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• On the post: As Part Of Its War On Encryption, Russia Briefly Blocks All Of Wikipedia Over One Weed Reference

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 26 Aug, 2015 @ 04:42pm

  Re: shame on you techdirt

  I have to wonder if this is someone impersonating a paid Russian shill in order to make them look bad.

• On the post: Insanity Rules: NSA Apologists Actually Think Apple Protecting You & Your Data Could Be 'Material Support' For ISIS

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2015 @ 01:54pm

  Why Apple?

  Why concentrate on a company like Apple rather than, say, software like PGP? Is it just because everyone will recognize Apple, or is it something else?

• On the post: Legal Giant Dentons Demonstrates Exactly How Not To Respond To Critical Media Coverage

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 24 Jun, 2015 @ 05:06pm

  Some at Denton's has a little devil sitting on their shoulder, whispering in their ear "That hole isn't nearly deep enough. Dig faster. Faster!"

• On the post: Designer Knockoff Enthusiast Issues DMCA Notice Targeting Half The Internet, Fails To Remove A Single URL

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2015 @ 04:35pm

  The article that was published on my blog together with the layout and design features of my blog

  Maybe she thinks that DMCA notices can be used for look-and-feel "voilations"?

• On the post: Sign Of The Times: Warrant Canary Management Software Is Now A Thing

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2015 @ 03:16am

  Re: Forced to lie

  The EFF has a warrant canary FAQ. On being forced to lie:

  Have courts upheld compelled speech?
  
  Rarely. In a few instances, the courts have upheld compelled speech in the commercial context, where the government shows that the compelled statements convey important truthful information to consumers. For example, warnings on cigarette packs are a form of compelled commercial speech that have sometimes been upheld, and sometimes struck down, depending on whether the government shows there is a rational basis for the warning.
  
  Have courts upheld compelled false speech?
  
  No, and the cases on compelled speech have tended to rely on truth as a minimum requirement. For example, Planned Parenthood challenged a requirement that physicians tell patients seeking abortions of an increased risk of suicidal ideation. The court found that Planned Parenthood did not meet its burden of showing that the disclosure was untruthful, misleading, or not relevant to the patient’s decision to have an abortion.

• On the post: Twitter Testing Secret Filter To Stop Abuse: Is That A Good Thing Or An Attack On Free Speech?

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2014 @ 12:01pm

  Re: Why is this complicated? Just give spam control to users

  Also: 1) don't completely block the tweet, just have it not show up the the recipient or the recipient's followers, 2) do this quietly, so the sender isn't aware of it thus receives no feedback to use to try to get around the recipient's personalized filters.

• On the post: Roca Labs Sues Witness Who Came Forward In Its Lawsuit Against PissedConsumer

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2014 @ 01:49pm

  Surely there's some law, either statutory or caselaw, which prevents lawsuits and/or contracts from being used to prevent people from providing testimony for a court case?

• On the post: Roca Labs Lawsuit Gets Even More Bizarre: Now With An 'Unauthorized' Guest Appearance By 'TV Celebrity' Alfonso Ribeiro

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2014 @ 07:19pm

  Next step: Roca suing Ribeiro

  C'mon, Roca, you can do it! Dig that hole deeper! Throw away your shovel and get a backhoe!

• On the post: Baltimore Ravens Meet Streisand Effect After Trying To Play 'Hide The Tweet'

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2014 @ 01:49am

  Re: Re: drawing the line (in case you're not trolling)

  No self defense against women by men? Yeah, bullshit. I haven't watched the video of the incident in question, so I don't know what he did in this particular instance was justified, but as a general principle it's absolutely fine.

• On the post: DOJ Pretends No Fly Guidelines Haven't Been Leaked, Claims 'State Secrets' To Avoid Revealing Them To The Judge

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 29 Aug, 2014 @ 11:36pm

  They seem to be implicitly admitting that they think the State Secrets privilege depends only upon their say-so, and that the contents of the document are completely irrelevant.

• On the post: Unsealed Motions Shows How Team Prenda Sought To Hide Money

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2014 @ 10:17am

  To play devil's advocate...

  It's possible that they've already spent all that money, and they really can't afford to pay any of the fines.
  
  Of course, the manner in which they were moving the money around could still bite them in the ass, even if the money is actually all gone.

• On the post: NYPD Puts Terrorism On The Run By Ordering Twitter To Turn Over Parody Account User Data 'Linked' To Brooklyn Bridge Flag-Switching

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2014 @ 07:56pm

  Re: logic?

  No, see, by leaving a clue that they were successful, the police will put in more cameras. Then the terrorists put bombs into the cameras! Mwuahahahaha! twirls mustache

• On the post: Kudos To Wikimedia Foundation For Resisting All Government Requests To Censor Content

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2014 @ 01:15am

  Re: Copyright claim on an entire language

  Well, it is a constructed/artificial language, so making a copyright claim on it isn't nearly as absurd as would an attempt to claim copyright on, say, English.

• On the post: Appeals Court Smacks Down Team Prenda… Again

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2014 @ 08:48am

  Somehow, the first time around I'd missed Prenda claiming that it was illegal for the ISPs to try to get the subpoena quashed. I mean, wow.

• On the post: California Highway Patrol Seizes Medical Records Of Woman An Officer Was Caught On Tape Beating

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 21 Jul, 2014 @ 05:17pm

  Re: They likely what the medical records for a different reason...

  But for that they could have used a subpoena to get copies of the records after the lawsuit started, rather than taking the records before it ever starts.

• On the post: Lawsuit Filed To Force NYPD To Respect Citizens' First Amendment Right To Record Police Officers

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2014 @ 06:10pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  The cops have to first detain you before a "stop and identify" statute applies. And if they have an excuse to detain you, then they don't need to ask your name to keep you detained.

• On the post: Details Leak On How Secret Global Treaty Will Force Countries To Further Deregulate Financial Sector

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2014 @ 10:00pm

  In a significant anti-transparency manoeuvre by the parties, the draft has been classified to keep it secret not just during the negotiations but for five years after the TISA enters into force.

  Wait, so the drafts will be classified but the final version will be open? What's the point?

• On the post: Judge Orders DOJ To Hand Over FISA Court's Justification For Bulk Data Collection On Americans In FOIA Lawsuit

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2014 @ 04:00pm

  Re:

  This is a secret interpretation of what the government is allowed to do. There hasn't (yet) been any (documented) instances of secret interpretations of laws about what private citizens are prohibited from doing.

• On the post: Administration Helping Bury Documents Related To Local Law Enforcement Use Of Cell Tower Spoofers

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2014 @ 06:10pm

  Intervening in criminal trials

  Citing security reasons, the U.S. has intervened in routine state public records cases and criminal trials regarding use of the technology.

  The linked article didn't have much details on this. Did a defense attorney attempt to challenge the use of the cell tower spoofer, but to do so would need details about the spoofer, and the DA refused to hand over the info on grounds of national security?

• On the post: Watch Dogs Now Proactively Being Blamed For Traffic Sign Hacking By Apparent Pre-Crime Division

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2014 @ 11:57pm

  Confused? Let me explain.

  ... No, there is too much. Let me sum up.

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