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• On the post: MAGA 'Freedom Phone' Targets Rubes With Dubious Promises Of Privacy

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2021 @ 04:31am

  Re: Market Failure

  Yes, it is the reason Trump got elected, it is also the reason he was not -re-elected- and the reason that “Freedom Phones” will go the way of the hydrogen filled airship.

• On the post: MAGA 'Freedom Phone' Targets Rubes With Dubious Promises Of Privacy

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2021 @ 04:23am

  Re: Re: Re: Market Failure

  News flash, the reason that people weren’t getting those policy positions from either party is because those policy positions were not well thought out, unworkable and objectively awful. The same is true as to why reputable tech companies aren’t providing these “features” on their phones.

• On the post: It Appears That Jason Miller's GETTR Is Speed Running The Content Moderation Learning Curve Faster Than Parler

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2021 @ 05:25am

  Re: Patreon apparently also practices censorship

  Well, duh, havn’t you heard about their policy on adult content?

• On the post: MyPillow CEO Sues Dominion For Violating His Company's Right To Say The Things About Election Fraud It Definitely Isn't Saying

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2021 @ 10:18am

  The problem with arguing that the MyPillow Company didn't comment on the 2020 race, is that the MyPillow Company, -kept using the race as a marketing tool-

  “MyPillow’s defamatory marketing campaign—with promo codes like ‘FightforTrump,’ ’45,′ ‘Proof,’ and ‘QAnon’—has increased MyPillow sales by 30-40% and continues duping people into redirecting their election-lie outrage into pillow purchases,”

• On the post: Various States All Pile On To Push Blatantly Unconstitutional Laws That Say Social Media Can't Moderate

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2021 @ 12:14pm

  Law: I’m going to require you to treat all users consistently

  I’m also going to forbid you from treating political candidates consistently if they break the rules.

• On the post: No Surprises Here: Presidential Commission On Law Enforcement Repeats Calls For Anti-Encryption Legislation

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2020 @ 06:10am

  Warrant Free Plumbing

  Across the United States, we have repeated incidents of people being killed or injured in No-Knock raids, that occur simply because of the risk that persons in the location being searched might flush evidence down the toilet or disposal. Why haven’t law enforcement demanded that manufacturers of plumbing stop producing “warrant proof” plumbing? Surely the numbers of crimes that could be solved by preventing the destruction of evidence is worth the public health risks of returning to privies, chamberpots and outhouses.

• On the post: Somehow, 5G Paranoia Is Only Getting Dumber

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 04 Dec, 2020 @ 07:49am

  The sad thing is I had a co-worker at my last job who wanted to do this to his router to prevent his sister from hacking his computer from California via his neigbor's wifi (he lives in new england)

• On the post: Federal Court Says State Regulation That Compels Production Of Code May Violate The First Amendment

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2020 @ 06:01am

  Re: Re: A tough argument...

  Only if the evidence or testimony would be self-incriminating, if it's not then the government can compel you to testify or produce materials.

• On the post: Federal Court Says State Regulation That Compels Production Of Code May Violate The First Amendment

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2020 @ 05:44am

  Re: Re: A tough argument...

  Well, if that's your argument, then the same applies in this case, the Government of Arizona isn't actually compelling the software company to speak, they're just denying the dealers who might buy their software a licence to sell cars in Arizona if they don't certify that they're using software that meets the state standards.

• On the post: Clearview Hires Prominent First Amendment Lawyer To Argue For Its Right To Sell Scraped Data To Cops

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2020 @ 09:05am

  Looking at the other end of the transactions.

  Regardless of their alleged constitutional right to sell scraped data to cops, the police do not have a constitutional right to -buy- it.

  After all it’s not like the police -have- to pay for the data clearview has when they can just get a court order for it.

• On the post: NYC Mayor Asks Residents To Snitch On Social Distancing Violators, Gets Dick Pics And Hitler Memes Instead

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2020 @ 01:17pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: What goes around..

  Also you may have missed the point that as referenced as "doing Xx while black" is not that black crimes are reported at a higher rate, but that black people -who are not committing crimes- are called in quite often. (And even without being called in it was probably the single biggest complaint about Stop & Frisk, is that minorities were being routinely searched -without probable cause- that they were committing a crime)

• On the post: NYC Mayor Asks Residents To Snitch On Social Distancing Violators, Gets Dick Pics And Hitler Memes Instead

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2020 @ 01:04pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: What goes around..

  Well You can start here.. https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/5/11/17340908/racial-profiling-starbucks-yale-police-violence-911-bias It's not like racial profiling hasn't been in the news for decades now...

• On the post: NYC Mayor Asks Residents To Snitch On Social Distancing Violators, Gets Dick Pics And Hitler Memes Instead

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2020 @ 11:43am

  Re: Re: What goes around..

  Perhaps that race -isn't- mentioned in the article is what's actually part of the problem, rather than me pointing out that there's a significant segment of the population, for whom being reported on a snitch line, and hassled by police, is business as usual, and we weren't up in arms about it before.

• On the post: NYC Mayor Asks Residents To Snitch On Social Distancing Violators, Gets Dick Pics And Hitler Memes Instead

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2020 @ 11:18am

  What goes around..

  My take on this?

  This is White folks getting outraged that what they've been doing to Blacks, Hispanics and Muslims for years now might happen to them now.

  There's a reason "Doing X while Black" became a meme.

• On the post: Puerto Rico Decides The 1st Amendment Doesn't Apply To Its Citizens; Criminalizes 'Fake News'

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2020 @ 12:43pm

  You need to back to the history books, the SCOTUS decided back in 1901 that the Constitution need not apply to US citizens if they were in US Territories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_Cases

• On the post: White House Sets Up Echo Chamber For Complaints About Social Media Bias Against Conservatives

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 17 May, 2019 @ 08:59am

  Oh Good

  Finally someone will listen to the complaints from Tumblr users who's posts and blogs were censored.

• On the post: Authors Guild Attacks Libraries For Lending Digital Books

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2019 @ 11:14am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: What Happens to the Hardcopy?

  " both monitoring circulation, pulling, and reshelving and storage." - i.e. MakeWork

• On the post: Authors Guild Attacks Libraries For Lending Digital Books

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2019 @ 11:09am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: What Happens to the Hardcopy?

  Having worked in a library and bookstore, it's not that simple - Reserved books are not in outside circulation, in the first place, they're always behind the desk, at least for the duration of the class they're reserved for, but can be checked out -in- the library, by anyone. Books on Hold are generally also not in circulation but ,most of the time they're on hold, they're not in the library because somebody else has them out, when the book is returned, then it's diverted from reshelving and the person who requested the hold is notified, and has a few days to get the book. Finding (God help you if it's misshelved) and pulling physical books because a digtal copy has been checked out is a whole new level of both monitoring circulation, pulling, and reshelving and storage.

• On the post: Authors Guild Attacks Libraries For Lending Digital Books

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2019 @ 10:24am

  Re: Re: What Happens to the Hardcopy?

  Yes, but what does "the hard copy is no longer available" actually mean? Does it mean that some librarian needs to go to the stacks, and pull the physical copy and place it out of circulation, so nobody can read it, even -in- the library? (and of course return it to the stacks when the digital copy is "returned") Or does it mean that if someone goes to check out the physical book while the digital copy is out, that they'll be denied permission to do so at the desk?

• On the post: Cop Sued For Bogus Arrest Of Man Who Broke Up The PD's Distracted Driving Sting

  

  Kinetic Gothic ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2018 @ 05:10pm

  Double extra stupid...

  In CT we have a law that not only explicitly allows citizens to record cops, but holds the cops liable in they interfere with the recording

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