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• Jul 03, 2020 @ 07:03am
  on Twitch And Reddit Ramp Up Their Enforcement Against 'Hateful' Content

  I heard that the_donald was inactive for months when they banned it as everyone on that sub moved to thedonald.win. No idea if this is the case though as I don't pay attention to that sub and the Internet Archive doesn't seem to work with quarantined subreddits

• Jan 04, 2020 @ 12:24pm

  Re:

  on Sons Of Confederate Veterans Sued Over Bogus DMCA Takedown

  Having lived with members of the SCV most of my life. I can safely say they're not all racist.

• Sep 09, 2017 @ 01:06pm

  Re: Re: Streaming intangible yes, offline copies no.

  on Spotify Finally Realizes That Streaming Isn't Reproduction Or Distribution

  Technically this argument could be applied to any DRM encrypted media

• Apr 15, 2017 @ 02:51pm
  on EFF Goes To Court To Stop Australian Patent Troll From Stifling Free Speech

  https://www.pouar.net/downloads/gemsapatent.svgz

• Mar 28, 2017 @ 04:55pm
  on Donald Trump Keeps Taking Credit For Tech Sector Jobs He Had Absolutely Nothing To Do With

  reminds me of this
  https://youtu.be/xSVqLHghLpw?t=13

• Mar 24, 2017 @ 12:33pm
  on Congress Just Voted To Kill Consumer Broadband Privacy Protections

  Is America great again yet?

• Mar 09, 2017 @ 09:03am
  on UK Local Government Confirms Surprising EU Position That Viewing Pirated Streams Probably Isn't Illegal

  Umm, is there a difference? other than the computer tossing the downloaded data afterward?

• Feb 08, 2017 @ 10:19am
  on FCC Commissioner Pai Says Net Neutrality's 'Days Are Numbered' Under Trump

  If they want to remove "outdated and unnecessary regulations", they can start with the anti-municipal broadband laws

• Jan 04, 2017 @ 09:38am

  How I imagine their stock certificates now look like

  on Rightscorp Rings In The New Year By Vowing To Find New Ways To Lose Money In 2017

  How I imagine their stock certificates now look like

• Sep 02, 2016 @ 03:29pm
  on Copying Is Not Theft! A New T-Shirt From Techdirt

  Techdirt is one of the very few sites I actually browse with the ad blocker turned off.

• Aug 31, 2016 @ 03:50pm

  As someone who actually has their own email server

  on If You're Learning About It From Slate, Running Your Own Email Server Is A Horrendously Bad Idea

  It's definitely not something your average person can do, let alone actually securing it

• Jun 20, 2016 @ 11:07am
  on The Complete Linux System Administrator Bundle

  Didn't they discontinue Red Hat Linux in favor of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora in 2003?

• Jan 16, 2016 @ 10:49am
  on God v. Copyright: Mike Huckabee Invokes Religion In Copyright Suit

  I think it's fair use in the way it was used. And yeah, it would be the same for any religion, whether Christian, Satanist, Pagan, Or Flying Spaghetti Monster.

• Oct 28, 2015 @ 07:42am
  on Court: Your Fourth And Fifth Amendment Rights No Longer Exist If You Leave The Country

  "but when it comes to broken laws that screw with the internet, the entire planet is under our jurisdiction"

• Oct 27, 2015 @ 08:37am
  on DOJ Claims Apple Should Be Forced To Decrypt iPhones Because Apple, Not Customers, 'Own' iOS

  Actually Apple does own it. They shouldn't, but they do.

• Oct 18, 2015 @ 06:16pm
  on Kim Davis's Approach To Email More Outdated Than Her Views On Marriage

  Even though I'm mostly on her side over marriage (and I (and apparently everyone else, including her) am ok with the compromise where other people can sign the marriage licenses, but she doesn't have to sign it herself), I still have to say her printing 6000 emails instead of emailing them in a 11 MB file is really stupid of her.

• Sep 17, 2015 @ 12:29pm

  Re: Re:

  on Police Drop Case Against Kid Who Made Clock, While Mayor Worries About The Impact… On The Police

  true

• Sep 16, 2015 @ 02:08pm
  on Police Drop Case Against Kid Who Made Clock, While Mayor Worries About The Impact… On The Police

  with even President Obama weighing in and inviting Ahmed to the White House

  
  I wonder if they're going to use this as "proof" that Obama "supports Muslim terrorists"

• Jul 31, 2015 @ 03:43pm
  on UK Prevent Strategy For Identifying Potential Terrorists Identifies 3 Year Old Because Of Course It Did

  They would probably freak out if they saw the cover of Thy Art Is Murder's last album

• Jun 26, 2015 @ 01:06pm

  Re: Re: From the "lets up the ante" party

  on South Carolina Massacre Results In Apple Going Flag-Stupid In The App Store

  I don't

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