And he meant them, and followed through on many. It's impossible to tell if it's a regular Internet smartass, or a unhinged person deliberately using plausibly deniable language.
    It's a bit like Poe's Law...for threats of violence. So, I'm OK if US Marshalls measure the threat as "worrisome" & go get a subpoena legitimately. Although I can't see how they have the resources to chase down all of these low-level threats online. In this case, I'd mostly be pissed, as Mike is, for Marshalls wasting his resources for (in the end) nothing.

  • On the post: Senators Klobuchar And Lujan Release Ridiculous, Blatantly Unconstitutional Bill To Make Facebook Liable For Health Misinformation

    Derek Kerton ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2021 @ 10:56am

    Re:

    Hmmm. Not much value add in that post.
    Similar to mine here.
    But at least mine makes sense.

  • On the post: The Internet Is Not Just Facebook, Google & Twitter: Creating A 'Test Suite' For Your Great Idea To Regulate The Internet

    Derek Kerton ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2021 @ 04:09pm

    Re: Re: On the ZOMBIE front, here's "Derek" out, 2nd 2 year gap!

    Also, "OLDEST found! 30 Apr 2001"?? That's bullshit! I sent Mike plenty of replies prior to that date. I've been a Techdirt subscriber since 1997 or thereabouts, when it was an email newsletter, and I DEMAND my loyalty program rewards: I get free refills of Mike's shitty coffee whenever I go to the Plug and Play Tech Center, and nobody's taking that away from me. Mike, if you think you can make up a fake personality like "Miner 49" to save yourself 73 cents of Keurig and Coffee Mate, I will bring fucking receipts. I still have my Eudora files from the Cornell server (not kidding, I actually do).

  • On the post: The Internet Is Not Just Facebook, Google & Twitter: Creating A 'Test Suite' For Your Great Idea To Regulate The Internet

    Derek Kerton ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2021 @ 04:00pm

    Re: On the ZOMBIE front, here's "Derek" out, 2nd 2 year gap!

    I appreciate the shout out.
    Yes, 762 ARTICLES, not just comments!!
    Also, they hold up pretty well. Thanks for keeping stats. I feel like a pro baseball player.
    What's the bracketed (131)...you know what, just post the answer here. I'll come back and check in 18 months.

  • On the post: The Internet Is Not Just Facebook, Google & Twitter: Creating A 'Test Suite' For Your Great Idea To Regulate The Internet

    Derek Kerton ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2021 @ 04:34pm

    Banking, Netflix, & Chill

    Good starting list, Mike. A Focus on UGC, for sure.

    You make no claims that your list is exhaustive, but I'll just point out that entire categories would need to be added. Banking, for example, is an important use of the Internet, so I'd need to see small and large banks, investment firms.

    Also, so many of the bits today are video content from the likes of Netflix, and other players big and small. Of course, we should be sure those are well-represented in the test suite.

    Marginalized Communities often bear the brunt of bad policy. So sites from minority affinity groups, or the ACLU, SPLC, NAACP, etc should all be there.

    Basically, even if the list had 1,000 companies, it would still be missing important "test cases".

    But for starters, the next time Congress calls "Internet companies" to DC to sit in front of some Committee that doesn't understand shit...PLEASE DO NOT MAKE IT THE SAME GAFA COMPANIES every single time, as if they represent "Silicon Valley", tech, the web, or innovation. They don't. What you get is opinions that represent two constituencies:
    1 Billionaires
    2 Giant Tech Incumbents

  • On the post: Australian News Sites Shocked & Upset To Learn They Don't Need To Rely On Facebook For Traffic!

    Derek Kerton ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2021 @ 11:31am

    Can a User Post a Link

    Hey, Mike,

    So, if I'm an Aussie, and see a cool news story on the Sydney Morning Herald's website, and I want to share it with my mates, can I post a link to the Herald story in my Facebook feed/timeline/wall?

    I imagine that's still OK for individuals, but it's Facebook's official "news" category that stopped hosting those links, right?

  • On the post: Latest Anti-Accountability Move By Cops Involves Playing Music While Being Recorded In Hopes Of Triggering Copyright Takedowns

    Derek Kerton ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2021 @ 12:28pm

    F DA POLICE

    Which one of these cops will go full irony when invoking the Sacred Powers of the RIAA?

    If I were them, I'd build a playlist with Fuck Da Police by NWA, followed by Alanis Morissette's Ironic.

  • On the post: Disingenuous, Lying, Whining, Bloviating, Insurrection Encouraging Senator Josh Hawley Given Pages Of Major Newspaper To Explain How He's Being Silenced

    Derek Kerton ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2021 @ 12:19pm

    Re: Re: https://www.businessinsider.com/josh-hawley-defended-okl

    "Already complaining about cancel culture in '95" This is why the recently-named "cancel culture" is actually another "Big Lie", and one that's been perpetuated for at least 4 decades. "Don't believe the media" is the refuge of autocrats throughout history, and the GOP has cultivated that seed and grown that crop with year-after-year of rancid fertilizer sprayed from the mouths of Newts to Joshes.

  • On the post: Disingenuous, Lying, Whining, Bloviating, Insurrection Encouraging Senator Josh Hawley Given Pages Of Major Newspaper To Explain How He's Being Silenced

    Derek Kerton ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2021 @ 12:14pm

    Re:

    Yeah. But it's actually an interesting contrast. Because of the relative power difference. As President, when DJT wanted to change the subject, he didn't just start talking about something else, he CREATED another disaster or crisis, and the entire media (only half-erroneously) takes the bait. Trump had the ability to keep us on our heels. A single Senator cannot easily create a distraction at a level anything like an awful President. So Hawley's "narrative shift" is less likely to succeed than the former President's many successes.

  • On the post: Disingenuous, Lying, Whining, Bloviating, Insurrection Encouraging Senator Josh Hawley Given Pages Of Major Newspaper To Explain How He's Being Silenced

    Derek Kerton ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2021 @ 12:08pm

    Re:

    I like it. Very Aesop. I think you've got the animals right, but need to massage the portemanteau. CrowFoxing
    Foxing the Crow
    Crowing the Fox meh, I'm no good at this.

  • On the post: Politics Is Not A Game

    Derek Kerton ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2021 @ 04:03pm

    People Register as "Dem" or R

    Mike wrote:

    "I have always tried to support policies that I think will be most effective -- not based on ideology, but on understanding the policy and its likely impact. That's the way governing should work."

    True. But even more important than government and representatives acting this way, is that the citizens should act thus. Look at policy, and choose the candidate with the policy platform that best aligns with one's priorities.

    Which is why it has always struck me as Weird-As-Fuck the way US voters register for a Party. How is that consistent with choosing the candidates that have policies I like? What if a D has the policy I want in my county, but an R does for my state, and a D does federally? I know split tickets are a vestige of the past here, but they shouldn't be. And "registering for a Party" is part of the problem.

    Because we all register, we've also got this stupid Primary system, which is what puts all these whack-jobs and extremists on the ticket. Notably, Rs are more worried about Primary elections than General elections. That's messed up. The Pirmaries are much easier to game.

    Anyway, I hope most Americans know that this "Register" thing ISN'T a thing in most other democracies. A Canadian might vote NDP one year, Liberal the next, and nobody thinks that's odd or a big flip.

    I know, I know. History this, two party system that, first to post, etc, etc. Yes, we agree, "reasons". Still, the 21st Century has shown us that this is a pretty messed up so-called "democracy". (I know, I know. "Constitutional Republic", spare me.)

    I just wish individual people did "support policies that [they] think will be most effective -- not based on ideology, but on understanding the policy and its likely impact." We'd end up with, I dunno, maybe policies with better impacts.

  • On the post: Harper's Gives Prestigious Platform To Famous Writers So They Can Whine About Being Silenced

    Derek Kerton ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2020 @ 01:27pm

    Mockery? Tess, please.

    There's some great "speech" on the subject here, done in the form of a parody.
    THIS is the kind of counterspeech I want to defend, from @Tessplease

    https://digg.com/2020/harpers-magazine-publicist

  • On the post: Parler Speedruns The Content Moderation Learning Curve; Goes From 'We Allow Everything' To 'We're The Good Censors' In Days

    Derek Kerton ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2020 @ 01:12pm

    Re:

    It's not a meaningless term. But it is often applied meaninglessly. A Troll is someone who is posting shit to get a rise or reaction, but doesn't really care much about the debate. (it's not absolute: they can care a bit about the debate, but they care MORE about pissing people off, and dragging them along)

  • On the post: Parler Speedruns The Content Moderation Learning Curve; Goes From 'We Allow Everything' To 'We're The Good Censors' In Days

    Derek Kerton ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2020 @ 01:19pm

    Isn't That Why They Left Twitter

    Matze wrote:

    “They can make any claim they’d like, but they’re going to be met with a lot of commenters, a lot of people who are going to disagree with them,” Matze said. “That’s how society works, right? If you make a claim, people are going to come and fact check you organically.”

    But that's why they're angry. "Bad Librals" are disagreeing with them on Twitter. And Twitter itself added a tag to Trump's tweet.

    But that is exactly "people are going to come and fact check you".

    Matze's words seem to almost say "Twitter is awesome!! They're doing it right!"

  • On the post: Hello! You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230 Of The Communications Decency Act

    Derek Kerton ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2020 @ 04:44pm

    Re: Mike, will you be adding / appending to this

    As an example, I've seen a few references from dumb-dumbs on these very Internets that say that 230 requires platforms like Facebook, Google, and Twitter to promote "a true diversity of political discourse" and you know it's true, because those very words are in the law, Section (a)(3). Of course, it's in the "Findings" section of the law, which carries no legal heft at all. Check this out, from your friends at Prager U
    https://twitter.com/prageru/status/1266527494296961030

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