I live in Georgia and I know him. The only reason he didn't do Trump's bidding is because he didn't want to go to prison for Trump. As for systematically disenfranchising Democratic voters, mainly black, he is enthusiastically aggressive.
He did one good thing in his life to keep himself out of prison. That doesn't make him a hero or cancel out everything else he does.
And he's baffled that anyone even cares about the content they're advertising on. He'll never change course because he thinks he is the greatest genius that ever lived. Eventually, TwiX will go bankrupt and we won't be forced to listen to him anymore. I mean seriously -- who pays for the opportunity to be insulted?
Should be prima facie evidence of intent to commit a criminal act and should at the very least result in being fired.
In fact, given how dirt cheap memory is these days, it should be impossible to turn off a body camera except with a special tool held by a responsible officer at the station. When the cop is on shift, the camera should be recording. All the time. And when he goes off shift the data should be immediately dumped to a file server, with a data retention plan, and, again, a single officer in charge of managing that server so we know who the criminal was if data goes missing.
"tend to respond to things they can’t immediately control with violence."
Cops are trained to do exactly that. They are trained to continuously escalate a situation until they achieve dominance. Cops are thugs. You can't rely on them for protection, even when it doesn't involve mental illness.
Everybody praised Brad Raffensburger for failing to follow Donald Trump's coup attempt, and he does deserve praise for that. However, I suspect he just didn't want to go to prison on behalf of Trump because I've lived here for a long time and he has no problem whatsoever with voter suppression and disenfranchisement. His only red line is not doing anything blatantly illegal. Other than that, he's game.
You can have all the rights you can afford to sue over. For most of us, that is none at all. Deeper pockets can do whatever they want to us and our only defense is to try to stay out of the way.
That seems to me like a "chilling effect on speech" but what do I know? I am not possessed of a mighty legal brain.
This is the exact opposite of the reasoning that Alito signed on to in the Masterpiece Cakes case. There, a baker could not be forced to create a cake bearing a message he disagreed with for religious reasons. Here, he believes a content provider should be forced to promote content which the content provider disagrees with.
Cops get in trouble in one jurisdiction, even convicted of felonies, and they just go to the county next door to get hired there. There is no national database of malfeasant cops but there damn well ought to be.
Cops are scum.
That means it has t0 satisfy a number of laws that private companies are exempt from. This is to protect the rights of shareholders. If you're private, you don't have any shareholders.
One of these laws is that executive salary negotiations must be arms-length transactions, not deals between cronies. The evidence showed that Musk wrote his compensation package and the board rubber stamped it. That isn't arms length.
Is anyone harmed? Well, money that doesn't go to Musk goes to shareholders, and that seems like harm when you take it away. Even if that were not the case, the Trump argument that yes, I broke the law but no one was harmed is not a thing in law. You break the law and there are consequences.
Imagine I try to rob a bank but a teller sets the alarm off and I panic and run from the police, taking no money. No one is harmed. So no crime, right?
the only entity that can practice censorship is the government. So it has nothing to do with "platforms the censor controls" unless those platforms are owned by the government.
TikTok has not been censored. They can still post anything they damn well please. They just can't use state resources to distribute it. Surely you recognize that no one has the right to use public money to distribute any screed they want?
It really pisses me off the extent to which conservatives want to pretend they don't understand free speech.
so stop
appointing ex-prosecutors to the federal bench.
You want to get their attention?
Change the law so that instead of fines they face criminal penalties. Put a few C-suite dwellers in prison and they'll get the message.
You can't fire anyone at the NYPD
because the Union is nuts.
You're assuming he cares about the Constitution
As opposed to running for governor.
I would sympathize wioth Raffensberger except
I live in Georgia and I know him. The only reason he didn't do Trump's bidding is because he didn't want to go to prison for Trump. As for systematically disenfranchising Democratic voters, mainly black, he is enthusiastically aggressive. He did one good thing in his life to keep himself out of prison. That doesn't make him a hero or cancel out everything else he does.
Musk is 100% id
And he's baffled that anyone even cares about the content they're advertising on. He'll never change course because he thinks he is the greatest genius that ever lived. Eventually, TwiX will go bankrupt and we won't be forced to listen to him anymore. I mean seriously -- who pays for the opportunity to be insulted?
Turning off body cameras
Should be prima facie evidence of intent to commit a criminal act and should at the very least result in being fired. In fact, given how dirt cheap memory is these days, it should be impossible to turn off a body camera except with a special tool held by a responsible officer at the station. When the cop is on shift, the camera should be recording. All the time. And when he goes off shift the data should be immediately dumped to a file server, with a data retention plan, and, again, a single officer in charge of managing that server so we know who the criminal was if data goes missing.
Please
"tend to respond to things they can’t immediately control with violence." Cops are trained to do exactly that. They are trained to continuously escalate a situation until they achieve dominance. Cops are thugs. You can't rely on them for protection, even when it doesn't involve mental illness.
I live in Atlanta
Everybody praised Brad Raffensburger for failing to follow Donald Trump's coup attempt, and he does deserve praise for that. However, I suspect he just didn't want to go to prison on behalf of Trump because I've lived here for a long time and he has no problem whatsoever with voter suppression and disenfranchisement. His only red line is not doing anything blatantly illegal. Other than that, he's game.
Just goes to underline my point
You can have all the rights you can afford to sue over. For most of us, that is none at all. Deeper pockets can do whatever they want to us and our only defense is to try to stay out of the way. That seems to me like a "chilling effect on speech" but what do I know? I am not possessed of a mighty legal brain.
Qualified immunity
strikes again. Cops can enforce the law without knowing what the law is. Or without caring what the law is.
Wedding cakes
This is the exact opposite of the reasoning that Alito signed on to in the Masterpiece Cakes case. There, a baker could not be forced to create a cake bearing a message he disagreed with for religious reasons. Here, he believes a content provider should be forced to promote content which the content provider disagrees with.
Musk
You are aware that Musk defines himself as politically neutral, right?
It isn't hard at all
But it also isn't bidness.
Forget it, Jake. It's Floridatown.
In a state bursting with nuts, passiung nutcase enabling legislation is probably a bad idea.
shoes
My Birkenstocks are the Milano style. Will my feet face a takedown demand?
without federal subsidies
he would be just another loudmouth libertarian shouting at homeless people for being takers.
this happens all the time
Cops get in trouble in one jurisdiction, even convicted of felonies, and they just go to the county next door to get hired there. There is no national database of malfeasant cops but there damn well ought to be. Cops are scum.
Tesla is a public company
That means it has t0 satisfy a number of laws that private companies are exempt from. This is to protect the rights of shareholders. If you're private, you don't have any shareholders. One of these laws is that executive salary negotiations must be arms-length transactions, not deals between cronies. The evidence showed that Musk wrote his compensation package and the board rubber stamped it. That isn't arms length. Is anyone harmed? Well, money that doesn't go to Musk goes to shareholders, and that seems like harm when you take it away. Even if that were not the case, the Trump argument that yes, I broke the law but no one was harmed is not a thing in law. You break the law and there are consequences. Imagine I try to rob a bank but a teller sets the alarm off and I panic and run from the police, taking no money. No one is harmed. So no crime, right?
Because of the First Amendment
the only entity that can practice censorship is the government. So it has nothing to do with "platforms the censor controls" unless those platforms are owned by the government. TikTok has not been censored. They can still post anything they damn well please. They just can't use state resources to distribute it. Surely you recognize that no one has the right to use public money to distribute any screed they want? It really pisses me off the extent to which conservatives want to pretend they don't understand free speech.