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  • On the post: GOP Releases Bill To Stop Administration From Pressuring Social Media Companies… And, It’s Actually Not Totally Crazy?

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2023 @ 04:55am

    Oh sure, just ignore the plentiful pieces of actual misinformation, like claims that the vaccines magnetize people, contain graphene oxide, hydras, mind control nanobots, or that the disease was caused by 5g, that the vaccines “shed” or cause prion disease, or that people vaccinated have higher viral loads than the unvaccinated. AND THAT’s not even getting into the promotion of various forms of snake oil, from chlorine dioxide, to borax and epsonsalt “vaccine detox”,

  • On the post: It’s Not Anyone In The Senate’s Job To Save Twitter From Elon Musk

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2022 @ 04:52am

    There are areas that Congress can regulate. But speech is not one of them
    There are things they can do, one of which is the go-to favorite, of both parties these days, change section 230. Seems to me they might get bipartisan support for a carveout if companies don’t take proper care to prevent impersonation. I bet Eli Lily would love to get a piece of Elon’s hide right now…

  • On the post: It’s Not Anyone In The Senate’s Job To Save Twitter From Elon Musk

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2022 @ 04:16pm

    The companies weren’t pulling their ads for “political” reasons but for the same free market capitalist reasons that Republicans used to pretend they supported. Because it’s bad for your brand to be advertising on a platform that caters to bigots
    How about for the even more stupidly obvious reason that GM is a automobile company, and Elon Musk owns a rival automotive company, and they don’t want to subsidize them with their advertising dollars. Not to mention Elon could potentially play shenanigans with rival companies ads, doing things like only showing them to people following #GMSucks topic.

  • On the post: This Week In Techdirt History: November 6th – 12th

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2022 @ 09:14am

    Might just want to disable the link to Fox’s response in the Romney post, hot teen cams are nsfw.

  • On the post: Ninth Circuit Bucks Extremely Recent Trend, Says Chalking Tires Not A Fourth Amendment Violation

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2022 @ 02:33pm

    They chalk the tires of vehicles parked in time limited city owned parking spots, which is legal parking, until the time runs out, once the time runs , the chalked vehicle is illegally parked, and the chalk is evidence that it is illegally parked, and -then- it is towed,(or ticketed) so infact, illegally parked vehicles are chalked, it’s just that they’re usually chalked before they become illegally parked.

  • On the post: Ninth Circuit Bucks Extremely Recent Trend, Says Chalking Tires Not A Fourth Amendment Violation

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2022 @ 11:42am

    the city’s declarations that other options — ranging from traffic enforcement notations to stationary cameras in high traffic areas to automated license plate readers — are too expensive or too difficult to implement, at least as compared to meter maids and a box of chalk. But that’s not how this is supposed to work. The government is supposed to be expected to utilize the least intrusive method even if it’s not the simplest or the cheapest.
    I’d say it’s a given that chalking tires is the simplest measure, you’re going to have to work a lot harder to convince me that surveillance cameras or ALPRs are “less intrusive”, chalking may mark a person’s property, (as does leaving a parking ticket on someone’s car) but cameras and ALPR’s create a record that can be gone back into at any time, that the police can dig into at will.

  • On the post: Ninth Circuit Bucks Extremely Recent Trend, Says Chalking Tires Not A Fourth Amendment Violation

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2022 @ 09:22am

    Thing is, in claiming that the Ninth Circuit “Blamed the Wrong People” he basically created a duty for the city to provide “adequate” parking out of thin air, where “adequate” seems to mean “enough parking spaces are available that nobody would need to park illegally” it’s by no means a given that that duty exists. And if there is no duty, then the blame should be on the drivers creating hazards with their illegal parking.

  • On the post: Missouri Attorney General Appears To Be Using Open Records Requests To Intimidate His Critics

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2022 @ 06:28am

    As you would be done by

    Seems that the proper response is to simply file a public records request for all emails in the AG’s office regarding Professor Turner, after all if he’s making public records requests instead of subpoena’s or search warrants, then it seems unlikely he could make a credible claim that it can’t be handed over because it’s an ongoing investigation.

  • On the post: Law Firm, Families Send Texas School Districts C&D Over ‘God’ Posters

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2022 @ 06:25pm

    • Italic* Oh? Can you point to where God instilled antisemitism in anybody? Italic
    Exodus 7:3 and 11:10

  • On the post: Law Firm, Families Send Texas School Districts C&D Over ‘God’ Posters

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2022 @ 03:20am

    Huge Hole in their legal theory, the state law says they MUST hang compliant donated posters, it does not forbid them from hanging non compliant posters at their own discretion, after all if it did so, it would ban -any poster except compliant “In God We Trust” posters- from being hung in any Texas school.

  • On the post: When Tech Companies Do It, The NY Times Calls It ‘Dark Patterns,’; When The NY Times Does It, It’s Called ‘Being Smart’

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2022 @ 11:30am

    Here’s the thing, “dark patterns” isn’t just used for processes that manipulate behavior, if they did every store offering members clubs or loss leaders would be engaging in dark patterns it’s predominantly for those that have an addition element of being deceptive as well, something that they do mention in the quoted article. And here not only are the NYT’s paywalls fairly plain and straightforward, but THEY WROTE AN ARTICLE TELLING PEOPLE WHAT THEY DO

  • On the post: Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers And Deeply Unfunny ‘Satirist’ Seek To Remove Website 1st Amendment Rights To ‘Protect Free Speech’

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2022 @ 07:42pm

    Explain to me again how someone’s post on their own website as been “silenced”, by twitter kicking them of their platform. If one was speaking of actual speech, silenced means the complete inability to get your message out, this is manifestly -not- true of sites like the Babylon Bee, who have a healthy crowd of people listening their message on a daily basis, ON THEIR OWN WEBSITE. The simple truth is thse sites are not being silenced, it is that other platforms are refusing to help amplify them further. And -nobody- has a right to demand that help.

  • On the post: Colorado Appeals Court Again Reminds Cops That Marijuana Legalization Means Their Drug Dogs Are Mostly Useless

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2022 @ 05:53pm

    Of course if the dog -isn’t- trained to signal when it smells pot, and/or is trained to ignore it, then it’s arguably back to the old rules.

  • On the post: Arizona Makes It Illegal To Record Cops From Less Than Eight Feet Away

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2022 @ 04:37pm

    Rarely Harassed?

    "People standing several feet away passively recording are rarely harassed." I wouldn't be so sure as long as cases like this keep turning up.. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/victory-another-court-protects-right-record-police

  • On the post: New York Passes Ridiculous, Likely Unconstitutional, Bill Requiring Websites To Have ‘Hateful Conduct’ Policies

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2022 @ 01:56pm

    Of course it seems that this law, does not require the websites to have a policy which says they’ll -do- anything, like removed posts or band people. Which means, “Users engaging in hateful conduct, may be trolled in the comments” is a valid legal policy under this law.

  • On the post: Houston Passes Ordinance Forcing Businesses To Install Cameras, Provide Warrantless Access To Recordings

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 01 May, 2022 @ 04:39am

    Seems to me this walks them right into the same 4th Admendment issue that the police would have when they mandate that ISP’s scan for CSM.

  • On the post: Despite What Fox News Tells You, A New Study Did Not ‘Prove’ That Gmail Is Targeting Conservatives

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2022 @ 12:32pm

    You’ve just complexly proven the guy’s point, by showing that you’re uneducated as to what science is and how it works, and also that you’re are in fact one of the victims of a Christian propaganda effort. The inclusion of the supernatural in science is the end goal of a small number advocates of creationism, such as the Discovery Institute. Supernatural explanations are not arbitrarily thrown out, they are thrown out not only because there is no direct evidence of the proposed causal agent, or his mechanism of action, (which often contradicts other known factors) but they also lack predictive power, falsifiability and are not reproducible. One you allow the supernatural -no- explanation can be ruled out, everything is equally plausible because the supernatural can do -anything-, including creating the universe last Tuesday. To paraphrase Sidney Harris’s cartoon, Science asks people who claim a miracle was responsible to be more explicit in step two.

  • On the post: GOP Social Media Experiments Fail (In Part) Because They Break The Troll/Amplification Cycle

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 08 Apr, 2022 @ 09:35am

    Also, blaming COVID deaths on the Wasteland of American Nutrition in no way gets the GOP off the hook, from congressional declarations that "Pizza is a Vegetable" to their support of Big Ag through billions in crop subsidies, the GOP has done much to make sure that unhealthy food is cheaper and more widely available than healthy alternatives.

  • On the post: GOP Social Media Experiments Fail (In Part) Because They Break The Troll/Amplification Cycle

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 08 Apr, 2022 @ 09:20am

    Well, first of all, if you use a link for what it was intended, and go and read the material there, you'll see that's it's root is in a number of studies comparing policies, between red and blue states, and other studies examining the role of COVID misinformation, and it's it's exaggerated acceptance on the political right. Secondly, given the clear demographic trends in COVID fatalities, it's laughable to blame much of the mortality on nutritional guidelines of the last 20 years or so, given that the majority of people who died of COVID, came of age and learned about nutrition back in the days when America was the "Great" that the MAGA crowd want to have "Again" and good nutrition was "Steak and Potatoes and eat your vegetables" https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-from-covid-by-age-us/

  • On the post: GOP Social Media Experiments Fail (In Part) Because They Break The Troll/Amplification Cycle

    Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 08 Apr, 2022 @ 09:08am

    This isn't a post-mortem, it's a intake report of a patient who's showing signs of being critically ill, the two reported symptoms being it's inability to actually get it's would be users onboard, and it's creator's apparent hesitation at putting it to use. Lab tests are showing other clinical signs of disease as well. Life expectancy is unknown and dependent on factors beyond it's control, such as it's creator's continued political relevancy, which may remain in doubt due to his induced monomania regarding the events of Nov 4. -an opinion may be the "strongest", because it's what people most want to hear, not because it has anything to do with reality.

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