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• On the post: German Politician Decries Censorship, Follows It Up By Suing Facebook To Have A Critical Comment Deleted

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 05 May, 2018 @ 03:34am

  Re: Re: Did someone really say that

  Which, by the way, has a grammatical error. There must be a dash in between: "Nazi-Drecksau" would be correct. But the misspelling fits the rest of the post, which sounds very misogynist itself.

• On the post: German Politician Decries Censorship, Follows It Up By Suing Facebook To Have A Critical Comment Deleted

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 05 May, 2018 @ 03:31am

  Re: Did someone really say that

  Of course not. That's only the translation. Apparently the wording was "Nazi Drecksau".
  
  Here's the whole comment published:
  https://philosophia-perennis.com/2018/04/24/alice-weidel-klagt-gegen-facebook/

• On the post: FBI Says Device Encryption Is 'Evil' And A Threat To Public Safety

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2018 @ 09:32am

  Re: With 'friends' like these...

  It's what happens when your business is "catching criminals" and not "protecting people".
  
  The FBI is interested in catching as many criminals as possible, therefore these criminals must have victims, and anything that protects people from being victims leads to no criminals the FBI can arrest.
  
  This only sounds half bad if it's about encryption, but as it happens, the same happens with child abuse -- the FBI is actually interested in children being victims to abuse, just to arrest the perpetrators.
  
  Something has gone very, very wrong with the FBI.

• On the post: Appeals Court OKs F-Bombs For Federal Trademark Protection

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2018 @ 02:16am

  What the fuck is this about, exactly?

  It doesn't say, instead some weird euphemisms are used as kind of self-censorship in the title.

• On the post: NSA Denies Prior Knowledge Of Meltdown, Spectre Exploits; Claims It Would 'Never' Harm Companies By Withholding Vulns

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2018 @ 07:20am

  would never put a major company like Intel in a position of risk

  Wannacry?
  
  In other words: Already did. ALL major companies and everyone else IN THE WHOLE WORLD. For three years.

• On the post: It Took Only Three Days For Germany's New Hate Speech Law To Cause Collateral Damage

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2018 @ 09:04am

  Re:

  So, what would have been considered hate speech under the 3rd Reich? Would? Was, more to the point. Simply, anything against "Germany" or "Germanic people" or the Nazi party, or the government. Certainly nothing pertaining to invalids, gypsies, homosexuals, foreigners[1] and Jews. [1]: Note this applies to some pre-DNA-testing notion of origin, with rather absurd fantasy-constructs of "race" and "heritage".

• On the post: Maine Governor Tells 16-Year-Old Worried About Net Neutrality Repeal To 'Pick Up A Book And Read'

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2018 @ 04:46pm

  I'd recommend something like this: "Virtual Freedom: Net Neutrality and Free Speech in the Internet Age" https://books.google.ch/books?id=S0UkDwAAQBAJ

• On the post: Really Bad Ideas: French President Macron Wants To Ban 'Fake News' During The Election

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2018 @ 04:36pm

  Do campaign promises the candidates don't intend to hold onto when elected count as fake news?

  Like "Macron has promised to boost France's slow economic growth, battle high unemployment and promote competitiveness by reforming the labor market and simplifying the tax and pension systems." -- which obviously in hindsight looks quite like fake news (even if he tried)...

• On the post: A Major Security Vulnerability Has Plagued 'Nearly All' Intel CPUs For Years

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2018 @ 07:05am

  Meltdown mitigated in Linux Kernel 4.14.11

  Which just has been released. Some distros did patch older kernels themselves.
  Actually, 4.14.12 is out as well, https://www.kernel.org/

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 25 Dec, 2017 @ 01:30pm

  Re: Re: Re: AI and Bias

  The more interesting question is, how criminal will the first true AI be?

• On the post: Congress Backs Down From Terrible Surveillance Bill; Running Out Of Time

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2017 @ 02:13am

  Single-subject rule

  I was flabbergasted to learn that the US itself does allow what most of its states and most nations laws doesn't allow: having the subject of laws all over the carpet.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-subject_rule

• On the post: Gov't Committee: UK Should Move To Holding Platforms Liable For Third-Party Content Post-Brexit

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2017 @ 05:23am

  party campaigners

  That's great, notice you only need to be party campaigner and you get to throw about this law? Create your own party, start participating in elections and wield the club of the new anti-intimidation law to intimidate people.

• On the post: Would-Be Congressman Wants A Law Forcing Social Media Platforms To Keep All His Alt-Right Buddies Online

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2017 @ 01:15am

  we call these...

  Much like those "free speech, but" people on the left who think the US should criminalize "hate speech,

  ...the ctrl-left, of course.

• On the post: Manhattan DA Cy Vance Makes His Annual Pitch For Anti-Encryption Legislation

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2017 @ 04:42am

  Re:

  I consider the notion to prohibit passive protection equipment to be totalitarian and fascist. It doesn't matter whether this is encryption, bulletproof glass and garments, gas-masks, helmets or condoms.
  
  The damage that will be done by all events together, seen macro-economically, will always be much greater when people aren't allowed to protect themselves.

• On the post: European News Agencies Again Demand Google, Facebook, Etc. Pay Up For Sending Them Traffic

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2017 @ 08:32am

  Re:

  Google always bends to copyright whiners. Yup, except when it's people complaining about copyfraud.

• On the post: New Documents And Testimony Shows Officers Lied About Their Role In An Arrested Teen's Death

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2017 @ 08:13am

  Re: Re: It's not "authoritarian" to forbid you to harm self with drugs.

  "This ginned-up weeping implies that idiots can impose costs on society without concern or limits." Like the idiots that initiated this "forbid to harm self" law in the first place whose costs of their war on drugs they imposed on society? Truly, if there ever was a more cynical plot to raise drugs profits, it couldn't be better than this prohibition with the excuse of "helping the poor addicts".

• On the post: Australian Government Wants To Punish Whistleblowers And Journalists Who Leak Classified Documents With Up To 20 Years In Prison

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 15 Dec, 2017 @ 02:39am

  Re: Re: Re:

  A lot of information is really NOT confidential, or totally needs not to be confidential, or shouldn't even be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs's_principle
  So yes, all "weapons information" probably falls under it, except launch codes and other keys.
  
  Second, the locations where alien bodies lie are rather well known, for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_massacre_of_1871 There's more of these, where alien immigrants were massacred, like the Ludlow Massacre.

• On the post: FCC Boss Claims Net Neutrality Hurts Small ISPs, But The FCC's Own Data Proves Otherwise

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2017 @ 03:54am

  Just like Copyright!

  You are so right! The dead deserve decent broadband. I mean, we also gave them 70 to 95 years of copyright, so they should be able to spend their gains made with their copyright-monopolies on the broadband-monopolies of the living.

• On the post: Two Bollywood Film Producers Get Court To Block Tons Of Sites In India, Including Archive.org

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2017 @ 01:08pm

  Let me rephrase

  Two criminal Bollywood Film Producers fraudulently Get Court To Block Tons Of Sites In India, Including Archive.org

• On the post: North Carolina Election Agencies First Learned They'd Been Hacked From Leaked Documents Published By The Intercept

  

  Seegras ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2017 @ 03:46pm

  We've got this covered

  Read all about the so-called "justice" in the US when it comes to espionage:
  
  https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7849
  
  Also fits nicely the Stalinist USSR. Go figure. Or puke. Or weep.

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