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• On the post: Starbucks Joins The List Of Companies Using Trademark Law To Bully Its Own Union

  

  TheCentralScrutinizer ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2023 @ 02:11am

  Wow, did you make up that last line all on your own?

• On the post: Australian Government Apparently Willing To Follow In UK Government’s Client-Side Scanning Footsteps

  

  TheCentralScrutinizer ( profile ), 29 Jun, 2023 @ 02:51am

  I'm horrified

  As an Australian, I'm absolutely horrified by this. Our media organisations have been totally asleep at the wheel over this. They are all agog at the news of the Tay Tay tour, as if that's fucking news. I only found out about it after reading this article today. So if this shit goes ahead, we will all truly be suspects, with broken encryption and a sign on our foreheads that says "Hi criminals, come on in to my computer/phone/whatever device and ruin my life"! Just fucking marvellous! Morons.

• On the post: I Explained To A Court How California’s ‘Kid’s Code’ Is Both Impossible To Comply With & An Attack On Our Expression

  

  TheCentralScrutinizer ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2023 @ 03:48pm

  Well, I suppose the Internet was good while we had it.

• On the post: Age Verification Providers Say Don’t Worry About California Design Code; You’ll Just Have To Scan Your Face For Every Website You Visit

  

  TheCentralScrutinizer ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2022 @ 12:49am

  I never have to show my license when buying alcohol, so what's your point? Storing people's images on a server somewhere is a disaster just waiting to happen, or don't you read the news? My online viewing habits will remain "frictionless" because I will never willingly provide my image to some random third party. Not.Gonna.Happen.

• On the post: Age Verification Providers Say Don’t Worry About California Design Code; You’ll Just Have To Scan Your Face For Every Website You Visit

  

  TheCentralScrutinizer ( profile ), 29 Aug, 2022 @ 09:27pm

  I visit far too many American (and I presume Californian) websites anyway. Any website trying to pull this shit on me would instantly go onto the "do not visit" list. The sock puppets for the age verification businesses/whatever must think we are all children if they believe we'll swallow their garbage assurances.

• On the post: Australian Law Enforcement Now Forcing Service Providers To Grant Access To Data And Content

  

  TheCentralScrutinizer ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2022 @ 02:55pm

  There is precisely zero coverage of this in the media. It's like a silent pandemic of a different kind. Little by little our technically illiterate government chips away at freedoms, because: terrorism, pedophiles, drugs! All the usual tropes are employed as the same tired old scare tactics. We deserve better than these bozos as our so called leaders. And no, encryption is not illegal here, as someone stated. The government just wants to fuck us all via the back door.

• On the post: Missouri's Governor Still Insists Reporter Is A Hacker, Even As Prosecutors Decline To Press Charges

  

  TheCentralScrutinizer ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2022 @ 03:38pm

  I blame the mouse and keyboard manufacturers. How dare they offer right clicks and function keys so that you can view source code! Bastards!

• On the post: Clearview Finally Submits AI For Independent Testing; Only Tests Feature It Isn't Actually Selling

  

  TheCentralScrutinizer ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2021 @ 07:54pm

  The courts here in Australia have told them to knock it off, so we'll see, I suppose. The arrogance of that guy is breathtaking. What a self entitled shit he is.

• On the post: Elvis Costello Doesn't Care That A Pop Star Copied His Riffs; Says Every Musician Does That

  

  TheCentralScrutinizer ( profile ), 02 Jul, 2021 @ 08:54pm

  Re: ElvisAnon

  Yeah, those poor, struggling record companies....ba ha.

• On the post: Elvis Costello Doesn't Care That A Pop Star Copied His Riffs; Says Every Musician Does That

  

  TheCentralScrutinizer ( profile ), 02 Jul, 2021 @ 07:19pm

  Bruce Springsteen freely admits that he stole, borrowed, whatever, the riff for Badlands from The Animals. Artists and musicians do that constantly. It's called inspiration.

• On the post: Australian Official Admits That Of Course Murdoch Came Up With Link Tax, But Insists The Bill Is Not A Favor To News Corp.

  

  TheCentralScrutinizer ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2021 @ 05:14pm

  Re:

  Nonsense.

• On the post: UK Home Office Floats Bill That Would Make It Illegal To Be Too Loud During A Protest

  

  TheCentralScrutinizer ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2021 @ 09:11pm

  Cops beating and assaulting women at a peaceful vigil for a woman who was allegedly murdered BY A COP is fine though.

• On the post: Facebook Caves To Australia: Will Restore Links After Government Gives It More Time To Negotiate Paying For News Links

  

  TheCentralScrutinizer ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2021 @ 02:38pm

  Murdoch: Scotty, I fucked up/ignored the Internet/don't understand how it works. I'm a totally clueless fossil who just wants even more money. Please Scotty, make them pay for linking to my shitty right wing websites.

  Scot Morrison: Yes boss!

• On the post: Snippet Taxes Not Only Violate The Berne Convention, But Also Betray The Deepest Roots Of Newspaper Culture

  

  TheCentralScrutinizer ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2021 @ 03:28pm

  Our Idiot in Chief, aka Scotty from Marketing, has been talking to Microsoft about Bing filling the Google gap, if and when Google stops providing search here. Great, a Microsoft monopoly on search! What could possibly go wrong with that?

  The Greens have even proposed a publicly funded search engine. Good grief. Imagine all the vested interests demanding that certain search terms be barred, etc. but that's the level of competency most of our politicians have.

  If the proposed code goes ahead, with its insistence that Google provide 28 days notice of any upcoming algorithmic changes, then I wouldn't blame Google one bit for blocking search in Australia. 28 days notice! Talk about fucking up a business.

  The hollow men of the Liberals always bang on about free market forces and all that crap. It seems they're more than willing to give that idea up to look after Rupert and his cronies. The level of hypocrisy is staggering, to say the least.

• On the post: Google Threatens To Pull Out Of Australia Entirely; Australians Demand That It Both Stay And Pay News Orgs For Giving Them Traffic

  

  TheCentralScrutinizer ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2021 @ 06:21pm

  It's maddening from both perspectives really. I am certainly no fan of the Murdoch press or Murdoch himself. He owns 70% of the news media here, so we get a lot of crap from his right wing rags and TV commentators. I'm also no fan of Facebook or Google.
  To me, the argument boils down to a company, albeit a very large one, having to pay news organisations merely for linking to them, which goes against the whole spirit of the Internet.

  Even Tim Berners Lee has said it will break the WWW. If Google et al are forced to pay for links, how deep does the wedge then go?
  Technologically clueless politicians, beholden to Murdoch, break the Internet for an entire population just so they can stay in his good books.

  Yeah, this is going to end well.

• On the post: Knight First Amendment Institute Sues The CDC For Failing To Provide Details Of Its Media Gag Order

  

  TheCentralScrutinizer ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2020 @ 02:44am

  Can someone, somehow, please gag that idiot in the white house? He is worse than the bloody virus.

• On the post: Permission Culture Gone Mad: Worries About Proper License For 'Balcony Singing' Lead Collection Society To Say It's Okay, You Can Sing

  

  TheCentralScrutinizer ( profile ), 30 Mar, 2020 @ 05:19pm

  Who do I ask for permission to breathe?

• On the post: Australian Federal Police Raid Journalist's Home Over Publication Of Leaked Documents

  

  TheCentralScrutinizer ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2019 @ 04:10pm

  Not only was the ABC raided....

  But the warrant gave the AFP the power to copy, delete and modify files on its computers. That is a massive over reach and sets off all kinds of alarm bells. What next, planting files on people's computers? This is very dangerous stuff. The so called "prime minister" just shrugged it off and said "talk to the AFP". Law enforcement doing the government's bidding. Gee, that's always ended so well in the past.

• On the post: EU Parliament Takes Up Its Next Attempt To Wipe Out An Open Internet: Terrorist Content Regulation Vote On Wednesday

  

  TheCentralScrutinizer ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2019 @ 04:56am

  To echo Damien, yeah, fuck off.
  If I run a blog or website here and I ever got a take down notice from the EU I'd probably laugh my self silly, keep calm and carry on regardless.
  What a bunch of maroons.

• On the post: Australian Prosecutors Trying To Throw Reporters In Jail For Accurately Reporting On Cardinal George Pell's Conviction

  

  TheCentralScrutinizer ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2019 @ 04:32am

  Freedom of the press in the Internet age

  The Herald Sun had a front page here that said, and I'm paraphrasing, CENSORED, THE BIGGEST STORY WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO REPORT.
  We all sussed what is was anyway, because of previous and well known publicity about the charges against Pell.
  So we just went to overseas media outlets to read the story.
  This abuse and covering it up has been an ongoing issue for literally decades , but we apparently have no right to hear about an important trial because it might "scandalise the court". Fuck off.
  What has scandalised Australian society all these years is the criminal abuse of innocent children by the catholic church and its systematic cover ups by that same organisation.
  Persecuting journalists and media outlets for having the temerity to complain that they can't report about something, even when they don't mention that something by name, would set an incredibly dangerous precedent.
  The law should drag its arse into the 21st century.

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