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• On the post: Forfeiture In Theory: TAKING DOWN DRUG LORDS! Forfeiture In Practice: Taking A Guy's TV And PlayStation During A Drug Raid

  

  Trails ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2021 @ 02:32pm

  Re: Oh, look: ANOTHER RARE commentor among the few!

  Your tears are like a delicious angsty candy. Thank you for coming here and taking the time to inform everyone how dead this site is.

• On the post: Copyright Trolling/SEO Scam, Changing The Photo Credits On Wikimedia Commons

  

  Trails ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2020 @ 02:56pm

  Hmm

  Green crap marketing's stie has the following phone number: Phone: 800-136-446

  This is not, to my knowledge, a valid phone number.

• On the post: Zuckerberg And Facebook Throw The Open Internet Under The Bus; Support Section 230 Reform

  

  Trails ( profile ), 28 Oct, 2020 @ 06:16am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Maz

  Goddamit, Cartman, stop trying to make "Maz" happen.

• On the post: Harper's Gives Prestigious Platform To Famous Writers So They Can Whine About Being Silenced

  

  Trails ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2020 @ 11:13am

  Re:

  Agreed.

• On the post: Harper's Gives Prestigious Platform To Famous Writers So They Can Whine About Being Silenced

  

  Trails ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2020 @ 11:12am

  Re: Re: Blech

  I disagree with this. Having private opinions vs. expressing them are two different things. Free speech is speech free from government censure, not free from consequences. Employers making decisions based on expressed opinion is completely reasonable.

• On the post: Harper's Gives Prestigious Platform To Famous Writers So They Can Whine About Being Silenced

  

  Trails ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2020 @ 10:36am

  Blech

  Let's posit a scenario:

  Famous author G.C. Paddleling, known for publishing the wildly successful "Fuzzy Paner" series, publishes a tweet along the lines of:

  Everyone with brown eyes should have their left arm gnawed off by rabid dogs because [REASONS]

  Are we supposed to just nod and say "Interesting?". It's an outrageous statement and the societal consequences of making such a statement are how individuals and private entities choose to respond to those statements. Those responses are themselves open to debate, but this argument is pretty weak.

  I do think some of the debates can get a little... intense, but a lot of the stuff triggering this seems pretty objectionable to me, and worthy of some intensity in the response. Threats and violence aren't ok in these debates, so that certainly needs to be a line, but that's not what this letter is complaining about.

• On the post: Dallas PD Asks Residents To Snitch On Protesters, Gets A Load Of K-Pop Videos Instead

  

  Trails ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2020 @ 08:37am

  Mistake in article

  Once again, the people that are supposed to serve the public have failed to understand the public.

  FTFY

• On the post: Mississippi Governor Extends Middle Finger To Constitution On Twitter While Applauding Asset Forfeiture

  

  Trails ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2019 @ 09:41am

  Re:

  U mad, bro?

• On the post: Stupid Law Firm Decides To Threaten Something Awful Over Hot-Linked Hitler Picture

  

  Trails ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2018 @ 02:11pm

  How not to troll SA

  The copyright login page appears to have sql injection vulnerabilities. This'll go well...

• On the post: Cops Go To Wrong House, Kill Innocent Man, Receive A Free Pass From Local Grand Jury

  

  Trails ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2018 @ 06:53am

  > great job bullet-pointing all the holes
  
  Just like the cops!
  
  I'll see myself out.

• On the post: Norwegian Court Orders Website Of Public Domain Court Decisions Shut Down With No Due Process

  

  Trails ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2018 @ 05:58am

  Re: Good old fractally wrong...

  As much as I'd love to pile on the judge, I'll relay my suspicion, which is based on a mundane and banal incompetence, rather than any severe impairment.
  
  I suspect the judge saw Lie's association with the Pirate Party, confused it with Pirate Bay, assumed it was glib ip infringement, and decided to shut the whole thing down.
  
  I'm really curious what Lie's options are here though.

• On the post: MPAA Report Shows How The Internet Is Saving The Film Industry, Not Destroying It

  

  Trails ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2018 @ 03:07pm

  Re:

  Makes me think of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPEeaxI0OPU

• On the post: Iowa Town Threatens Critical Resident With A Lawsuit, Gets Sued By The ACLU Instead

  

  Trails ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2018 @ 08:58am

  Re:

  It might actually be the stench from the town council.

• On the post: Trump's Lawyers Apparently Unfamiliar With Streisand Effect Or 1st Amendment's Limits On Prior Restraint

  

  Trails ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2018 @ 10:14am

  Re: Actually, it's a BIT complicated by the apparent agreement.

  So you posit that the legal agreement between Stormy and Trump (putting aside the debate on said agreement's validity) merits prior restraint on CBS, who was not party to the agreement?
  
  Wow.

• On the post: Comcast Protected Browsing Blocks TorrentFreak, Showing Why Site-Blocking Sucks Out Loud Always

  

  Trails ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2018 @ 07:19pm

  Re: Re: THREE out of three is accurate because Torrrent Freak is pro-piracy.

  I wholeheartedly agree, reading Torrentfreak is obvious thoughtcrime. Keeping people uninformed is clearly the only way to a free Oceania!

• On the post: Angry Pick-Up Artist Says He Won't Issue Bogus YouTube Claim On Critic's Video; Issues Bogus Claim On Critic's Video

  

  Trails ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2018 @ 09:37am

  Conincidental?

  I love it when Techdirt and Penny Arcade overlap:
  
  https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2018/03/07

• On the post: Techdirt, Volokh Conspiracy Targeted With Bogus Defamation Claim For Publishing A Bunch Of Facts

  

  Trails ( profile ), 09 Feb, 2018 @ 07:35am

  Re: Re: trump card

  "Black John!"
  
  "Um, we're playing rummy..."
  
  "Hit me!"

• On the post: NAACP Fought Net Neutrality Until Last Week, Now Suddenly Supports The Idea

  

  Trails ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2017 @ 12:32pm

  Re:

  Holy racist, batman!

• On the post: Angry, Threatening Lawyer Fails To Sue As Promised, Drops His SLAPP Suit

  

  Trails ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2017 @ 09:32am

  Re:

  That made me think of this

• On the post: DOJ Subpoenas Twitter About Popehat, Dissent Doe And Others Over A Smiley Emoji Tweet

  

  Trails ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2017 @ 09:32am

  Mistake in article

  "And what info does Twitter want on them? Well, basically everything:"
  
  I think it's DOJ who wants the info, not twitter.

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