What specific conservative views do you believe are being censored
I believe Twitter disabled the account for a major proponent of the idea that people should storm the Capitol by force of arms, ``fight like hell'', and conduct ``trial by combat''. People thus encouraged even went so far as to tear down and replace the U.S. flag.
That is a private act, and may not be properly considered ``censorship''. Still, in the casual sense of the word, it may qualify. At the least, they have discouraged the use of their platform for spreading the conservative view that the U.S. govt should be overthrown by force.
So there, you have a specific conservative view being disfavored.
Actually, no. They never said they changed their minds again. They only said that they had ``suspended'' their planned change, which I presume means that when convenient the planned change will be put into effect.
Working for [a state media outlet] does not make someone and whoever hires them paid propaganda
Actually, working for a state media outlet is pretty nearly the definition of a paid propagandist.
If a person working for a state media outlet takes a second job outside of that state media outlet, such person and the second employer should both expect some suspicion to fall upon the second employer. Either that second employer is not fully informed, or that second employer is knowingly providing a platform for a paid propagandist.
In this case, it appears from the Daily Beast article that Herring Networks (OAN) provide a platform for a state media outlet employee, and that employee uses the platform to insert unreliable material consistent with the state media outlet's views. See pg 4 of the article furnished as docket 18-3 (exh `A') in the trial court.
Here, I have corrected you twice this evening. Please consider yourself insulted in the grossest terms you can imagine.
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The 9th circuit is trying their best to tip toe around the issue but the obvious inference in their decision is that anything said on the show is opinion
Actually, the court said nearly the opposite. What it said was that ``[a] reasonable viewer would be able to differentiate between Maddow’s commentary and the actual news she is reporting'' [slip op. pg 18]. It goes on to say that ``Maddow discloses all relevant facts'' surrounding her commentary [slip op. pg 19].
It went on to discuss Yagman, 55 F.3d 1430, for a more extreme example of opinion based on disclosed facts. You may want to review that case as well.
If he's not crazy that just leaves corrupt and/or stupid
The one-party govt in Florida has long appeared to be coin-operated. From your choice quoted above, however, I think I will pick ``and'' based on recent observations.
Might be a business opportunity for a competing card processor. If AmEx or Diner's Club decided to handle such things, there might be a notable increase in custom for their offerings.
What do you do when a country becomes a training ground for terrorists attacking your country?
I cannot say that I have an ideal solution. But when I compare a great huge boxcar-full of bugger all to what we actually did, the great huge empty boxcar load of nothing looks pretty darn attractive.
I know of no regime recognizing property in ideas. Sometimes people can take ideas and instantiate them. For instance, people may write stories about mermaids, or make statue of them, but the idea itself is generally recognized as being free for all to use.
Even thus, there is something wrong with an estate hanging around over an hundred years after the work was created, trying to restrict its use or enjoyment. Vampires, back to your coffins, the sun is coming! Leeches, back to your ponds! Zombies, back to your corporate offices!
So now that the air is clear what's your point in pointing out my website?
Depending on where people go to school, theymay be taught that witness bias can affect credibility. Your web site suggeests the possibility of bias: you profit from the prison-industrial complex.
Your readers should be aware of that potential bias as they evaluate your credibility as you assert that more people should go to prison.
there is a lawyer who'd sign their name to this 'defamatory trespass to feelz' lolsuit
Interestingly enough, the lawyer's address appears to be a pack-and-ship. It may be a crowded pack-and-ship, because it seems to be the home of the Newman Law Firm, including Russell A. Newman. Fitting a law firm in a lack-and-ship is quite a feat, and Russell A. Newman can be proud of that, even if this lawsuit is not one that will redound to his glory.
Whole milk from cows has a much higher milkfat content. Even with some of the good stuff skimmed off, ``whole milk'' in the grocery is supposed to be 4% milkfat.
It is also cooked, which affects the flavor but is intended as a health and safety measure. In many states, uncooked milk is barred from retail sale. When I was in undergrad, a group of us would take turns driving across the state line to purchase uncooked whole milk from farms.
Agencies can attempt to withhold documents by citing exceptions, but it's up to the state Attorney General (and the courts if a lawsuit ensues) to make the final call
In Florida, it can be tougher than that. Depending on whether the requester knew how to make his request, the agency is required to specify the statutory exception and why they believe it applies. This applies not only to entire records, but to redactions within records.
Since this request is from Orlando, the Florida law applies. And, as observed in the original article, the person requesting a budget appropriation does not get to ask for a new exemption. This holds even if he wants the preferred bidder to get a no-bid contract.
Sometimes an agency can stonewall a request long enough for a coin-operated legislature to create a new exemption, which can then be applied retroactively. That would be the Dale Earnhardt situation.
As it relates to the election Dominion is no different than the government
Actually, it is different. It merely supplies equipment to the government, which is then used as part of the election.
The same is true of the paving company which poured the asphalt (should have been concrete, but that is a different complaint) over which the ballot boxes are transported. Also, the company that sold the vans the county used to transport the ballot boxes.
Delivering and counting the votes are essential functions in an election. But that does not make equipment vendors into government actors.
the FBI serves a vital part of the Executive branch prosecuting federal law
Actually, no. DOJ and the various US Attys and deputies do that. The FBI finds or manufactures evidence, and sometimes crimes, for prosecution. From the days of Hoover, the organization has been corrupt and unreliable.
Yes, Hoover was the first FBI director. The FBI is a relatively recent invention without which we got along fine for many years.
another petition of 100,000 signatures each from a simple majority of the States would be an automatic "Strike Three, Yer Outta Here!"
Problem here is that the folks we least want to see in charge will be the ones most likely to organize and collect the signatures. Think of your least favorite party apparatus and remember that they have offices and strong ground organizations in all the states.
How? It expressly says that it has no effect on lawfulness or unlawfulness of an e-mail provider declining to handle certain traffic. So if blocking spam is illegal in your state, it is still illegal. Or, if it is allowed in your state, it is still allowed.
Other portions of the CAN-SPAM act, particularly 15 USC 7707(b), do appear to preempt some state regulation, but what you have pulled up expressly fails to preempt state law. Assuming that Texas limits the application to things deemed unfair and deceptive, the Federal preemption provisions should not apply. This may not be a reasonable assumption, but watch it be argued anyway.
Of course, it all falls under the `\my living room'' rule: in my living room or mail server, I get to throw folks out who insult or bother my guests. And, I get to decide when to do this. If unhappy, get your own living room.
Some things need local offices in India. Those telephone boiler rooms from which I receive calls about my impending arrest for fraudulent activity on my Social Security account, for instance, need to be there because that is where the labor is.
On the other hand, an internet service can easily plunk its servers in a colo up in Virginia and never need to have a physical presence in India. Sure, that means the service may not have the opportunity to pay taxes in India, but they can just mail that money to me at [address redacted] and everything will be fine.
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I believe Twitter disabled the account for a major proponent of the idea that people should storm the Capitol by force of arms, ``fight like hell'', and conduct ``trial by combat''. People thus encouraged even went so far as to tear down and replace the U.S. flag.
That is a private act, and may not be properly considered ``censorship''. Still, in the casual sense of the word, it may qualify. At the least, they have discouraged the use of their platform for spreading the conservative view that the U.S. govt should be overthrown by force.
So there, you have a specific conservative view being disfavored.
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No Oops Here
Actually, no. They never said they changed their minds again. They only said that they had ``suspended'' their planned change, which I presume means that when convenient the planned change will be put into effect.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Show on the Other Foot Test
Actually, working for a state media outlet is pretty nearly the definition of a paid propagandist.
If a person working for a state media outlet takes a second job outside of that state media outlet, such person and the second employer should both expect some suspicion to fall upon the second employer. Either that second employer is not fully informed, or that second employer is knowingly providing a platform for a paid propagandist.
In this case, it appears from the Daily Beast article that Herring Networks (OAN) provide a platform for a state media outlet employee, and that employee uses the platform to insert unreliable material consistent with the state media outlet's views. See pg 4 of the article furnished as docket 18-3 (exh `A') in the trial court.
Here, I have corrected you twice this evening. Please consider yourself insulted in the grossest terms you can imagine.
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Actually, the court said nearly the opposite. What it said was that ``[a] reasonable viewer would be able to differentiate between Maddow’s commentary and the actual news she is reporting'' [slip op. pg 18]. It goes on to say that ``Maddow discloses all relevant facts'' surrounding her commentary [slip op. pg 19].
It went on to discuss Yagman, 55 F.3d 1430, for a more extreme example of opinion based on disclosed facts. You may want to review that case as well.
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Re: Re: subjective objective
The one-party govt in Florida has long appeared to be coin-operated. From your choice quoted above, however, I think I will pick ``and'' based on recent observations.
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Might be a business opportunity for a competing card processor. If AmEx or Diner's Club decided to handle such things, there might be a notable increase in custom for their offerings.
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Re: [4 - profit!]
Depends on where you are in the chain:
Assuming you are at step 2, it might work. Not if your step 2 is ``buy before'', but if you are at ``sell before'', then it might work.
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I cannot say that I have an ideal solution. But when I compare a great huge boxcar-full of bugger all to what we actually did, the great huge empty boxcar load of nothing looks pretty darn attractive.
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Re: Re: Withdrawn
I know of no regime recognizing property in ideas. Sometimes people can take ideas and instantiate them. For instance, people may write stories about mermaids, or make statue of them, but the idea itself is generally recognized as being free for all to use.
Even thus, there is something wrong with an estate hanging around over an hundred years after the work was created, trying to restrict its use or enjoyment. Vampires, back to your coffins, the sun is coming! Leeches, back to your ponds! Zombies, back to your corporate offices!
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Depending on where people go to school, theymay be taught that witness bias can affect credibility. Your web site suggeests the possibility of bias: you profit from the prison-industrial complex.
Your readers should be aware of that potential bias as they evaluate your credibility as you assert that more people should go to prison.
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Re: Re: Additional Dominion Cases of note
Interestingly enough, the lawyer's address appears to be a pack-and-ship. It may be a crowded pack-and-ship, because it seems to be the home of the Newman Law Firm, including Russell A. Newman. Fitting a law firm in a lack-and-ship is quite a feat, and Russell A. Newman can be proud of that, even if this lawsuit is not one that will redound to his glory.
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You do realize that this is the reason for Rule 11 sanctions. We want to discourage attys from bringing frivolous suits.
Yes, that Colorado case was certainly uncontaminated by merit. The judge found three routes to sanctions: inherent authority, statute, and Rule 11.
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Whole milk from cows has a much higher milkfat content. Even with some of the good stuff skimmed off, ``whole milk'' in the grocery is supposed to be 4% milkfat.
It is also cooked, which affects the flavor but is intended as a health and safety measure. In many states, uncooked milk is barred from retail sale. When I was in undergrad, a group of us would take turns driving across the state line to purchase uncooked whole milk from farms.
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Public Records Exceptions in Florida
In Florida, it can be tougher than that. Depending on whether the requester knew how to make his request, the agency is required to specify the statutory exception and why they believe it applies. This applies not only to entire records, but to redactions within records.
Since this request is from Orlando, the Florida law applies. And, as observed in the original article, the person requesting a budget appropriation does not get to ask for a new exemption. This holds even if he wants the preferred bidder to get a no-bid contract.
Sometimes an agency can stonewall a request long enough for a coin-operated legislature to create a new exemption, which can then be applied retroactively. That would be the Dale Earnhardt situation.
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Re: Re: Show Some Integrity Maybe
Actually, it is different. It merely supplies equipment to the government, which is then used as part of the election.
The same is true of the paving company which poured the asphalt (should have been concrete, but that is a different complaint) over which the ballot boxes are transported. Also, the company that sold the vans the county used to transport the ballot boxes.
Delivering and counting the votes are essential functions in an election. But that does not make equipment vendors into government actors.
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job applications
There should be an interesting collection of job applications for these review positions.
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Actually, no. DOJ and the various US Attys and deputies do that. The FBI finds or manufactures evidence, and sometimes crimes, for prosecution. From the days of Hoover, the organization has been corrupt and unreliable.
Yes, Hoover was the first FBI director. The FBI is a relatively recent invention without which we got along fine for many years.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: still want to know
Problem here is that the folks we least want to see in charge will be the ones most likely to organize and collect the signatures. Think of your least favorite party apparatus and remember that they have offices and strong ground organizations in all the states.
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Re: Prempted
How? It expressly says that it has no effect on lawfulness or unlawfulness of an e-mail provider declining to handle certain traffic. So if blocking spam is illegal in your state, it is still illegal. Or, if it is allowed in your state, it is still allowed.
Other portions of the CAN-SPAM act, particularly 15 USC 7707(b), do appear to preempt some state regulation, but what you have pulled up expressly fails to preempt state law. Assuming that Texas limits the application to things deemed unfair and deceptive, the Federal preemption provisions should not apply. This may not be a reasonable assumption, but watch it be argued anyway.
Of course, it all falls under the `\my living room'' rule: in my living room or mail server, I get to throw folks out who insult or bother my guests. And, I get to decide when to do this. If unhappy, get your own living room.
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No Visible Reason to be in India
Some things need local offices in India. Those telephone boiler rooms from which I receive calls about my impending arrest for fraudulent activity on my Social Security account, for instance, need to be there because that is where the labor is.
On the other hand, an internet service can easily plunk its servers in a colo up in Virginia and never need to have a physical presence in India. Sure, that means the service may not have the opportunity to pay taxes in India, but they can just mail that money to me at [address redacted] and everything will be fine.
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