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• On the post: No, CDA 230 Isn't The Only Thing Keeping Conservatives Off YouTube

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 19 May, 2020 @ 02:42pm

  Someone would

  But a lot of of it is just knee-jerk reaction from those who actually think that removing the immunity-for-moderation found in CDA 230(c)(2) will usher in a glorious new world where sites will have to publish everything.

  Which, by the way, would be awful. Any site that just published virtually everything users posted (that’s the true “First Amendment standard”) would be an unusable hellhole. No site is going to do that

  Well, the chan sites try to, and yes, they really do turn into unusable hellholes.

• On the post: FCC Forced To Fine Sinclair $48 Million For Bullshitting Regulators

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 14 May, 2020 @ 03:44pm

  Re: Re:

  Not to mention HOW they get paid. Microsoft was infamous for always paying off fines with coupons for 10% your next MS purchase.

• On the post: Bill Would Ban Broadband Shutoffs Until COVID-19 Pandemic Eases

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 14 May, 2020 @ 07:39am

  Re: Socialization

  Funny how some are so adamant against socialism for the peons, but all for socialism when it comes to bailing out their corporate buddies.

• On the post: After Seven Years And A US Supreme Court Victory, Tyson Timbs Is One Step Closer To Finally Getting His Car Back

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 12 May, 2020 @ 04:21pm

  What do you wanna bet?

  [The judge] ordered the Land Rover, which the state has stored in an outdoor parking lot exposed to the elements since 2013, released to Timbs immediately.

  They're going to send him a bill for impound fees going back to 2013, interest compounded monthly. It will be more than the vehicle was worth then, much less what it's worth now.

• On the post: National Intelligence Report Shows The FBI Never Gets Warrants For Its Backdoor Searches Of NSA Collections

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 12 May, 2020 @ 05:47am

  Reason

  Don't you watch Criminal Minds? They don't have time to get a warrant or the perp will kill again/escape. So not getting a warrant is clearly for our protection. You want to be safe, right? ;)

• On the post: We're Saved! Company Claims It's Patented 'Containing the Spread of Disinformation' And Will Stop COVID-19 Disinfo

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 02 May, 2020 @ 02:54pm

  Re: Re:

  The issue here is that the company in question doesn't have a solution, they have a generic patent they intend to use one anyone else actually providing a solution.

• On the post: China Tried To Get The EU Not To Release A Report On China's COVID-19 Disinformation Efforts

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 01 May, 2020 @ 06:34am

  Re:

  If they're testable, they're theories. If not, they're just hypotheses.

• On the post: China Tried To Get The EU Not To Release A Report On China's COVID-19 Disinformation Efforts

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 01 May, 2020 @ 06:31am

  Re: Re: How is Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) impacting the

  You're arguing with a robospam account. :) Just flag it and ignore it.

• On the post: We're Saved! Company Claims It's Patented 'Containing the Spread of Disinformation' And Will Stop COVID-19 Disinfo

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 01 May, 2020 @ 05:50am

  Re: Re:

  It's pretty clear that some troll saw all the news about governments pushing Google and Facebook to do something to control"fake news", and rushed to the patent office to get a rent-seeking patent on a basic idea. Even without Alice, a patent like this should be invalid. With Alice, it never should have made it past the first stage.

• On the post: Disney Says If You Tweet #MayThe4th At It, You're Agreeing To A Disney Terms Of Use (You're Not)

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2020 @ 11:44am

  Re:

  A lot of us grew up on Disney. It's truly sad to see what has become of a once beloved company.

• On the post: US Patent Office: Supreme Court Made Us Reject More Patents, But We've Now Fixed That And Are Back To Approving Bad Patents

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2020 @ 05:32am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Abuse of power

  I like to think of it as the punishment phase of a major trial. The House found him guilty, then it was the Senate's turn to decide the punishment... in which they decided to do nothing.

• On the post: NY AG Opens Inquiry After Charter Spectrum Bungles Its Coronavirus Response

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2020 @ 09:22am

  Re: Spectrum is Laughable

  So why bother with all the advertising?

  Because some exec's buddy/cousin needs a job. Cronyism/nepotism at its finest. :)

• On the post: Australian Court Says Raid Of Journalist's Home Was Illegal… But Allows Federal Police To Keep The Evidence They Seized

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2020 @ 05:13am

  Re: The Best Solution for this

  They'd probably do the same thing US LEOs would do and charge you with interfering with an investigation. One of many charges used when there's no real law broken to punish the peon for not knowing his place.

• On the post: After 48 Years, DC Appeals Court Overturns Murder Conviction Based On FBI's Garbage 'Hair Match' Evidence

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 23 Apr, 2020 @ 06:43am

  Wrong word?

  wrongfully-obtained lives

  Maybe "wrongfully-detained lives"?

• On the post: New York's Governor Hands Down A Mask Mandate While The State's Anti-Mask Law Remains On The Books

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2020 @ 05:41am

  Re: Re: Re:

  And shooting him got rid of that pesky virus at the same time! Uh... somehow.

• On the post: Telecom's Latest Dumb Claim: The Internet Only Works During A Pandemic Because We Killed Net Neutrality

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2020 @ 08:46am

  Re:

  Unfortunately, there's no such thing as "peak bullshit". They can always pile it higher. In fact, I'd hazard a guess that bullshit is the one material that could pile high enough to make a space elevator. ;)

• On the post: The Simpsons Shows Precisely How One Should Handle Derivative Homage Works

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2020 @ 09:06am

  Why?

  The real question is why can't more creators act like this?

  Because their property isn't swirling around the toilet bowl ready to go under with clueless execs are frantically donning golden parachutes while the lawyers are told to monetize any last pennies before it all goes tits up.

• On the post: One Consequence Of The COVID-19 Shutdown? This Is Esports' Moment

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2020 @ 07:02am

  The silver lining

  I can see eSports as eventually getting even bigger for one big reason: they can be more of a spectacle than real life. Example - NASCAR. It's a long standing joke that people go to NASCAR events to see the wrecks. That has some truth to it. Now people can get even more/bigger wrecks and not have to be worried that real people were injured or killed.

• On the post: Is There Any Form Of Corruption Senator Burr Didn't Engage In?

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2020 @ 06:52am

  Re: Re:

  Because 99.99999% of us CAN'T do anything about it. We're stuck with the ONLY action we can take being voting for the "lesser of two evils". In some cases where a candidate runs unopposed, we can't even do THAT much! All you can do is hold your nose, vote for the least smelly piece of shit running, grit your teeth, and get a little more angry every year.

• On the post: JaM Cellars Sues Franzia For Trademark Over 'Jammy', An Incredibly Common And Descriptive Term In Wines

  

  JoeCool ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2020 @ 06:22am

  Re:

  Did somebody hit JaM with an idiot stick?

  This is lawyers trying to make work for themselves. It's perhaps the biggest problem of the last couple generations - too many lawyers. Every year, the US licenses more lawyers than there are jobs for, so they must come up with new and inventive ways of twisting the law to make work from nothing.

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