Mike, I usually agree with you, but this time I'm not as enthused.
To start out, I agree that torture is deplorable. Making the assumption the Pew poll is statistically relevant, the fact that citizens do think its ok IS A STORY. That is news, regardless of the author's personal feelings. Holding back evidence based on personal belief is bias.
Funny how concerned he is about people spamming my inbox, but has no problem collecting money from the people that spam my mailbox. I swear I get at least a dozen pieces of junk mail a day from insurance agents, Comcast, AT&T, etc. They're collecting the postage on that though, so is it not spam?
I was talking to a coworker of mine about this, and he brought up a really good point. The manual act of a DDoS would be just sitting on your browser and hitting refresh continuously. That can be considered a form of speech since you are actively involved. The automation of the process, while not taking out the intent, it takes out the ongoing involvement. Its like instead of standing outside with a sign chanting, you record yourself chanting, and place the boombox outside the building playing the recording.
I think a better analogy than the post office would be, Pirate Bay is a phone book. It give you the address to where you can send and receive things from.
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I wonder what this will mean for Stingray devices.
Kinda...
Mike, I usually agree with you, but this time I'm not as enthused.
To start out, I agree that torture is deplorable. Making the assumption the Pew poll is statistically relevant, the fact that citizens do think its ok IS A STORY. That is news, regardless of the author's personal feelings. Holding back evidence based on personal belief is bias.
I find Stephen J. Moss' writing to be offensive. I think the government should censor it :)
Spam? Really?
Funny how concerned he is about people spamming my inbox, but has no problem collecting money from the people that spam my mailbox. I swear I get at least a dozen pieces of junk mail a day from insurance agents, Comcast, AT&T, etc. They're collecting the postage on that though, so is it not spam?
Is it really speech?
I was talking to a coworker of mine about this, and he brought up a really good point. The manual act of a DDoS would be just sitting on your browser and hitting refresh continuously. That can be considered a form of speech since you are actively involved. The automation of the process, while not taking out the intent, it takes out the ongoing involvement. Its like instead of standing outside with a sign chanting, you record yourself chanting, and place the boombox outside the building playing the recording.
Theft
Wouldn't it be interesting if the users of legitimate content brought charges of theft against the government?
Better analogy
I think a better analogy than the post office would be, Pirate Bay is a phone book. It give you the address to where you can send and receive things from.