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• On the post: Stifling Free Speech Is Now A Core Plank Of The Republican Platform

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2023 @ 10:22pm

  ...you do realize people lie, sometimes, right?

• On the post: Stifling Free Speech Is Now A Core Plank Of The Republican Platform

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2023 @ 10:19pm

  I appreciate all that effort you made in quoting the ruling. Too bad it was completely wasted. 1) Surprisingly, what justices cite as their justification is not always their justification. Spoiler: Row V Wade wasn't actually about privacy. 2) What ruling says are the limits are often ignored. The parallel with Qualified Immunity here is very strong. The original ruling didn't say "no officer can be found personally liable unless the EXACT the same instance can be found in case law and the officer was aware of it" but that's been basically how it panned out. Similarly, Sullivan vs NYT basically makes it so that a "journalist" can say absolutely whatever the fuck they want about about an official, with complete disregard to any justification to claim said thing, with zero possibility of civil repercussion. You can say the ruling doesn't say that, and maybe it doesn't, but that's how the precedent has been interpreted.

  Mike’s been showing you the truth

  That part actually offends me, as Masnick lies all the fucking time. P.S. I was being sarcastic about "I appreciate all that effort", because it was just shitposting in the nature of "antifa means 'anti-fascist' so if you're against them you must be fascist". You're either disingenuous or simple to claim something like that. Get fucked, k thx.

• On the post: Stifling Free Speech Is Now A Core Plank Of The Republican Platform

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2023 @ 10:07pm

  You do realise, of course, that the right wing mediaspace as it is couldn’t exist without these protections, right?

  Sure buddy. Everything your side says is true and reasonable and everything my side says is deranged and unhinged. WaPo and CNN wouldn't exist anymore but for NYT vs Sullivan. Basically, get fucked, your bias is showing.

• On the post: Stifling Free Speech Is Now A Core Plank Of The Republican Platform

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2023 @ 10:03pm

  Why do you hate the 1st amendment so much

  Libel as a civil remedy for damages between private parties basically has no intersection with the 1st amendment. Which you would understand if you weren't an uneducated fuckwad.

• On the post: Stifling Free Speech Is Now A Core Plank Of The Republican Platform

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2023 @ 10:02pm

  And under the current standard, it isn’t.

  Except it is. Nothing you say is valuable, and you are chronically underinformed.

• On the post: Stifling Free Speech Is Now A Core Plank Of The Republican Platform

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2023 @ 09:59pm

  so when you post comments critical of Mike, you want it easier for him to sue you for defamation?

  Please appreciate how fucking dumb your comment is: 1) Masnick isn't a government official 2) I'm not a journalist 3) 95% of my commentary on Masnick is opinion and that which isn't is pretty easily defensible in court. 4) Masnick isn't that stupid, believe it or not, but lol, come at me bro.

• On the post: Stifling Free Speech Is Now A Core Plank Of The Republican Platform

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2023 @ 09:55pm

  The existing standard is exactly that. If you say factual assertions that you know are untrue already violates defamation law under the NYT v. Sullivan standard.

  No, it doesn't. Or at least not in practice. There is NOTHING that can stop a journalist from just saying outrageous untrue shit.

• On the post: Stifling Free Speech Is Now A Core Plank Of The Republican Platform

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2023 @ 11:18am

  DeSantis is right

  And no, restoring libel protections isn't "suppressing free speech". Being able to criticize public figures is really important, but it shouldn't be carte blanche to say just whatever you want, including factual assertions about an official personally that you know to be untrue. And it's turned into that. Several publications, most notably WaPo and CNN, just straight up lied pretty routinely about Trump. There shouldn't be a circumvention for this normal, civil remedy for straight libel. Consider it Qualified Immunity for Journalists. That's what you're defending here. It's a new, basically made up standard implemented by the court. Honestly, I think you're biased af and are only outraged about it because it's a republican proposing it. (I also liked how you tried to spread what you see as a smear to "Republicans" instead of one candidate and two people who are unlikely to ever be in office again)

• On the post: The Missed Opportunities Of The Khan FTC Are Glaring

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2023 @ 08:13am

  I mean that's not the case at all. The effective problem is that congress has delegated effective law making to the administrative branch, which they really should not be able to do. But they've done it for a long time now.

• On the post: The Missed Opportunities Of The Khan FTC Are Glaring

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2023 @ 08:12am

  No, I think you're just an idiot and move on. I think my mistake here was giving you idiots something to fixate upon rather the core point. But you will always find something.

• On the post: The Missed Opportunities Of The Khan FTC Are Glaring

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2023 @ 08:03am

  can’t even be arsed

  can't be arsed *to you. You aren't American and haven't shown the intellectual depth to absorb it anyway.

• On the post: The Missed Opportunities Of The Khan FTC Are Glaring

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2023 @ 06:13am

  I am unaware that every opinion requires a bibliography. Regardless, I actually have a response prepared...then I saw the name "Strawb" and realized my time would be wasted. Go sea lion somewhere else.

• On the post: The Missed Opportunities Of The Khan FTC Are Glaring

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 16 Feb, 2023 @ 05:42am

  setup purposefully outside of normal checks and balances

  Almost like I told you.

• On the post: The Missed Opportunities Of The Khan FTC Are Glaring

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2023 @ 07:21pm

  Hey congrats!

  You wrote an article that wasn't about Musk! I'd even rate it as kinda fair and balanced. You can be unbiased in certain cases. Gold star for you. But I would argue that instead of focusing on the shortcomings of Ms. Khan, you should focus on the fact that the FTC is a largely unconstitutional agency, setup purposefully outside of normal checks and balances, and that it's generally part of the bloat of the administrative state (the entire premise of which is on shaky legal grounds). Disband it, as it never should have existed, and then we never have to worry about Ms. Khan, her radical opinions, nor her abuses of power. But of course, no federal program or agency goes away, never ever ever.

• On the post: Engineers Gave Elon’s Tweets Special Treatment Because Elon Freaked Out That A Joe Biden Tweet Got More Engagement

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2023 @ 03:51pm

  And that makes you proud how, exactly?

• On the post: Engineers Gave Elon’s Tweets Special Treatment Because Elon Freaked Out That A Joe Biden Tweet Got More Engagement

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2023 @ 03:38pm

  To be fair, I kinda doubt the flame war in the comments actually leads to unique visitors.

• On the post: Engineers Gave Elon’s Tweets Special Treatment Because Elon Freaked Out That A Joe Biden Tweet Got More Engagement

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2023 @ 09:43am

  Can you go just ONE day without you posting about Twitter?

  ....apparently not. Your friend "Casey" does not appear to have very high journalistic standards and is not particularly credible. He also appears to have MDS as bad you. There's no particular reason to think this story is true, and it's more just trash gossip than something actually relevant even if it were. Stop it. Get some help.

• On the post: Twitter’s Remaining Engineers Appear To Solve Elon Musk’s Complaint That His Tweets Aren’t Getting Enough Views By… Making The Algorithm Forcefeed All Of Elon’s Tweets To Everyone

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2023 @ 09:10am

  Sadly, I’ve done it before and you just ignored it

  First of all, I have no idea who "you" are, cuz you're a coward. Secondly, I seriously doubt it. I already think you're talking gibberish, so it can't get worse. Perhaps you think 2A references and promises of a robust defense are not "peaceful"? In that case you would be wrong and a moron.

• On the post: Twitter’s Remaining Engineers Appear To Solve Elon Musk’s Complaint That His Tweets Aren’t Getting Enough Views By… Making The Algorithm Forcefeed All Of Elon’s Tweets To Everyone

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2023 @ 09:07am

  Then care to demonstrate why it’s not credible?

  Mostly because he's willing to write blog posts with real accusations based on the account of one anonymous witness with motivation to lie.

• On the post: Twitter’s Remaining Engineers Appear To Solve Elon Musk’s Complaint That His Tweets Aren’t Getting Enough Views By… Making The Algorithm Forcefeed All Of Elon’s Tweets To Everyone

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2023 @ 09:03am

  I sorta doubt it will have much revenue effect, but sure, that would be the most meaningful part of it.

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