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• On the post: Pam Bondi Dismissed Charges Against Surgeon Who Falsified Vaccine Cards. It Emboldened Others With Similar Cases.

  

  Boba Fatt ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2026 @ 08:04pm

  FTFY

  "He said he concluded the vaccines were unsafe after conducting watching his own someone else's online unreviewed research crappy video ..."

• On the post: New York City Sues Instagram Rather Than Teach Kids Filters Aren’t Real

  

  Boba Fatt ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2025 @ 06:55pm

  I know how you feel, Mike

  watching my blood pressure rise as I have to keep yelling at my screen “that’s not how any of this works.”

  For decades, I've limited my time spent reading Techdirt because that's exactly how it affects me. Not the articles of course, but the idiocy in the world that the articles expose. I've often wondered how you've held up so long. Stay sane!

• On the post: Trump Supporters Are Lying About Biden ‘Censorship’ To Justify Brendan Carr’s Unconstitutional Kimmel Threats

  

  Boba Fatt ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2025 @ 05:28pm

  That's not shame. It's trying to avoid the consequences.

• On the post: Disney’s Lawyers Successfully Defended Jimmy Kimmel (About Fair Use, Not His Free Speech Mocking Trump)

  

  Boba Fatt ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2025 @ 04:44pm

  Typo?

  You said "Apparently defending fair use against a serial fabulist is easier work than defending free speech against an authoritarian [...]". I think it should have read "Apparently defending fair use against a serial fabulist is easier work than defending free speech against an authoritarian serial fabulist [...]", which explains the apparent change in reaction.

• On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 423: A History Of Techdirt, And More

  

  Boba Fatt ( profile ), 06 Jul, 2025 @ 06:29pm

  Another neologism...

  Regarding Kevin's anecdote about trolling someone - a comment by "Magister" on a Volokh Conspiracy article is the first place I saw the phrase "lathering the rubes".

• On the post: National Insecurity: The Trump Administration’s NATSEC Boys Just Can’t Stop Fucking Up

  

  Boba Fatt ( profile ), 06 May, 2025 @ 12:27pm

  We expect better from our government officials

  Yes, but we didn't vote for idiots, buffoons, and felons. And we are outnumbered.

• On the post: RFK Jr. Wants You To Know HHS Is Committed To Stopping Chemtrails From Poisoning You

  

  Boba Fatt ( profile ), 02 May, 2025 @ 08:25am

  I thought Elon was leading a B Ark to Mars?

• On the post: Federal Prosecutor Fires Off Letter To Medical Journals Asking About Their Policies On ‘Competing Viewpoints’

  

  Boba Fatt ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2025 @ 06:59pm

  I usually respond to things like this with a version of the 1974 Cleveland Browns letter.

• On the post: EU Commission Kicks Off 2025 With Yet Another Plea For Backdoored Encryption

  

  Boba Fatt ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2025 @ 10:40pm

  Very dangerous! You go first

  Sure. Just start with a trial program where the phones and online accounts of all government officials and employees are backdoored for say, five years. Let us know how that works out, and we'll see.

• On the post: Talking About Bluesky And Putting Power & Choice Back Into Users’ Hands At SXSW

  

  Boba Fatt ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2025 @ 11:03pm

  Also interesting to see what Mike looks like, after only reading and hearing him for so many years. But the YouTube audio sounds like a different person from the Techdirt podcast audio. Unless that's a "choose your own audio adventure" feature? ;-)

• On the post: Appeals Court: ‘Plain View” Also Includes Using iPhone Camera Options To See Through Tinted Car Windows

  

  Boba Fatt ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2025 @ 07:20am

  The ruling says clearly that the cops had a warrant for his arrest (which is why they were watching) and a warrant to search his house and saw him drive up in the car, sit there a while, and exchange things with people who walked up to him. So no, they weren't just being lazy in this case.

• On the post: Always-On School Surveillance Tech Is Sending Cops To Deal With At-Risk Students

  

  Boba Fatt ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2025 @ 09:01pm

  That might help. One problem is that if the student uses equipment provided by the school to do anything that the parents don't like, the school will be sued for not preventing it. In some jurisdictions, they may already be required to ensure that students can't do Bad Things using school equipment.

• On the post: It’s Doubtful United Healthcare Is Abusing The DMCA To Takedown Luigi Mangione Apparel, But Someone Is

  

  Boba Fatt ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2024 @ 03:12pm

  No, but it ensures that the person who posted the [allegedly] infringing content is liable, not the hosting service.

• On the post: Florida Sheriff Decided It Might Be A Good Idea To Manufacture Crack And Now 2,600 Convictions Might Be Vacated

  

  Boba Fatt ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2024 @ 03:09pm

  Ah, time for some Qualified Immunity. "Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? If there's no prior case in this district involving a sheriff manufacturing that exact type and strength of cocaine for that exact purpose before, how could I know?"

• On the post: It’s Doubtful United Healthcare Is Abusing The DMCA To Takedown Luigi Mangione Apparel, But Someone Is

  

  Boba Fatt ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2024 @ 02:57pm

  Exactly. The DCMA should allow hosting companies to charge a fee for each takedown request. If it's taken down they refund 90%, if it's kept up the content poster gets the 90%. If the requester doesn't like that answer, they're free to file copyright suits against the content poster (and not the hosting company - section 230, remember).

• On the post: Words Without Action Are Wind: Senators Blast Automakers On ‘Right To Repair’

  

  Boba Fatt ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2024 @ 09:35am

  In reply to yours of 12/19/24: "LOL I know, right?"

  The letter just ends with "We urge Ford to comply...". That'll scare 'em straight, I'm sure.

• On the post: Katie Couric Is Wrong: Repealing Section 230 Won’t Stop Online Misinformation

  

  Boba Fatt ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2024 @ 06:30pm

  I’m pretty sure the SC & other courts would not allow that to happen.

  Probably. For now. Take a look at some of the recent rulings from the 5th Circuit of Appeals and imagine what will happen when judges like those are appointed to the Supreme Court.

• On the post: If You Like Being Ripped Off By Comcast, You’ll LOVE Trump’s Likely New FCC Boss

  

  Boba Fatt ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2024 @ 06:30pm

  "Or are Americans so saturated with propaganda, and U.S. journalism so profoundly broken, that the blame for the suffering to come is just endlessly shifted elsewhere." It's this one.

• On the post: Fifth Circuit: Lol, No, RFK Jr. You Don’t Have Standing To Sue Joe Biden Because Facebook Blocked Your Anti-vax Nonsense

  

  Boba Fatt ( profile ), 06 Nov, 2024 @ 06:56pm

  How does one get to be a federal judge?

  I can make up random nonsense and rule on disputes based on facts revealed to me in a dream. I won't care if the upper courts slap me down, as long I keep getting paid north of $180K/year. Seems like a much better post-retirement job than Walmart Greeter. Where do I apply?

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

  

  Boba Fatt ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2024 @ 08:20pm

  “cracker” can technically be a slur against white people

  We prefer the term "Saltine Americans".

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