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• Jul 22, 2018 @ 02:25am

  Re: Voter registration is bollocks

  on Irish Lawmakers Realizing The GDPR's Consent Requirements Seem A Bit Onerous, Want To 'Infer' Consent

  Quite simply, so your agency is not usurped by someone else claiming to be you at the ballot box. In other words, to prevent identity 'theft'.

• Aug 19, 2017 @ 04:32am

  Deja Vu

  on Welcome To The Technological Incarceration Project, Where Prison Walls Are Replaced By Sensors, Algorithms, And AI

  Pretty sure I saw this in a pre-history documentary starring Christopher Lambert:

  Fortress

• Jun 28, 2017 @ 04:34am

  Escalation

  on Game Music Composer Goes On DMCA Blitz Against Innocent YouTubers Over Contract Dispute With Game Publisher

  I did suggest to some who complained to me that I would reverse their DMCA strikes if they were willing to redirect their complaints to the developer/complaints about the developer.

  Um, should we talk about the blackmail now?

• Apr 20, 2016 @ 08:14am

  Re: Misleading story

  on Australian Case Shows Why Corporate Sovereignty Isn't Needed In TPP — Or In Any Trade Agreement

  That's simply a failing of due diligence from NuCoal.

• Apr 20, 2016 @ 08:17am

  Give them their compensation

  on Australian Case Shows Why Corporate Sovereignty Isn't Needed In TPP — Or In Any Trade Agreement

  Then charge them for conspiring to and benefiting from corruption.
  
  At the moment they're only forfeiting their poorly-researched investment with no formal charge on record (and therefore no damage to their reputation or future prospects).

• Apr 19, 2016 @ 06:36am

  Wait, isn't that...

  on Police Officer Attempts To Set Record For Most Constitutional Violations In A Single Traffic Stop

  Institutionalised Rape?
  
  Non-consensual penetration by an untrained, unqualified third-party under the guise of "just doin' my job!"