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  • On the post: Connecticut Court Orders Blogger To Turn Over Electronic Devices To Cop Suing Over Alleged Defamation By Blog's Commenters

    Mark Gisleson ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2021 @ 07:06am

    Re: Re: Democrat-appointed judge

    Much of the news media makes a big thing about Republican judges. Read any story about the Texas lege and the six-week limit on abortion, and you'll see mentions of who appointed which judge. The Democrats have an equally abysmal record of making very political choices when picking judges. Pro-choice much of the time (but they are not as rigid as the GOP's choices which is why Roe v Wade is now under fire), but Democrats are rigidly consistent in picking judges who will side with authority figures whether they be in law enforcement, copyright or any area of conflict between property and nonwealthy individuals. This judge made a horrendous decision and sided with a cop when there was no legal foundation for doing so. He was appointed by an authoritarian Democrat. Dan Malloy was an asst D.A. in Brooklyn for four years. It's now reasonable to wonder about his relationship with law enforcement. And that's why I think media should always mention who appointed controversial judges. Now that you know a former prosecutor named this judge, you might see this problem as being bigger than just the judge. Connecticut may have lots of judges like him thanks to Dan Malloy. I don't know this, but if I lived in Connecticut I'm sure I'd be following Malloy's judges much more closely. I've worked in politics and Superior Court Judge Cesar Noble didn't just fall off an apple tree. This decision surprised no one who had vetted him for his judgeship. A former prosecutor appoints a pro-police judge and I think the political parties should be mentioned. Not to mention how the overt politics involved props up our phony duopoly. Both parties stink when it comes to appointing fair-minded judges. Supreme Court justices picked by Clinton and Obama have been reliably pro-Wall Street. Etc., but mostly I'm just asking you label the players. In this case you didn't even bother to cite the judge's name despite his central role in making this case newsworthy.

  • On the post: Connecticut Court Orders Blogger To Turn Over Electronic Devices To Cop Suing Over Alleged Defamation By Blog's Commenters

    Mark Gisleson ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2021 @ 11:40am

    Democrat-appointed judge

    It should be noted that the judge was appointed by Democratic Governor Dan Malloy.

    Not criticizing this site, but it's rare for news media to tell us who appointed judges who make bad or controversial decisions. This is almost always helpful information when evaluating what's going on.

  • On the post: Most Information About Disinformation Is Misinformation

    Mark Gisleson ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2021 @ 12:13pm

    You can't sell ads anymore

    If disinformation worked, newspapers would still be able to sell advertising. Newspapers still delivering eyeballs, but advertisers have finally figured out that they weren't getting squat back on their investment.

    2016 made it convenient for the neoliberals to agonize over fake news while at the same time spearheading insanely aggressive warmongering lies about Russia electing Trump.

    The Durham Report is coming out. It's been delayed because the establishment has stalled, refusing to be held accountable for their grotesque lies. If you bought into Russiagate, you don't get to point fingers at others for getting suckered by the fast talking liars who dominate the news cycles these days.

    Both sides lie. A lot. It's time to let go of the things of your youth, and the duopoly should be at the top of that list.

  • On the post: Why Is The Republican Party Obsessed With Social Media?

    Mark Gisleson ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2021 @ 12:42pm

    We need TWO parties

    "Put to one side the knotty question whether the benefits of modernity outweigh the costs. No one can deny the size and sweep of liberal capitalist disruption."

    Being a socialist doesn't mean I'm to the left of the Democratic party, in fact, almost the opposite. Neoliberalism has proven to be a huge boondoggle, putting Wall Street on steroids while picking fights with countries all over the globe.

    We need a sane conservative party as a check on all this warmongering (Bob Dole wasn't wrong when he said that Democrats start most of our wars). It's easy to look at the GOP crazies and think they're the problem, but I think both parties need to be purged and rebuilt from the ground up.

    And then maybe public opinion polls will be on the same page as our govt for a change. Remember that it took both parties to keep us in Afghanistan for two decades. Share the blame.

  • On the post: Oversight Unable To Discover Which FBI Agents Leaked Clinton Investigation Info Because Goddamn Everyone Was Leaking Stuff

    Mark Gisleson ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2021 @ 08:11am

    The Durham Report is finally coming out

    and when it does, I'm sure Mr. Cushing will be equally horrified by the FBI leaks it will highlight.

    Our government is rotten to the core because our institutions are all corrupt.

    The Federal Bureau of Entrapment does whatever it likes and neither party lifts a finger to stop them.

  • On the post: DOJ Leak Investigation Targeted Rep. Adam Schiff And His Family Members

    Mark Gisleson ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2021 @ 10:11am

    Good luck changing Schiff's mind

    Adam Schiff is barely smart enough to have an opinion, let alone rethink one.

  • On the post: Not As Surprising As You May Think: Garland DOJ Says That Trump Denying Raping E. Jean Carroll Was Official Presidential Business

    Mark Gisleson ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2021 @ 10:56am

    Judge Lewis Kaplan?

    Is there more than one Judge Lewis Kaplan? Because if this is the same one who's persecuting Steven Donziger on behalf of Shell Oil, I have to admit that I don't care what his opinion in this matter is or how he reasoned it as it's fruit from a very corrupt tree.

  • On the post: A 90 Year Old Shouldn't Have To Buy A $10,000 Ad Just To Get AT&T To Upgrade His Shitty DSL Line

    Mark Gisleson ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2021 @ 07:00am

    AT&T wrecking sports as well

    If, like me, you've sworn a blood oath to never pay for cable again, the only way you can watch NBA games without cable in many areas is to subscribe to AT&T TV NOW for $80/mo.

    I only watch my home team (and local fans are blacked out from watching on NBA League Pass) and the cost per game has been mounting for decades. Last time I did the math it would have cost me almost $7 per game for legal access. For games that used to be shown for free on broadcast television. The necessary provider seems to change every year, and every year the price goes up.

    I cannot imagine how kids in poor families get to watch sports anymore.

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

    Mark Gisleson ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2020 @ 07:47am

    Wisconsin has been doing this for at least a decade

    When I moved to Wisconsin, the first piece of mail I got was a catalog from a big and fat clothing store targeted to me based on my height and weight which they bought from Wisconsin's DMV. The same DMV that had big TVs on every wall running an occasional PSA but 80% paid commercials.

    I doubt very much only two states are doing this crap. This is the kind of government you get when you put soulless business people in charge of government.

  • On the post: Disinformation Campaigns Are Murky Blends Of Truth, Lies And Sincere Beliefs: Lessons From The Pandemic

    Mark Gisleson ( profile ), 31 Jul, 2020 @ 08:59am

    Here's another article

    Professor Starbird wrote a similar article in 2018: https://medium.com/s/story/the-trolls-within-how-russian-information-operations-infiltrated-online-communities-691fb969b9e4

    Frankly, I'd be more interested in reading about how the CIA uses these strategies domestically.

  • On the post: New Bill Would Kill State Laws Blocking Broadband Competition

    Mark Gisleson ( profile ), 30 Jun, 2020 @ 02:20pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Who are the bill's sponsors?

    They never offer these bills when they can pass. This bill is being offered because they know the Senate will vote it down. It's just politics. If by some chance the Democrats win the Senate and White House this fall, I guarantee a "different" bill will be offered. I've been watching them do this since 1978. It's a head fake. If this was real, they'd have some Republican cosponsors to help get it through the Senate.

  • On the post: New Bill Would Kill State Laws Blocking Broadband Competition

    Mark Gisleson ( profile ), 30 Jun, 2020 @ 08:49am

    Re: Re: Who are the bill's sponsors?

    I doubt very much a good 'red' bill could be drafted. I've worked for the Democratic party. Throwing up a 'perfect' bill when you know it cannot pass the other chamber is virtue signaling. They're taunting us with a bill they would have never submitted if the D's controlled the Senate. Shame on you for buying into this fraud. Republicans may be the perps, but Democrats enabled them every inch of the way.

  • On the post: New Bill Would Kill State Laws Blocking Broadband Competition

    Mark Gisleson ( profile ), 30 Jun, 2020 @ 07:57am

    Who are the bill's sponsors?

    It seems incredibly disingenuous that you would fail to mention that ALL the bill's sponsors are neoliberal Democrats: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/7302/cosponsors?s=1&r=24&overview=closed&searchResultViewType=expanded

  • On the post: Let. The Motherfucker. Burn.

    Mark Gisleson ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2020 @ 04:22pm

    Re: Re: Hennepin Co Prosecutor taken off case by Governor

    The DFL system that anointed Klobuchar their Senatorial candidate in 2006 did the same smooth-the-way crap for Franken in 2008 who had two legit primary opponents. One dropped out when the party and local media took all the air out of the race (which they did big time for Klobuchar). Franken was obviously damaged goods (sorry, you can't do coke with John Belushi and then run for the US Senate) but popular. He barely won against a truly sleazy opponent (Norm Coleman) but it was so close he wasn't seated for six months because of recounts. I didn't think the issues that pushed Franken out of the Senate were disqualifying, and I think he was MN's best Senator since Wellstone, but I'm not in favor of a system that prefers celebrities to serious candidates and I'm fed up with state parties that manipulate their primaries/endorsement processes.

  • On the post: Let. The Motherfucker. Burn.

    Mark Gisleson ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2020 @ 12:54pm

    Hennepin Co Prosecutor taken off case by Governor

    Governor Walz (in office since January 2019 replacing the horrible neoliberal failure Mark Dayton) has removed Freeman from the case and put state AG Keith Ellison (Bernie's pick for DNC chair) in charge.

    People googling Walz are not going to get this guy. Former high school teacher and coach, and early advocate for GLBTQ in prep athletics. Retired as the top sergeant in the MN Natl Guard (which has fewer scandals than most state units). His pick for Lt Gov was a Native American community organizer, Peggy Flanagan. It was a huge surprise to the MN left who were trying to put Walz in a rightwing box for the primary.

    Calling out the Guard in MN was a smart move. The Mpls cops are truly frightening. I had some as clients and they told me stories about the thumpers that would curl your hair. The Mpls police and State Troopers were the most dangerous people in Minnesota this last week. The Guard quieted things down simply by being witnesses to what the cops were doing.

    And yes, there were some out-of-state agitators from the libertarian and white supremacist ranks. I suspect they set most of the fires as most of what burned was a minority business district.

    But keep updating yourself on the situation because this article is already out of date regarding some of what's happened in Minnesota where most of this should be laid at Amy Klobuchar's doorstep (and the DFLers who anointed her and Al Franken).

  • On the post: Smaller Cable Companies Are Giving Up On Cable TV Altogether

    Mark Gisleson ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2020 @ 09:44am

    living deep in the country now

    Last month my very small rural town just got fiber. Local ISP did not charge for installation and tripled my download speeds for $20/mo less than I'd been paying. My upload speeds increased 10x.

    No one at the local office is pushing cable, and they tipped me off to YouTube TV having local sports after SlingTV got shafted by Fox on prices.

    No controversy over any of this, mostly tax dollar subsidized. I can't see a downside for this community.

  • On the post: Once Again, Russian Internet Propaganda Efforts Shown To Be Much Bigger Than Originally Believed

    Mark Gisleson ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2019 @ 05:19pm

    Re: Re: stunned

    An anonymous blogger who goes back to early 2000s and has an excellent track record on calling BS on lies about foreign policy. But if this post surprised you, you're missing a lot of major coverage on Russiagate. Whole thing has fallen apart and is now a laughingstock except among certain members of the media. Very surprised to see such a gullible take published here at Techdirt.

  • On the post: Once Again, Russian Internet Propaganda Efforts Shown To Be Much Bigger Than Originally Believed

    Mark Gisleson ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2019 @ 05:16pm

    Re: MOA link

    Strange how I posted the same link nine minutes later and did in a rude manner and yet was not flagged. There is no reason for your comment to be flagged, Moon of Alabama is a well regarded site.

  • On the post: Once Again, Russian Internet Propaganda Efforts Shown To Be Much Bigger Than Originally Believed

    Mark Gisleson ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2019 @ 01:54pm

    stunned

    to see such garbage published on this great site. Moon of Alabama has already debunked the YAHOO story in question.

    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/07/isikoff-who-first-peddled-the-fake-steele-dossier-invents-new-russian-influence-story.html

  • On the post: As Everyone Knows, In The Age Of The Internet, Privacy Is Dead — Which Is Awkward If You Are A Russian Spy

    Mark Gisleson ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2018 @ 01:30pm

    Salisbury Russians

    Who knows what they were up to, but the notion that the Russians are behind the alleged Skripal poisoning is just flat out wrong.

    Hard to know what May's Tory govt is doing, but if you read independent Russian experts you won't find anyone buying into a Russian plot, not involving the Skripals neither of whom have been allowed to speak with journalists.

    Craig Murray has done a great job of blogging about this. https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/09/the-strange-russian-alibi/

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