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• On the post: Authors Guild Attacks Libraries For Lending Digital Books

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2019 @ 10:58am

  It's as if the Author Guild lives in Bizarro world. If the NRA operated in the same way would be advocating for repeal of the second amendment.

• On the post: New Japanese Law Lets Government Hack IOT Devices, Warn Owners They're Vulnerable

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2019 @ 10:53am

  Agree with Doctorow and Boing Boing

  It should really be called IoS, not IoT.

  Internet of Shit not Internet of Things.

• On the post: Facebook's Privacy Problems Are Piling Up Too Quickly To Chronicle

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2019 @ 11:49am

  The only privacy Zuckerberg respects and will fight for is that which involves his own finances and where exactly he stashes his cash overseas.

• On the post: Federal Judge Says Boycotts Aren't Protected Speech

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2019 @ 10:42am

  You would need a logical Rube Goldberg machine to even attempt to follow along with this judges thinking.

• On the post: The Splinters Of Our Discontent: A Review Of Network Propaganda

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2019 @ 12:49pm

  Re: translation please

  Clinton was right. The Republican party and its adherents are a basket of deplorables, as is the media who feeds their ignorance and racism.

• On the post: Sixth Circuit Appeals Court Latest To Say It's Cool If The FBI Broke The Law During Its Playpen Investigation

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2019 @ 02:56pm

  Are you sure they weren't talking about rule 34? Occam's razor suggests it is more likely.

• On the post: CBP Will Search You And Your Property If You're Paying Too Much Attention To An Agent. Or Too Little.

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 11 Jan, 2019 @ 01:56pm

  What bothers me most is not the fact that law enforcement is corrupt (by design apparently), it is the fact that the courts are just as corrupt. All the way up to the supreme court.
  
  Every time LEOs need an out, the courts provide one. Cops don't need to know the laws they enforce. Cops don't need to know that they aren't supposed to violate the constitution. At both the federal and state level they have an easy out, created by the courts just for them. They just have to claim that their illegal and/or unconstitutional behaviour was made in good faith. (We all know, and the record supports, that they'll lie their asses off to accomplish this.) Between good faith and qualified immunity, they can do almost anything. And with the collusion of prosecutors (at all levels) they can literally get away with murder. Hell, they can get away with almost anything.
  
  At this point, there probably isn't much anyone can do about it. Hell, we have two sex offenders on the Supreme Court as it is. Republicans will put in anyone who hates abortion and goes along with the fictional crap the corporations are people. Democrats will put in anyone who supports abortion rights. The only thing that really separates them at this point is that at least the Dems don't support sexual predators in the judiciary.

• On the post: Producers Of Movie About Falling In Love With Nazis Using DMCA To Silence Criticism

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2019 @ 12:46pm

  "all its really served to do is make it much more widely known why no one should ever bother" respecting copyrights at all.

  Fixed that for ya.

• On the post: 'Fake News' Results In Real Jail Time For Ohio Woman

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2018 @ 11:24am

  So if our illustrious politicians from Ohio use social media to spread alternative facts I can look forward to their arrests and convictions on counts of "inducing panic"?

• On the post: UK Cops Have Decided Impolite Online Speech Is Worth A Visit From An Officer

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2018 @ 07:32am

  Re:

  Bullying is no longer sustainable. You ain't actually used the Internet, have you?

• On the post: Denuvo-Protected Just Cause 4 Cracked In A Day, Suffering From Shitty Reviews

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 11 Dec, 2018 @ 02:37am

  Re:

  'Nobody ever went wrong buying IBM' for a new age.

• On the post: Philly Cops Skirting Forfeiture Restrictions By Seizing Cars As 'Evidence'

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 30 Nov, 2018 @ 07:02am

  Addicted to seizures

  The one thing in common in all of these stories is the behaviour of the cops.

  They all exhibit the classic signs of being addicts. Instead of drugs or alcohol, they are addicted to seizures and forfeitures. They have become addicted to stealing from the public, plain and simple and no one can seem to rein them in.

  Maybe it is time for some enterprising lawyers to start filing lawsuits. Not aimed at the cops themselves, but at their enablers. Don't sue the cops, sue the cities and counties they work for. There are so many constitutionally suspect practices involved, they should be able to bankrupt many local governments and force wholesale changes in policies and practices.

  Of course, this assumes their buddies in the courts don't invent new ways to let them off the hook.

• On the post: If You Want The Government To Hand Over Documents, You Might Want To Retain A Lawyer

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2018 @ 01:11pm

  This is one of the saddest stories I have ever seen on TD. Not on TDs part, on the governments part. In this day and age, FOIA requests should be able to be fulfilled quickly and easily compared to when it first passed. That it takes so long, and more importantly, typically requires a federal lawsuit is just.... pathetic. I'd say that the government agencies should be ashamed of themselves. However, as they have amply demonstrated over the years, the government employees are incapable of that feeling.

• On the post: Georgia's Brian Kemp Decides To Dox Absentee Voters, Revealing Why They All Voted Absentee

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2018 @ 12:22pm

  He's a Republican, did anyone, honestly, expect better?

• On the post: Georgia Scrambles To Patch Massive Vulnerabilities In Its Voter Registration System After Insisting It Was Totally Secure

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2018 @ 11:17am

  One word describes voting in GA, and has for the last several decades. Diebold. And amazingly, all of the fuckups with Diebold equipment benefited one party. The same one doing everything they can to screw over everyone now. Again.

• On the post: NY Legislators Introduce Bill That Would Seriously Curb Law Enforcement's Surveillance Collections

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 11 Oct, 2018 @ 02:46pm

  Snowballs chance in Hell.

• On the post: Legislators Pushing A Patriot Act, But For Human Trafficking In The Wake Of FOSTA

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2018 @ 11:20am

  The Patriot Act's expansion of government power already lowered the bar for law enforcement, allowing it to obtain records without subpoenas or judicial review.

  Even without lowering the bar, the judiciaries role is anemic almost to the point of being an afterthought. Y'all need to talk about meaningful oversight by the the courts. Currently, while their is oversight and approval by the courts, it's nothing more than a rubber stamp that is abused by LEOs on a daily basis. The state ethics boards refuse to investigate corrupt or mendacious judges, the legislatures refuse any oversight responsibilities that might conceivably affect re-election chances and the absolute immunity judges and prosecutors enjoy means there is absolute power, with zero responsibility or accountability.

  While there may have been very good historical reasons for the way the courts are structured and ran, the judiciary has shown that they no longer merit any such consideration.

• On the post: The Scunthorpe Problem, And Why AI Is Not A Silver Bullet For Moderating Platform Content At Scale

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 31 Aug, 2018 @ 05:30pm

  Re: Re:

  Nah. My mom wanted to name me that, but she was told no underscores allowed on birth certificates.

• On the post: The Scunthorpe Problem, And Why AI Is Not A Silver Bullet For Moderating Platform Content At Scale

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 31 Aug, 2018 @ 12:36pm

  I still do not understand why anyone uses their "real" name online. I've been online since the mid '80s, on the 'Net since the early '90s, never used my legal name. Never have, never will.

• On the post: Brief To FISA Court Says The Presumption Of Openness Should Apply There, Too

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2018 @ 02:14pm

  Re: Re: Re: Spank the Feds ?

  https://www.creators.com/read/judge-napolitano/09/13/is-the-fisa-court-constitutional
  
  There you go chump.

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