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• On the post: Facebook Sued For Not Preventing A Bunch A White Guys With Guns From Traveling To A Protest To Shoot People

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2020 @ 07:34pm

  Re: Re: Re: Maybe not so clear cut

  Not to mention the follow-up in Barnes was that the case got immediately thrown out even after § 230 immunity was denied. The entire theory of liability was fundamentally flawed from the start. And the cases that have built on the precedent ever since have only made it less and less applicable. This seems more in-line with the (comparatively) newer "material support to terrorists" lawsuits than anything else. I was actually kinda surprised to not see a signature from 1-800-LAW-FIRM or Excolo at the bottom.

• On the post: Days After FCC Commissioner Mike O'Rielly Suggests Trump's Section 230 Exec Order Is Unconstitutional… His Renomination To The FCC Is Withdrawn

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 03 Aug, 2020 @ 05:31pm

  Xzibit A

  So the Trump administration just censored someone for no reason other than having a conservative viewpoint about an order that they claimed was specifically to prevent others from censoring anyone for no reason other than having a conservative viewpoint?

• On the post: Second Circuit Wrecks All Sorts Of First Amendment Protections To Keep Lawsuit Against Joy Reid Alive

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2020 @ 11:09am

  Messy messy messy

  Ich. I remember reading about this case back when it was first appealed, and it was a freaking mess even then. It's as if the judge went out of their way to use the most fringe logic possible to justify dismissal, and the appeals court met it with equal fringe logic in the other direction. The only thing this case establishes with any clarity at all is that federal court procedure is in desperate need of an overhaul.

• On the post: After Seven Years And A US Supreme Court Victory, Tyson Timbs Is One Step Closer To Finally Getting His Car Back

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 12 May, 2020 @ 04:40pm

  Re: If wishes were fishes

  Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill Jr. isn't going to be doing anything for now. Presumably, he'll need to wait until his law license suspension is up.

• On the post: Dealing With COVID-19 Requires Radical Transparency In Research Results; China Is Going In The Opposite Direction

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2020 @ 08:58am

  Re: Barely masked antitrumpetry

  So, you're saying that Trump is a narcissistic maniac who puts his own personal image above anything else, regardless of how many lives need to be killed or ruined in the process?

• On the post: Jon Cusack The Latest Celebrity To Spread Nonsense About 5G

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 08 Apr, 2020 @ 11:52am

  Re: Let's start our own conspiracies

  Unsurprisingly, the Internet is waaaaay ahead of ya. Spurious Correlations has some beautiful data analytics that should fuel so many lovely conspiracy theories. ^_^

• On the post: Lt. Governor Of Texas Gets Offended By An Anti-Police Shirt, Decides He Needs To Start Violating The First Amendment

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2020 @ 06:45pm

  Re: Re: Question

  Funny you should ask. Greg Abbott, the current governor of Texas, was sued by the FFRF for his personal involvement in directly censoring them (and then bragging about it), and the district court refused grant him qualified immunity. It's on appeal with CA5 right now, where it stands basically zero chance of being reversed. https://ffrf.org/legal/challenges/ongoing-lawsuits/item/25899-ffrf-vs-abbott-challenges-bill-of-rights-display-censorship

• On the post: Hey Tom Wheeler: Stick To Net Neutrality, Because Your Understanding Of Section 230 Is… Not Right

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 19 Feb, 2020 @ 02:35pm

  You're in for one hell of a surprise when you learn about credit unions.

• On the post: Lindsey Graham's Sneak Attack On Section 230 And Encryption: A Backdoor To A Backdoor?

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2020 @ 09:08pm

  Re: Re: Re: Misses the point

  Might as well. Your attempts at understanding law aren't getting you anywhere.

• On the post: Lindsey Graham's Sneak Attack On Section 230 And Encryption: A Backdoor To A Backdoor?

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2020 @ 06:18pm

  Re: Misses the point

  You're the second lobbyist I've seen today who went out of their way to "agree" that the bill is bad, but still (incorrectly) chastise the source for not being anti-Google enough. Is there some kind of coordinated effort going on? Did your owners pay you to make this attack specifically?

• On the post: Copyright As Censorship: Gun Rights Advocate Gets Video Taken Down With Bogus Copyright Claim

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2020 @ 05:13pm

  You do realize it's possible to have opinions about a subject without needing to needlessly inject politics into it, right?

• On the post: DEA, TSA Sued For Stealing 79-Year-Old Man's Life Savings From His Daughter At An Airport

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2020 @ 09:13am

  When you're traveling with a large sum of money, and you have every valid reason to be more afraid of government workers seizing it than any actual thieves, something has gone very wrong.

• On the post: Joe Biden Can't Tell The Difference Between The 1st Amendment & Section 230; Still Thinks Video Games Cause Violence

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2020 @ 05:16pm

  It's a good thing the first amendment does protect false statements, or you'd be in real legal trouble.

• On the post: Joe Biden Can't Tell The Difference Between The 1st Amendment & Section 230; Still Thinks Video Games Cause Violence

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2020 @ 05:15pm

  You are literally the reincarnation of Satan. I present this as a statement of fact. Can I be sued for defamation over this? (no. The answer is no)

• On the post: Minnesota Appeals Court Nukes State's Broadly-Written Revenge Porn Law

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 02 Jan, 2020 @ 07:20pm

  Re: Start with negligence and work up

  Copyright law says that every image has a copyright owner and that no person has any right to disseminate that image without permission from that copyright owner.

  Gonna have to stop you right there. Copyright law says neither of those things. And even if it did, you're talking civil issues, not criminal.

• On the post: Minnesota Appeals Court Nukes State's Broadly-Written Revenge Porn Law

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 02 Jan, 2020 @ 07:17pm

  Re: Put Him in Prison Anyway

  And that is exactly why these revenge porn laws are so fundamentally bad. There were plenty of ways to bring him down that could have potentially been better. But the state chose to prosecute under this one shaky law, and now he's free. There is nothing the state can do about it other than appeal or desperately try to file new charges (unlikely). Thanks, state. This awful person gets to walk free because of your idiotic law.

• On the post: California Man Gets Sued After Trying To Trademark Bully A Theme Park

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2019 @ 08:46pm

  It's overrun by Zombies®!
  Claaaaaims!!!

• On the post: Bob Murray, Who Sued John Oliver For Mocking His Support Of Trump's Plan To Bring Back Coal Jobs… Files For Bankruptcy

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2019 @ 07:40pm

  Re: Re: You can only jeer, kid. Can't even make this web-site pa

  Oh like you're capable of feeling "shame" about anything.

• On the post: Company Threatens To Sue NBC For Reporting On Its Facial Recognition Tech Being Used Against Palestinians

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2019 @ 12:44pm

  It would be quite appropriate if the CEO ran his own face through their software and got identified as Barbara Streisand.

• On the post: DOJ Using The FOSTA Playbook To Attack Encryption

  

  John Roddy ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2019 @ 11:41am

  It can take weeks or months for them to respond to questions from the authorities, if they respond at all. Sometimes they respond only to say they have no records, even for reports they initiated.

  Did anybody else read this part and immediately think about how "expedient" these very same agencies are in regards to FOIA requests? You know, the ones where the law actually mandates action?

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