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• On the post: Appeals Court Tosses Evidence Illegally Obtained By Opportunistic Cops Who Couldn’t Take ‘Nah’ For An Answer

  

  nasch ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2022 @ 01:33pm

  A dangerous game to play. They might be able to get you on lying to the police (they're allowed to lie to you but not vice versa) if they do call your bluff. And even if the charges don't stick, or you don't even get charged, you could spend the night in jail for your trouble. Better to just rely on the rights the Constitution grants you. You still can't stop them from arresting you inappropriately, but you will be on solid ground.

• On the post: California Legislators Introduce Bill To Blame Internet Companies For Kids Liking Their Products

  

  nasch ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2022 @ 08:53am

  “My kid likes watching TikTok videos more than talking to her uncool parents, so let’s sue!”

  Not that this is a good law, but the "despite the user’s desire to cease or reduce that use" part of it will at least get such a case kicked out quickly.

• On the post: Whistleblower Says Intelligence Community Members Filled Internal Messaging System With Hate Speech, Support For Insurrectionists

  

  nasch ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2022 @ 08:35am

  Law enforcement

  those deeply involved in law enforcement and surveillance rarely get into it to make the world a better place.

  ooooo, davec is going to be so mad!

• On the post: News Org Demands Josh Hawley Stop Using Raised Fist Photo On His Campaign Merch

  

  nasch ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2022 @ 08:10am

  Fair points, but the photo is not the only reason people are buying the mugs. It's also to support Hawley. So Politico could not have had such success selling mugs with this photo on them.

• On the post: Appeals Court Tosses Evidence Illegally Obtained By Opportunistic Cops Who Couldn’t Take ‘Nah’ For An Answer

  

  nasch ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2022 @ 07:43am

  Protective

  Specifically, the district court concluded that the “search of [Buster’s] bag” was constitutionally reasonable under the protective search doctrine

  How about the police can choose to search whatever they want for their own safety, but cannot use any evidence from those searches for anything? I bet that would cut down on those types of searches by a good 90%.

• On the post: No, U.S. Broadband Isn’t Miraculously Getting Cheaper

  

  nasch ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2022 @ 08:35pm

  so real issues become what ‘should be’ the current operational US hispeed broadband coverage

  As close to 100% as feasible.

  and how much ‘should’ it cost consumers ?

  I would say however much municipal broadband customers are paying sounds reasonable.

• On the post: Now That White Musicians Are Getting Sued For Copyright, Lawyers Say Copyright Needs To Change

  

  nasch ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2022 @ 10:12am

  Adam Neely also weighed in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnA1QmZvSNs

• On the post: Fucking Hell: David Mamet Files The Most Pointless, Silly Amicus Brief In Texas Content Moderation Appeal

  

  nasch ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2022 @ 09:33am

  He was creating art, and you don't provide citations for art.

• On the post: ‘Preeminent’ Constitutional Legal Scholar Files Embarrassingly Confused Amicus Brief In Favor Of Texas’ Ability To Tell Websites How To Moderate

  

  nasch ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2022 @ 08:49am

  Not that you're going to answer, Koby, but what law or court case does the "publisher/platform" distinction come from?

• On the post: Beneficiary Of First Amendment Protections Says Fourth Amendment Shouldn’t Be Respected By Cops, Courts

  

  nasch ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2022 @ 08:31am

  Playing the left, there is no reason for the stop and thus anything happening because of the stop is excluded... Playing the right, it doesn’t matter why they stopped him, a crime happens during the stop.

  So by left and right, you mean respect for the Constitution and no respect for the Constitution?

  If opening the trunk during a reasonless stop produces a billion on coke and the driver blows the cop’s head off… does the driver walk free?

  He should not face charges for the possession of "a billion on coke", whatever that is, and be arrested and charged with murder for shooting the cop.

  Does finding drugs in an illegal stop and the consequential collection of those drugs constitute an illegal confiscation of property and thus result in the drugs being returned as his having the drugs would have remained unknown?

  An interesting question. I'm pretty sure police have caught some people by offering to return their illegal drugs to them, and they were dumb enough to take them up on it. My guess is such return is not required.

  Oh, and HTF does shooting your own dick off result in attempted murder.

  I think that might be one of those "police lies" that were mentioned.

• On the post: Beneficiary Of First Amendment Protections Says Fourth Amendment Shouldn’t Be Respected By Cops, Courts

  

  nasch ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2022 @ 08:27am

  what we have here now is the fruit of the forbidden tree!

  Fruit of the forbidden tree -> I assume the forbidden fruit in the garden of Eden. Fruit of the poisonous tree -> evidence that arises subsequent to an illegal search, which must be discarded.

• On the post: Beneficiary Of First Amendment Protections Says Fourth Amendment Shouldn’t Be Respected By Cops, Courts

  

  nasch ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2022 @ 08:23am

  Constitution

  If it were possible to amend it, we might very well end up making it worse.

• On the post: New York Times Begins The ‘Wordle’ IP Purge, Gets ‘Wordle Archive’ Taken Down

  

  nasch ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2022 @ 07:43am

  Worldle

  I hope they don't go after worldle; I've been enjoying that one.

• On the post: Performative Conservatives Are Mad That A Search Engine Wants To Downrank Disinformation

  

  nasch ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2022 @ 08:46pm

  Censoring, removal of results

  That's not censoring.

  Up ranking. Google is on record as elevating some sources over others. Down ranking. Something we know is done (beyond the premise of up ranking) based on leaked agreements with the MPA.

  Right, every search engine makes a decision on what order to show the results in. Otherwise they would have to print them all on top of each other and you wouldn't be able to read or click anything. You can disagree with their decisions about how to order results, but demanding that they not be in any order is nonsensical. And as mentioned there is no one objectively correct order.

  Manipulation. Presenting results outside of classical sorting methods.

  There hasn't been a "classical sorting method" search engine in a long time, because techniques that result in more useful results have been developed. That is never coming back.

  Good? Only if you agree with burying anything you don’t like or want and pretending it doesn’t exist.

  I have no idea how you even think that is what I'm in favor of.

  But from my standpoint it equals more regulation of the internet.

  Regulation is by government. This is a company deciding how it wants to run its operations.

• On the post: Performative Conservatives Are Mad That A Search Engine Wants To Downrank Disinformation

  

  nasch ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2022 @ 05:21pm

  less censored.

  They're neither censoring nor being censored.

  Less up/down ranked.

  There's no such thing. The results from any search on any search engine are ranked from the result that the search engine has decided is most likely to be the one you want, to the least. No search engine is any more or less ranked than another.

  Less manipulation.

  What does that even mean?

  Once a company begins such a process, historically, it doesn’t end at the first and only time.

  Good. They're going to get left behind if they stop trying to improve their search results.

• On the post: First Amendment Group Tells Appeals Court University Officials Shouldn’t Have Access To Qualified Immunity

  

  nasch ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2022 @ 01:44pm

  Real nice of them to fit so much blind bootlicking into their “defense of rights” and ignore that qualified immunity for police is given in situations without a need to make split second decisions (stealing money, suspect already in custody, etc).

  Since this case has nothing to do with police, it isn't really relevant whether QI is ever granted to police inappropriately.

• On the post: Performative Conservatives Are Mad That A Search Engine Wants To Downrank Disinformation

  

  nasch ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2022 @ 01:00pm

  Your pushing that a method or option to turn off filters and use generic raw ordering is somehow bad?

  Because it makes no sense. There is no reason to think the earliest page to have appeared on the web containing a keyword is the one that will be most relevant to your search on that keyword. That's why no search engine does that.

• On the post: Following The Murder Of George Floyd, The Minneapolis PD Built A Large-Scale Surveillance Program

  

  nasch ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2022 @ 11:44am

  That may not be as absolute as you think. There have been some court cases finding that while there is no general expectation of privacy in public, that does not give the government the right to use surveillance devices to track a person's public movements continuously and for an extended period of time without a warrant or at least a good reason to suspect a crime. My understanding is this issue is nowhere near being settled yet.

• On the post: Minneapolis Cops Who Watched Officer Derek Chauvin Kill George Floyd Convicted On Federal Charges

  

  nasch ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2022 @ 10:52am

  If I killed someone I might.

• On the post: Ignoring EARN IT’s Fourth Amendment Problem Won’t Make It Go Away

  

  nasch ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2022 @ 09:38am

  Whatever CSAM they find could get thrown out in court should a user thus ensnared raise a Fourth Amendment challenge during a resulting prosecution.

  Are Senators Blumenthal and Graham interested in a law that would make it impossible to prosecute child porn offenses? Is that their goal with this? Am I accusing Blumenthal and Graham of being child pornographers? Just asking questions!

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