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• On the post: Twitch And Reddit Ramp Up Their Enforcement Against 'Hateful' Content

  

  pouar ( profile ), 03 Jul, 2020 @ 07:03am

  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

• On the post: Sons Of Confederate Veterans Sued Over Bogus DMCA Takedown

  

  pouar ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2020 @ 12:24pm

  Re:

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

• On the post: Spotify Finally Realizes That Streaming Isn't Reproduction Or Distribution

  

  pouar ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2017 @ 01:06pm

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

  Technically this argument could be applied to any DRM encrypted media

• On the post: EFF Goes To Court To Stop Australian Patent Troll From Stifling Free Speech

  

  pouar ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2017 @ 02:51pm

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

• On the post: Donald Trump Keeps Taking Credit For Tech Sector Jobs He Had Absolutely Nothing To Do With

  

  pouar ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2017 @ 04:55pm

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

• On the post: Congress Just Voted To Kill Consumer Broadband Privacy Protections

  

  pouar ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2017 @ 12:33pm

  Is America great again yet?

• On the post: UK Local Government Confirms Surprising EU Position That Viewing Pirated Streams Probably Isn't Illegal

  

  pouar ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2017 @ 09:03am

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

• On the post: FCC Commissioner Pai Says Net Neutrality's 'Days Are Numbered' Under Trump

  

  pouar ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2017 @ 10:19am

  If they want to remove "outdated and unnecessary regulations", they can start with the anti-municipal broadband laws

• On the post: Rightscorp Rings In The New Year By Vowing To Find New Ways To Lose Money In 2017

  

  pouar ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2017 @ 09:38am

  How I imagine their stock certificates now look like

  How I imagine their stock certificates now look like

• On the post: Copying Is Not Theft! A New T-Shirt From Techdirt

  

  pouar ( profile ), 02 Sep, 2016 @ 03:29pm

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

• On the post: If You're Learning About It From Slate, Running Your Own Email Server Is A Horrendously Bad Idea

  

  pouar ( profile ), 31 Aug, 2016 @ 03:50pm

  As someone who actually has their own email server

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

• On the post: The Complete Linux System Administrator Bundle

  

  pouar ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2016 @ 11:07am

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

• On the post: God v. Copyright: Mike Huckabee Invokes Religion In Copyright Suit

  

  pouar ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2016 @ 10:49am

  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.

• On the post: Court: Your Fourth And Fifth Amendment Rights No Longer Exist If You Leave The Country

  

  pouar ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2015 @ 07:42am

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

• On the post: DOJ Claims Apple Should Be Forced To Decrypt iPhones Because Apple, Not Customers, 'Own' iOS

  

  pouar ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2015 @ 08:37am

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

• On the post: Kim Davis's Approach To Email More Outdated Than Her Views On Marriage

  

  pouar ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2015 @ 06:16pm

  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.

• On the post: Police Drop Case Against Kid Who Made Clock, While Mayor Worries About The Impact… On The Police

  

  pouar ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2015 @ 12:29pm

  Re: Re:

  true

• On the post: Police Drop Case Against Kid Who Made Clock, While Mayor Worries About The Impact… On The Police

  

  pouar ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2015 @ 02:08pm

  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"

• On the post: UK Prevent Strategy For Identifying Potential Terrorists Identifies 3 Year Old Because Of Course It Did

  

  pouar ( profile ), 31 Jul, 2015 @ 03:43pm

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

• On the post: South Carolina Massacre Results In Apple Going Flag-Stupid In The App Store

  

  pouar ( profile ), 26 Jun, 2015 @ 01:06pm

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

  I don't

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