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• On the post: Threads Bans Anyone For Mentioning Hitler, Even To Criticize

  

  Matthew N. Bennett ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2024 @ 01:21pm

  Threads might be the first social media website for no one.

• On the post: Data Shows ‘Progressive’ Prosecution Policies Don’t Lead To Higher Crime Rates

  

  Matthew N. Bennett ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2024 @ 12:34pm

  Dehumanizing your opponent isn't a valid argumentative tactic. You either put up facts, admit you were wrong, or---and I know this is impossible for Techdirt users---simply don't reply at all. You don't need a "well-cited academic thesis", you just need literally anything resembling a coherent claim backed up with evidence. Children learn this in year four of primary school so it shouldn't be out of the realm of possibility for you. I'm not actually expecting anything back, I just think it's funny that Toom knows 100% that he's not smart enough to make any kind of coherent point so he just spends all day on Techdirt and Ars Technica shouting at people. Seriously, from morning til 3am my time he's doing the same thing over and over. If you ignore his childish bullying and actually confront him he just digs his head in the sand and pretends you don't exist. He's a total coward and I think it's hysterical.

• On the post: From ‘Social Media Better Not Touch Politics’ To ‘Social Media Must Push One Sided Nonsense’

  

  Matthew N. Bennett ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2024 @ 12:26pm

  It's a private company, they can do whatever they want. Oh, wait, sorry, I guess now that the "wrong" guy is in charge this argument no longer applies. My bad.

• On the post: Data Shows ‘Progressive’ Prosecution Policies Don’t Lead To Higher Crime Rates

  

  Matthew N. Bennett ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2024 @ 08:57pm

  Hey Toom, I know you are not actually intelligent enough to succeed in any kind of debate or argument, so you have to use "uno reverse card"-tier non-sequiturs, but you can't just do it on a random comment and think it makes any amount of sense. Hope this helps, man.

• On the post: Border Patrol Memo Reveals Nearly A Third Of Its Border Cameras Don’t Actually Work

  

  Matthew N. Bennett ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2024 @ 03:28pm

  That’s right: the same crisis actors that chant “BUILD THE WALL!” and claim Kamala Harris is allowing undocumented immigrants to enter this country at unprecedented rates to commit unprecedented amounts of violent crimes

  For the first time in Techdirt history, Tim Cushing accidentally states a fact.

• On the post: VGHF, Libraries Lose Again On DMCA Exemption Request To Preserve Old Video Games

  

  Matthew N. Bennett ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2024 @ 12:30pm

  Same here. I tried Virtual Console on the Wii, saw the 25% opacity filter over the games and pixel smoothing and just went back to NEStopia. Why can't we just preserve games as they are? Why do we have to editorialize? It boggles the mind.

• On the post: VGHF, Libraries Lose Again On DMCA Exemption Request To Preserve Old Video Games

  

  Matthew N. Bennett ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2024 @ 09:00pm

  You will not preserve any video games. You will only play select old video games through trashy broken "remasters". You will own nothing and you will be happy.

• On the post: Gun Detection Tech The Gun Detection Tech Firm Said Wouldn’t Work In NYC Subways Doesn’t Work In NYC Subways

  

  Matthew N. Bennett ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2024 @ 02:01pm

  NYC will do literally anything except actually make an attempt to stop crime.

• On the post: Chris Rufo Is Exploiting The Fact That Academic Plagiarism Norms Are Absurd

  

  Matthew N. Bennett ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2024 @ 12:43pm

  Clearly, since the wife I spoke about was Neri Oxman, who is married to Bill Ackman, not Christopher Rufo, as you could have found out were you not so ignorant.

  I apologize that my not reading tabloid rags upsets you so.

  Also, I never even attempted to make any case that Claudine Gay’s alleged plagiarism was better or worse than Oxman’s plagiarism, I only stated that it was hyocritical of Ackman to attack Gay on that basis when his own wife was guilty of the same academic offense.

  His wife is her own distinct person that has no relation to the actual facts at hand. Again, it is possible for two things to be true at once without diminishing each other.

  Finally, I am not Stephen, but it is certainly interesting to discover that he lives in your head without paying any rent for the privilege.

  My apologies. All American liberals talk the same and have the same few insults and talking points they hash out over and over so it's easy to get you all confused. Your every accusation is a confession, you heckin' chud.

• On the post: Democracy Dies In Darkness… Helped Along By Billionaire Cowardice

  

  Matthew N. Bennett ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2024 @ 10:51am

  I don't know how people got it into their heads that this means I'm leaving forever. I will never log off.

• On the post: NY Times Gets 230 Wrong Again; Misrepresenting History, Law, And The First Amendment

  

  Matthew N. Bennett ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2024 @ 10:50am

  There seems to be this trend among journalists and politicians that speech protections are somehow different when they're on the internet instead of real life. I don't understand it.

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

  

  Matthew N. Bennett ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2024 @ 05:47pm

  1. Comment as signed out would still exist.
  2. You're literally using the Anonymous Coward feature right now.
  3. Google Tor.

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

  

  Matthew N. Bennett ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2024 @ 01:15pm

  Putin's got me working overtime!

• On the post: Democracy Dies In Darkness… Helped Along By Billionaire Cowardice

  

  Matthew N. Bennett ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2024 @ 01:14pm

  A political argument under a Techdirt post is already of the highest comedic value. I can do no more.

• On the post: Chris Rufo Is Exploiting The Fact That Academic Plagiarism Norms Are Absurd

  

  Matthew N. Bennett ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2024 @ 10:18pm

  I don't read the Guardian on principle. It is possible for Claudine Gay to have plagiarized her doctoral defense and other academic articles she wrote. It is also possible that the wife of Rufo also plagiarized. Both of these things can be true. Trying to say that something is less bad because an unrelated thing happened is intellectually dishonest. I don't know why American liberals assume you're on the same wavelength as they are 24/7 but I don't actually know who Chris Rufo is, I'm speaking based on my experience actually working in academia. Also, Stephen, please stop commenting as signed out when you reply to an older comment of mine. It's just weird.

• On the post: Democracy Dies In Darkness… Helped Along By Billionaire Cowardice

  

  Matthew N. Bennett ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2024 @ 10:11pm

  Published one day ago with 112 comments. Nope. I'm out. You guys have fun.

• On the post: Cop/Substitute Teacher Reenacts George Floyd Murder With Black Student, Says ‘Police Brutality Isn’t Real’

  

  Matthew N. Bennett ( profile ), 25 Oct, 2024 @ 12:36pm

  Techdirt needs to have an end-of-year competition for article headlines most worthy of a spit-take that people can vote on.

• On the post: Chris Rufo Is Exploiting The Fact That Academic Plagiarism Norms Are Absurd

  

  Matthew N. Bennett ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2024 @ 11:30am

  Yeah I have no idea how Brian thinks this will come across. It reads like cope by someone who got kicked out of grad school for plagiarizing and is now trying to argue that stealing the work of others is totally ok as long as it's just a little bit. Rufo's only crime was making it so that Claudine Gay and others he correctly accused of plagiarism were held to the same standards as their students. Trying to imply it was about race is dumb. We should not coddle minorities simply because they are non-white. On a website with authors that are constantly citing their sources, Brian's article feels like an uncharacteristic contradiction. They really need to get better guest columnists because the two I've seen this month have been pretty bad at arguing a coherent point.

• On the post: Federal Court Tells Lawyer Something He Already Should Know: Facts Aren’t Defamation

  

  Matthew N. Bennett ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2024 @ 11:20am

  Does it feel like Friday today for anyone else? It feels like Friday today.

• On the post: Chris Rufo Is Exploiting The Fact That Academic Plagiarism Norms Are Absurd

  

  Matthew N. Bennett ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2024 @ 08:25pm

  Loving the tacit admission that Chris Rufo is entirely correct in his plagiarism accusations but deserves condemnation because he's targeting the "wrong" people. Entire paragraphs using the work of other scholars with zero attribution is not "banal observations." For the record, I do kind of agree with the rest of Brian's article. The problem with plagiarism as it stands now is that the punishment is so harsh that they "over-cite" in their papers, which makes for a cumbersome reading experience. Whenever students are writing a paper they're constantly panicking that whatever solution the university uses for plagiarism detection won't attempt to ruin their lives. It can make essay writing a genuinely insanely stressful experience when it should be a time of critical analysis that benefits the student.

  Rufo’s brand of fugazi is brilliant, because academics are incapable of seeing their own bullshit, let alone seeing through it. When you come for the king, you’d better not miss. Unfortunately, Rufo’s academic opponents couldn’t hit a barn door. If they want to beat Rufo’s plagiarism charges, they have to embrace them.

  Academics not being able to see in front of their own noses is a time-honored tradition of academia. I would say a good chunk of the academics I've worked with have had arrogance that borders on and sometimes even exceeds narcissism. They can afford to live completely divorced from reality because their entire career is convincing universities to give them funding for their seven year underwater basket weaving research. Even if their research is for some kind of actual public benefit, they generally conduct it with the end goal of pleasing other academics in journals. It's the world's biggest circlejerk.

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