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  • On the post: Here, Hold My Lube: Pornhub Blocks Virginia and Mississippi 

    discussitlive ( profile ), 02 Jul, 2023 @ 03:34pm

    with the law in place they didn’t have an option to just ignore it,
    Personally, I think it will likely at some point turn factual reporting into "scurrilous, scandalous, titillating works" and thus fall under the porn laws. I'm trying to remember which country did that before...

  • On the post: Here, Hold My Lube: Pornhub Blocks Virginia and Mississippi 

    discussitlive ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2023 @ 09:15pm

    the stated goal(less kids accessing porn)
    I've posted in the past about how to do this without impacting adults, and without requiring PII from anyone. Thing is, it's not about stopping porn. It's about power. So while the solution is cheap, easily implemented, low effort, it will never be adopted because it circumvents their will to control.

  • On the post: Here, Hold My Lube: Pornhub Blocks Virginia and Mississippi 

    discussitlive ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2023 @ 09:07pm

    courts still restrict speech in all kinds of ways (pornography, fraud, perjury, copyright, etc.).
    You are, of course, correct. I started to dig into it with fraud and perjury, then said to myself, "Self", I said, "Don't be any more stupid than you have to be, good as I am at it." I started to list my concerns, then realized I was starting a young book, so I'll leave off. Right to Repair, moribund works and marks, F/RAND and submarine patents. IP seems to attract every smoke dancer and bindlestiff for thousands of miles, trying to slash off a gob for themselves, even after the slashing isn't good any more. Likely I'm not being fair and letting a few incidences from my (soured) past color my thoughts.

  • On the post: Here, Hold My Lube: Pornhub Blocks Virginia and Mississippi 

    discussitlive ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2023 @ 01:43am

    There is no law in America that makes
    censorship of this type legal. Problem solved.

  • On the post: Biden Urges FCC To Police Bullshit Cable Fees, But It Can’t Because His Staffers Screwed Up The Gigi Sohn Nomination Process

    discussitlive ( profile ), 30 Jun, 2023 @ 06:12am

    anything he could have done to get Sinema or Manchin to vote to confirm her.
    Why would republicans vote for her? GiGi was a competent choice for that role. OK, setting snark aside now. Aside from telecom, junk fees are rampant everywhere in just about every, even slight, capture industry. My insight is limited to Red States for all but one of my acquaintances.

  • On the post: Internal Twitter Video Reveals Twitter Bent Over Backwards To Protect Trump And Pro-Trump Insurrectionists

    discussitlive ( profile ), 29 Jun, 2023 @ 09:44am

    Dealing with the Ulra Right

    I don’t know how many times it needs to be said,
    It doesn't matter the truth of a situation is to the right wing, only the optics. Being reasoning, mature, facts based adults is antithetical to their stated desires. Mr. Masnick, this is ever their raison d'etre, proven on the quivering corpse of justice and fairness for at least the last 60 years. Before that, see party flip. It's nothing new.

  • On the post: Terrible People Are Still Using Forged Court Orders To Disappear Content They Don’t Like

    discussitlive ( profile ), 29 Jun, 2023 @ 08:53am

    I’m probably tilting at windmills here,
    Better call Sancho! (Panza)

  • On the post: Terrible People Are Still Using Forged Court Orders To Disappear Content They Don’t Like

    discussitlive ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2023 @ 03:44pm

    HOW are things in court that are supposed to be Public, have a DMCA?
    I think it was intended to be sarcastic, however, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and fire codes are frequent offenders in that the laws incorporate them, but only by reference, which isn't included in the published law. But I'm not an attorney, I'm just a computer dweeb. I should likely let a real lawyer answer this.

  • On the post: Terrible People Are Still Using Forged Court Orders To Disappear Content They Don’t Like

    discussitlive ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2023 @ 01:55pm

    How easy is it, and how much does it cost, to verify whether a case number is a real case and is about your whatever in question?
    Joke: If PACER were constructed to sane software practice, this would be trivial. Seriously: If only checking the case number, it "shouldn't" be very difficult to check that the case number is a valid one. Checking the context of the case and citation would involve "fuzzy search". When learning engineering (hardware as it happens at the time) I was required to take a few basic law classes. My introduction to Black's dictionary forever changed my outlook on law to match that of Dickens. "If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is a ass — a idiot." Computers suck at actually understanding anything. The developed responses mimic thought, and thus lull the unwary into assuming an intelligence that simply isn't there. And never more so with the baby steps AI is taking at the moment. Add in the twists and turns and rabbit holes in the law I see as a simple layman, and whoa boy! We in for da ride!

  • On the post: Terrible People Are Still Using Forged Court Orders To Disappear Content They Don’t Like

    discussitlive ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2023 @ 01:41pm

    Engineering the Law with software

    If any company is equipped to have the sort of data collecting and categorizing capacity for associating docket numbers with actual case law, it is Google.
    There are plenty of attorneys that can program. Very few of them can architect a solution of more than possibly a few hundred servers. I'm not saying it can't be done. I am saying I'm not one that could (I'm not an attorney for example and I didn't stay at a Holliday Inn last night), and I don't think there are too many that can, since it would be limited to American jurisprudence. Alphabet's strength is that they can draw from all over the world. That isn't operative in this situation.

  • On the post: As Canada Passes Corrupt Link Tax, Meta Says No More News Links In Canada

    discussitlive ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2023 @ 09:35pm

    That Anonymous Coward:

    I miss evidence based legislation.
    Anonymous Coward
    But think of the children!
    Now you're both just being reasonable and we simply can't have that!

  • On the post: Misunderstanding Locks Amazon User Out Of ‘Smart’ Home Voice Control For A Week

    discussitlive ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2023 @ 07:28pm

    rotten kids would actually yell racial or homophobic slurs at poeple.
    They aged[1]. Now they vote and continue to yell. [1] I was going to say "grew up" but, really, they didn't.

  • On the post: Misunderstanding Locks Amazon User Out Of ‘Smart’ Home Voice Control For A Week

    discussitlive ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2023 @ 07:23pm

    Rent strikes again

    FTFA:

    but it unsurprisingly led him to question his reliance on a single monolithic company when it comes to home automation and control:
    then you observed:
    I don’t think Amazon was trying to disable his home devices per se.
    As the the OP's observation on relying on others, due to life experiences I've an extreme reluctance to ever rely on anyone but myself. Makes it handy when I need to yell at the idiot that let me down. As to your point about Amazon's intent, to my mind it makes it all the more horrific. Quite aside from the subscription civilization corporatism is driving us to, will us or nil us that I also find horrific. As I've seen it put, "First they want to sell it to us, then they want us to rent it back from them."

  • On the post: Mass. Begins Enforcing New ‘Right To Repair’ Law After Automakers Lied It Would Aid Sexual Predators

    discussitlive ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2023 @ 04:02pm

    any kind of contentious bill that is effective and makes sense
    Fixed that for you.

  • On the post: Mass. Begins Enforcing New ‘Right To Repair’ Law After Automakers Lied It Would Aid Sexual Predators

    discussitlive ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2023 @ 03:59pm

    There’s an enormous amount of money being continually spent to keep these people inflamed and fearful,
    I resigned from a charity that actively sought funds for lending it's name to the charlatan "grass roots" vaporware organizations. The thing that really torqued me up was how cheap they'd sell out. Frequently $200 or so. I mean, I could understand (and still not approve) if it were $200,000, but really? A trip around "GO" in Monopoly? That's a cheap date.

  • On the post: Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment

    discussitlive ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2023 @ 04:13am

    all for apparently being a little TOO offensive to Ted Cruz.
    Off hand, I'd say it is an impossibility to be too offensive to Rafael.

  • On the post: Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment

    discussitlive ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2023 @ 02:20pm

    On Uber eats too

    Jokes on him. I just blocked everyone by deleting my twitter client.
    Deleted Twatter once the price sheet for the API came out and I removed that functionality from the software. Got tired of Uber resetting "Don't bother me boy!" so deleted both uber and uber eats. Fuck 'em if they can't take "STOP FUCKING BOTHERING ME GOD DAMN IT!" for an answer.

  • On the post: Appeals Court Awards Half A Win To Professor Wrongfully Arrested For Sharing ‘Secret’ Tech With Chinese Entities

    discussitlive ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2023 @ 07:17pm

    [cough]horseshit[/cough]
    And bullshit as well as horseshit. Border Patrol agent grasping and TSA stealing is the reason many employers stopped sending people overseas with electronics, and moved workloads to encrypted virtual disks in the cloud.

  • On the post: Telecom Lobbyists Have Had The FCC Under Their Boot Heel For 7 Straight Years And Nobody Much Seems To Care

    discussitlive ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2023 @ 08:25am

    are Lobbyists the core problem here OR the Federal politicians/bureaucrats ?
    Now on display for all to see: ALL the BEST Government corporations can buy! I don't know why we still call the US a democracy (or "republic"). I don't think the citizens have had any meaningful input into government for the past 220 years or so. We should simply embrace our inner kleptocrtic plutocracy. Rule by the one quarter percent. Meh. I'm having a bad day week month year decade Oh hell, let's be honest. LIFE. I keep telling myself tomorrow won't suck AS bad. Bad habit to get into, lying to yourself.

  • On the post: Texas Age Verification Bill Would Plaster Health Warnings On Porn Sites

    discussitlive ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2023 @ 05:06pm

    Oh, really? Could you provide a citation? Or are you just exercising your “fascism” fixation?
    Lebensborn homes of the Nazi Germany 1930's and 1940's should do, don't you think? Or we can add a side of abortions in the concentration camps - when they bothered. Mostly they simply killed them all at once. Going forward, there was Idi Amin DaDa's policies, and Muammar Gaddafi's was, perhaps, strange enough to revolt Caligula.

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