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

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 21 Jan, 2024 @ 02:50pm

  No, you're confusing him with the trolls.

• On the post: Appeals Court: Ban On Religious Ads Is Unconstitutional Because It’s Pretty Much Impossible To Define ‘Religion’

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2024 @ 12:21pm

  "We know it when we see it" is what comes after "It's impossible to define".

• On the post: San Francisco Bets Big On Surveillance, Blankets City With 400 Automatic License Plate Readers

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2024 @ 03:53am

  That's a poor excuse for a massive increase in surveillance.

• On the post: Florida Has Yet Another Unconstitutional Social Media Bill; Wants To Ban Kids From Social Media

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2024 @ 11:29pm

  If they operate in America, they have to follow the laws there.

• On the post: My Comments To Attorney General Rob Bonta Regarding Common Sense Media’s Dangerous ‘Protect The Kids’ Ballot Initiative

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2024 @ 12:12am

  Is it really a small group of users? Reference(s)?

  There are six references in the link at the very beginning of the article.

  Oversight mostly by parents and teachers, not the law.

  Yes, Masnick is also arguing against doing this through law.

  I am interpreting what you have said from this and you prior posts as, “The media portrays social media as a big problem, but mountains of evidence show that it’s not, indeed, a problem.”

  Your interpretations aren't really on Masnick when he has stated in multiple articles on this topic that the issue is overblown, and that evidence(the evidence cited in the link I mentioned) shows that social media, overall, are a net benefit for young people. He has never said that it's not a problem for anyone.

  You seem to refute the notion that social media can be harmful

  He doesn't.

• On the post: Verizon, AT&T Face ‘High Priority’ EPA Inquiry Over Lead In Telecom Cables

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2024 @ 07:15am

  I'm sure the incumbent ISPs will update their infrastructure any day now...

• On the post: Techdirt 2023: The Stats

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2024 @ 02:05am

  Given the regulars in the comments section, I didn't expect to find myself on all three top 10 lists. A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.

• On the post: Around 450 People Will Be Working On The Enforcement Of The UK’s Online Safety Act – To Begin With, At Least…

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2024 @ 02:01am

  It’s like you literally want chaos, anarchy, abuse and predation online.

  And it's like you literally want governments to destroy privacy and security on the internet.

• On the post: Americans Received 55 Billion Robocalls In 2023, A 9% Jump From 2022

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2024 @ 08:34am

  I think a problem is that when a Russian robocaller tries to persuade the recipient to vote for Trump[...]

  And your source for this actually happening is...?

• On the post: Blumenthal Thinks If Only The FTC Can Enforce KOSA It Won’t Be Abused; He’s Wrong

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2024 @ 03:09pm

  you have to ask yourself why the sudden explosion in numbers

  Generally when society looks like it might be more accepting of something, more people are willing to demonstrate how they actually feel, though I know that accepting minorities is a foreign concept to you.

  along with the precipitous decline in birth rates.

  It's not precipitous; the US birth rate has been trending downward for decades.

• On the post: Unity Lays Off 25% Of It’s Work Force, Is Having A Bad Time

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2024 @ 03:21am

  sigh One can only hope...

• On the post: Piracy Is Surging Again Because Streaming Execs Ignored The Lessons Of The Past

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2024 @ 12:37pm

  The underlying factor of all of this is the skyrocketing cost of making so-so content these days.

  That phrasing makes it sound like a natural evolution, which isn't really the case. The reason so much content has exploded on cost over just the past five years is the increased reliance on VFX with no control and no supervision: "We'll fix it in post". A tightly controlled use of VFX reduces cost significantly. That's how a movie like Godzilla - Minus One was made for less than $15 million.

• On the post: Piracy Is Surging Again Because Streaming Execs Ignored The Lessons Of The Past

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2024 @ 12:32pm

  Sure, piracy’s an option. Until your ISP catches you doing it and kills your service.

  It's not the ISP's job to enforce copyright law. They make money off you, they have no incentive whatsoever to proactively do anything about it.

• On the post: Piracy Is Surging Again Because Streaming Execs Ignored The Lessons Of The Past

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2024 @ 12:28pm

  Having to continually cancel and re-signup to various services to watch the stuff you're interested in is not much of a boon. Piracy still wins.

• On the post: ‘The Messenger’ Promised To Revolutionize Journalism, Then Fell Flat On Its Face

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2024 @ 08:09am

  ...hallucinated nobody mentally competent, ever. (Sorry, Toom)

• On the post: ‘The Messenger’ Promised To Revolutionize Journalism, Then Fell Flat On Its Face

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2024 @ 05:54am

  Hey man, don't shoot The Messenger!

• On the post: Utah Governor Absolutely Positive That Social Media Harms Kids Despite Study After Study After Study After Study After Study Saying He’s Wrong

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2024 @ 04:38am

  You’re linking studies done by Facebook? How dumb can you be?

  Two studies by Oxford University, one by Pew Research, one by the US Surgeon General, one by the APA and one published in the Journal of Pediatrics. Where's the Facebook study?

  And studies that just survey actual teens? Like they would know whether it is harming them.

  How do you think you find out how teens are doing, if not by asking them? Since you seem so knowledgeable on the subject.

• On the post: Copyright Liability On LLMs Should Mostly Fall On The Prompter, Not The Service

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2024 @ 04:34am

  The owners of the AI system are the ones liable for copyright violation because it’s their system that is producing the copyrighted work based on copyrighted work that they have incorporated.

  That's like blaming the developers of Bittorrent for the users downloading pirated software. It makes no sense.

• On the post: Copyright Liability On LLMs Should Mostly Fall On The Prompter, Not The Service

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2024 @ 04:30am

  The owners of the AI system are the ones making the copies; the user provided a prompt, and the AI system reproduced a copyrighted work.

  Even if that actually happened, the user is the one who made it happen. The owners created a tool that could.

  When a device makes illegal copies of copyrighted material that its owners have placed within it, the owners are liable.

  A user using a tool in a particular way doesn't make the creators of the tool liable for the crime. By that logic, car companies would be responsible for mass killings, but they're not. The drivers are. It should be the same with AI tools.

• On the post: Police Union Defends Forfeiture By Saying Anyone Carrying A Bunch Of Cash Is Probably A Criminal

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2024 @ 01:39am

  This is deranged, anti-police hate speech deployed in service of a popular narrative on TechDirt that law enforcement is bad and society would be better off under anarchy.

  That's one hell of a strawman.

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