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• On the post: Chinese Billionaire Got A US Court To Issue An Unconstitutional Gag Order On A Critic

  

  ysth ( profile ), 02 Jan, 2018 @ 11:04am

  name and shame

  With prior restraint cases, please do try to name the judge at fault in the article.
  
  That said, it appears Judge McDermott announced his retirement before signing this order, effective January 1.

• On the post: Knicks Center Enes Kantor To Be Tried In Absentia For Upsetting Turkish President Recep Erdogan's Fickle Ego

  

  ysth ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2017 @ 08:30pm

  Knicks Center

  I assumed from the title that the Knicks Center was some NGO I was unfamiliar with and started by scanning the article for information on it to be able to place it in context.

• On the post: Facebook Transparency Report: Lots Of Government Surveillance, Bad Copyright Takedown Requests

  

  ysth ( profile ), 26 Dec, 2017 @ 08:35pm

  small numbers

  I disagree; 150k and 377k are both quite small numbers in this context (relative to the number of facebook/instagram posts).

• On the post: NBA2K18 Is Removing User Made Content From The Game Over IP Infringement, Refuses Refunds To Anyone Who Bought It

  

  ysth ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2017 @ 10:54pm

  I can't help but imagine

  I can't help but imagine ICE showing up at the game publisher to seize the infringing merch.

• On the post: Roy Moore's Threat Letter To Sue The Press Is An Artform In Bad Lawyering

  

  ysth ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2017 @ 09:46pm

  You're being too hard on Trenton Garmon. He was probably drunk when he wrote the letter. And AL.com probably asked for it.

• On the post: Shady Anti-Spyware Developer Loses Lawsuit Against Competitor Who Flagged Its Software As Malicious

  

  ysth ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2017 @ 09:07am

  No, Malwarebytes lost, not won

  Yes, Enigma lost and this case is dismissed, but unless Malwarebytes is awarded legal fees, they have lost too.

• On the post: Craig Brittain's Senate Race Page Reports Craig Brittain's Personal Account As An 'Imposter'

  

  ysth ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2017 @ 06:30pm

  goods or services?

  I somehow don't think most of us would count Craig Brittain in the Senate as a service.

• On the post: Thanks To The DEA And Drug War, Your Prescription Records Have Zero Expectation Of Privacy

  

  ysth ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2017 @ 08:41am

  Appeal?

  Was there an appeal? The OUP article was published after the 21 day window the judge gave the state for complying with the (2015!) subpoena, but appears to be based solely on a news article published soon after the July decision. 'twould have been nice if it said whether the state was appealing, or, failing that, if the techdirt article did so.

• On the post: Thanks To The DEA And Drug War, Your Prescription Records Have Zero Expectation Of Privacy

  

  ysth ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2017 @ 08:35am

  Third party doctrine?

  My first reaction is to say this will be fixed when the third party doctrine is removed. But then reading the OUP article clued me in that this is the DEA using an administrative subpoena to access a state database that under state law can only be accessed with a judicial warrant, something that wasn't clear to me from the techdirt article. So I'm not sure the third party doctrine is applicable?

• On the post: Al Jazeera Gives A 'Voice To The Voiceless' By Killing News Comments

  

  ysth ( profile ), 01 Sep, 2017 @ 02:49pm

  I'm still not entirely sure why Techdirt finds these stories of news sites closing off comments to be such a big deal

  These stories fall squarely into the intersection of technology and business models (and how to do or not do them) that is TechDirt's main interest.

• On the post: Sex Trafficking Expert: CDA 230 Helps Victims And SESTA Would Harm Trafficking Victims

  

  ysth ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2017 @ 02:41pm

  Cosponsors

  https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1693/cosponsors
  
  Have at 'em

• On the post: Nazis, The Internet, Policing Content And Free Speech

  

  ysth ( profile ), 25 Aug, 2017 @ 01:47pm

  Public accommodation

  There's certainly no fundamental First Amendment right for people to use any service they want.

  With the fairly important exception of public accommodation and protected classes. The most moving argument for that I've read is Judge Bosson's concurrence in Elane Photography v. Willock (once quoted by Ken White), concluding:

  On a larger scale, this case provokes reflection on what this nation is all about, its promise of fairness, liberty, equality of opportunity, and justice. At its heart, this case teaches that at some point in our lives all of us must compromise, if only a little, to accommodate the contrasting values of others. A multicultural, pluralistic society, one of our nation’s strengths, demands no less. The Huguenins are free to think, to say, to believe, as they wish; they may pray to the God of their choice and follow those commandments in their personal lives wherever they lead. The Constitution protects the Huguenins in that respect and much more. But there is a price, one that we all have to pay somewhere in our civic life.

  In the smaller, more focused world of the marketplace, of commerce, of public accommodation, the Huguenins have to channel their conduct, not their beliefs, so as to leave space for other Americans who believe something different. That compromise is part of the glue that holds us together as a nation, the to lerance that lubricates the varied moving parts of us as a people. That sense of respect we owe others, whether or not we believe as they do, illuminates this country, setting it apart from the discord that afflicts much of the rest of the world. In short, I would say to the Huguenins, with the utmost respect: it is the price of citizenship. I therefore concur

• On the post: Canada Appoints Lobbyist To Top Telecom Regulator, Follows US Down The Regulatory Capture Rabbit Hole

  

  ysth ( profile ), 31 Jul, 2017 @ 08:37pm

  Pull a Wheeler?

  Nah, he's a dingo.

• On the post: Watchdog Stings Defense Dept., Obtains $1.2 Million In Military Gear With A Fake Cop Shop

  

  ysth ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2017 @ 01:17pm

  I wonder...

  Did the GAO contract the Yes Men for this?

• On the post: Techdirt Survival Fund: I Support Journalism

  

  ysth ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2017 @ 04:23pm

  Re: Re: Bad cert?

  Now fixed.

• On the post: Techdirt Survival Fund: I Support Journalism

  

  ysth ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2017 @ 04:12pm

  Re: Bad cert?

  Ah, the link in the text works, the Donate links top and bottom are missing www.

• On the post: Techdirt Survival Fund: I Support Journalism

  

  ysth ( profile ), 17 Feb, 2017 @ 04:10pm

  Bad cert?

  My mobile chrome browser doesn't like the isupportjournalism.com cert.

• On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 102: Can We Really Colonize Mars?

  

  ysth ( profile ), 13 Dec, 2016 @ 06:58pm

  https://youtu.be/wMtmlt1eB9g?t=507

• On the post: Privacy Is About Tradeoffs… And Things Go Wrong When Those Tradeoffs Are Not Clear

  

  ysth ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2016 @ 11:35am

  very poor namecheap page

  Apparently to sign the bill of rights, you need to "Log in to enter this giveaway."

• On the post: What Cord Cutting? Cable Sector Hiked TV Prices 40% In Last Five Years

  

  ysth ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2016 @ 10:32pm

  even Andrew Orlowski thinks Cable is dying

  The Reg has a new article by him "FCC death vote looms for the Golden Age of American TV: The inside story of Google's plan to pwn the TV biz".
  
  Wow, do I wish that site offered an Orlowski filter.

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