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• On the post: Cooper Davis Act: Another Attempt By Congress To Regulate That Which They Don’t Understand

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 03 May, 2023 @ 04:12pm

  So Senator Marshall is once again making the Helen Lovejoy argument: that we should "think of the children" in spite of the cure being worse than the disease. (Oh, and Mike, you made a typo: In the third paragraph, you wrote "Study’s show". It should be "Studies show". Thanks in advance!)

• On the post: Pornhub Says No More Porn For Folks In Utah (Unless They Know How To Use A VPN)

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 02 May, 2023 @ 03:19pm

  What I love about England is what they name their birds.

• On the post: Political Propaganda Disguised As Local News Is Just So Hot Right Now

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 01 May, 2023 @ 03:15pm

  There is then the matter of objective truth: DeSantis won by 20 pts and turned FL from solidly purple to deep red.

  That is true. And we're seeing Trans people flee the state so as not to be persecuted by the government. Also, Arizona and Georgia went for Biden in 2020 no matter how hard you may deny it.

• On the post: Twitter Abruptly Stops Reporting On Gov’t Requests As Data Reveals Elon Obeys Gov’t Demands Way More Often Than Old Twitter

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 01 May, 2023 @ 03:09pm

  LOL, I first thought you were referencing what a sex worker would call their clients…

  Or a toilet. Which–like a prostitute's client–fits the description of Elon to a T.

• On the post: The STOP CSAM Act Is An Anti-Encryption Stalking Horse

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 01 May, 2023 @ 01:10pm

  I don't know who said it, but it is entirely true:

  CSAM is the rootkit to the constitution.

• On the post: Political Propaganda Disguised As Local News Is Just So Hot Right Now

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 01 May, 2023 @ 09:34am

  So your sources are youtube videos and an anti-abortion website. Sure, nothing unhinged about you. Meanwhile, in the real world, women are dying of sepsis because they can't get the healthcare they need. THAT'S the position you support, you monster.

• On the post: Political Propaganda Disguised As Local News Is Just So Hot Right Now

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 01 May, 2023 @ 09:30am

  We shouldn’t have blown up the Fairness Doctrine without coming up with some kind of replacement to make sure that people couldn’t talk out their asses on air or lie with impunity and face next-to-no consequence.

  First of all, Fox News is a cable channel and not a broadcast channel. Broadcast rules don't apply to it. Second of all, Fox News didn't "lie with impunity" as telling by the Dominion settlement. A lot of people were disappointed, yes, but they did pay the price.

• On the post: This Week In Techdirt History: April 23rd – 29th

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2023 @ 05:06pm

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cozCYJCK4Bg You're older than you've ever been... and now you're even older... and now you're even older... and now you're even older...

• On the post: The Mouse Strikes Back: Disney Sues DeSantis For 1st Amendment Violations

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2023 @ 07:06am

  Fair enough.

• On the post: Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Case Over AI’s Right To A Patent; AI Inventions Remain Unpatentable

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2023 @ 07:03am

  So in other words, AI generated patents would be like steroids to Patent Trolls. (Do I have that right?)

• On the post: The Mouse Strikes Back: Disney Sues DeSantis For 1st Amendment Violations

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2023 @ 08:15am

  Disney may be the good guy more often than you think.

  Disney also was in the right when: 1. it claimed that Bambi was in the public domain (which wasn't until years later), and 2. it claimed it didn't base its Canuck Daredevil toy character in Toy Story 4 off of Evel Knievel. Just because Disney uses their legal acumen for evil most of the time doesn't mean they don't occasionally use it for good (when it suits them).

• On the post: Canadian Court Allows Distance Learning Spyware Seller To Continue Silencing One Of Its Many Critics

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2023 @ 06:07pm

  In terms of Speech, yes. Canada does a lot of things better than the US (the death penalty, for instance), but not speech.

• On the post: One More Time With Feeling: The GOP Never Seriously Supported ‘Antitrust Reform’ Or Monopoly Busting

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2023 @ 10:40am

  You needed only look at the last 50 years of GOP policy history to see how this gambit was going to turn out.

  There are huge exceptions, such as section 230, though.

• On the post: Missouri Nukes Its ‘Tell Us If You’ve Seen A Trans’ Reporting Form After It’s Swarmed With ‘Bee Movie’ Scripts

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2023 @ 09:57am

  “new con concept” should be “new concept”. Oops.

• On the post: Missouri Nukes Its ‘Tell Us If You’ve Seen A Trans’ Reporting Form After It’s Swarmed With ‘Bee Movie’ Scripts

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2023 @ 09:56am

  The idea of gender is shaped by the lens of society. How do we know? There are records from various cultures that showed they had more than 2 genders. We even have records of trans people from cultures long gone. Transgender and non-binary are not new ideas.

  A lot of indigenous North American tribes and nations have the concept of people being ‘two-spirit” as well as a matriarchy and matrilineality (we Jews are matrilineal as well). Transdom is not a new con concept to these people but—to the contrary—a tradition.

• On the post: Two Excellent Podcast Episodes Techdirt Readers Might Like

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2023 @ 04:16am

  Thanks!

  I listened to both of these episodes, and I just want to say thanks to Mike and Techdirt for these recommendations. While my mind was elsewhere during the part of This American Life about the sinking boat off of the Massachusetts harbor, my attention was fully paid to the part about Yoel Roth and his time at Trust and Safety at Twitter. The Radiolab episode about Sci-Hub was extremely interesting too. Once again, thanks for the recommendations!

• On the post: US-Located Chinese Cop Shops Allegedly Targeted People For Comparing President Xi To Winnie The Pooh

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2023 @ 12:14pm

  Surprised that Erdogan didn't make the list…

• On the post: Canadian Court Allows Distance Learning Spyware Seller To Continue Silencing One Of Its Many Critics

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2023 @ 12:06pm

  Disagree about Canada and Free Speech.

  That doesn’t mean Canada hates speech.

  Yes it does.

• On the post: New York Court Rules State Police Can’t Keep Hiding Its Misconduct Records From The Public

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2023 @ 11:05am

  this is a ruling from the state’s lowest court level, which means it’s certain to be appealed.

  As a New York State resident, let me tell you about our state judiciary: our district courts are elected. However, we have fusion voting, which means that one party can cross-endorse a candidate from another party. While this is great for truly ideological parties like the Working Families Party or the Conservative Party, a drawback is that sometimes in smaller races the Republican and the Democratic candidates are the same. This is usually the case with our elected judges. Also, while the lower courts (confusingly called the Supreme Court) are elected, the highest court in the state (also confusingly called the Court of Appeals) is appointed by the governor. Which means that the people have a more direct say in the lower courts but not the more important higher courts.

• On the post: Netflix To End DVD Rentals As Streaming Fails To Live Up To Its Full Potential

  

  Leah Abram ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2023 @ 04:32am

  Ownership over Tenancy. I think there's definitely an advantage over paying for something to keep for yourself and have more freedoms with rather than continuously paying money to access something you don't own and can't control.

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