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• On the post: White House Push AI-Altered Images Of Arrested ICE Protesters To Manufacture Cruelty

  

  Robert Freetard ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2026 @ 07:38am

  What they are actually manufacturing is a well reasoned distrust...

  What they are actually manufacturing is a well reasoned distrust of the current regime. They been saying one thing and doing another for a long time, but now they are simply lying in the face of multiple videos on multiple angles of proof otherwise. Whether they are too stupid to realize we can see the proof for ourselves or they really believe we are too stupid to pay attention is yet to be determined. Either way, every day, they teach us not to trust the regime.

• On the post: AZ State Senator Proposes Law To Spend State Resources Studying ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’

  

  Robert Freetard ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2026 @ 06:26pm

  The only TDS that is real

  Is the TDS that makes trump supporters able to believe anything he says.

• On the post: DHS Arrests Kilmar Abrego Garcia With Plans To Ship Him To Uganda, Because He Refused To Plead Guilty To Fake Human Trafficking Charges

  

  Robert Freetard ( profile ), 25 Aug, 2025 @ 05:38pm

  The governor of Texas has confessed

  to more than 100,000 of human trafficking, PROUDLY. See his website touting his crimes https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/texas-transports-over-100000-migrants-to-sanctuary-cities

• On the post: DOJ Discovers It CAN Actually Bring Abrego Garcia Back… To Face Sketchy, Trumped Up Criminal Charges

  

  Robert Freetard ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2025 @ 03:59pm

  If he's actually being charged for trafficking people to the interior from texas,

  If he's actually being charged for trafficking people to the interior from texas then there are a couple of State Governors the should be up on the same charges, PLUS misusing state funds for human trafficking.

• On the post: Yet Another Study Shows ShotSpotter Can’t Fight Crime Or Get Help To Shooting Victims Faster

  

  Robert Freetard ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2024 @ 04:45pm

  It is WORSE than useless, they are willing to falsify evidence.

  It NEEDS to be mentioned EVERY TIME this company gets any press that they were MORE than willing to and actually HAVE on MULTIPLE OCCASIONS falsified location and time data to support Chicago police charging an innocent person... https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/01/shotspotter-employees-not-only-have-the-power-to-alter-gunshot-reports-but-do-it-nearly-10-of-the-time/ https://www.techdirt.com/2021/08/23/investigation-shotspotters-practices-is-raising-questions-companys-angry-statement-really-doesnt-answer/ If I am not mistaken, falsification of evidence is generally a criminal act.

• On the post: Roku Eyes Patent That Would Inject Ads Into… Everything

  

  Robert Freetard ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2024 @ 11:28pm

  Roku Eyes Patent That Would drive customers to their competitors

  Way to sink your company into oblivion!

• On the post: Community Notes Is Great Until It Challenges Elon, And Then It’s Being ‘Manipulated’ By State Actors

  

  Robert Freetard ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2023 @ 10:49am

  State actors?

  Na, more like manipulated by reality.

• On the post: ‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Elon Musk Pens Column For Chinese Censorship Agency

  

  Robert Freetard ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2022 @ 10:15pm

  Am I alone?

  Am I alone in being amazed that lil Elon managed to totally STFU "owning the libs" on twitter right after someone pointed out that only the libs were interested in buying his cars? Seems like he's smart enough to figure out where the money comes from. It's too bad he is so compelled to show his ass to the rest of the world.

• On the post: Ridiculous: Gov’t Contractor Copies Open Source 3D Printing Concept… And Patents It

  

  Robert Freetard ( profile ), 26 Jun, 2022 @ 12:50am

  CopyLeft?

  Are public domain licensing and CopyLeft somehow not applicable to this exact situation? And if they are not, how do "we" right now, go about fixing that?

• On the post: India’s Government Amps Up Facial Recognition Deployment, Claims The Only People Affected Are Criminals

  

  Robert Freetard ( profile ), 26 Jun, 2022 @ 12:39am

  It's time to use the tool on the politicians.

  It's time to feed the politicians facial images to the system and see how many "criminal hits" they get. Once they see that They themselves can get mis-identfied as criminals,the criminal politicians will shut it down as fast as they did in the US.

• On the post: Josh Hawley Threatens Disney’s ‘Special Copyright Protections’ For Being ‘Woke’

  

  Robert Freetard ( profile ), 05 May, 2022 @ 01:06pm

  The only reason they say "woke"

  Is because no matter how hard they try they can't make "enlightened" sound like an insult.

• On the post: It’s Still Stupidly, Ridiculously Difficult To Buy A ‘Dumb’ TV

  

  Robert Freetard ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2022 @ 11:13pm

  All tv's are dumb tv's with no internet connection

  None of my tv's will ever see the internet, the raspberry pi on hdmi 1 takes care of all of the features I decide I want available. I'll gladly take the discount mfgr's offer thinking they will sell my data, but they aren't getting any data.

• On the post: Texas Pols Shocked To Learn Their Bill Let Gas Companies Off The Hook For Climate Change Preparedness

  

  Robert Freetard ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2021 @ 01:13am

  Please, Let me fix that headine for you...

  "Texas Pols PRETENDING TO BE Shocked To Learn Their Bill Let Gas Companies Off The Hook For Climate Change Preparedness"

  They were WELL paid to both create that loophole and feign that "surprise".

• On the post: Australian Official Admits That Of Course Murdoch Came Up With Link Tax, But Insists The Bill Is Not A Favor To News Corp.

  

  Robert Freetard ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2021 @ 11:06am

  The answer has already been found.

  The last time this happened google just stopped linking to the companies.
  This SHOULD be the standard response.

• On the post: Coronavirus Surveillance Is Far Too Important, And Far Too Dangerous, To Be Left Up To The Private Sector

  

  Robert Freetard ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2020 @ 03:35am

  Sadly,

  Sadly, as a lifelong capitol L Liberal American Citizen, I trust neither the government of the U.S. or ANY (worldwide) private industry actually capable of implementing contract tracing to ACTUALLY allow itself be subject to rigorous oversight and laws preventing the abuse of contact tracing.

  We can't even get police departments to condemn the officers that crack 80 year old mens skulls for no reason at all, nor the ones that walk past the victim like nothing happened without public outcry.

  And far too often, we cant get them to decry it even in the face of massive public outcry, they just lie in the face of existing video evidence and say the man tripped.

  Is it possible to get some international body to do contract tracing and not share the information with the US government or US law enforcement?

  Because seriously, anything that involves the US government or US law enforcement is going to end up being a bloodbath.

  The proof is their "handling" of all of the peacful protests against police violence eventually ending up with the police USING violence proves that the only tool the authorities care to even try to use is violence.

  Cops kneel with anti-violence protesters at noon and then kettle them at 8pm to prevent them from lawfully dissipating before curfew at 9pm.

  When does this stop being acceptable?

• On the post: Twitter Taking Down Trump Campaign Video Over Questionable Copyright Claim Demonstrates Why Trump Should Support Section 230

  

  Robert Freetard ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2020 @ 03:12am

  The problem here is that the spray paint orange idiot..

  The problem here is that the spray painted orange idiot has no clue whatsoever of what he is doing, let alone what section 230 means.

  Anything that prevents him from getting his way is bad, anything that contradicts his lies is "fake news" and anyone that questions his totally moronic and constantly changing narrative is a bad person/reporter.

  If all of that is not clue enough that he needs to be removed from office ASAP, and by voting if nothing sooner, then you need help as much as he does.

• On the post: AT&T Spent Hundreds Of Billions On Mergers And All It Got Was A Big Pile Of Cord Cutters

  

  Robert Freetard ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2017 @ 10:25am

  The core problem affects all publicly traded companies

  The article states,
  
  >One of the core problems here is that Wall Street isn't satisfied with ISPs simply doing a good job and making a reasonable profit. The relentless, myopic need for quarterly improvements has companies like AT&T and Verizon
  
  It's not just AT&T and Verizon, all companies are suffering from stockholders demands for stock prices to rise every single quarter.
  The perfect example of the tail wagging the dog has caused nearly immeasurable damage to US manufacturing and workers.
  
  First you cheapen the product to raise profits and stock price, then you have to drop the price of the goods, then you have to stop providing health insurance, raises, retirement packages, Once you have squeezed all you can out of the workforce, you outsource to a country with cheaper labor rates, after THAT quarter, you start selling off assets until there is nothing left.
  
  So many companies have gone down that drain. And yet privately held corporations like Koch industries are wildly profitable and extending their reach into new markets every day.

• On the post: Lawyers Gearing Up To Hit UK With Corporate Sovereignty Claims Totalling Billions Of Dollars Over Brexit

  

  Robert Freetard ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2017 @ 11:23pm

  Corporate Sovereignty

  Corporate Sovereignty,
  There's a construct that needs to be killed with prejudice.
  
  Nothing good can come from allowing a corporation to sue/challenge a sovereign government's policies and laws because it might cost them money.

• On the post: Fox News Host Files SLAPP Suit Against Reporter Who Exposed His Sexting

  

  Robert Freetard ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2017 @ 08:07pm

  What SHOULD happen...

  <defendant>
  
  Your honor I suggest we proceed straight to dickscovery, I would like to submit as evidence 15 pictures of the plaintiffs penis from my sources, anonymised for their pleasure but with date and time stamps intact.
  
  A simple subpoena to his (3rd party, no expectation of privacy) phone provider will confirm his sending these pictures at the dates and times indicated.

• On the post: Xbox Fitness Users Shelled Out Big Bucks For Workout Programs They'll Soon Be Totally Unable To Use

  

  Robert Freetard ( profile ), 30 Jun, 2016 @ 09:12am

  What a surprise.

  Xbone'd again. What a surprise.
  
  Is it any wonder that millions distrust the Microsoft store embedded in windows 10?
  
  ProTip for Microsoft;
  When you are trying to get people to trust you with thier digital lives, it helps a great deal if you do not RIP THEM OFF at every opportunity.

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