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• On the post: DOJ Tells Congress SESTA/FOSTA Will Make It MORE DIFFICULT To Catch Traffickers; House Votes For It Anyway

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 03 Mar, 2018 @ 04:46am

  Re: Re: Going the extra mile

  Because they are not paid to read bills or to write them. They are only there to vote the way they are paid to. Let's be honest here, and it doesn't matter what party you are in, your only real jobs are to fundraise for half of your working day, and then go vote the way your donors (owners) tell you to.

• On the post: Australian Government Continues To Push Encryption Backdoors It Refuses To Call Encryption Backdoors

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2018 @ 01:32pm

  Exodus

  If passed and enforced, I think that Australia may end up being isolated. There is no way that Apple, Google and all the rest will compromise the rest of the Internet on Australia's say-so. I understand that many companies make a lot of money in Australia, but I can also foresee many (if not most) walking away from them entirely.

  Or doing something truly awesome (from my warped point of view). Making sure that zero encryption is allowed to be used in Australia. And most importantly, for communications leaving/entering AU, refusing all communications that should be encrypted, but aren't.

  delenda est carthago

• On the post: DOJ Tells Congress SESTA/FOSTA Will Make It MORE DIFFICULT To Catch Traffickers; House Votes For It Anyway

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2018 @ 05:15pm

  Bad cases don't make bad law. Bad legislators do.

• On the post: This Week In Techdirt History: February 18th – 24th

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2018 @ 04:28pm

  DMCA

  Y'all were particularly prescient on the potential for abuse of the DMCA. From printers, to coffee pods to John Deere tractors and everything in between.

  Now I honestly wonder when someone is claim that, say, converting or editing the format of an ebook you own violates the DMCA. After all, it was encrypted with ROT13. Twice.

  Note: I'm talking about a non-DRM encumbered ebook such as an EPUB, not the 'Zons AZW format.

• On the post: Good Faith Beats Bad Warrant In Another Win For FBI's World-Traversing NIT Malware

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2018 @ 09:06pm

  Sophistry

  This reinforces my opinion that the application of the law in the US is based upon nothing but pure sophistry.

  noun, plural sophistries. 1. a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.

  ALL of these judges know exactly what is happening and what they are doing. It's not a conspiracy, there's no apparent coordination. But it is a cabal focused on allowing their good buddies, the LEOs of various stripes,to do as they will. Between 'good faith', 'qualified immunity' and other sophistic contrivances, the judiciary is decimating justice in this country. It is going to continue until judges wake up, admit they are severely damaging the fabric of justice, and actually do their jobs.

  Impartiality. When the courts actually apply it, this might be stopped. Until then, this is not a country that actually follows the rule of law.

• On the post: US Border Officials Have Never Verified Chipped Passports, Despite Demanding Their Usage

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2018 @ 12:41pm

  LMFAO

  Sorry, laughing too danm hard to type right now.

• On the post: Wired's Big Cover Story On Facebook Gets Key Legal Point Totally Backwards, Demonstrating Why CDA 230 Is Actually Important

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 20 Feb, 2018 @ 12:19pm

  Re:

  No. Retract the damn article completely. Rewrite the damn thing and include at the top that they were full of bullshit the first time. Fire the writers and so-called fact checkers. That would be a good start.

• On the post: Appeals Court: Handcuffing A Compliant Ten-Year-Old Is Unreasonable But Deputy Had No Way Of Knowing That

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2018 @ 06:48pm

  Re: Re:

  Republican politician. So two.

• On the post: Appeals Court: Handcuffing A Compliant Ten-Year-Old Is Unreasonable But Deputy Had No Way Of Knowing That

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2018 @ 06:13am

  It is truly fucked up in the courts now. Unless the courts state explicitly - and apparently in excruciating detail - that some act is verboten, it is allowed. So until some judge says that no, you can't pull a Louima on some poor bastard, hey, grab that broken broomstick.

  Apparently the best thing that police departments can do is hire congenital defectives, and ensure that they have no real knowledge of the law. After all, if you don't 'know' it is wrong, its not. Nice to know that every cop out there is allowed to use the Nuremberg defense. All you have to do is claim (i.e. lie) that you acted in 'good faith' and the courts are required to give you the benefit of the doubt.

• On the post: Will Cy Vance's Anti-Encryption Pitch Change Now That The NYPD's Using iPhones?

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2018 @ 06:51am

  Re: One law for me, and another for thee

  Exactly. He will advocate for a two tiered solution to encryption. The cops will get the original unbreakable encryption of course. The public and all non-Americans will get the wimpy encryption standards. No different from the situation in the 90s with Internet Explorer. And the solution will be the same. Americans get crap, and the rest of the world ignores American hubris and keeps robust encryption. Talk about a digital Apartheid.
  
  There is a difference between ignorance and stupidity.
  Ignorance can be cured through education and enlightenment. Since any nerds they have talked to must have told them how math works, they cannot be ignorant. Leaves only one option.

• On the post: Waymo And Uber's Settlement Is A Good Thing: Focus On Innovating, Not Litigating

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2018 @ 11:40am

  Trade secrets is pure sophistry. Just like "corporations are people too" I find it near impossible to take seriously.

• On the post: Man Sues Facebook For Moderating His Bigoted Posts, Wants Section 230 Declared Unconstitutional

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2018 @ 11:36am

  Sigh

  quote from article "The Fifth Amendment only covers criminal cases."

  Last part of 5th Amendment: nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

  First clause is both civil and criminal. Second almost exclusively civil.

• On the post: The Nunes Memo Has Effectively Destroyed Intelligence Oversight

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2018 @ 07:31am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Will you folks kindly quit feeding the troll? Willful ignorance is no better than willful blindness, and neither should be forgiven. Just flag him and move on. A man who has nothing inside him has nothing to say.

• On the post: The Nunes Memo Has Effectively Destroyed Intelligence Oversight

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2018 @ 12:44pm

  Re: Reading legal documents

  Statistically it is near certain that of the 535 legislators, about 53 or so are illiterate.

• On the post: Mike Godwin Remembers John Perry Barlow

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2018 @ 03:34pm

  Oh crap, this thread has already been Godwinned!

  Sorry sir, that means you lose the internets today. ;-)

• On the post: Judge Tells CIA It Can't Hand Classified Info To Journalists And Pretend The Info Hasn't Been Made Public

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2018 @ 04:21am

  And the bastards wonder why nobody trusts them. Even the most hawkish congressmen distrust them due to duplicity like this.

• On the post: Moosehead Breweries Cuts And Runs From Trademark Suit Against Hop 'N Moose Brewing

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2018 @ 08:39pm

  So the proper response is to never buy anything from Moosehead again. But importantly, to write them and let them know exactly why - because they are acting like drunk moose.

• On the post: Hacker Lauri Love Wins Extradition Appeal; Won't Be Shipped Off To The US

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 06 Feb, 2018 @ 02:32pm

  The subtext in all of this is that the court found that the way the US treats prisoners is inhumane. Which is of course correct.

• On the post: Verizon Folds To Government Pressure To Blacklist Huawei Without A Shred Of Public Evidence

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2018 @ 12:56pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hauwei IS Chinese gov't owned. They ALL are. It's a COMMUNIST state.

  That was my entire point, that the regulation we have in the US is supremely ineffective. Should have added a sarcasm tag I guess.

• On the post: Verizon Folds To Government Pressure To Blacklist Huawei Without A Shred Of Public Evidence

  

  discordian_eris ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2018 @ 09:19am

  Re: Re: Re: Hauwei IS Chinese gov't owned. They ALL are. It's a COMMUNIST state.

  "I'm sure it will come a s shock to you when you realise that effective regulation is actually necessary for a free market to exist, given that without it you get monopolies, collusion, price fixing and all the other things that prevent a free marketplace." Ah, you mean what we have now, eh?

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