Politician Grandstanding About Police Checkpoint App Results In Doubling Of Sales
from the schumer,-meet-streisand dept
We mentioned, recently, Senator Chuck Schumer's misinformed grandstanding against a mobile app that alerts people to where police checkpoints are located, as he put pressure on both Google and Apple to block the app, despite the app not breaking the law anywhere. A few other Senators joined Schumer in this grandstanding effort... and all it seems to have done is double the sale of the app. Apparently, having Senators think you're an abomination is good for sales.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Excellent.
Nothing like some shouty publicity from short-sighted politicians to help Streisand your app into the black.
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Have you seen the Patriot Act?
PROTECT IP?
The death of the 4th Amendment? Coming soon to a state near you?
It's safe to say that we just haven't realized how dictatorial a two party system could be.
It makes me almost want to quote Niccolo Machiavelleli...
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No country can be ruled iron fisted by one person, even the worst of the dictators could not control the country alone. In our case it's congress that dictates our lives. In other countries its called something else. is all.
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Because if they didn't it would look like they're doing nothing. Most laws aren't passed with good intentions, they're passed because the politicians have to look like they're doing something. They want to keep their jobs like anyone else, they want to get paid and retire with nice benefits. Like any other job, you appear to look like you're doing nothing, you get let go.
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If you're drunk enough then having the information isn't going to help -
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Sometimes people just need a reminder that what they're about to do is not only dangerous, but also illegal, and they're gonna go to jail if they get caught.
The people who are gonna do it anyway probably won't care.
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1) It's the law and they're required to. The reason for the law is ...
2) The whole point is to keep people from driving drunk. The cops are trying to keep you off the road by advertising heavy enforcement. They want to catch the drunks but they would rather there be fewer drunks in the first place.
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Patent infringement!
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There's an old joke:
A robber stops a man and says:
- Give me your money!
- How dare you?! I'm a United States Senator!
- In that case, give me my money!
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"Give me your money"
"You can't take my money, I'm an IRS agent"
"In that case, give me my money"
Then again, I'm sure different variants exist.
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Hm... Short Memory Time Here?
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Re: Hm... Short Memory Time Here?
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So you're saying that this is nothing more than an intentional marketing campaign? Maybe the app developers secretly paid these senators to help them advertise their aps?
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The real question is....
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Press
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Shocking
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