The best way to get a bad law under fire and reviewed is to fully enforce it. Or go nuclear to avoid getting caught. The issues are glaring and even politicians are uncomfortable with it. If I were the tech giants I'd go nuclear and start filtering everything that might fit the law even if remotely and clearly warn the users they are being hit by said law. Let the outrage do the rest.
On a side note one would think Germany had learned from their Nazi past but it seems humans will be humans anywhere. Go figure.
Re: "Good Samaritans" must be GOOD is key point. And must not be arbitrary, nor is a "provider" given full power over "users". -- It's for The Public's good, in any case, NOT the "provider" as such.
And what's Facebook definition of what's good for the public? What's yours? I'd say it would be good for this site if you were silenced but clearly Mike disagrees with me since you are still here after all these years.
Facebook is free to do whatever it pleases with its platform. In striving to provide a good environment for most they moderate the platform. CDA 230 ensures they are not liable for any user action even if they try to moderate. I wonder where you got delusional and understood that the platform has to do everything the user wants.
"Of course, corporatists can only read that section without "good faith" or "user" because want corporations to be given power besides immunities which print publishers don't get."
Comparing apples with ostriches are we? If they publish user generated content they get the protections. Most print publishers have their online counterpart and they are protected as well. They may be liable for content they produce as it has been seen in other cases where platforms lost their CDA 230 protections.
"In short, Section 230 is an unworkable tangle that must be revised in light of what's now known of how corporations abuse the power precisely to deny "natural" persons outlet for Constitutionally protected speech."
Nobody is obliged to let you say whatever you want except the government. The 1st applies to the government, not to corporations. CDA 230 is what prevents idiots like you from trying to make the platform liable for what their users produce. It's what has allowed the Internet to flourish.
I'd add that ISPs could also go to those speed testing services and add their services to some sort of QoS service to give them full priority thus masquerading the problem.
Part of me would like to see what would happen if platforms decided to stop moderating completely. Shitshow was the first word that came to mind and yet it's not very far from reality *with* moderation.
Are we witnessing the next myspace/orkut/whatever?
In any case, put aside the latest shenanigans from Facebook there's still the negative impact it causes psychologically speaking. I personally felt better after I stopped using it. No seriously, there are other means of keeping in touch.
"At what point next year are they going to say West Virginia has 100 percent coverage?"
In another news Ajit Pai proudly announces the US has reached 137,3% of broadband coverage. Later Pai was seen with a giant mug stuck to his head singing the non-lexical vocable version of the song "I am very glad, as I'm finally returning back home" from Eduard Khil, sources confirm he put it on voluntarily after West Virginian pointed out it's mathematically impossible to serve over 100% of the population.
There are other vectors out there that aren't nearly as stupid as this one. I explain: while it uses sophisticated means to infect computers and evade detection via AV or something it becomes obvious you have a problem once your computer/network becomes unusable due to high CPU load. I've read about some malware strains that limit the CPU usage to something less glaring that make it quite hard for the regular user to detect there's something wrong.
Also, even if it is an NSA exploit I will note that even if the NSA had disclosed it properly the thing is still exploitable even in patched systems so I would point my accusing finger at the NSA in the few months after the exploit went into the wild after they sat on it for who knows how long instead of working with devs to patch it. This time they aren't as guilty ;)
I'm incorporating that to my daily vocabulary. Usage: a person that writes well but ignores facts and evidence can trochaic octameter with distinction. We have a few loyal and diligent trochaic octameterers here on Techdirt.
I've been following that story and it seems there's no evidence of such accusations whereas the NSA has been caught red handed. I'd still be suspicious of them but it's been months since the accusations flew around and no independent security researcher managed to find anything.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: And of course, Techdirt remains silent over far larger and more blatant anti-immigration: "Israel will pay civilians $9,000 to capture African migrants"
"2nd, you CANNOT deny, so simply deflect and divert. It's all you have."
Pot, meet kettle.
You just want desperately to have reality fit your own way of thinking. Sorry dude, borders can and should be protected but agents caught committing crimes while "protecting" them should be prosecuted. Simple as that. All the rest of your ramblings that nobody is discussing right now have absolutely zero relation to the topic (even if they are delusional as well). Funny thing, you'd be wrong even if you were on topic.
Re: Actually discredits Hispanics and lawyers. But besides blame all of ICE and its mission to keep out foreign invaders, I'm sure you blame "Republicans", Trump, and Russians too.
And here, ladies and gentleman is "one of those people who pop up".
Your bigoted, hateful self is showing. I pity you.
A bit too cozy? No seriously, I could describe this with colorful sexual terms but I'll just say it's about time he starts being punished for said relationship.
Those municipal broadband discussions often fail to show the multitude of examples where such initiatives failed hard or had problems that couldn't be solved or that offer bad service. Pro tip: when you don't see many examples then chances are most of them are working as intended and providing service that's at least better than the incumbent players.
I wonder how long it will be till they start nitpicking and declaring that some municipal broadband initiative is a flop because the municipality can't keep the toilets clean enough (?!?!?!?!?!) or some inane argument.
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On a side note one would think Germany had learned from their Nazi past but it seems humans will be humans anywhere. Go figure.
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Re: Re: Some guy willfully and repeatedly breaking ToS/CoC ...
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Re: "Good Samaritans" must be GOOD is key point. And must not be arbitrary, nor is a "provider" given full power over "users". -- It's for The Public's good, in any case, NOT the "provider" as such.
Facebook is free to do whatever it pleases with its platform. In striving to provide a good environment for most they moderate the platform. CDA 230 ensures they are not liable for any user action even if they try to moderate. I wonder where you got delusional and understood that the platform has to do everything the user wants.
"Of course, corporatists can only read that section without "good faith" or "user" because want corporations to be given power besides immunities which print publishers don't get."
Comparing apples with ostriches are we? If they publish user generated content they get the protections. Most print publishers have their online counterpart and they are protected as well. They may be liable for content they produce as it has been seen in other cases where platforms lost their CDA 230 protections.
"In short, Section 230 is an unworkable tangle that must be revised in light of what's now known of how corporations abuse the power precisely to deny "natural" persons outlet for Constitutionally protected speech."
Nobody is obliged to let you say whatever you want except the government. The 1st applies to the government, not to corporations. CDA 230 is what prevents idiots like you from trying to make the platform liable for what their users produce. It's what has allowed the Internet to flourish.
On the post: Wired's Big Cover Story On Facebook Gets Key Legal Point Totally Backwards, Demonstrating Why CDA 230 Is Actually Important
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Re: Reject a Congressional Request, What Could Happen?
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In any case, put aside the latest shenanigans from Facebook there's still the negative impact it causes psychologically speaking. I personally felt better after I stopped using it. No seriously, there are other means of keeping in touch.
On the post: FCC Broadband Availability Data Derided As Inaccurate, 'Shameful'
In another news Ajit Pai proudly announces the US has reached 137,3% of broadband coverage. Later Pai was seen with a giant mug stuck to his head singing the non-lexical vocable version of the song "I am very glad, as I'm finally returning back home" from Eduard Khil, sources confirm he put it on voluntarily after West Virginian pointed out it's mathematically impossible to serve over 100% of the population.
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Also, even if it is an NSA exploit I will note that even if the NSA had disclosed it properly the thing is still exploitable even in patched systems so I would point my accusing finger at the NSA in the few months after the exploit went into the wild after they sat on it for who knows how long instead of working with devs to patch it. This time they aren't as guilty ;)
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Re: Damn
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Re: Hypocritical yes; wrong, no
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: And of course, Techdirt remains silent over far larger and more blatant anti-immigration: "Israel will pay civilians $9,000 to capture African migrants"
Pot, meet kettle.
You just want desperately to have reality fit your own way of thinking. Sorry dude, borders can and should be protected but agents caught committing crimes while "protecting" them should be prosecuted. Simple as that. All the rest of your ramblings that nobody is discussing right now have absolutely zero relation to the topic (even if they are delusional as well). Funny thing, you'd be wrong even if you were on topic.
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Re: Actually discredits Hispanics and lawyers. But besides blame all of ICE and its mission to keep out foreign invaders, I'm sure you blame "Republicans", Trump, and Russians too.
Your bigoted, hateful self is showing. I pity you.
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I wonder how long it will be till they start nitpicking and declaring that some municipal broadband initiative is a flop because the municipality can't keep the toilets clean enough (?!?!?!?!?!) or some inane argument.
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