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• On the post: How The SMART Copyright Act Will Help Cops Avoid Accountability

  

  radix ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2022 @ 02:51pm

  And one example of that is the multiple stories we’ve had about police deliberately playing famous pop music while interacting with citizens filming them. At least some of the cops have admitted that they do this on purpose,

  So when do those cops get fined for playing music as a public performance without an ASCAP license?

• On the post: Alaska State Senator Introduces Bill To Ban Fact Checking And Content Moderation. For Freedom

  

  radix ( profile ), 23 Mar, 2022 @ 12:59pm

  There they go again...

  ...saying the quiet bits out loud. "My freedom to lie to you is more important than your freedom to correct me."

• On the post: With Truth Social Having Trouble Attracting Users, Will Trump/Nunes Realize That There’s More To Managing A Social Media Site Than Grievances?

  

  radix ( profile ), 17 Mar, 2022 @ 06:34am

  Call me cynical

  He knew this would fail, as did all his cronies. It's all a stunt setting up yet another cultural grievance. His blog failed quickly; his platform will get about a year before shutting down, right before he steps away to 'focus on his political future' or some shit. Then this becomes the topic of the 2024 election cycle: break up big Tech giants because competition is "clearly" impossible. All his sycophants fall in line, and this is the major plank of the GOP strategy for the next 6-8 years.

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

  

  radix ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2022 @ 01:30pm

  -Getting censored proves that your opinion is the strongest.

  Says somebody who, deep down, knows they're so wrong, they'll be buried as a troll, but still wants to claim the moral high ground.

• On the post: Big ISPs Avoided 2020 Law Banning Predatory Modem ‘Rental’ Fees By Simply Calling Them… Something Else

  

  radix ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2022 @ 09:24am

  Can you imagine if other industries tried to get away with this? "Get your new Air Jordans, straight from Nike, only $20*" *(Plus $200 for the laces, not optional.)

• On the post: Once Again, Thomas Goolnik Gets Google To Forget Our Tag About Thomas Goolnik

  

  radix ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2022 @ 09:59am

  A recursive Streisand Effect where the subject is trying to hide the Streisand Effect should be known as the Goolnik Effect.

• On the post: Google Blocked An Article About Police From The Intercept… Because The Title Included A Phrase That Was Also A Movie Title

  

  radix ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2022 @ 10:33am

  Re: Dumb and Dumberer

  Are you trying to get this post Taken down? You can't use that many titles in one post, it'll be Armageddon!

• On the post: Trump Given 30 Days To Have His Social Media Site Comply With Open Source License

  

  radix ( profile ), 25 Oct, 2021 @ 12:04pm

  He can't possibly be using some sort of community-driven, publically-shared product! That would be socialist!

• On the post: In Josh Hawley's World, People Should Be Able To Sue Facebook Both For Taking Down Stuff They Don't Like AND Leaving Up Stuff They Don't Like

  

  radix ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2021 @ 10:56am

  It's almost like he wants to appoint himself Product Manager of the Internet...

  It must be his dream job, considering he's been chasing it forever.

• On the post: Cop Who Killed A Suicidal Man Less Than 11 Seconds After Entering His House Convicted Of Murder

  

  radix ( profile ), 13 Sep, 2021 @ 10:58am

  Re:

  Mental illness is not a get-out-of-jail-free card.

  I agree, but probably not in the way you want. The officer is a disturbed individual, and he will NOT be getting out of jail. The suicidal victim was also not well, but that's hardly worthy of a death sentence, especially without a judge and jury making that determination. Fortunately for the (ex-)cop, he was afforded that right he so flippantly denied others.

• On the post: Doing It Right: Bethesda Likes 'Fallout' Mod So Much It Hires Some Of The Team That Made It

  

  radix ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2021 @ 09:21am

  Re:

  This is the company that literally makes the same development tools their team uses available to the public for the express purpose of creating mods. And they've been doing it for nearly 20 years. Anything is possible, but getting salty about something that would be a complete 180 just isn't a very good bet.

• On the post: ISPs Give 'Netflow Data' To Third Parties, Who Sell It Without User Awareness Or Consent

  

  radix ( profile ), 25 Aug, 2021 @ 08:21am

  Re: Pay for some privacy

  Daily reminder that a VPN is just an ISP that says they don't log data. Unless you are physically controlling a cable directly between any two endpoints, your traffic is never guaranteed to be completely private.

• On the post: Geigner's Effect: CDPR Breach Worse Than Originally Reported, Because Of Course

  

  radix ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2021 @ 10:55am

  Re: Hey!

  "In mathematics, theorems are named after the second person to discover them, for the first is always Euler." Mike is the Leonhard Euler of the digital age confirmed.

• On the post: Trump Bans Himself From His Own Blog; Upset That Everyone Mocked Its Terrible Traffic

  

  radix ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2021 @ 12:21pm

  Re:

  This one only lost money for one month! Great success! One of the best Trump ventures of all time!

• On the post: Sens. Cruz, Hawley & Lee Show How To Take A Good Bill Idea And Make It Blatantly Unconstitutional

  

  radix ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2021 @ 12:58pm

  Re: Works Both Ways

  It's legal to fire an employee. It's illegal to fire an employee as retaliation for reporting harassment.

• On the post: Game Publishers: If Your DRM, Anti-Cheat Software Does Creepy Installs, Warn Your Customers First

  

  radix ( profile ), 08 Apr, 2021 @ 09:54pm

  Industry response:

  "But if we told users the DRM was nothing but spyware that slowed their machines down, they'd just pirate it instead. Besides, we need that specific DRM or there would be piracy! ... What contradiction?"

• On the post: North Carolina State Senators Read Section 230 Completely Backwards, Introduces Laughably Confused Bill In Response

  

  radix ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2021 @ 02:56pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The Other Foot

  You mean the kind of "social" media where you have to create an account and agree to conditions in order to post anything? You might be able to craft an argument in some jurisdictions in VERY specific circumstances where a website is completely open to any person at any time with no signup. But just crafting that argument is still a long way from winning a court case.

• On the post: North Carolina State Senators Read Section 230 Completely Backwards, Introduces Laughably Confused Bill In Response

  

  radix ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2021 @ 11:41am

  Re: Re: Re: The Other Foot

  Yeah if I build and own a mall I'd really like unlimited authority over who can come in and out of that mall. However, since I'm in the 9th circuit. I don't have that much authority. I have some limited authority but I do not have the broad authority that the owner of a corporate office building would have.

  Uh, Costco and other membership clubs have terms of service for physical spaces, and violating those terms can absolutely get you kicked out. Virtual spaces having those same rights isn't some magic exception, it's a logical extension of an uncontroversial rule.

• On the post: It's Apparently Bipartisan To Threaten To Punish Companies Via Antitrust Law For Speech You Don't Like

  

  radix ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2021 @ 02:55pm

  Republicans: Cancel culture is bad.

  Also Republicans: Non-Trumpians are unamerican.

  Also Republicans: Cancel baseball for being unamerican.

• On the post: Good Idea: As Video Game Preservation Often Falls To Fan Groups, Release Every Game's Source Code

  

  radix ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2021 @ 09:21pm

  Re:

  Even updating and continuing to monetize older titles is hurt by the lack of preservation options. Famously, Baldur's Gate and a number of related titles in the same engine have been enhanced and revitalized by Beamdog and resold decades after their original release, but no such luck for Icewind Dale II. The source code is gone, and without it, no further updates can be made. Sure, the original binaries still work, but short of a complete rewrite, anything else is off the table.

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