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• On the post: Video Game Footage Used As Disinformation In Israel, Hamas Conflict

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2023 @ 05:50am

  What? This is his blog. What makes you think he didn't approve this one?

• On the post: A Gentle Reminder That Censoring Books Is Never A ‘Reasonable’ Solution

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 12 Oct, 2023 @ 01:24pm

  What would those pearl clutchers make of a female teacher with the surname Glasscock?

  Or "Wiener". I have cousins with the "Wiener" surname, and for some reason their emails always get caught in the spam filter.

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2023 @ 05:09am

  Flagging a comment is a very interesting way of endorsing said comment.

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2023 @ 05:07am

  Oh, fuck off, you genocidal fascist. You're serious blaming the victims of genocide for their own genocide? I hope you get what's coming to you.

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2023 @ 03:19pm

  That's right. In fact, I went to an indigenous ceremony on Randalls Island and had Frybread for the first time!

• On the post: Museum Collection Of Historical TV Culture At Risk Due To Copyright Takedowns

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 06 Oct, 2023 @ 04:35pm

  It's a feature of the Berne Convention, which mandates that everything is ©'d once it's fixed in a tangible form. If you want to go to the root of our current problem with © law, I think you should aim for the Berne Convention.

• On the post: Museum Collection Of Historical TV Culture At Risk Due To Copyright Takedowns

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 06 Oct, 2023 @ 04:34pm

  Can corporations just stop being evil pieces of shit?

  That's like asking a scorpion if it can stop stinging people to death with its venom.

• On the post: Elon Musk Decides ‘Who Needs Headlines, When We Can Just Have Pretty Pictures?’; Suspends Account That Made Fun Of Him

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 06 Oct, 2023 @ 01:49pm

  I'm an insider, and I saw the post have that "UPDATE" on the bottom before it went live to everybody else such that we could all see it and comment thereon.

• On the post: Elon Musk Decides ‘Who Needs Headlines, When We Can Just Have Pretty Pictures?’; Suspends Account That Made Fun Of Him

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 06 Oct, 2023 @ 12:00pm

  Updated: Basically just as this post went live, Elon unsuspended the Juniper account, so really, we’re back to content moderation by whims.

  Is this the first time on Techdirt, let alone any blog whatsover, that an Update has appeared before the post went live?

• On the post: Google Accused Of Secretly Altering Search Queries To Drive More Ads And Sales

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2023 @ 06:24pm

  Welcome To Corneria!

• On the post: Yelp Asks Court To Stop Texas AG Ken Paxton From Suing Them For Warning Users That Crisis Pregnancy Centers Are Scams

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2023 @ 05:40pm

  I probably will not even have to look at it.

  Unless the person who gets said butt tattoo wears thongs…

• On the post: Senator Elizabeth Warren Supports Bill To Silence LGBTQ+ Voices

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2023 @ 05:31pm

  Way to say the quiet part with 10 bullhorns, bro.

• On the post: Senator Elizabeth Warren Supports Bill To Silence LGBTQ+ Voices

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2023 @ 05:18pm

  In that case, Son Goku also exists, not only because of the Dragon Ball series, but because of Journey to the West.

• On the post: New York Bans Facial Recognition Tech In Schools While Montana Decides Students Aren’t Covered By Its Statewide Ban

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2023 @ 05:11pm

  As much as I despise Cop Mayor Eric Adams and his $10B military police force, stories like this make me proud to be a New Yorker.

• On the post: Trump FCC Pick Nathan Simington Wants You To Think Net Neutrality Is A Secret Cabal By Big Tech To ‘Censor Conservatives’

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2023 @ 05:06pm

  Hi Comrade ThatOtherOtherGuy, I'm Comrade Abram.

• On the post: 5th Circuit Continues To 5th Circuit, Issues Yet Another Version Of Its Injunction, This Time Including CISA

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2023 @ 04:44pm

  Oops, the second and third paragraph should've been quoted. Sorry!

• On the post: 5th Circuit Continues To 5th Circuit, Issues Yet Another Version Of Its Injunction, This Time Including CISA

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2023 @ 04:43pm

  There is no discussion as to why the court changed its mind. There is no discussion about the details of what made it persuasion in the first opinion, but coercion in the second opinion. There is… nothing.

  To the argument that the White House made that this ruling provides them with no actionable details of how the line is drawn, the fact that the new ruling just rewrites this one paragraph, without details, to switch from “persuasion” to “coercion” is a disaster of jurisprudence. It’s basically the 5th Circuit admitting that its decision on the difference is not driven by any test (like the rest of the opinion pretended it was setting up), but rather by its somewhat arbitrary whims. It's not by arbitrary whims, it's by whether the petitioner is a good patriotic American™ or a libtard communofascist™. In other words, whether the judges agree with the plaintiff or defendant politically or not.

• On the post: Canada’s Online News Act (C-18) Has Been An Unmitigated Disaster; Why Does California Still Want To Move Forward With Its Version?

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2023 @ 06:27pm

  The only problem with that was that Bill C-18 was passed by the Liberal Government with the help of the NDP (who are to the left of the Liberals).

• On the post: Yelp Asks Court To Stop Texas AG Ken Paxton From Suing Them For Warning Users That Crisis Pregnancy Centers Are Scams

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2023 @ 06:09pm

  Not to mention all those times that you praised Elon Musk…

• On the post: Yelp Asks Court To Stop Texas AG Ken Paxton From Suing Them For Warning Users That Crisis Pregnancy Centers Are Scams

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2023 @ 06:07pm

  I don't want to speak for Stone, but judging by his past commentary on the matter, it would be an extremely safe assumption to mean trans women as well (as well as trans men (not to mention the people who are neither male nor female)).

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