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• On the post: 5th Circuit Is Gonna 5th Circus: Declares Age Verification Perfectly Fine Under The First Amendment

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2024 @ 03:38pm

  in my humble opinion the new TikTok ban is because of the US favoritism towards Israel in regards to the Palestinians and the public perception now about this war,

  Wait, what? That's a non-sequitur. The TikTok Ban is Sinophobia, not anti-Arab bigotry or islamophobia. Get your bigotries straight!

• On the post: NYC Mayor Eric Adams Says That If Police Radio Transmissions Aren’t Encrypted, The Terrorists Will Win

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2024 @ 03:28pm

  New Yorker here. He won the Dem primary because nobody could rally around better candidates so he was the last one standing. He won the general because the Republic was worse and NYC is Dem territory. Does that make any sense?

• On the post: Game Jam Winner Spotlight: Mickey Party

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2024 @ 02:36pm

  Gameplay Mechanics can't be trademarked, true, but "[Character] Party" may possibly be trademarked as a video game, so I can see some confusion there.

• On the post: Once More With Feeling: Banning TikTok Doesn’t Do Much If We Don’t Regulate Data Brokers And Pass A Privacy Law

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2024 @ 02:24pm

  The First Amendment problems are key here

  Not to mention the US constitution's ban against bills of attainder (unless I'm mistaken, I am no lawyer).

• On the post: Game Jam Winner Spotlight: Mickey Party

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2024 @ 03:16am

  Fair enough.

• On the post: Florida’s Unconstitutional ‘Stop WOKE’ Act Blocked By The 11th Circuit Appeals Court

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2024 @ 12:35pm

  It's a no-win situation for trans folks in Florida, who are basically confined to house arrest based on the fact their gender identity isn't the one that was assigned to them at birth.

• On the post: The NY Times War On All Wordle ‘Clones’ Continues

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2024 @ 12:26pm

  Artists weren't the ones who said that, the producers/labels/studio execs did. They just claimed to speak on behalf of "Artists".

• On the post: Game Jam Winner Spotlight: Mickey Party

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2024 @ 12:10pm

  Nintendo and Disney's ™

  While Steamboat Willie is in the Public Domain, Mario Party is not, and both of them are, in fact, trademarked. Good thing Benjamin Gray is not selling this, otherwise he would run afoul of the lawyers of two extremely litigious children's entertainment corporations.

• On the post: When Viral Advocacy Fails: TikTok’s Call Flood To Congress Backfires

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2024 @ 11:48am

  America is for Americans–not guatemaltecos, for example.

  What tribe do you belong to? If you're not Native, Go back to where you come from.

• On the post: RCMP All Pissed Off A Private Business Told It To Get A Warrant If It Wanted A Copy Of Parking Lot Camera Footage

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2024 @ 12:38pm

  Exactly. Pigs are intelligent and delicious, and police officers are neither. You may think I'm joking but this is actually why I don't call cops "pigs".

• On the post: Florida’s Unconstitutional ‘Stop WOKE’ Act Blocked By The 11th Circuit Appeals Court

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2024 @ 04:40am

  How are we the snowflakes when people like you take offense over terms like this?

  Planetarium IMAX-projection

• On the post: HP Tries Desperately To Make ‘Printer As A Subscription’ A Thing

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2024 @ 06:08pm

  Do you know if Canon went down the enshitti-path? Because they're my printer go-to company.

• On the post: Announcing Ctrl-Alt-Speech: A New Podcast About Online Speech

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2024 @ 05:34pm

  Okay, thank you! That had me worried for a bit…

• On the post: Announcing Ctrl-Alt-Speech: A New Podcast About Online Speech

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2024 @ 01:37pm

  Techdirt Podcast

  Mike, will this new podcast affect the Techdirt podcast in any way, shape, or form?

• On the post: Florida’s Unconstitutional ‘Stop WOKE’ Act Blocked By The 11th Circuit Appeals Court

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2024 @ 01:33pm

  anyone who isn’t straight, white, or voting straight-ticket Republican

  or cisgender, who are first-class citizens in Florida. If you are trans in Florida, you will be arrested if you use a bathroom.

• On the post: Republicans Kill Popular FCC Program That Made Broadband Affordable For The Poor

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2024 @ 04:09pm

  So, denying that the US, that great defender of capitalism, hasn’t commited their fair share of war crimes and crimes against humanity since at least 1945?

  I'd say the US' commission of war crimes goes further back. Like WAY further back.

• On the post: Missouri’s New Speech Police

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 05 Mar, 2024 @ 02:10am

  alwayshasbeen.gif

• On the post: Game Jam Winner Spotlight: Flight From Podunk Station

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 03 Mar, 2024 @ 09:11am

  I think part of why games like the Touhou Project and the Five Nights at Freddy’s series have vibrant and extremely dedicated communities is that the people who created the base games are very permissive with what people can do.

  It all started with Doom (1993). The reason why that game is still being modified to this day (even by the original level designer) shows that user-modification extends the life cycle of video games far beyond its commercial life.

• On the post: Game Jam Winner Spotlight: Flight From Podunk Station

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 03 Mar, 2024 @ 05:09am

  Given your PFP and your handle, you must be thrilled that Steamboat Willie is in the public domain. I certainly am!

• On the post: Game Jam Winner Spotlight: Flight From Podunk Station

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2024 @ 02:47pm

  Seeing Mickey Mouse in the public domain makes me happy as a clam, because of all the great things we get out of it!

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