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• On the post: Content Moderation Case Study: GitHub Attempts To Moderate Banned Words Contained In Hosted Repositories (2015)

  

  Anonymous Monkey ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2021 @ 04:59pm

  Re:

  In my experience, those who speak in such a "politically correct" way are the ones who have the most to hide, usually about the subject they are downplaying by being politically correct.

• On the post: 14 States Are Now Considering 'Right to Repair' Legislation

  

  Anonymous Monkey ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2021 @ 12:14pm

  Re: OTOH...emissions...

  First off: my car is mine, and I can do whatever I want to it.
  Second: Every part (including 3rd party mfg replacement) has to adhere to ,or be better than, OEM specs already. If it's not passing any sort of "emissions standards", it's most likely the owner's fault for failing to keep up maintenance.

• On the post: Content Moderation Case Study: GitHub Attempts To Moderate Banned Words Contained In Hosted Repositories (2015)

  

  Anonymous Monkey ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2021 @ 12:30pm

  PC : It's meaning

  "Politically Correct" ... simply meaning that it's worded in such a way to be as inoffensive as possible while white-washing it's actual public revulsion.

  Basically, if you want to be PC, you go ahead an be one of the "many bloodsuckers" re-writing what is "correct"

• On the post: Obscure Analytics Tool Helps Cops Make Sense Of All That Location Data They're Grabbing Without A Warrant

  

  Anonymous Monkey ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2021 @ 04:29pm

  Lack of understanding

  What about "NO" is so hard to understand for these people?!
  Is it the "N" or the "O" ?!?

• On the post: A Major Wireless Network Flaw Is Still Being Exploited To Track User Locations

  

  Anonymous Monkey ( profile ), 26 Dec, 2020 @ 02:36pm

  Re:

  if you're looking for "logic" ... it's been shoved in the Fridge.

• On the post: Alibaba Says It's Not Going After Uighurs (At Least Not Yet)

  

  Anonymous Monkey ( profile ), 26 Dec, 2020 @ 02:14pm

  Re:

  "Facial Recognition failure"
  or just:
  "Chinese Communist Party"

• On the post: Massachusetts Poised To Become The Next State To (Temporarily) Ban Facial Recognition Tech

  

  Anonymous Monkey ( profile ), 07 Dec, 2020 @ 11:15pm

  off topic - broken links

  Ever since the addition of the yellow notice box asking for support, the <next article> link between articles have been missing from random articles (but the missing link is persistent even on refresh/ cache clear).
  The previous article (Florida State Police raid) doesn't link to this article. This article does have the the link to that article though (all articles missing the next article link still have previous article links)

• On the post: Appeals Court Strips Immunity From Detectives Who Turned A Rape Report Into 18 Hours Of Terror For The Victim

  

  Anonymous Monkey ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2020 @ 01:20pm

  Re: Re: Re: Strains belief

  Pennywise for the Win!

• On the post: Zoom Gets An FTC Wrist Slap For Misleading Users On Security, Encryption

  

  Anonymous Monkey ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2020 @ 12:32pm

  wrong "sense"

  many concrete steps to improve things sense reports first surfaced

  that should be "since"

• On the post: Devin Nunes Is Still Suing A Satirical Cow & A Political Consultant, But Judge Rejects Attempt To Bring Twitter Back

  

  Anonymous Monkey ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2020 @ 01:50pm

  Re: Re:

  " Here comes the cow ..."

  -Crusader, when the trebuchet launches the cow

• On the post: Judge Denies Copyright Troll Malibu Media's Request For A Default Judgment

  

  Anonymous Monkey ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2020 @ 01:25pm

  Re:

  Not sure, but I think that was the Prenda Group of Misfits and Liars.

• On the post: Anti-SLAPP Law Turns Bogus Defamation Lawsuit Into A $26,500 Legal Bill For The Plaintiff

  

  Anonymous Monkey ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2020 @ 01:42pm

  Used far too infrequently

  [G]iven his abysmal reputation for both criminality and terrorizing women, the Plaintiff is libel-proof.

  It's a certain kind of satisfying to see someone declared as libel-proof.

• On the post: EPIC Offers Its Support Of The EARN IT Act; Thinks It Can Separate Undermining Section 230 From Undermining Encryption

  

  Anonymous Monkey ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2020 @ 01:28pm

  EPIC Trash

  And this is why I'll never install, let alone buy, anything from the Epic(ally horrendous) store.

• On the post: Bad Ideas: Newark Stupidly Threatens 'Criminal Prosecution' Against Anyone Who Reports 'False' Info About Covid-19

  

  Anonymous Monkey ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2020 @ 01:36pm

  Re:

  Even Better: The "Yelling 'Fire' in a crowded theater" was a rhetorical device used to evoke a certain feeling. That "famous" quote is talked about in Make No Law Podcast: Episode 7. A later court decision defined the "strict scrutiny" standard which would be talked about in the next episode. The yelling 'Fire!' in the crowded theater being unlawful would be determined by what the totality of the circumstance. i.e: Was it meant to evoke a panic?, etc...

• On the post: Professor Removed From Teaching For Sharing A Downfall Parody Video

  

  Anonymous Monkey ( profile ), 11 Jan, 2020 @ 06:13pm

  About the video

  I just want to say that it was a great video! Whomever was offended by it (especially as it only used Downfall meme as the setting for the angry rant) needs to get their head outta the sand (or wherever it may be) and face reality.

• On the post: Techdirt 2019: The Stats.

  

  Anonymous Monkey ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2020 @ 12:35pm

  malformed anchor

  bullet 2 in top 10 by comment volume has broken closing anchor:

  The Ellen Show Issues Copyright Takedown On Transformative Video Commenting On Her Friendship With President Bush /a> 376 Comments

• On the post: DOJ Antitrust Boss Delrahim Ignored Hard Data As He Rubber Stamped T-Mobile Merger

  

  Anonymous Monkey ( profile ), 30 Dec, 2019 @ 12:12pm

  Re: Click your heels three times...

  ... and repeat "There's no place like monopoly. There's nothing like monopoly! There is no monopoly!"

• On the post: Nearly 4,000 Ring Credentials Leaked, Including Users' Time Zones And Device Names

  

  Anonymous Monkey ( profile ), 23 Dec, 2019 @ 03:39pm

  Whelp...

  What a dumpster fire

• On the post: Richard Liebowitz Is Wrong On So Many Levels, And Is In Trouble Yet Again

  

  Anonymous Monkey ( profile ), 26 Nov, 2019 @ 11:08am

  Love to Hate

  Also, how can you not love a filing in this case with the following paragraph:

  Only copyright lawyers not on the level would hate it...

• On the post: Former Devin Nunes' Aide Uses Nunes' Lawyer To File SLAPP Suit Against Politico

  

  Anonymous Monkey ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2019 @ 08:46pm

  Re: Re: Snowflake of snowflakes

  Judges can't just make up laws.

  2 Words:
  Qualified Immunity

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