Assholes--professional or otherwise--have always been free to be whoever they are without mob justice coming after them.
You apparently think that if you do not approve of what they think and say then it's A-ok to harass them and get them fired. They had it coming, right, bud?
You know, in the America of just a few short years ago, if someone told a "racist" joke, you just said, oh well. Who really cares? And then you moved on. Watch Chris Rock's HBO (or Showtime) Special from the late 90s. Chock a block full of so-called "racist" jokes.
And funny as hell. It's all kinds of wrong to poo poo those you don't agree with and call them crazy or despicable or whatever term you want to use.
It's not going to end well, as sooner rather than later, you will come to be judged by the cancel culturalists.
As a tech-oriented site, I find it astounding you would ignore (or worse, cover up) the hundreds of tech and data people who have addressed definitively the criminal anomalies of Dominion.
Simply astonishing that your hatred of Giuliani would blind you to the plain facts of data, math, code, illegal connection to the internet. All of that evidence, and you still claim Rudy's claims are false?
The heart of your argument, that you have a 1st Amendment right to not associate with a company that allows free speech that you consider "abhorrent", is specious.
When you buy a cell phone or have a phone line put in your house, the phone company doesn't get to deny you service based on what you say on the phone line.
It's as simple as that. All social media should be immediately treated as just another utility like the phone company. These utilities have no business judging and canceling those who have views of any kind. It's none of their or your business.
And what is abhorrent to you is fine with others. Free Speech is only free speech when the most unpopular (and yes, abhorrent) views are free. You appear to believe that only accepted speech should be free. That's the antithesis of the foundation of the US, its promise of freedom for all, the reason people want to come here.
It doesn't matter if these companies are private or not. They must be classified as utilities. How's that for some sanity? No more school marm's in tech. No more narrow Overton window nonsense.
Mitch is tying both the repeal of 230 and the 2000 together. We can only hope and pray to whatever God that we hope and pray to that he succeeds in destroying 230 and sending a paltry 2000 to Americans
But do not fret, Tech Dirt writers. Pakistanis will be indoctrinated in the wonders of gender studies. It's all good. Win-win.
The only thing that is apparent is that Section 230 protections got to go.
The big tech censorship ramps up to fever pitch every single ding dang day. The extreme censorship has got to be destroyed to save American democracy. If it means throwing the baby out with the bath water? Who cares at this point? Whatever it takes to stop the school marm Big Sister insanity that is happening in social media.
So, let me get this straight: you do not understand what the onslaught of anti-policing propaganda does to the what the police do or do not do? To be clear, when the police are charged with murder one for "killing" a drug addict who actually died of a fentanyl overdoes, you don't understand how maybe just possibly, no probably, that might affect how police do their job in communities all over America?
How do could you be so stupid? Crime rises when police are persecuted for doing the job they were trained to do. And defunding them just will make it worse as they have discovered to their chagrin in Minneapolis and Portland.
Come on, man! How can you be so smart in tech and so dumb in logic? Recommend: stop writing on anything but tech and copyright.
Yes you are right: the law and order President may make use of the las of Sedition and/or the legal 2018 executive order against foreign interference in voting in order to hold a re-vote without buggy and rigged computer systems, hopefully by paper ballot hand-counted in front of the public in each precinct then posted in the front window of each voting place, published in local newspapes and then state wise published publicly..
He would be following the law if he did just that as it is apparent the election was a fraud and a huge number of Americans believe this, so the ability of a Biden Administration to govern is in jeopardy, as well as the whole idea of the republic.
So don't get your panties in a tangle, Chicken Little. A re-vote is necessary to restore order and to uphold the law.
The only qualification needed for appointment to a US Government position is citizenship. No other "qualification" matters or is relevant. That was the whole idea when the nation was formed in the late 1700s: citizens serving the republic and eventually returning to their professions after a time of service. No experts wanted or needed. As Eisenhower said no technocrats, no "learned" doctors, none of that is a good thing..
So if Trump appointed a guy who dislikes (with ample good reason) Section 230 you should join the vast majority of us who are cheering for him and for 230's demise. He's qualified. Technocrats are just totalitarians masquerading as aged hipsters. We can only hope more are appointed to help with this.
A judge does not consider the facts in the case at all and instead reads his ruling from a piece of paper written before he read the suit and that means the case brought before the judge who had already made up his mind the week before is "ridiculous?"
Repeal of Section 230 is long overdue. Censorship is un-American. Big Tech is no Big Nanny. They have abused their power and lost any right of immunity.
I thought you guys were tech people? So you have 1,000s of affidavits, anomalies, statistical impossibilities, and then you have someone who is supposed to be in tech security making utterly imbecilic statements, and they were so ignorant and incompetent that you would boot the guy out of YOUR tech company and blacklist him from ever working in security or tech again, and you have some problem with what Deg\Genova said?
How could you possibly ignore all of the tech info proof of cheating? Because Trump? That is the only reason. What next? Trump says the sky is blue and you write an article claiming outrage? What is wrong with you?
Day After Senator Lindsey Graham Is Falsely Accused Of Trying To Undermine The Election, He Hosts Hearing Attacking Social Media For Undermining Election (Which They Credibly Did).
There. Much better. Because truthful. Try the truth next time.
It is difficult to even know where to begin. Perhaps it's best to just start and also to end with the nonsense that: 1) there are any fascists to fight, and 2) that 1 is true only if antifa does not fight itself, since they are the closest thing to Mussolini's brown shirts and Germany's S.A. in the 1930s. They act like them, they even dress like them.
How could anyone write such falsehoods? Seriously. What happened to you, man?
Nothing sketchy about a deeply sourced confirmed trove of emails revealing that Biden has been lying through his teeth.
Twitter shouldn't be blocking anything for any reason. Free Speech means the freedom of people to say stuff or show stuff that you don't like. There's no point in free speech otherwise.
Trying to pretend that this hard drive full of all kind of things is not real or is sketchy? Man how do you sleep at night? This is going to be the biggest thing in US History and you are talking like it's nothing.
So the head Administrator of the Administration (Trump) does not have the right to appoint those he appoints? A judge can overrule the Executive?
It's been known for years now that Voice of America and the others have become infected with SJW nonsense. It's time to change that back to what it used to be and what it was started for initially.
whether the appointee plays bridge with Steve Bannon is none of any judge's (or any writer's at Tech Dirt) concern. When I President is elected he gets to make the decisions, free of 2nd guessing by kritarchs, which is a perversion of the American republic.
Your biased writing has truly blinded you this constant judicial activism.
That is actually the title of song written by George Harrison.
Anyway, everybody should sue this false "friend" who secretly recorded her "best" friend's conversations with her. What kind of person would support such a cretin? Who would read a thing she wrote about anything?
If a "friend" of yours taped secretly everything you said in order to sell her "story" for a big payday, would you be a cheerleader for her? Thought not. Stop cheerleading for this insufferable being.
On the post: Professional Assholes Equate Consequences With 'Cancel Culture' To Obscure That They're Finally Being Held Accountable
Professional?
Assholes--professional or otherwise--have always been free to be whoever they are without mob justice coming after them.
You apparently think that if you do not approve of what they think and say then it's A-ok to harass them and get them fired. They had it coming, right, bud?
You know, in the America of just a few short years ago, if someone told a "racist" joke, you just said, oh well. Who really cares? And then you moved on. Watch Chris Rock's HBO (or Showtime) Special from the late 90s. Chock a block full of so-called "racist" jokes.
And funny as hell. It's all kinds of wrong to poo poo those you don't agree with and call them crazy or despicable or whatever term you want to use.
It's not going to end well, as sooner rather than later, you will come to be judged by the cancel culturalists.
On the post: Dominion Sues Rudy Giuliani For $1.3 Billion Over False Statements About Its Voting Systems
It's just Tech
As a tech-oriented site, I find it astounding you would ignore (or worse, cover up) the hundreds of tech and data people who have addressed definitively the criminal anomalies of Dominion.
Simply astonishing that your hatred of Giuliani would blind you to the plain facts of data, math, code, illegal connection to the internet. All of that evidence, and you still claim Rudy's claims are false?
How do you hold your head up?
On the post: How Can Conservatives Fight Back Against Big Tech? For A Start, Just Be Sane Again.
The Phone Company
The heart of your argument, that you have a 1st Amendment right to not associate with a company that allows free speech that you consider "abhorrent", is specious.
When you buy a cell phone or have a phone line put in your house, the phone company doesn't get to deny you service based on what you say on the phone line.
It's as simple as that. All social media should be immediately treated as just another utility like the phone company. These utilities have no business judging and canceling those who have views of any kind. It's none of their or your business.
And what is abhorrent to you is fine with others. Free Speech is only free speech when the most unpopular (and yes, abhorrent) views are free. You appear to believe that only accepted speech should be free. That's the antithesis of the foundation of the US, its promise of freedom for all, the reason people want to come here.
It doesn't matter if these companies are private or not. They must be classified as utilities. How's that for some sanity? No more school marm's in tech. No more narrow Overton window nonsense.
On the post: Mitch McConnell Using Section 230 Repeal As A Poison Pill To Avoid $2k Stimulus Checks
News to Tech Dirt
Your article is dated.
Mitch is tying both the repeal of 230 and the 2000 together. We can only hope and pray to whatever God that we hope and pray to that he succeeds in destroying 230 and sending a paltry 2000 to Americans
But do not fret, Tech Dirt writers. Pakistanis will be indoctrinated in the wonders of gender studies. It's all good. Win-win.
On the post: Apparently Trump Refuses To Allow The Government To Do Anything At All Until The Open Internet Is Destroyed
Apparent?
The only thing that is apparent is that Section 230 protections got to go.
The big tech censorship ramps up to fever pitch every single ding dang day. The extreme censorship has got to be destroyed to save American democracy. If it means throwing the baby out with the bath water? Who cares at this point? Whatever it takes to stop the school marm Big Sister insanity that is happening in social media.
On the post: US Attorney Blames Violent Crime Spike In Austin, Texas On Police Budget Cuts That Haven't Even Been Implemented Yet
The Chilling Effect
So, let me get this straight: you do not understand what the onslaught of anti-policing propaganda does to the what the police do or do not do? To be clear, when the police are charged with murder one for "killing" a drug addict who actually died of a fentanyl overdoes, you don't understand how maybe just possibly, no probably, that might affect how police do their job in communities all over America?
How do could you be so stupid? Crime rises when police are persecuted for doing the job they were trained to do. And defunding them just will make it worse as they have discovered to their chagrin in Minneapolis and Portland.
Come on, man! How can you be so smart in tech and so dumb in logic? Recommend: stop writing on anything but tech and copyright.
On the post: 'Law And Order' President Huddles With His Enablers, Considers Enacting Martial Law To Overturn His Election Loss
Law and Order
Yes you are right: the law and order President may make use of the las of Sedition and/or the legal 2018 executive order against foreign interference in voting in order to hold a re-vote without buggy and rigged computer systems, hopefully by paper ballot hand-counted in front of the public in each precinct then posted in the front window of each voting place, published in local newspapes and then state wise published publicly..
He would be following the law if he did just that as it is apparent the election was a fraud and a huge number of Americans believe this, so the ability of a Biden Administration to govern is in jeopardy, as well as the whole idea of the republic.
So don't get your panties in a tangle, Chicken Little. A re-vote is necessary to restore order and to uphold the law.
On the post: Trump Appoints Unqualified Guy Who Hates Section 230 To Top Justice Department Role
Qualificatoin
The only qualification needed for appointment to a US Government position is citizenship. No other "qualification" matters or is relevant. That was the whole idea when the nation was formed in the late 1700s: citizens serving the republic and eventually returning to their professions after a time of service. No experts wanted or needed. As Eisenhower said no technocrats, no "learned" doctors, none of that is a good thing..
So if Trump appointed a guy who dislikes (with ample good reason) Section 230 you should join the vast majority of us who are cheering for him and for 230's demise. He's qualified. Technocrats are just totalitarians masquerading as aged hipsters. We can only hope more are appointed to help with this.
On the post: Georgia Court Streams Ridiculous 'Kraken' Lawsuit Hearing On YouTube; Then Tells People They Can't Repost Recordings
Ridiculous
So let me see if I understand:
A judge does not consider the facts in the case at all and instead reads his ruling from a piece of paper written before he read the suit and that means the case brought before the judge who had already made up his mind the week before is "ridiculous?"
And that is your idea of justice?
Now that is truly the definition of ridiculous
On the post: White House Still Pushing To Slip Section 230 Repeal Into 'Must Pass' Military Spending Bill
Good News
Repeal of Section 230 is long overdue. Censorship is un-American. Big Tech is no Big Nanny. They have abused their power and lost any right of immunity.
Repeal 230 now. Do it any way it can be done.
On the post: Utter Insanity: Trump Lawyer Suggests Former Trump Cybersecurity Official Should Be 'Taken Out And Shot' For Saying The Election Was Secure
Wise Words
Were never spoken so true.
I thought you guys were tech people? So you have 1,000s of affidavits, anomalies, statistical impossibilities, and then you have someone who is supposed to be in tech security making utterly imbecilic statements, and they were so ignorant and incompetent that you would boot the guy out of YOUR tech company and blacklist him from ever working in security or tech again, and you have some problem with what Deg\Genova said?
How could you possibly ignore all of the tech info proof of cheating? Because Trump? That is the only reason. What next? Trump says the sky is blue and you write an article claiming outrage? What is wrong with you?
On the post: Day After Senator Lindsey Graham Is Credibly Accused Of Trying To Undermine The Election, He Hosts Hearing Attacking Social Media For Undermining Election
Headline
Change your headline to:
Day After Senator Lindsey Graham Is Falsely Accused Of Trying To Undermine The Election, He Hosts Hearing Attacking Social Media For Undermining Election (Which They Credibly Did).
There. Much better. Because truthful. Try the truth next time.
On the post: DNC Sues Georgia Governor Over His Bullshit Claims Democrats Hacked The State's Voter Registration System
Crazed
So Tim?
How do you know the "claims" are bullshit? What if the "claims" aren't claims anymore? And solid evidence is presented.
What if your 0% reasoning is dismantled 100% by evidence?
Will you then crow like a demented magpie that Trump was "bested" again?
The extreme dementia regarding Trump on this blog is really truly sincerely insane.
The guy's got a case. Stop spitting on it. It makes you look stupid.
On the post: FCC Boss Pai Urged To Accept Trump Loss, Pause Dumb Attack On Social Media
Dumb
So let me get this straigh: it is dumb to "attack" totalitarians who want to censor thought (i.e., the social media companies)?
Why would Pai accept a Trump loss before he has lost?
What kind of loco weed are you guys smoking? Ever hear of the Constitution? Trump ain't lost until it's certified, hoss.
And Pai? Good on him. Tech totalitarians got to go.
On the post: Another Arrest Shows It's Pretty Much Everyone But Antifa Engaging In Anti-Government Violence
Get Well Soon
It is difficult to even know where to begin. Perhaps it's best to just start and also to end with the nonsense that: 1) there are any fascists to fight, and 2) that 1 is true only if antifa does not fight itself, since they are the closest thing to Mussolini's brown shirts and Germany's S.A. in the 1930s. They act like them, they even dress like them.
How could anyone write such falsehoods? Seriously. What happened to you, man?
On the post: Mumbai Police Help Indian Prime Minister Modi Scrub BuzzFeed Of Images That Offended His Delicate Sensibilities
Equivalency
Writing an article protesting/decrying what Twitter and tech police are doing in the United States (which you support)?
Maybe the Hunter Biden files should be released in India so you would not call them "sketchy?"
On the post: Twitter Fixes Its Bad Policy On Blocking 'Hacked' Documents
Etch a sketch
Nothing sketchy about a deeply sourced confirmed trove of emails revealing that Biden has been lying through his teeth.
Twitter shouldn't be blocking anything for any reason. Free Speech means the freedom of people to say stuff or show stuff that you don't like. There's no point in free speech otherwise.
Trying to pretend that this hard drive full of all kind of things is not real or is sketchy? Man how do you sleep at night? This is going to be the biggest thing in US History and you are talking like it's nothing.
On the post: Court Says Trump Appointee Had No Authority To Fire Open Technology Fund Board; Says They Remain In Place
Rule by Judges
So the head Administrator of the Administration (Trump) does not have the right to appoint those he appoints? A judge can overrule the Executive?
It's been known for years now that Voice of America and the others have become infected with SJW nonsense. It's time to change that back to what it used to be and what it was started for initially.
whether the appointee plays bridge with Steve Bannon is none of any judge's (or any writer's at Tech Dirt) concern. When I President is elected he gets to make the decisions, free of 2nd guessing by kritarchs, which is a perversion of the American republic.
Your biased writing has truly blinded you this constant judicial activism.
On the post: Facebook & Twitter Try To Limit The Spread Of Sketchy NY Post Story; Leading To Ridiculous Trumpist Meltdown
Etch a Sketch
It's not their place or role to delete anything. Nationalize these "services."
And in the meantime, since when did valid emails become "sketchy?"
In what TDS universe do you inhabit? Simply astounding ignorance. Astonishing. How could anyone be so thick?
On the post: DOJ Is Suing Melania Trump's Ex-Friend Over Her Book, Despite Never Being A Government Employee
Sue Me Sue You Blues
That is actually the title of song written by George Harrison.
Anyway, everybody should sue this false "friend" who secretly recorded her "best" friend's conversations with her. What kind of person would support such a cretin? Who would read a thing she wrote about anything?
If a "friend" of yours taped secretly everything you said in order to sell her "story" for a big payday, would you be a cheerleader for her? Thought not. Stop cheerleading for this insufferable being.
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