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• On the post: Trump Muzzles Federal Employees; Reporters Start Asking For Leaks

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2017 @ 04:14pm

  Re: Hm

  OldMugwump wrote:

  EPA. Department of Health & Human Services. Department of Commerce. While I'm not in favor of Trump's gag order, I do kind of wonder if I'd even notice if all of those agencies just disappeared from the face of the earth.

  I'm 46 years old and have lived in Los Angeles most of my life. I remember the 1970s when we regularly had days where it was unsafe to run and play outside due to smog. Now? I can literally look out my window and see the positive effects of the existence of the EPA. But this of course is anecdotal. Fortunately, you don't have to take my word for it. We have science*! http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/03/150304-los-angeles-smog-children-health-environment/ *Funded in part by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, part of the NIH, which is also subject to the Trump administration's gag order

• On the post: Trump Muzzles Federal Employees; Reporters Start Asking For Leaks

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2017 @ 03:17pm

  Badlands

  In apparent defiance of this muzzling policy, someone at Badlands National Park (@BadlandsNPS) began tweeting facts about climate change today, sending several tweets before apparently being stopped. (The tweets have since been deleted.) Just documented, factual information about an issue that impacts our national parks (as it does everywhere else).
  
  Someone risked their job to do this.
  
  The least we can do is have their back.

• On the post: Techdirt's First Amendment Fight For Its Life

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2017 @ 12:13pm

  Re:

  You've earned my LOL. The satire is dead-on.
  This should definitely win funniest comment of the week!

• On the post: Techdirt's First Amendment Fight For Its Life

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2017 @ 08:23am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: What goes around, comes around

  That arrogant prick was sentenced to 28 years of getting-his-ass-pounded in federal prison.

  How about we try being relieved at someone going to prison without celebrating people being raped.

• On the post: Techdirt's First Amendment Fight For Its Life

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 11 Jan, 2017 @ 02:17pm

  Re:

  Section 230.

• On the post: Techdirt's First Amendment Fight For Its Life

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 11 Jan, 2017 @ 12:14pm

  Whatever help I can provide, it's yours.

• On the post: Do You Have Examples Of Constructive Responses To Hateful/Abusive/Trollish Speech Online?

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2016 @ 10:53am

  Re: Journalist are infallible and should always be trusted, unlike Preachers, Scientist, or the Police

  Anonymous Coward wrote:

  I respected Snopes because they'd use to constantly tell us to be wary of "authoritative" sources itself included... It sadden me to see all my lose all my heroes to the current madness and it fills me with a great degree of self doubt.

  Is Snopes doing anything differently than always they have done? They've always debunked lies and wild stories with facts, and cited their sources. If you're uncomfortable with Snopes' fact-checking, but can't show where they've erred (and not corrected it), maybe they're not the problem.

• On the post: Do You Have Examples Of Constructive Responses To Hateful/Abusive/Trollish Speech Online?

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2016 @ 09:09am

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  Idiot posts a call to take up arms.

  Just to clarify again since the article is wrong (and in a really really really bad way) on this: Iyad El-Baghdadi is not ISIS-affiliated, in any way. (He has a similar last name to ISIS leader, but that's it.) And he was the one encouraging Muslims to troll ISIS.

• On the post: Do You Have Examples Of Constructive Responses To Hateful/Abusive/Trollish Speech Online?

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2016 @ 08:41am

  Re: Iyad El-Baghdadi

  Yeah, this is a pretty bad mistake.
  
  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-35210527

• On the post: Every Website Needs To Re-register With The Copyright Office, Who Can't Build A Functioning System

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 02 Dec, 2016 @ 03:32pm

  Re: Re: So when

  Berghuis v. Thompkins
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/01/AR2010060102114.html

• On the post: Trump Formally Picks Two Net Neutrality Opponents To Head FCC Transition

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2016 @ 01:16pm

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  Yeah, so far the neonazi subsection of his promises is faring well.

• On the post: Burlington Police Insist Someone Is Pretending To Abuse Copyright Law To Censor News Stories About Arrests

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2016 @ 08:41am

  Re: arrested != convicted

  Honest question: What is the purpose of the police publishing mugshots of arrested persons? To me, it seems disturbingly prejudicial.

  Asked and answered.

• On the post: Theranos's Insane Campaign To Punish Whistleblower, Who Happened To Be Famous Boardmember's Grandson

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2016 @ 08:30am

  Re: Re:

  This is how the company treats a whistle-blower from a powerful family. Someone with family money who can get a meeting with the family's lawyer on a moment's notice.
  
  Not to minimize the good that Tyler Schultz did in standing up to Theranos -- It was commendable -- but can you imagine what would happen to someone who spoke out who lacked such connections?
  
  Or what might have already happened, for all we know?

• On the post: Let Them Eat Facts: Why Fact Checking Is Mostly Useless In Convincing Voters

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2016 @ 08:46am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Bistromathics.

• On the post: Let Them Eat Facts: Why Fact Checking Is Mostly Useless In Convincing Voters

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2016 @ 08:39am

  Re: Who Fact Checks the Fact Checkers

  I’ve grown not trust the so-called fact checking sites. When you drill down on the ownership and alliances of many of these sites, you'll find them financed and supported by biased parties that have no interest in facts and are in effect, propaganda mills.

  Then point out where they are factually incorrect.

• On the post: Let Them Eat Facts: Why Fact Checking Is Mostly Useless In Convincing Voters

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2016 @ 08:38am

  Re: Fact checking

  Snopes has been problematic this cycle. There are tens of articles disputing the specific assertions they've made on a swath of different topics. I don't need to go into the details here. It doesn't help the argument.

  No, get into the details. I've seen lots of people saying "Snopes? Clearly biased liars." but not backing it up with any facts. Show your work.

• On the post: Fighting For The First Amendment Is Going To Be A Priority: Help Us Do It

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2016 @ 03:14pm

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  And I became a paid subscriber, and so have cancelled out your "win".

• On the post: Fighting For The First Amendment Is Going To Be A Priority: Help Us Do It

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2016 @ 03:11pm

  Re: Is this a joke?

  Today the best of that genre (NYT) has publicly acknowledging their misdeeds and they've vowed to return to their journalistic roots

  uh, no. That's not what their letter said at all. You really shouldn't believe everything Dear Leader Trump says. Even he said you shouldn't take him at his word.

• On the post: Hillary Clinton Looks At Her Campaign's Many Missteps, Decides To Blame James Comey For Her Loss

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2016 @ 03:15pm

  Re: Re:

  Jim wrote:

  Pardon her for what? What did she do wrong?

  It's obvious. She was despised by people who spent decades trying -- and failing -- to pin criminal charges on her. The failure to find anything in itself proves just how guilty she is. At least, I think that's how the logic works. Can't double-check because my brain just shut down in protest.

• On the post: Hillary Clinton Looks At Her Campaign's Many Missteps, Decides To Blame James Comey For Her Loss

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2016 @ 03:09pm

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  With every post you prove your detractors right.

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