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• On the post: While Social Media Was Quick To Highlight And Limit The Spread Of False Claims Of Election Victory, Traditional Media Just Let It Flow

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2020 @ 09:18am

  Mail-in ballots after election day vs stop counting votes

  I think when Trump says "Votes cannot be cast after the Polls are closed" he's talking about mail-in ballots postmarked by election day but received after election day. Which is still bad, since that's state matter, and voters in states that allow it were depending upon "postmarked by election day" to be the deadline, but it's not as bad as "stop counting all ballots", which you're making it out to be.

• On the post: Virginia Governor Passes A Long List Of Police Reforms, Including A Ban On No-Knock Warrants

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2020 @ 09:54am

  Re: It became an excuse…

  I'm pretty sure that qualified immunity only applies to lawsuits, and has application to criminal charges.

• On the post: Shiva Ayyadurai's Lawsuit Against A Massachusetts Official Actually Raises An Interesting 1st Amendment Question About Election Disinformation

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2020 @ 11:22am

  Re: Re:

  I dunno, I once read an interview of his on Ars Technica and he seemed to be the type to believe his own hype. It actually disturbed me a tiny bit at how delusional he came off.

• On the post: Shiva Ayyadurai's Lawsuit Against A Massachusetts Official Actually Raises An Interesting 1st Amendment Question About Election Disinformation

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2020 @ 11:01am

  Did Ayyadurai merely want to do his own ballot counting? Because that's all he could do with the ballot images if the names and addresses were redacted from the ballot images (in a world were those images actually existed).

• On the post: Free Market Advocate Switches Sides, Calls For Direct Government Interference In Online Moderation Decisions

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2020 @ 12:05pm

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  I'm curious as to why you'd want (or at least be satisfied with) the law applying by whether or not the site is commercial, as opposed to the size of the site's audience/membership. For instance, Wikipedia is a non-profit with a huge audience, and many people think that it has an anti-conservative bias. I'm also curious as to what would turn a personal blog into a commercial platform. Banner ads? Links to your Patreon account?

• On the post: Free Market Advocate Switches Sides, Calls For Direct Government Interference In Online Moderation Decisions

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2020 @ 11:38am

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  "When a commercial platform de facto replaces the public forum, then either free speech must be enforced on that forum or free speech dies."

  So would you be satisfied if the changes you want were applied just to large social media sites like Twitter and Facebook? Or would you want it to apply to every social media type site, including things like the comments section of personal blogs, pro-LGBT forums, anti-LGBT forums, and so on?

• On the post: Senator Wyden Wants To Know If The NSA Is Still Demanding Tech Companies Build Backdoors Into Their Products

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2020 @ 02:34am

  Re: Sometimes silence speaks for itself

  I'm no fan of the NSA, but I have to disagree here. If you answer questions sometimes but refuse to answer questions other times, it lets other infer information, but if you refuse to answer any questions about anything then no one can infer information from your refusal to answer.

• On the post: Facebook's Threat To NYU Researchers Is A Mistake, But It's The Inevitable Follow On To Overreaction To Cambridge Analytica

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2020 @ 01:08am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Grave Matter Has Arisen -- Explain this, &qu

  And for that matter, "Khym Chanur", explain your name change from "___"!

  I decided to try to minimize the connection between my handle "Khym Chanur" and my real name. If I could have I would have renamed my account to my real name, but I can only change the display name. I decided that I didn't want to start all over again with a new account, so I just changed my display name back to the same as my account name. For occasions where mere minimization of the connection isn't enough, I create brand new accounts with account names and email entirely separate from either "Khym Chanur" or my real name.

• On the post: Facebook's Threat To NYU Researchers Is A Mistake, But It's The Inevitable Follow On To Overreaction To Cambridge Analytica

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2020 @ 08:22am

  From a tweet by Sriram Krishnan, quoted in a tweet by Rob Leathern:

  User consent is meaningless here as you can’t consent for your friends.

  1. A browser plugin has access to all of your friends data who never consented to this.

  2. Even if limited to ads ( a huge IF), ads also have embedded social data from friends which doesn’t belong to you

  1) What friends data would the plugin have access to, besides the list of who your friends are? (I don't use Facebook, so I wouldn't know)
  2) What social data about your friends is embedded in ads on Facebook?

• On the post: Join The Fan Fiction Deep State And Watch This Latest Video That Addison Cain Really Doesn't Want You To See

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2020 @ 03:52pm

  I laughed and laughed and laughed when that video covered the EFF/OTW conspiracy theory.

  the original letter from Watson seemed to be claiming ... "numerous false statements" that I could see no evidence of.

  As far as I can tell the lawyer seemed to be saying that something only counts as perjury if a court has deemed it such, and thus Cain didn't commit perjury. (So, y'know, more bullshit)

• On the post: Bill Barr's Google 'Antitrust Inquiry' Is A Weaponized Farce

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2020 @ 10:28pm

  Re: Re: Re: Pretty Clear

  Mike constantly argues from the flawed consumer-harm angle of antitrust

  What's flawed about using that as the primary angle of antitrust?

• On the post: Court Says Twitter Must Unmask User Whose Bogus Document Jumpstarted Seth Rich Conspiracy Theory

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 14 Oct, 2020 @ 04:40am

  Additionally, Rich has shown that Defendants will likely rely on the affirmative defense of truth with regard to the FBI Report, which weighs in favor of a finding of good faith.

  So the defendants are going to claim not just that they thought the report was true, but that the report is true, so the plaintiff is trying to prove that the report can't be true because the owner of the anonymous Twitter account isn't with the FBI and thus had no means of acquiring genuine FBI reports?

• On the post: 16K COVID-19 Cases Go Missing In UK Due To Government's Use Of Excel CSVs For Tracking

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2020 @ 03:41pm

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  Or, as /r/TaleFromTechSupport would say, "CYA" (Cover Your Ass).

• On the post: Our New Monetization Experiment: Coil & The Web Monetization Protocol

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 07 Oct, 2020 @ 12:28pm

  Have you considered trying Google again, to see if maybe they got their shit together in the past few months?

• On the post: 'Make Him A Suspect:' Documents Show Rochester PD's Response To Officers' Killing Of An Unarmed Black Man

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2020 @ 04:19am

  I'm surprised that they didn't "accidentally" erase the body cam footage.

• On the post: Minnesota Cops Are Dismantling Criminal Organizations At Less Than $1,000 A Pop

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2020 @ 08:08am

  Re:

  I think that only works on prepaid cards.

• On the post: CBP So Confused It Seizes Clearly Labeled OnePlus Earbuds, And Falsely Claims They're Counterfeit Apple Airpods

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2020 @ 01:56pm

  Lots of people on Twitter are blaming OnePlus for "ripping off" Apple's design.

• On the post: Why Are There Currently No Ads On Techdirt? Apparently Google Thinks We're Dangerous

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2020 @ 10:51am

  Re: Maybe it's just Google

  Maybe the captchas are from content delivery networks?

• On the post: Why Are There Currently No Ads On Techdirt? Apparently Google Thinks We're Dangerous

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2020 @ 10:52am

  Are you going to try AdSense again in a month or two to see if they've fixed their shit by then?

• On the post: Congressional Reps Want To Know Why The California DMV Is Making $50 Million A Year Selling Driver Data

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2020 @ 04:37am

  the DMV said the $50 million/year it makes on data sales only offsets the cost of "administering its requester program." I

  Assuming this to be true, the possibilities I can think of:

  1. The DMV receives such a mind-boggling huge number of requests per year that it really does take $50 million to handle all the requests.
  2. They've outsourced most of the operation, and whoever they outsourced it to is ripping them off.
  3. Lots and lots of embezzlement.

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