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• On the post: DeSantis May Be Learning What The Copyright World Has Always Known: Disney’s Lawyers Don’t Fuck Around

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2023 @ 05:49pm

  erring on the side of caution⁠—even if doing so seems absurd⁠—will always look like the most logical course of action.

  Neat. Not even vaguely what happened tho. Why do you want kids to see porn so much?

• On the post: DeSantis May Be Learning What The Copyright World Has Always Known: Disney’s Lawyers Don’t Fuck Around

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2023 @ 05:42pm

  If you really think I want teachers showing pornography to little children, you’re far more fucked up than I thought.

  Your options are:

  1. You don't actually know what the law says or possibly don't understand it.
  2. You're lying about the law.
  3. You want to show porn to little children.

  It's possibly not #3, but it definitely has to be one of those three.

• On the post: DeSantis May Be Learning What The Copyright World Has Always Known: Disney’s Lawyers Don’t Fuck Around

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2023 @ 05:34pm

  1. no books were banned. It's a library, if you define "banned" as "doesn't carry it" the 99.999% of all books are "banned"
  2. no non-porn books were removed at all so far as I know. Certainly not by the law. Librarians staging a silly protest is a different matter.

• On the post: DeSantis May Be Learning What The Copyright World Has Always Known: Disney’s Lawyers Don’t Fuck Around

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2023 @ 05:20pm

  So?

• On the post: DeSantis May Be Learning What The Copyright World Has Always Known: Disney’s Lawyers Don’t Fuck Around

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2023 @ 05:13pm

  Your article has no citations and does not quote the notice. Also, notably, a far left wing blog -- which would be fine if they had cited evidence but they did not. When you actually have some evidence, let us know.

• On the post: DeSantis May Be Learning What The Copyright World Has Always Known: Disney’s Lawyers Don’t Fuck Around

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2023 @ 05:09pm

  Actually, completely incorrect. (also wouldn't be "banning") That is just librarians throwing a hissy fit and pretending the law required they remove such things. No they didn't have to "err on the side of caution" (not banning). They're literally just lying about what the law said as a form of political protest and some dumb journalists will eat that shit up. Thanks for trying, tho. They literally had porn in school. Not like, high school, elementary school.

• On the post: DeSantis May Be Learning What The Copyright World Has Always Known: Disney’s Lawyers Don’t Fuck Around

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2023 @ 05:04pm

  When did he say anything in this thread about Ron DeSantis banning books?

  He didn't, but that's why he's so mad at DeSantis. (yes, he has said so) He was obviously referring to things other than taking away Disney's private town. It's not a non sequitur at all, and I will feel quite free to bring it up as I please. k, thx.

• On the post: DeSantis May Be Learning What The Copyright World Has Always Known: Disney’s Lawyers Don’t Fuck Around

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2023 @ 04:59pm

  Apparently donny could serve as president from a prison cell – weird huh.

  It's fascinating that you think that could ever happen.

• On the post: DeSantis May Be Learning What The Copyright World Has Always Known: Disney’s Lawyers Don’t Fuck Around

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2023 @ 04:58pm

  [ignores facts presented directly]

• On the post: DeSantis May Be Learning What The Copyright World Has Always Known: Disney’s Lawyers Don’t Fuck Around

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2023 @ 04:57pm

  Actually, all the libraries. That's what the law that did that Stephen was so mad about. No porn for kids 3rd grade and younger. No porn for kids makes you "literally Hitler". It's great. You morons are a parody of yourselves.

• On the post: DeSantis May Be Learning What The Copyright World Has Always Known: Disney’s Lawyers Don’t Fuck Around

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2023 @ 04:38pm

  Not a non sequitur at all. What Stephen is so pissed about, removing certain age inappropriate books for young children (he will call it "banning books") is literally no joke, porn. He is directly mad that DeSantis removed porn from an elementary school library. https://twitter.com/tarynfenske/status/1633499837659516928?s=20

• On the post: DeSantis May Be Learning What The Copyright World Has Always Known: Disney’s Lawyers Don’t Fuck Around

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2023 @ 04:36pm

  No no, actual porn. https://twitter.com/tarynfenske/status/1633499837659516928?s=20

• On the post: Forget Shadow Banning, Now Elon Is Shadow Boosting Accounts He Likes, While Trying To Drive Away Users Who Won’t Pay

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2023 @ 03:44pm

  This is nothing but mischaracterization after mischaracterization and lots of plain lies

  Uh huh, OK. You have no idea what science IS, let alone how it works.

  You DIDN’T address the methodologies

  I don't know if you missed it, or just can't read, but I can't say I care anymore.

  The source for my knowledge that Faux News is faux news is Faux News.

  Yes, I get it, you hate anyone who disagrees with you. Because you're a hateful liberal. So? That's an opinion, unsourced in anything. So was the study.

• On the post: Forget Shadow Banning, Now Elon Is Shadow Boosting Accounts He Likes, While Trying To Drive Away Users Who Won’t Pay

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2023 @ 02:44pm

  I wonder about your physics knowledge since your defense of CERN experiments being reproducible involved other groups doing experiments but failed to mention there is more than one detector, I think there’s 3, could be more, but there are two main detectors and both were used in simultaneous, independent, different kinds of, tests in the initial confirmation of the Higgs.

  ....that wasn't my "defense" (my "defense" was pointing out that things either fit into the standard model or don't), I was just pointing out what Bhul said was silly and irrelevant....as is the idea that I should have mentioned the "3" detectors for that purpose (there's 9, actually). Except for the two general purpose detectors the 9 all are designed to detect different things for different experiments. Oh, and they only used one type of experiment to detect the higgs (proton collisions) and "simulataneus" is kinda meaningless, there's 1 billion collisions a second. What matters tho is poring through that enormous amount of data and finding a statistically significant number of events to feed into the model. Basically, nothing you said makes sense the way you think it does. You can be contemptuous all you want, I guess, you don't know enough to know. You're definitely Big Mad about sociology tho.

• On the post: DeSantis May Be Learning What The Copyright World Has Always Known: Disney’s Lawyers Don’t Fuck Around

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2023 @ 02:14pm

  I know you hate DeSantis, but there's no way Disney wins this.

  Not only is Disney on shaky legal ground. Judges hate too cute by half self-dealing. And ultimately, FL can just rewrite the law on them, but they shouldn't have to. I like DeSantis, I DON'T like punishing a company over speech, but fuck Disney and having a modern day company owned town is stupid regardless of what they said. But, gotta poke your bias here:

  And, while Team DeSantis is crying foul about how this was done in secret, it turns out that they held a public vote.....If DeSantis and friends had, you know, been actually paying attention, they might have noticed

  Yeah, "public" does not mean "well known" or even advertised. Just because technically anyone could have walked in and observed the vote does not mean anyone would have known to do so. I like how you pretend that this is somehow negligence, as if DeSantis should have assigned a junior AG to watch the board full time.

  But, it’s pretty rich to see DeSantis lose his mind over being outplayed like this.

  Oh, is he? Or is that just your fantasy? Cuz DeSantis seems like a pretty calm dude, actually. It it kinda like how Musk "glady" banned whoever Modi wanted him to? Or like how Twitter was "basically breaking even" when they lost a billion dollars. I am reminded you will just say things, and you don't care much if they're true.

• On the post: DeSantis May Be Learning What The Copyright World Has Always Known: Disney’s Lawyers Don’t Fuck Around

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2023 @ 01:56pm

  Apparently you're just desperate to show kids porn.

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  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2023 @ 01:48pm

  When you came in there several months ago

  I've literally been here 20 years, or close. Before the "Streisand effect" thing, anyway.

  it took me 50 years to open my eyes, and it’s been 26 more years practicing what I preach

  Did you ever consider that I was actually pretty old, and had determined being "nice" was a waste of time? Apparently not.

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  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2023 @ 01:44pm

  I’ve run across his type on occasion and for the really unrepentant smartasses I just give them enough rope to hang themselves professionally

  Oh, sure, that totally happens. And then your Canadian SO said "good job, honey!"

• On the post: Forget Shadow Banning, Now Elon Is Shadow Boosting Accounts He Likes, While Trying To Drive Away Users Who Won’t Pay

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2023 @ 01:16pm

  Maybe he thinks that “sociology” means “any science I don’t like that isn’t about mental illnesses or brain function”.

  Bari, you just agreed with a guy who thinks studying twitter opinions, sharing patterns, and bans isn't "human behavior and relationships"

  He’s also called a neurological study “psychology”

  I know quite a bit about neurobiology, actually, and it has HUGE crossover with psychology, so that's a funny thing to say. But please, I'm curious to what you're referring to. When did I get a neurological study confused with psychology? linky.

• On the post: Forget Shadow Banning, Now Elon Is Shadow Boosting Accounts He Likes, While Trying To Drive Away Users Who Won’t Pay

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2023 @ 01:10pm

  There is no study of human behavior and relationships.

  It is explicitly that, actually yes. How are you this stupid? Also, please stop saying "Data Science" as if you have any idea what that means. You clearly do not. (Hint: it definitely does not mean Science, that has Data in it)

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