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• On the post: How To Destroy Innovation And Competition: Putting SHOP SAFE Act Into Innovation And Competition Act

  

  Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2022 @ 01:41pm

  This doesn’t make sense politically

  Question: Imagine a scenario where the House does manage to jam SHOP SAFE Act into the Innovative and Competitive Act, wouldn’t that mean that the Senate would have to vote for that version of the ICA? Wouldn’t that cause some Senators (like Ron Wyden) to turn on the ICA?

  It is astonishing that certain House members are considering how incorporating SHOP SAFE into something so essential as the ICA. It’s not just Anti-Competive and Anti-Innovative, it’s also deeply Anti-Economic.

• On the post: State Department Report Repeats Talking Points From Group Who Wants To Ban All Porn

  

  Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2021 @ 10:09am

  More like the National Center of Sexual Kink-shaming.

• On the post: Beware The CopyLEFT Trolls

  

  Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2021 @ 10:07am

  We also need to be wary of the Alt-Copyright, or the Copycenter, or the copymoderate, or the copmunist.

• On the post: CNN Goes Full Moral Panic About Kids And Social Media

  

  Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 10 Dec, 2021 @ 10:34am

  Re: Digital Addiction

  What, you mean kids like you?

• On the post: CNN Goes Full Moral Panic About Kids And Social Media

  

  Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 10 Dec, 2021 @ 10:32am

  Here’s a Hot Take

  But has anyone feel that the quality of news has gotten worse for the past year? And no, not just with the right-wing media, that was always on the decline, but with left-leaning media sources as well. Washington Post and CNN are probably exemplar in the most frustrating decline, with the increasingly over reliance on sensationalism, pathos, fearmongering, and a tone deaf incorporation of a fairness doctrine that feels more like self-defeating bothsidesism. It feels like fact and truth are being taken out of the driver’s seat and in its place are anecdotal and emotional appeals.

  Look, I’m not saying that either Washington Post or CNN are becoming as reliable as Fox News, but I feel that they are on that trajectory. Plus, Jeff Bezos owning the former of the examples doesn’t help.

• On the post: Josh Hawley Thinks We Should Break Up Twitter Because He Doesn't Like The Company's Editorial Choices

  

  Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 02 Dec, 2021 @ 02:59pm

  Some things never change

  Grass is green,
  water is wet,
  the sun is a deadly laser,
  and Josh Hawley still is an irredeemable, pompous, and sanctimonious douchebag.

• On the post: Silly, Pandering Politicians Introduce Silly, Pandering 'Cyber Grinch' Law That Would Ban Buying Bots

  

  Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 30 Nov, 2021 @ 01:14pm

  Of course, we know that these politicians won’t stop it.
  We all know that these bots are from Mount Crumpit.
  They don’t know, they don’t care,
  whether the solution is over there.
  Because their solution will always be murky:
  just pinch your ears and blame section 230.

• On the post: Metal Gear Solid 2 And 3 Taken Off Digital Storefronts Over Licensing For Historical Videos

  

  Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2021 @ 10:26pm

  Re: I’m reminded of a quote an old man once said…

  If anyone got this reference, Congrats, you’re winner!

• On the post: Metal Gear Solid 2 And 3 Taken Off Digital Storefronts Over Licensing For Historical Videos

  

  Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2021 @ 04:10pm

  I’m reminded of a quote an old man once said…

  "I hear its amazing when the famous purple stuffed worm in flap-jaw space with the tuning fork does a raw blink on Hari Kiri Rock. I need scissors! 61!"

• On the post: The Latest Version Of Congress's Anti-Algorithm Bill Is Based On Two Separate Debunked Myths & A Misunderstanding Of How Things Work

  

  Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2021 @ 09:47am

  The One Positive

  At least it doesn’t affect Section 230. And that’s about it.

• On the post: Content Moderation Case Study: Facebook Struggles To Correctly Moderate The Word 'Hoe' (2021)

  

  Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2021 @ 03:55pm

  Has anyone seen my Hoe?

• On the post: If Your Takeaway From Facebook's Whistleblower Is That Section 230 Needs Reform, You Just Got Played By Facebook

  

  Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 07 Oct, 2021 @ 04:59pm

  Re: Re:

  Look I’m not saying that it’s not impossible. What I am saying is that this will take time. A response from Congress is inevitable, but that takes time.

• On the post: If Your Takeaway From Facebook's Whistleblower Is That Section 230 Needs Reform, You Just Got Played By Facebook

  

  Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 06 Oct, 2021 @ 07:13pm

  Re: Don’t worry (yet)

  Right now, the path forward when and how Congress will tackle section 230, Facebook, or both, is unclear. It could take weeks, months, or even next year until we can actually see any progress on anything regarding either subject. This could potentially supercharge any regulations for the internet, or maybe it couldn’t (after all congress is busy with everything else right now [though a piece of me do think that the former is more likely]). It’s not the first time that Section 230 is in danger of being changed, and (hopefully) it’s not the last.

• On the post: Rep. Jerry Nadler Pushing New Bill That Will Destroy Online Commerce; Make Sure Only Amazon Can Afford The Liability

  

  Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2021 @ 01:23pm

  Re:

  Outside of committee, it’s too early to tell. The bill as far as I know doesn’t have a sponsor yet. But if I was a guessing man, I would say kinda unlikely. Congress is currently more focused on domestic issues and I don’t think that reform on section 230 isn’t the top of the list. There’s a possibility that SAFE could sneak into becoming a law by being attached to a year-end Omnibus Bill. Or it could gain momentum months later and go through the motions of the legislative process. Frankly all we can do right now is protest and/or speculate.

• On the post: Rep. Jerry Nadler Pushing New Bill That Will Destroy Online Commerce; Make Sure Only Amazon Can Afford The Liability

  

  Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2021 @ 10:19am

  Awww shit here we go again...

  This bill is not only anti-consumer and anti-competitive, shop SAFE is anti-economic. Much like the other critics of Section 230, this bill reeks of an extremely naive, extremely misguided assumption that the only thing in the internet are the bigwigs and section 230. So, the thought always come down to control is the bigwigs online, fuck everything else. But what they don’t realize is that these solutions is like feeding Godzilla a nuclear bomb. And since we’re possibly heading into a recession during the pandemic (which makes offline shopping significantly difficult), the last thing we need right now is to make online third-party commerce impossible.

  With this being said, outside of getting out of committee, I highly doubt that Shop SAFE would be able to sail through Congress. Especially right now, when even something as simple as suspending the debt ceiling is a Herculean effort.

• On the post: PETA Sues NIH And HHS Directors For Blocking Comments With 'PETA' And '#StopAnimalTesting'

  

  Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2021 @ 12:43pm

  PETA is to animals as Autism Speaks is to People on the spectrum. Born on “good intentions,” only to make a road out of that.

• On the post: New Texas Abortion Law Likely To Unleash A Torrent Of Lawsuits Against Online Education, Advocacy And Other Speech

  

  Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2021 @ 04:03pm

  Isn’t it swell how one reactionary state can fuck over it’s own entire country by calling the shots and making rules and laws that override even the president all based on a nonsensical and insecure culture war that the nonsensical and insecure mob ruling the state desperately wants to win?

  The Inmates are truly ruling the asylum right now.

• On the post: Study Suggests Assholes Online Are Routinely Assholes Offline

  

  Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 03 Sep, 2021 @ 08:15am

  So in other words…

  The salt mines are full of salt.
  The oceans are full of water.
  The color black is very dark.
  When you stand out in the rain, you get wet.

• On the post: Where Texas' Social Media Law & Abortion Law Collide: Facebook Must Keep Up AND Take Down Info On Abortion

  

  Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 02 Sep, 2021 @ 12:44pm

  Re:

  Thankfully that recall effort seems to be on the verge of mostly unlikely (emphasis on seems, after all complacency and apathy brought Trump). But it is a fine example of how batshit insane and petty the GOP has become. They’re recalling Newsom and spend hundreds of millions of campaign dollars—all because he had a really expensive dinner at a restaurant without a mask. That whole fiasco reminds me of this one episode of an animated show called Justice League, when Lex Luthor created a fake, million-dollar presidential campaign just to piss off Superman. That is comparable to the new low of the GOP.

• On the post: Where Texas' Social Media Law & Abortion Law Collide: Facebook Must Keep Up AND Take Down Info On Abortion

  

  Cat_Daddy ( profile ), 02 Sep, 2021 @ 11:30am

  If there’s one thing we can learn from the whole shitshow in Texas is this:

  The GOP might be the most insecure party I’ve ever seen in a political system. They are absolutely driven by emotional response and nothing else. Say what you want about the Democrats, but at least most of us have a grasp of logic and actually try to preserve the constitution in the long term. But for the GOP, it’s always about winning for the sake of it. Even as minuscule as an argument with someone from the other side of the political spectrum. It doesn’t matter if the victory is logical or moral, it’s always for the brief, fleeting feeling of winning.

  The GOP makes the Roman Republic Senate look rational in comparison, and few of those senators were actual gang leaders.

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