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• On the post: Pirate Party ALMOST Ejected From Festival For Giving Out Free Waffles After Vendors Selling Waffles Complained (Updated)

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 08:41am

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  It does indeed go aside the point of the article, which is indeed about how businesses react to disruption, in a nutshell. However, while shoe sizes are completely irrelevant to the story, the fact that the pirates weren't ejected goes directly against the headline.
  
  Now tell me, how many times did Mike write about public officials saying something that is only partially true, inaccurate or misleading? How many times Mike has posted "facts" about ACTA/TPP/PIPA/SOPA/whatever that weren't actually true?
  
  The article headline clearly says - Pirate Party ejected from festival. Were they? No. This is a clear exaggeration of what actually happened, and can and will be seen as bias. Such an omission is shameful. And mind you, I am not biased against Mike. I am a long time Techdirt reader. I recommend this blog to all my friends.

• On the post: Pirate Party ALMOST Ejected From Festival For Giving Out Free Waffles After Vendors Selling Waffles Complained (Updated)

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 08:34am

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  I'm not arguing for "journalistic standards". I'm arguing for integrity.
  
  Just answer a simple question:
  
  Would you say that "Pirate Party Eject From Festival..." would be an accurate headline for a story about a Pirate Party that actually wasn't ejected from the festival?

• On the post: Pirate Party ALMOST Ejected From Festival For Giving Out Free Waffles After Vendors Selling Waffles Complained (Updated)

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 08:03am

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  "It's a blog, he doesn't owe you anything" is a stupid argument, and i think even Mike himself will agree. Techdirt isn't your average Shakira fan blog, it is a well respected publication (well, at least in certain circles) and they stand behind quite a few political and activist efforts, and had respected people post here many times. It earned its reputation by providing news and opinions that can be trusted and are based on actual facts. To do otherwise would be to alienate its fanbase. You're not doing any justice to Techdirt by acting like a fanboy.

• On the post: Pirate Party ALMOST Ejected From Festival For Giving Out Free Waffles After Vendors Selling Waffles Complained (Updated)

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 07:59am

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  The point is that the headline of this story is sensationalist and misleading and does not represent what has actually happened. If you can't accept valid criticism - what are you doing on this site?

• On the post: Pirate Party ALMOST Ejected From Festival For Giving Out Free Waffles After Vendors Selling Waffles Complained (Updated)

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 07:53am

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  True. But i still hope that Mike either redacts the article (and the headline), or posts a correction. We all make mistakes, and i sincerely hope it was an accident. Some of the comments state that the original article doesn't make it clear that pirates weren't actually kicked out - this may very well be what happened.

• On the post: Pirate Party ALMOST Ejected From Festival For Giving Out Free Waffles After Vendors Selling Waffles Complained (Updated)

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 07:27am

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  there's a torrent of ways to do that.

• On the post: Pirate Party ALMOST Ejected From Festival For Giving Out Free Waffles After Vendors Selling Waffles Complained (Updated)

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 07:13am

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  The point wasn't to highlight that they called the police. The point was to highlight that in the end, they were allowed to continue to give away waffles. They were not kicked out.

• On the post: Pirate Party ALMOST Ejected From Festival For Giving Out Free Waffles After Vendors Selling Waffles Complained (Updated)

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 07:11am

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  That goes a bit contrary to the points Mike was making about blogs being credible news sources.

• On the post: Pirate Party ALMOST Ejected From Festival For Giving Out Free Waffles After Vendors Selling Waffles Complained (Updated)

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 06:52am

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  It is valid to point out. This is why i was a bit surprised. Normally Mike doesn't miss stuff like that.

• On the post: Pirate Party ALMOST Ejected From Festival For Giving Out Free Waffles After Vendors Selling Waffles Complained (Updated)

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 06:51am

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  Would this story make less of a point if Mike just said "well, in the end they had to call the police and they were allowed to stay there and give away the waffles"? No. But instead, Mike chose to tell us that pirates got kicked out for giving away waffles rather than pirates that were *almost* kicked out for giving away waffles, but in the end were allowed to give away the waffles after police got involved.

• On the post: Pirate Party ALMOST Ejected From Festival For Giving Out Free Waffles After Vendors Selling Waffles Complained (Updated)

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 06:15am

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  Of course techdirt is biased. We all are. The question is of integrity, that is to reveal all the facts, even if they don't align with the party line. This article utterly fails in this respect.

• On the post: Pirate Party ALMOST Ejected From Festival For Giving Out Free Waffles After Vendors Selling Waffles Complained (Updated)

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 05:51am

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  On another hand, in some twisted manner, it could apply to piracy as well.
  
  The waffle recipe is well known for centuries. It's public domain. Someone chose to make use of it, and sell the result (Disney, i'm looking at you...). Someone chose to make use of it, and give it away. Why should this not be allowed?

• On the post: Pirate Party ALMOST Ejected From Festival For Giving Out Free Waffles After Vendors Selling Waffles Complained (Updated)

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2012 @ 05:47am

  Can you explain why you have left out the part where the pirates called the police and they then allowed the Young Pirates to stay there and give away waffles?
  
  Also, this smells more like touching anti-damping and unfair competition laws to me, than piracy. Remember recent episode in France concerning Google Maps?

• On the post: Russia Plans Internet Censorship Bill (For The Children!); Russian Wikipedia Blacks Out In Protest

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2012 @ 06:37am

  It's not even remotely SOPA, but damn, the way some politicians talk about it... it sure as hell reminds me of something... Almost a direct quote from one of the politicians:
  
  "Wikipedia should not worry, because this legislation will only target websites that are deemed malicious. There is nothing to fear, unless Wikipedia is acting on behalf of drug lords' and paedophiles' lobby"
  
  No kidding, word for word.

• On the post: Could Louis C.K. Make His TV Show Using The Direct-To-Fan Model?

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2012 @ 07:37am

  Come on Mike, you know the drill - it will only work for Louis CK.

• On the post: And So It's Come To This: Samsung/Google Forced To Degrade Features In Patent Dispute

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 06 Jul, 2012 @ 05:11pm

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  erm, you mean, like, Google Desktop Search that's been around for a decade and that worked the exact same way?

• On the post: Copyright Fight Over Competing Abortion Videos Results In Awkward Fair Use Ruling

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 06 Jul, 2012 @ 05:03pm

  Criticism

  I like how people who hold a rigid set of beliefs don't allow comments on their videos.

• On the post: Apple Steps Into Patent Fight To Unnecessarily Silence A Little Girl

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2012 @ 09:19am

  But... but...

  ...but think of the children! Oh, wait...

• On the post: Why The Supreme Court Needs To Make Sure That Selling A Used iPad Isn't A Copyright Violation

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2012 @ 09:09am

  Law QA

  It is simple, really. Software guys have been doing this for ages - you have developers who develop software, and you've got a QA/validation/testing teams that poke holes in software and try to break it in every way possible.
  
  This is what we need for legislation: a team of politicians drafting laws, and a team of scumbag lawyers trying to come up with various ways to break these laws. The number of exploitable holes in our legislation will be greatly reduced even before these laws are put into production.

• On the post: Indian ISPs Told To Block Access To Vimeo

  

  Tony MC ( profile ), 11 May, 2012 @ 03:17am

  Vimeo

  Vimeo sucks anyway. Nothing of value was lost.

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