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  • On the post: Reddit Experiments With Removing Mods, Blocking Attempts To Switch Subs To NSFW

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2023 @ 08:43am

    o_O

  • On the post: Misunderstanding Locks Amazon User Out Of ‘Smart’ Home Voice Control For A Week

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2023 @ 08:40am

    Based on only 1 side of a story a huge corporation screwed with someones life. That thing were people we joking about how if you pissed off Elmo on twitter he might disable your car... well its happening. No excuse they can give makes this acceptable. Amazon cut off my account because I posted something offensive online somewhere. Amazon disabled devices I paid for, rendering them useless based on a single unverified complaint. Now switch in the makers of medical devices. This is unacceptable, this needs to be dragged out into the public square, and Amazon needs to answer for how they thought this behavior was okay to make unilateral decisions on incomplete information. Then we need a law making it illegal with huge penalties. Without any legal protections we're all going to be at the mercy of anyone who wants to claim anything just to cause problems, because the system assumes those complaining are 100% truthful and they need to act now now now before they get bad publicity for not acting first & asking questions later. It sucks to get a ban on Twitter over someone lying (because moderation at scale is impossible & well twitters mods are mentally challenged) but in the age when the electric company can seize control over your comfort (rather than have enough capacity) how long before all devices are weaponized by various groups based on their whims. I'm sorry your oxygen concentrator heard you call someone a fag once so we're limiting how much o2 you can have.

  • On the post: All You Do Is Lose: Utah Anti-Drag Moratorium Struck Down As Unconstitutional

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2023 @ 06:03am

    And that has what to do with the entire ZOMG DRAG QUEENS WILL GROOM OUR KIDS camp? There is hard factual evidence of children being molested, and they ignore it in favor of threatening people who haven't harmed a child. Conservatives refuse to see facts & just keep telling people to fear drag queens and get them before they get your kids, when they are hard pressed to come up with a SINGLE incident of a drag queen molesting a child (I know this to be true because Faux News would cover such an arrest 24/7 for a month). They are ignoring reality, completely undermining their claims of "protecting children" based on lies, assumptions, and the fact that some of them get a special tingle down there when they see drag queens and it makes them nervous.

  • On the post: Warner Bros Discovery Merger Gets Dumber As Layoffs Continue And Company Licenses Streaming Content To… Netflix

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2023 @ 05:56am

    "We hear HBO veterans pushed back against the plan but corporate financial consideration won out. Insiders stress the deal is not closed and may still fall apart" And Netflix just keeps stringing them along until they finally kill themselves and buy the entire catalog for pennies.

  • On the post: Reddit Experiments With Removing Mods, Blocking Attempts To Switch Subs To NSFW

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2023 @ 04:45am

    I don't think its a PR hack so much as a spammer who posted something so outrageous as to drive traffic to his ringtone festival website so he could get traffic.

  • On the post: Reddit Experiments With Removing Mods, Blocking Attempts To Switch Subs To NSFW

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2023 @ 04:44am

    FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU Can't tell how much of that was sarcasm and how much you actually believe. I gotta go touch some grass.

  • On the post: All You Do Is Lose: Utah Anti-Drag Moratorium Struck Down As Unconstitutional

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2023 @ 04:41am

    Annnnd there is the sort of unquestioning stupidity that makes america great again. Note his total lack of notice of the 160+ religious types molesting kids (and those are just the ones they caught so far) but instead running with an article that could have been torn from the pages of the 'World Weekly News' if they had fired their editorial staff and printed really really out there stories. KTHSBAI Dumbass!

  • On the post: All You Do Is Lose: Utah Anti-Drag Moratorium Struck Down As Unconstitutional

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2023 @ 04:39am

    Car window with 5 mommies and many children graphics someone has written OMG GET OFF OF HER on it dot gif

  • On the post: Reddit Experiments With Removing Mods, Blocking Attempts To Switch Subs To NSFW

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2023 @ 11:29pm

    Dear Internet, I am about to piss off my entire userbase & moderators. Please do not build a platform that is like mine, but actually functions that my userbase would flock to leaving me the emperor of nothing. KTHKS, Huffy

  • On the post: Seven Rules For Internet CEOs To Avoid Enshittification

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2023 @ 11:20pm

    Get a better household.

  • On the post: All You Do Is Lose: Utah Anti-Drag Moratorium Struck Down As Unconstitutional

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2023 @ 11:17pm

    Since Nov 1 2022.... Drag Queens arrested for molesting a child - 0 Pastor/Priests arrested for molesting a child (or 30) - 160+ One does wonder how many of these Karens have actually ever been to a drag show, a drag brunch, a drag story hour, an all ages drag show, watched an episode of drag race. Like the people who showed up and terrorized an elementary school over concerns raise by people who had no facts or evidence supporting their claims... A book about families. A single line, some families have 2 daddys or 2 mommys. But people showed up ready to burn the school down & harm people based on the lie that it was sexualizing children. We're at that stage where no one ever questions what they are being told if they believe the speaker is on their "side". People are being harmed, property is being destroyed, threats are being made over rumors and outright lies to "protect" the children while they are handing their kids over to those with actual factual proof of harming children, covering up the harm, punishing people who speaking the truth.... It would be nice if we actually demanded things be done on a factual basis and not because some Karen on the toilet drinking her 4th glass of whine found the "truth" on Facebook about whats REALLY happening from someone who has never even been in their state.

  • On the post: Comcast Tells FCC It’s Just Too Hard To Explain Its Bullshit Broadband And TV Fees To Consumers

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2023 @ 07:12am

    While Comcast might get mad if people found out how much they were ripping them off for they are ignoring the most important part... Its not like there is another service they can switch to in far to many places in the nation. Sack up and admit how much you're ripping the public off for, you already made sure they have no other choice.

  • On the post: Twitter’s Lawyers Admit They’re Overwhelmed As Nearly 2000 Laid Off Employees File Arbitration Claims

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2023 @ 04:44pm

    I await the arbitrator quitting in the face of Elon claiming he never said that, it was a deep fake, you can't prove otherwise, and I'm rich why are you bothering me? But hey hes been evicted from 1 building by the end of the month so I am sure he'll keep the proper eye on this.

  • On the post: Reddit CEO Triples Down, Insults Protesters, Whines About Not Making Enough Money From Reddit Users

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2023 @ 04:34pm

    Hey, this golden egg is awesome. But I bet if we cut the goose open, we could get a second golden egg, and we wouldn't have to wait for tomorrow. Frankly, I can't see any downsides to this plan, and I suggest we implement it immediately. Gentlemen, sharpen your axes. Because pissing of any portion of base that actually makes people want to use your site, then trying to get the other users who don't understand what is going on to blame those trying to protect them from you... Oh I know this playbook. Labels tell artists they aren't making any money, not because of the contracts and creative accounting designed to rip them off, but its those damn pirates who are stealing all of the money for themselves... by sharing it for free, online, with anyone who wants it. Something that should be on a subreddt I read sometimes... 2 Sentence Horror Stories Oh, oh no... they made Steve Huffman CEO. They could have just shut down instead of unleashing this horror.

  • On the post: DOJ Asks Judge To Block Backpage From Talking About Legal Ads, First Amendment, Section 230

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2023 @ 10:17pm

    DOJ... I think their definition of justice is different than ours... Kerkhoff: The defense has talked to you a little bit about reasonable doubt. You’re going to get an instruction from the Judge. And you can tell it’s clearly written by a bunch of lawyers. It doesn’t mean a whole lot. But look at the last line.

  • On the post: Music Publishers File (Somewhat Weak) Copyright Lawsuit Against Twitter

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2023 @ 10:14pm

    Heh I read the article in Variety and the music idiots were also raging about leaked music... I was trying to figure out how that was a copyright issue you could blame on twitter. Of course I have just 1 simple question for the music people.... Show me where Twitter uploaded content you have rights to. goes back to living forever cause they don't have that On the upside a side effect of this if they keep pushing this is that a court might FINALLY issue a ruling on what a repeat infringer is and how that finding can be made without a legal finding, & also have to deal with the sheer number of bogus DMCA notices that have only punishment for not responding like it is real and if they are complaining about an image of a singer with a few words of a songtitle on it aren't a real basis for a DMCA notice and bogus notices should result in equal punishments for the law to be fair and equitable.

  • On the post: The Sanctions Hearing For ChatGPT Using Lawyers… Did Not Go Well

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2023 @ 02:29pm

    And we didn't even touch on the faked notarization. And even with the admission they altered it, there was still something that was sketchy to Kathryn Tewson so there might be more...

  • On the post: Another Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Gang Member Admits The Department Has Plenty Of Gang Members

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2023 @ 06:46am

    The crime is coming from inside the station house.

  • On the post: Disney Gets A Nice Fat Tax Break For Making Its Streaming Catalog Worse

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2023 @ 06:03am

    A system that gives them a benefit to make something, show it a couple times, trash it, collect a tax break, keep the content locked away for close to forever because they claimed it was worthless now which is why they dropped it but they hold the copyright and it doesn't matter if the public wants more from it.

  • On the post: Twitter Admits in Court Filing: Elon Musk Is Simply Wrong About Government Interference At Twitter

    That Anonymous Coward ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2023 @ 02:20pm

    OMG YOU MEAN IT WAS THE WHITE HOUSE WHO DID IT TO ME!??! My first 2 bans were followed with apologies because it shouldn't have happened, so it had to be a deep state double secret letter writing thing.... not because a bunch of people gang reported me for kicks thinking they were getting someone else. Here is an important thought for that sad little nugget of a brain rattling around in your head... Sometimes its not an evil cabal out to get you, sometimes its because your a fucking asshole and people are tired of hearing you spew shit. "Its because I'm conservative" is the best cop out ever because it lets you pretend that you're under attack like your a minority that is being trampled by the all powerful woke mob... that can't manage to do anything right... except secretly get you screwed over for being conservative.... because they are as powerful as they are inept... I know this might come as a shock, but a majority of people don't know who that idiot is, don't care, and never even noticed he was banned. He's not that important, no one cared that much to summon the lizard alien elders to issue a fatwa against him... he was a conspiracy theory screaming idiot and some people asked wasn't the bullshit he was spewing violating the posted policy. The problem is when you scream "they did it because I'm a conservative" the base lashes out and sends bomb threats, stalks people, destroys merch displays in discount retailers, never even asking what the situation was. Just because he was crawling under changing room doors to take upskirt pictures isn't the REAL reason they trespassed him from the property, its because he is conservative. MTG put out tweets calling for harm to other elected leaders, and when she got called out she wrapped herself in its because I am conservative!!! When someone made a milder version of the comments MTG was making directed at her, she screamed bloody murder about it being a horrible attack only being allowed because she's a conservative. "Because I'm Conservative" is the new war on Christmas, it doesn't exist beyond getting people to turn off their brains and take up the torches and pitchforks to defend you from the response to your actions coming home to roost.

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