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• On the post: DEA’s Alarmist-In-Chief Thinks It’s Time To Start Regulating Social Media Moderation Efforts

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2023 @ 11:20am

  It is what I call

  Whatever follows "It is what I call" is destined to be cringeworthily awful. I should call that something.

• On the post: TV Industry’s Idea Of Innovation: A Free TV With A Second Small TV That Constantly Shows You Ads

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 19 May, 2023 @ 10:55am

  PREP HARDER KARL

  Karl, I can't find the right emotion for all the "Just" posts here - the ones with the word 'just' followed by some suggestion you fielded in your article. Does it ever feel like you're surrounded by people in an ocean asking where the water is?

• On the post: National Guardsman Arrested For Leaking Top Secret Ukraine War Documents On Discord

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2023 @ 04:24pm

  this isn’t someone leaking documents as a service to the public. From all appearances, these leaks were motivated by a desire to win respect from online peers

  So this guy is more of a David Patraeus than a Reality Winner

• On the post: NPR Was Twitter’s Example Of What Should NOT Be Labeled ‘State-Affiliated Media.’ Then Musk Added The Label And Retconned The Policy

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2023 @ 11:45am

  That time NPR did it right

  I was pretty far R in 2008 (as Karl @ DSLR might be able to attest). I was also fairly frustrated trying to find a news outlet interviewing conservative pols who could enunciate competitive policies in a helpful way. Fox news had gotten long lost after their 1B hours of Natalie Halloway coverage. The network presenting pols the best was NPR (tho ABC was often good). All thru the 2008 election cycle, they made a point of getting R pols capable of answering complex policy questions (in a meaningful way) and put them against D pols who did the same. To this day I consider NPR 08 to be the gold standard of election coverage - something I haven't been able to say (about anyone) since.

• On the post: FCC Finally Gets Around To Cracking Down On Annoying Robotexts

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 07 Oct, 2022 @ 08:28am

  Next step is to fix the fix

  "mobile wireless providers to block texts, at the network level, that purport to be from invalid, unallocated, or unused numbers, and numbers on a Do-Not-Originate (DNO) list." I'm hoping we won't have a similar issue to that when previously unallocated blocks of IP addresses (on bogon lists) are put into service. Large carriers can be good at getting the memos but small ones can lag behind. For new numbers, new area codes get wide advertisement but smaller number groups get allocated to MVNOs all the time. These two small factors may wind up being problem points.

• On the post: Six Republican AGs Try To Pretend OAN Was ‘Censored’ By DirecTV

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2022 @ 08:28am

  It's more true than not.

  Recovering conservative here. I was there when RW platforms typically included notions like competing in the 'marketplace of ideas' (instead of compelling viewpoints via law), smaller government (except military) and even pushed back against LEO overreach [after Ruby Ridge] (instead of overt throbbing lust for all things LEO). Unfortunately, my old ideology lost itself in endlessly reacting to the Left and eventually became a caricature of those responses. In short, RW American adopted everything it despised in the Left. The human revulsion to cleaning one's own house eventually does us in.

• On the post: Students Have Rights: Court Dumps Evidence After Cops Rely On A Month-Old Anonymous Tip To Search A Minor

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2021 @ 07:36am

  In My Day No Warrant Was Necessary

  Because in my day the search would have been done by a principal who would have found my pot and suspended me.

  What wouldn't have happened is bringing cops to the school, arresting me and inflicting permanent damage to my entire life via a minor arrest record - partially because cops weren't omnipresent in schools. Also not of happened was having that arrest persistently ruin future employment and housing opportunities because most businesses didn't compulsively look for irrelevant reasons to deny employment and housing.

  This last is a note for anyone thinking that today's minor arrest doesn't carry 100x the penalty that it did - in my day.

• On the post: Judge Ignores First Amendment, Misreads Town Law, While Ordering Resident To Remove 'Fuck Biden' Signs

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2021 @ 10:26am

  a 2021 New Jersey town that's located in a state best known for mob violence, corrupt politicians, and residents considered only slightly less terrible than Philadelphians.

  I take strong issue with this assertion. New Jersey, where a FU followed by forcing your car into a guardrail is considered a polite hello (looking at you Brunswick), is a far more terrible place than Philly could ever hope be.

• On the post: Biden Executive Order Disrupts Hot DC Trend Of Pretending 'Big Telecom' Doesn't Exist

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2021 @ 07:07pm

  "The Obama-Biden Administration's FCC adopted 'Net Neutrality' rules that required these companies to treat all internet services equally..."

  Adopted in the last 15 min of the Obama presidency, so it had almost no time to become established.

  End stage Obama was like the decades-absent dad suddenly wanting to parent in his adult kids' lives. We frankly needed candidate Obama to show up, about 7.5 years earlier than he did.

• On the post: Michigan Legislator With No Understanding Of The 1st Amendment Wants To Fine Fact Checkers For Pointing Out His Lies

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 15 May, 2021 @ 08:02am

  I'm in FL, best friend is in MI. We have determined the problem is Peninsulas.

  I propose a law . . .

• On the post: Big Telecom Sues New York State For Trying To Bring Cheap Broadband To Poor People

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 07 May, 2021 @ 07:29am

  Thanks Karl

• On the post: The Washington Post Thought It Might Be Nice To Provide Free Book Marketing To Insurrectionist Josh Hawley

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 04 May, 2021 @ 06:42pm

  Thanks Karl

• On the post: US Department Of Education Now Investigating Florida Sheriff's Student 'Pre-Crime' Program

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2021 @ 09:04am

  Re: nothing like a little EXTORTION!

  Longtime Pasco resident adding some perspective here: About a decade ago, Bob White was an awful sheriff, concerned with fat budgets and little else. We once had experienced cops (retired then moved here) who were really good at handling complex situations. White fired them to avoid paying pensions and replaced them with new, inexperienced deputies - who were mostly tasked to raise revenue. During routine traffic stops, I had cops show up at my window visibly quivering with rage. Officers responding to neighborhood disputes where easily manipulated and pitted against actual victims. White resigned mid-term w/o explanation and Nocco was appointed. A lot of positive turn around followed. Bad cops were let go, some after long fights with the police union. Traffic infractions that don't pose actual risk are generally ignored. A deputy friend explained that it wasn't worth their time. I've been part of situations involving police and the local homeless community and the officers were consistently respectful and considerate. I'm easily critical of police in general but this is the kind of policing every community should have. None of this excuses this program, however.

• On the post: US Department Of Education Now Investigating Florida Sheriff's Student 'Pre-Crime' Program

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2021 @ 08:40am

  Re:

  Having kids in Pasco schools, I'm far more concerned with the superintendent's choice to firehose our kids' records into this family-hazing program. With top school leadership partnering with bullies, our kids are at whole new levels of risk.

• On the post: US Department Of Education Now Investigating Florida Sheriff's Student 'Pre-Crime' Program

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2021 @ 08:33am

  Re:

  For it's population size, west Pasco county is one of the whitest demographics in the US. Targeting kids of color here takes diligence and dedication to the task.

• On the post: Supreme Court Sides With Google In Decade-Long Fight Over API Copyright; Google's Copying Of Java API Is Fair Use

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2021 @ 11:06am

  Me explaining a 3-branches diff to my kids

  Supreme Court justices understand what they have learned.

  Elected officials understand what major donors pay them to learn.

• On the post: AT&T Whines That California Net Neutrality Rules Are Forcing It To Behave

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2021 @ 09:53am

  Karl's word-builds make the universe a little better.

• On the post: Illinois Lawmaker Proposes Unconstitutional Ban Of 'GTA' In Response To Carjackings

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2021 @ 11:40am

  I find myself wishing for a historical list of US moral panics - with analysis about how well they held up.

• On the post: Trump's FCC Nominee Asked Fox News To Help Destroy Section 230 To Help Elect More Republicans

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 26 Nov, 2020 @ 07:50am

  There is an elegance in well formed structures of law and I feel the framers were better than most at capturing that and setting us on a path that continued it.

  This story exemplifies what the absence of those structures looks like. To see this as a problem that begins and ends with one man is too narrow a view to be helpful. A better takeaway is that the fragility of the structure is on display here - that it can evaporate the moment we stop sustaining it.

• On the post: FBI Horrified To Discover Ring Doorbells Can Tip Off Citizens To The Presence Of Federal Officers At Their Door

  

  NoahVail ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2020 @ 07:50am

  Re:

  Technology is objective

  We can compare tech to humans. It tends to start out neutral but with development comes biases.

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