You have a lot of trolls and other undesirables coming to your site and leaving unwanted comments. Why don't you issue a few C&Ds to these folks and then if and when they come back, file a lawsuit. I would help fund such an experiment...
"To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions. But that is not what we are deciding now."
Seems to me the FCC requirement to allow antennas and dishes could work around this. Here in San Francisco, Monkeybrains and WebPass both offer wireless broadband services. And even someone like Google Fiber could set up an antenna right across the street from a building/complex and use wireless as the "last mile."
If this whole thing taught me anything, it's that I cannot trust ISPs based in the USA. I got my ProtonMail account and I'm in the process of migrating everything over to it.
And as soon as a cell phone service comes out with security baked in, I'm switching over to that too. I have nothing extraordinary or illegal to hide, but I still don't leave my blinds and doors open on my house.
Mike, if TechDirt dumps Comodo now, and others do too, perhaps that will send them an appropriate message.
Personally I wanted to use Let's Encrypt for a new site I configured recently, but after spending the better part of a day trying to get it to work, I gave up and went with the option that my host (NameCheap) provided for $2.
Re: Re: Let this one go; focus on more strategic battles
Oh rly? I did not know there were trained specialists out there in the cable box platform space. Then by all means, they should continue boxing those cables.
Look, I get it if some feel this area is an important beachhead in a larger campaign. I just don't see it. ISP "fuckery" (as John Oliver says) around broadband, and the FCC and local municipalities trying to actually act in the interest of the citizenry is at least an order of magnitude more important, and growing.
Personally I don't care what the cable companies do around boxes. I don't have a cable subscription and I never will. Internet streaming is the future and this whole area will be moot in 20 years.
"The removal order does not violate section 230 because it does not impose any liability on Yelp."
If I were Yelp, I would file a single sentence response:
Since "The removal order does not violate section 230 because it does not impose any liability on Yelp," Yelp respectfully rejects the order and encourages the court to follow through on it's promise to "not impose any liability on Yelp".
Going forward if I were a defense attorney, I would plant false documents in with the legit ones. They'd be crafted to contain what appears to be incriminating evidence, but not so outrageous as to raise suspicions. Record a video of someone talking through what is going on, why you are doing this, upload it to YouTube (or another video service that can set an unalterable date stamp) as a private video that can be made public if necessary. Then wait and see...
Are there any wireless providers who do not retain location logs?
SO this ruling begs the question if there are any cell phone providers who do not retain historical records of their data. Yes they need to know the device location in real-time to route calls and data. But once that data is no longer useful for functional reasons, /dev/null
Alternately, are there cell phone proxy providers who sign up for accounts on behalf of users, and then sanitize the data that is passed along to the cell provider? Seems like a great service, and one I would gladly subscribe to.
I hearby assert that despite having a cellular phone and data plan with you, I DO NOT voluntarily give you information regarding my device's location, or any other information regarding my device. I understand that you need certain information in order for the service to function. However once that information ceases to be functionally useful in direct support of providing my service, I insist that you destroy that information and do not record or log it in any way for any purpose. Also, to be clear, I do not consent you sharing even my real time data with any 3rd party—including and especially any agency of the government or law enforcement—without a warrant and without also notifying me.
If you want to encourage local content, there are plenty of other ways to incent the market. Give local producers tax breaks, grants, and other incentives. Hold contests. Find locals already doing great work and invest in them.
IANAE (I am not an economist) but I highly doubt holding a gun to the head of the platforms who are only trying to connect people with quality content is the way to go.
On what grounds would he go after not-Gawker? As a brand new organization, they will have no history over which to litigate. And if and when something does come up, rinse and repeat.
I can't wait to see the minimum compliance on this one
If I were a content provider I would make sure 20% of my content was just people making obscene gestures and mocking the European Commission and their rules.
Or how about 24 hours of the Microsoft pipes screensaver, a navy blue screen, and other "avant garde" programming? They aren't going to get into the business of "this is quality programming and that is not" business, are they?
If he wants to come after Gawker, with the force of a billionaire spurned, then just shut it down. Start up a new media site called "Fuck Peter Thiel LLC", and keep publishing. Put all of the old content up on GawkerArchive.org, and if you want to for good measure, host it out of the states.
Sonic.net has an offering called Fusion Fiber to the Node (FTTN) that is really just a rebranded Uverse. But importantly they DO NOT have caps, AND they offer VPN service that you can use to prevent AT&T from snooping your traffic and handing it over to the government, MPPA, or whomever else they are in bed with.
Nothing ulterior here. I'm just a satisfied customer. But if you do sign up and use my ID (dcortright) as the source, I will get a referral bonus and I'd be most grateful. :-)
Hard to believe a piece like this on TechDirt made it through editorial approval without the requisite paragraph on how this will only encourage more people to seek out unofficial sources for the content.
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Super ironic that Vinod Khosla is on the list
In case you forgot, use your favorite search engine to find pages regarding Vinod Khosla Martins Beach like this one...
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TechDirt should test it out
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There, I fixed it for you
United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next Steps by Barack Obama, JD
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Comey says Hillary is a very special snowflake
W.T.F.
https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-director-james-b.-comey -on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clintons-use-of-a-personal-e-mail-system
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Wireless broadband FTW
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Get an ProtonMail account
And as soon as a cell phone service comes out with security baked in, I'm switching over to that too. I have nothing extraordinary or illegal to hide, but I still don't leave my blinds and doors open on my house.
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Dump Comodo now
Personally I wanted to use Let's Encrypt for a new site I configured recently, but after spending the better part of a day trying to get it to work, I gave up and went with the option that my host (NameCheap) provided for $2.
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Re: Re: Let this one go; focus on more strategic battles
Look, I get it if some feel this area is an important beachhead in a larger campaign. I just don't see it. ISP "fuckery" (as John Oliver says) around broadband, and the FCC and local municipalities trying to actually act in the interest of the citizenry is at least an order of magnitude more important, and growing.
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Re: Re: Let this one go; focus on more strategic battles
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Let this one go; focus on more strategic battles
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"The removal order does not violate section 230 because it does not impose any liability on Yelp."
Since "The removal order does not violate section 230 because it does not impose any liability on Yelp," Yelp respectfully rejects the order and encourages the court to follow through on it's promise to "not impose any liability on Yelp".
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Honeypot to prevent future copying
(This is a bit like how map makers add fake info to maps to foil copiers).
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Are there any wireless providers who do not retain location logs?
Alternately, are there cell phone proxy providers who sign up for accounts on behalf of users, and then sanitize the data that is passed along to the cell provider? Seems like a great service, and one I would gladly subscribe to.
On the post: 4th Circuit Appeals Court Rolls Back Its Warrant Requirement For Cell Site Location Info
Dear my wireless provider,
Well, it can't hurt to ask, right?
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Re: Local content
IANAE (I am not an economist) but I highly doubt holding a gun to the head of the platforms who are only trying to connect people with quality content is the way to go.
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Re: Re: Denton should play publisher whack-a-mole
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I can't wait to see the minimum compliance on this one
Or how about 24 hours of the Microsoft pipes screensaver, a navy blue screen, and other "avant garde" programming? They aren't going to get into the business of "this is quality programming and that is not" business, are they?
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Denton should play publisher whack-a-mole
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Sign up for Sonic.net instead
Nothing ulterior here. I'm just a satisfied customer. But if you do sign up and use my ID (dcortright) as the source, I will get a referral bonus and I'd be most grateful. :-)
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The elephant in the room
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