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• On the post: Supreme Court Reminds US Government That Hate Speech Is, In Fact, Free Speech

  

  ShadowNinja ( profile ), 19 Jun, 2017 @ 12:28pm

  Re: 1st vs. 4th Amendment

  Courts do this in cycles.
  
  For decades the courts had no problem blatantly ignoring the 14th amendment and it's equal protections clauses right after it was ratified.

• On the post: GOP Data Firm Left The Personal Data Of 198 Million American Voters On Openly-Accessible Amazon Server

  

  ShadowNinja ( profile ), 19 Jun, 2017 @ 11:52am

  Re:

  But it's ok when big corporations do it!
  
  It's just not ok when the government does it!
  
  Because you know, it's always a big bad evil government who's the villain in dys-utopian futures!

• On the post: Multiple German Courts Rule Photos Of Public Domain Works Are Not In The Public Domain

  

  ShadowNinja ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2017 @ 09:07am

  Re: Germany is crazy

  German has flags still? I read that the German flag, and German national anthems are rarely ever seen in Germany after Hitler (who made heavy use of nationalism to brainwash the populace).

• On the post: Multiple German Courts Rule Photos Of Public Domain Works Are Not In The Public Domain

  

  ShadowNinja ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2017 @ 09:04am

  What if famous people used this logic?

  What if famous people decided to use this logic to hide their faces from the public?
  
  Want to show a picture of Abraham Lincoln? Sorry, but even though photographs of him are all in the public domain, your copies of the picture are not. You have to go to a historical society or a museum to see how Lincoln looked like.
  
  Oh, and while we're at it, we really don't like it how these history books are describing Lincoln as a very tall guy. It's injuring the intellectual property of those Lincoln photographs by telling people what Lincoln looked like!

• On the post: TV Cord Cutting Poised To Smash Records During Second Quarter

  

  ShadowNinja ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2017 @ 07:10am

  Re: Some of the text is cut off

  Just to add, I think it's the picture in the story that's cutting off the text. Part of the picture is cut off for me as well by the right sidebar.

• On the post: TV Cord Cutting Poised To Smash Records During Second Quarter

  

  ShadowNinja ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2017 @ 07:07am

  Some of the text is cut off

  I can't read some of the text on the right side of the story, it's cut off the right sidebar. This is the only techdirt story it's an issue for, please fix. :(

• On the post: Theresa May Tries To Push Forward With Plans To Kill Encryption, While Her Party Plots Via Encrypted Whatsapp

  

  ShadowNinja ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2017 @ 05:16am

  Re: Hmmmmm ........

  Silly Gorshkov, terrorists are only 'scary' looking foreigners.
  
  If a domestic citizen does something bad, then it's not terrorism! They're just some poor person in need of mental healthcare.

• On the post: Wisconsin Senator Johnson Calls Net Neutrality 'A Slogan,' Laments The Lack Of 'Fast Lanes'

  

  ShadowNinja ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2017 @ 11:12am

  Pai and Johnson have it backwards, anti-NN forces are just a slogan

  It's ironic Pai and Johnson said this, when in fact it's anti-Net Neutrality forces who's side amount to just a slogan (killing Net Neutrality) that's in search of a problem.

• On the post: Reporter Indicted For Covering Trump Inauguration Protests

  

  ShadowNinja ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2017 @ 11:05am

  Re: The 12 Early Warning Signs of Fascism

  I saw a list that had 14 signs of Fascism, the 14th sign (not listed there) was fraudulent elections (or even not having elections at all).

• On the post: Frontier Fires State Senate Leader (Who Also Worked For Frontier) For Supporting Attempts To Improve Broadband Competition

  

  ShadowNinja ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2017 @ 08:56am

  Re: Re: Bankruptcy?

  But those executives worked extra hard for those gigantic bonuses while driving their company into bankruptcy!
  
  It's not easy to drive yourself into bankruptcy while you have a near monopoly on the market! That's why they should be rewarded for their innovation by keeping their giant bonuses!

• On the post: Reddit, Amazon Push For 'Day Of Action' On July 12 To Protest The Killing Of Net Neutrality

  

  ShadowNinja ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2017 @ 02:02pm

  I wonder if NetFlix is going to get GoDaddied

  Reading around Reddit and elsewhere, I wonder if this day of action will get expanded to boycott some large web/tech companies that flipped on the issue to opposing net neutrality.
  
  The most obvious target being Netflix, because of their CEO's speech about Net Neutrality, and how they look like hypocrites now. I've seen a number of people at reddit talking about canceling their netflix subscriptions over it.
  
  GoDaddy backed down from their SOPA backing from a scheduled day to leave GoDaddy, the same could happen to NetFlix and potentially other tech/web companies.

• On the post: Cheap DNA Testing Is Giving Some Insurers Even More Ways To Deny Coverage [UPDATED]

  

  ShadowNinja ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2017 @ 05:27am

  On top of that, there's the arbitration clause, which will ensure users have as little leverage as possible should they be unhappy with Ancestry's services or handling of DNA data. This, too, is sadly a part of too many terms of service agreements. Arbitration forces users to play on the company's playground, rather than the more neutral field created by filing a civil complaint.

  Arbitration clauses should be illegal.

  The case where one cell phone company advertised 'free' phones and then charged people $36 dollars in 'taxes & fees' on that 'free' phone shows just how easy it is to abuse this crap. Their arbitration clause, and another clause banning customers from entering in a class action lawsuit against them let them get away with it, thanks to the idiots on the supreme court who sided with them.

• On the post: How Document-Tracking Dots Helped The FBI Track Down Russian Hacking Doc Leaker

  

  ShadowNinja ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2017 @ 05:59am

  Re: Wikileaks would have scrubbed the documents properly.

  I doubt Winner trusted Wikileaks to even report on this.
  
  Wikileaks has been accused of being in Russia's pockets for over a year, and they've clearly been in Trump's pocket for ages. That doesn't sound like the kind of a person to leak something damaging to both to.
  
  Wikileaks burned a lot of their credibly to half the country in the election.

• On the post: VMProtect Accuses Denuvo Of Using Unlicensed Software In Its Antipiracy DRM

  

  ShadowNinja ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2017 @ 05:52am

  Re: DRMception

  Sorry the DRM won't permit you to do as you please with your arse. Otherwise everyone would pirate their arses instead of buying it from the arse manufacturer.

• On the post: Stupid Patent Of The Month: Ford Patents A Windshield

  

  ShadowNinja ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2017 @ 05:26am

  Re: Re:

  But... but... without a patent Ford would have had no motivation to invent a slightly different shape of a windshield to install in their cars!
  
  We have to reward them with a vague patent that applies to all windshields made in the last century, otherwise no one will have any motivation to innovate anymore!

• On the post: Samsung's 'Airtight' Iris Scanning Technology For The S8 Defeated With A Camera, Printer, And Contact Lens

  

  ShadowNinja ( profile ), 30 May, 2017 @ 05:52am

  Re: Bio-metrics

  Not to mention the police and other bad guys violating your rights can force you to unlock your bio-metrics/iris stuff pretty easily.
  
  Passwords however can't be stolen so easily.

• On the post: The FCC Doesn't Care That Somebody's Spamming Its Net Neutrality Proceeding With Fraudulent Comments

  

  ShadowNinja ( profile ), 24 May, 2017 @ 08:30am

  Re:

  I bet odds are good the FCC would work hard to find the author of such a bot and refer it to the justice department for prosecution for committing fraud.
  
  There's little doubt that the bot spamming FCC is violating the law and could be prosecuted under something for it (not just CFAA).

• On the post: NY Senate Passes Bill That Would Add Cops And Firemen To List Of Protected Classes Under State's Hate Crime Law

  

  ShadowNinja ( profile ), 19 May, 2017 @ 09:26am

  Re: Wait, firemen?

  That was what I was thinking.
  
  Is it a 'hate crime' under this bill if you start a fire by mistake in your kitchen and a fireman kills themselves trying to put it out?
  
  If arson a hate crime if it kills a fireman, even though the arsonist just intended to kill the person sleeping in the building they set on fire?

• On the post: FCC Commissioner Wants To Ban States From Protecting Consumer Broadband Privacy

  

  ShadowNinja ( profile ), 18 May, 2017 @ 08:38am

  Socialism is always bad!

  Do not let your voices go unheard as Net Neutrality advocates slowly, but surely, seek to drag the U.S. economy toward socialism.

  Yes O'Rielly, socialism is always bad.

  Except for things like Social Security, Medicare, anti-monopoly laws, the public education system guaranteeing free education to all kids, the fire departments, the police departments, the justice system, etc.

  Them and all those other things that are paid for tax payer expense are just fine despite being a socialist redistribution of wealth in some way!

  But the very idea of net neutrality is horrible, because socialism is BAD! BAD! BAD!

• On the post: If Facebook Becomes The Internet's Authentication System, Can Citizen Scores Around The World Be Far Behind?

  

  ShadowNinja ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2017 @ 05:58am

  Re: Why would anyone trust Facebook?

  Not to mention Facebook has been in decline for years, with the decline starting in the US, where they have a net negative account 'growth' due to old users deleting their accounts.
  
  Only a fool ties themselves to a company that's been in decline for years and is no showing no signs of reversing that decline thanks to increased competition.

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