"Every forum should allow someone to take their own content down if they later regret writing it"
Why? Once you've posted it, you've generally given a license to use the content as they see fit, including (especially) their ability to keep showing it.
Being able to choose what other people can say about you is a tool of censorship, and those are generally used in favor of those in power to censor those without it. The most reliable way to prevent such abuse is to never grant the power in the first place.
But what if you use an outside website that allows posting with your Facebook account login? Do you think they should be required to delete any comment threads you started, blog stories you wrote, etc.?
The problem is, the internet is all interconnected like some kind of large mesh of ropes that are tied to each other. Everything is connected, and chopping pieces out would have widespread effects on the rest of the net.
Wrong argument. The argument is supposed to be that, because people are using the site in the US, the copyright infringement is occurring in the US (and thus is subject to US law).
I think that only makes sense if they are prosecuting the site's visitors who are in the US, but that's the argument.
"Licenses on both sides of our borders are plasticized have built in RFID and other junk designed to replace passports"
You mean EDLs? Those are fairly rare. If your license doesn't have three lines of strangely-shaped text on the back starting with "IDUSA", "IDCAN", etc., you don't have an RFID chip.
Ah, that at least makes a little more sense. I hope that if someone's bothering to buy a fake holographic laminate, they would have a better source for their fake template than an iPhone app.
Sorry, my point was that you're correct. Your representative is focusing on all the wrong things, grandstanding when he could instead look at real problems.
Actually, there are surprisingly few such high-res images on Google Images. Actually, maybe it's not surprising, since it would basically be saying "Steal My Identity" to the whole internet.
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Why? Once you've posted it, you've generally given a license to use the content as they see fit, including (especially) their ability to keep showing it.
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I think that only makes sense if they are prosecuting the site's visitors who are in the US, but that's the argument.
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You mean EDLs? Those are fairly rare. If your license doesn't have three lines of strangely-shaped text on the back starting with "IDUSA", "IDCAN", etc., you don't have an RFID chip.
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