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• On the post: Dennis Prager Sues YouTube For Filtering His Videos In A Way He Doesn't Like

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2017 @ 01:24pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Techdirt keeps overlooking that Youtube is NOT a "Good Samaritan" nor acting in "good faith".

  you don't have much to say.

• On the post: Dennis Prager Sues YouTube For Filtering His Videos In A Way He Doesn't Like

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2017 @ 01:24pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Techdirt keeps overlooking that Youtube is NOT a "Good Samaritan" nor acting in "good faith".

  draw attention to yourself even if

• On the post: Dennis Prager Sues YouTube For Filtering His Videos In A Way He Doesn't Like

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2017 @ 01:24pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Techdirt keeps overlooking that Youtube is NOT a "Good Samaritan" nor acting in "good faith".

  times is really cool, and helps

• On the post: Dennis Prager Sues YouTube For Filtering His Videos In A Way He Doesn't Like

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2017 @ 01:23pm

  Re: Re: Re: Techdirt keeps overlooking that Youtube is NOT a "Good Samaritan" nor acting in "good faith".

  where you reply to yourself multiple

• On the post: Dennis Prager Sues YouTube For Filtering His Videos In A Way He Doesn't Like

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2017 @ 01:23pm

  Re: Re: Techdirt keeps overlooking that Youtube is NOT a "Good Samaritan" nor acting in "good faith".

  Hey, thanks! This thing

• On the post: Verizon Will Graciously Now Let You Avoid Video Throttling For An Additional $10 Per Month

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2017 @ 10:38am

  Re:

  Ever travel on I-95 in Maryland? Toll-encumbered alternative roadways, placed alongside free interstates, are offered to provide a superior, faster driving experience... except that often isn't the case. They use dynamic, on-the-fly demand pricing, so you can never really calculate the value proposition as you approach an entrance. And they're limited-access... might just miss your exit. Watchdog groups estimate they'll never, ever generate enough revenue to cover the immense cost of construction. And it all sounds just like your analogy! Thanks to you, I'll be thinking ISP instead of I95 when I'm streaming past those "fast lanes".

• On the post: Charter CEO Tries To Blame Netflix Password 'Piracy' For Company's Failure To Adapt To Cord Cutting

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2017 @ 10:43am

  "The lack of control over the content..."

  The providers' content is perfectly controlled, just the way they want it... 3, 4 or 5 streams per account. And it's working really well. Stop whining, and start innovating.

• On the post: Verizon Will Graciously Now Let You Avoid Video Throttling For An Additional $10 Per Month

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2017 @ 05:43am

  So... are they actually doing content interrogation on these data streams to see what's inside... standard def, HD-junior (720p) or 4K? Or are they looking at transfer rates and QOS data, and making a guess? It would be interesting to know whether they've "got eyes on" everyone's content, just like our Most Benevolent Overlords in the security sector.

• On the post: Copyright Office Will Renew Previous DMCA Exemptions Without Much Fuss — But Why Is This Even Necessary?

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2017 @ 04:00am

  Re: Re: Why is this bad?

  As long as we're dreamin' big, let's review all patents every 7 years for obviousness and obsolescence.
  
  All told, I think we've just created 1.3 million new jobs for reviewers and analysts.

• On the post: Verizon-Funded Group Claims Killing Net Neutrality Would Really Help Puerto Rico Right Now

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2017 @ 05:47am

  "... the best thing for America’s fragile economy..."

  Whoa... don't use that phrase near Chairman Pai's boss! He MAGA'd the economy, from what I hear.

  This is the problem with astroturfing; you can't manage the messaging with any nuance, and your amateur apologists accidentally say things that don't match the supplied narrative. Or, worse yet, they might say something that's true.

• On the post: Gab Drops Its Lawsuit Against Google; Considers Trying Its Hand At Lobbying

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2017 @ 04:03am

  What a busy bunch, those Gabbers! Wondering what might happen if they put a tenth of that energy into tweaking and deploying their app...

• On the post: The Good News: You Can Download Hawking's PhD For Free; The Bad News: It Took 50 Years To Make It Happen

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2017 @ 03:56am

  Every time a brilliant world figure takes a stand on making research available under Open Access, a tree in the Elsevier parking lot bursts into flame.

• On the post: After Report Suggests It Ripped Off Taxpayers, Frontier Communications Shrugs When Asked For Subsidies Back

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2017 @ 02:15pm

  Those subsidy checks are scheduled to be written just after Verizon finishes refunding its unused NY-NJ subsidies.

• On the post: Court Not Impressed With Sneaky Plan To Sell Patents To Native Americans To Avoid Review… But New Lawsuits Filed

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2017 @ 02:12pm

  Revenge is mine, sayeth the tribe

  The bitter memory of swapping Manhattan for $24 worth of beads is a powerful motivator; native tribes have learned well from their oppressors.

• On the post: Michigan Lawmaker Doesn't Understand Her Own Bill Hamstringing Broadband Competition

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2017 @ 06:49am

  She's making things better for citizens by pretty much locking-in a 2.5-out-of-5 star rating. State-mandated mediocrity, to protect the poor, uninformed locals.

• On the post: New Whistleblowers Highlight How Russia's Information War On U.S. Was Larger Than Initially Reported

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2017 @ 02:29pm

  Re:

  Ummm... yes.

• On the post: New Whistleblowers Highlight How Russia's Information War On U.S. Was Larger Than Initially Reported

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2017 @ 02:28pm

  Re: Re: OMG! You're back to "pumping the internet full of toxic disinformation 24 hours a day"!!!

  Need to read this aloud using Bullwinkle's "Boris and Natasha" accents.

• On the post: Disney: The Only Fun Allowed At Children's Birthday Parties Is Properly Licensed Fun

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2017 @ 01:38pm

  Re:

  -- John Amos as Cleo McDowell, "Coming to America" (1988)

• On the post: Details Emerge Of World's Biggest Facial Recognition Surveillance System, Aiming To Identify Any Chinese Citizen In Three Seconds

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2017 @ 11:59am

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  In other news, China today banned wontons and chewing gum from new facial recognition security centers...

• On the post: Details Emerge Of World's Biggest Facial Recognition Surveillance System, Aiming To Identify Any Chinese Citizen In Three Seconds

  

  Vidiot ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2017 @ 05:08am

  Re: Keys?

  If they're going to spin that yarn, they should at least have it take place in a glassed-in, dramatically lit control room, with voiceprints and retina scans all around. And genital biometric devices. And then Jackie Chan breaks through the glass and...

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