That Anonymous Coward (profile), 31 Mar 2021 @ 3:57pm
Re: Re: Re: Re:
Sadly you are the exception rather than the rule.
Civics most often was replaced with social studies, with less than a chapter or 2 about the bill of rights & Constitution & focusing on how great we were compared to everyone else.
Educators (and others) enjoy lording over a mass of people who do not understand they actually have rights beyond what the powers that be want to let you have.
911 made some people want to 'get even' & others to examine how did we get to a point where people felt justified in murdering innocent people a world away... while ignoring that we were murdering innocents a world away in the name of "freedom".
I remember how people panicked during the great NE blackout automatically assuming it was a terror attack & not just a shitty Canadian power company not keeping their lines clear & a system not maintained to avoid exactly this event because it would NEVER happen to us.
Hell if we could just get to where people stop screaming about their 1st Amendment rights being violated by everyone but the government that would be a huge victory.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 31 Mar 2021 @ 3:43pm
Re: Re: 'Look at us Doing Something!'
See we solved this huge problem!!!!!
Now ignore that we still have people shitting on the streets, we refuse to fund assistance to the poor & homeless, our infrastructure is a joke, we still have no idea how to deal with our water crisis...
But hey we put warning labels on all sorts of things so you could be informed & be safer!!!
"hate speech, racism, extremism or radicalization, disinformation, misinformation, harassment, and foreign political interference. "
So they are doing what to Fox News?
Disinformation?
You mean like when I called a bunch of lawyers extortionists, cited my sources, showed my work on a separate page but people claimed I had to be lying?
Harassment?
Still waiting for the IHG I helped found to be added to SPLC list.
They claimed I did all sorts of bad things, doubling down putting them in court filings, yet they were lying about being harassed.
Hate Speech?
In a land of 'micro-agressions' how can anyone give an all encompassing definition? I mean I guess Nazis screaming hitler did nothing wrong is really easy to point to, but there are people who want to make sure no one can say they think BTS is overrated.
Extremism or radicalization?
Does joining the GOP qualify?
Foreign political interference?
What about the home grown political interference? We have elected officials on nearly every level in this nation telling lies & misrepresenting things to keep political control.
Racism?
While some of it is clearly obvious & easily identified, humans love to stretch the definitions until they become meaningless.
Is it racism if you aren't attracted to different races?
I've been branded a racist for not being attracted to someone of a different race, where is the line between personal preferences & burning the cross in someones yard?
Performative bullshit is pointless.
We'll know it when we see it!!
But we can't even agree on 10 rulings in sample cases, but you better big tech b/c we said so.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 30 Mar 2021 @ 7:19pm
Soon it will be day 39 without any response.
Yep it was totes the "misinformation"
And it was so horrible staffers who have seen the tweet end up in care homes & this explains the delay in responding that it shouldn't have been timeout worthy or telling me how to delete the evil tweet that they've kept me from doing... for over a month.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 30 Mar 2021 @ 7:14pm
Re: Re:
Ask yourself the important question...
Why has the GQP never run out any member who has forced their mistress to have an abortion if it is so horrible?
Abortion is only okay if you promise to vote to ban it (except when your side piece gets knocked up (I mean contraception is bad too!) and you need to ditch the evidence).
There is a list of these Moral Crusaders who sure seem happy that they haven't managed to ban abortion or DC would be overrun with even more bastards. :D
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 30 Mar 2021 @ 7:11pm
Re: Re: Re: Re:
Its a function of how my mind works.
When I could tweet the running joke was calling him the Sen from VA as he hates the state he represents so much he won't even live there.
But then I also saw the video of the hitler youth in the wheelchair beating the crap out of a tree in a forest & someone asked why he was doing it I would have tweeted "Because the trees can stand".
But I am an asshole like that :)
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 30 Mar 2021 @ 7:07pm
Re: Re:
Nah even the most brain addled understood the idea that for $16 your bank account could be drained.
Now its all "fixed" so we can stop wondering if there is anything else waiting to screw us.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 30 Mar 2021 @ 3:42pm
Re: Performance art by non-artist
They have citizens who have black lung voting for them because they promised to bring back coal.
Ignoring its dangerous, its killing them, & there are no longer the good jobs they remember out there.
But the idea that coal would solve everything again is all they needed to blindly support everything these idiots want to do.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 30 Mar 2021 @ 3:40pm
Re: Thank you for your insightful pandemic analysis.
They supported the idea it was no worse than the flu.
They said mask didn't work.
They held up needed aid.
All to stroke the ego of a madman that mattered more to them than the idiots who elected them thinking they would care about them.
The antimaskers & antivaxxers are the fault of government.
The first time they decided to create a religious waiver to let idiots skip vaccines that have been proven safe & effective they gave them the power to demand to be taken seriously.
Yes there is a tiny fraction of people who have bad reactions to vaccines, but there is a tiny fraction of us citizens killed by terrorists flying planes into buildings... we don't offer a waiver to not get felt up to get on a plane.
Sitting members of Congress EVEN TODAY claim masks do not work, they are responsible for feeding the insanity of muh rights!
I don't think it is impossible to ask that members of congress who promote not getting the vaccine or wearing a mask get bitchslapped.
It would be impossible for me to demand that media censor anything they say in real time to avoid offending me, without actually giving them the list of things that offend me.
Congress says only take away speech I dislike when it is said by someone on the otherside... and people cheer these chucklefucks on for doing it. Sen Hawley is all upset about his 1st Amendment rights & is demanding the government step in and force platforms to allow him to say what he wants...
Congress is wasting time on these hearings that aren't meant to do anything but make soundbites, we still have people losing their homes, losing their businesses, going to bed hungry because they wanted to make sure they could blame the otherside when they came to power for wasting money on saving people... but rubber stamped bailing out companies with billions in assets who threatened bad things would happen if they weren't saved... who then bought back stock and laid of workers.
They held up aid we should have gotten months ago debating which american's are worthy of assistance in the middle of a pandemic. Half a million shouldn't have died, but hey POTUS said it was no big deal so I don't have to wear a mask.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 30 Mar 2021 @ 2:25pm
"Telecom giants should be getting out ahead of security flaws before they become widespread problems, not belatedly acting only after news outlets showcase their apathy and incompetence. "
The cost of ignoring it - $0
The fines for ignoring it - $0
The penalties of consumers leaving - $0 (something something captive market)
The cost of fixing it - $1.35
Shareholder value must be increased by $0.75 (the rest was a CEO bonus for getting them an extra $0.75)
If the system is still working, why spend anything more than we have to on it?
Bailing wire & bubblegum fixes are enough to keep it going until they aren't.... then we can just get our political appointees to funnel us money to underwrite fixing the shit we've ignored for decades and don't want to pay for.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 30 Mar 2021 @ 12:18pm
Something something artists Andy Warhol, Richard Prince, Jeff Koons, etc...
Wikipedia - Appropriation (art)
Izod suing an artist for airbrushing an image a customer wanted on one of their shirts makes as much sense.
Remove Satan & no one cares.
This is about appealing to a loud segment of society that is always looking to stop evil, unless their leaders are doing it.
666 shoes isn't competing.
They bought the shoes, modified them, & sold them.
Deadmau5's 'Nyanborghini Purracan'
Nearly every customized car
The lawsuit is stupid, the company should bitch slap the lawyers for wasting resources.
Grammie bought a mass produced objet d'art, painted it & changed it around then sells it at a church bizarre... we should roll out the IP enforcers to execute a no knock raid?
Tempest, teapot, legal performance art.
All to make sure the evangelicals will keep buying nikes (which they would have anyways knowing they were made by slave labor which reminds them of the good old days)
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 30 Mar 2021 @ 9:54am
"That doesn't mean I'm convinced it will absolutely work, but I do think it's worth experimenting with."
It couldn't be worse than having hearings where elected officials just randomly spew out soundbite worthy phrases that mean nothing & at worst undermine the Constitution.
Congress believe they can just demand it, its entirely possible, & any delay is an attack on them personally.
Not one of them, except maybe Sen from Virginia Hawley, gives a shit what tech does. They will always manage to keep pissing off one side or the other which then will be mined & refined to pure outrage to power their reelection campaigns.
500K+ people are dead because they did nothing to fix the problems, instead having hearings to make soundbites to get reelected by cashing in on fantasy while knowing full well they would be first in line for vaccines.
Imagine how much better the rollout would have gone if Congress was the last to get the vaccine. That they understood they are supposed to put us first for a change.
But instead we'll hear more stories about how tech is evil from both sides while everyone ignores the evil that is political ambitions that is willing to kill half a million citizens rather than stand up for the truth.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 29 Mar 2021 @ 10:11am
Re: How to fight back
This doesn't work.
Something something call on my POTS line from myself.
Caller ID claims the call is coming from inside the house, but its unpossible.
The system is wide open for abuse, and they have no motivation to do anything about it.
We pay them to tell us who is calling, the other team pays them to let them pretend to be other people.
I'm the last person to support the idea of lets hold the 3rd party responsible for the actions of others, but they are charging us to provide us with information that can be faked & then have the gall to offer an extra service, for a fee, that claims to protect you from fake callers that they could stop if they put any effort into it, but the fees mean more.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 29 Mar 2021 @ 10:05am
I'm not broken, I don't need to be fixed.
Poor discriminated against thing.
Given the huge number of high profile ex-gays who end up being teh gay again, I am thinking perhaps its not a choice, like joining a bigoted hateful group calling themselves a church is, but just the way we are.
All this money wasted on a pointless lawsuit, something something help the poor & needy??
Good Faith... saying my skyfriend thinks you are broken & can change to make me feel better... seems like shitty faith to me.
But then I'm an immortal so I'm used to being the embodiment of evil from small minded folks, they judge me & boy howdy do they get pissed when I judge them right back.
None of the religions I founded every abused kids & covered it up.
On the post: Parler Forced To Explain The First Amendment To Its Users After They Complain About Parler Turning Over Info To The FBI
Re: Re: Re: Re:
Sadly you are the exception rather than the rule.
Civics most often was replaced with social studies, with less than a chapter or 2 about the bill of rights & Constitution & focusing on how great we were compared to everyone else.
Educators (and others) enjoy lording over a mass of people who do not understand they actually have rights beyond what the powers that be want to let you have.
911 made some people want to 'get even' & others to examine how did we get to a point where people felt justified in murdering innocent people a world away... while ignoring that we were murdering innocents a world away in the name of "freedom".
I remember how people panicked during the great NE blackout automatically assuming it was a terror attack & not just a shitty Canadian power company not keeping their lines clear & a system not maintained to avoid exactly this event because it would NEVER happen to us.
Hell if we could just get to where people stop screaming about their 1st Amendment rights being violated by everyone but the government that would be a huge victory.
On the post: AT&T Fights Against New Broadband Definitions, Insists 10 Mbps Upstream Is Good Enough
How much have they taken out of USF in the last decade?
How much has service speeds improved in that time?
Now lets take that amount from the USF and offer grants to cities & towns to buildout munifiber & see what speeds they can get.
On the post: California Legislators Now Get Into The Pointless & Likely Counterproductive Content Moderation Legislating Business
Re: Re: 'Look at us Doing Something!'
See we solved this huge problem!!!!!
Now ignore that we still have people shitting on the streets, we refuse to fund assistance to the poor & homeless, our infrastructure is a joke, we still have no idea how to deal with our water crisis...
But hey we put warning labels on all sorts of things so you could be informed & be safer!!!
"hate speech, racism, extremism or radicalization, disinformation, misinformation, harassment, and foreign political interference. "
So they are doing what to Fox News?
Disinformation?
You mean like when I called a bunch of lawyers extortionists, cited my sources, showed my work on a separate page but people claimed I had to be lying?
Harassment?
Still waiting for the IHG I helped found to be added to SPLC list.
They claimed I did all sorts of bad things, doubling down putting them in court filings, yet they were lying about being harassed.
Hate Speech?
In a land of 'micro-agressions' how can anyone give an all encompassing definition? I mean I guess Nazis screaming hitler did nothing wrong is really easy to point to, but there are people who want to make sure no one can say they think BTS is overrated.
Extremism or radicalization?
Does joining the GOP qualify?
Foreign political interference?
What about the home grown political interference? We have elected officials on nearly every level in this nation telling lies & misrepresenting things to keep political control.
Racism?
While some of it is clearly obvious & easily identified, humans love to stretch the definitions until they become meaningless.
Is it racism if you aren't attracted to different races?
I've been branded a racist for not being attracted to someone of a different race, where is the line between personal preferences & burning the cross in someones yard?
Performative bullshit is pointless.
We'll know it when we see it!!
But we can't even agree on 10 rulings in sample cases, but you better big tech b/c we said so.
On the post: Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible: Recent Examples Of Misunderstanding Context
Soon it will be day 39 without any response.
Yep it was totes the "misinformation"
And it was so horrible staffers who have seen the tweet end up in care homes & this explains the delay in responding that it shouldn't have been timeout worthy or telling me how to delete the evil tweet that they've kept me from doing... for over a month.
On the post: Why Did Not A Single Representative Want To Discuss Jack Dorsey's Plans For Dealing With Disinformation?
Re: Re:
Ask yourself the important question...
Why has the GQP never run out any member who has forced their mistress to have an abortion if it is so horrible?
Abortion is only okay if you promise to vote to ban it (except when your side piece gets knocked up (I mean contraception is bad too!) and you need to ditch the evidence).
There is a list of these Moral Crusaders who sure seem happy that they haven't managed to ban abortion or DC would be overrun with even more bastards. :D
On the post: Why Did Not A Single Representative Want To Discuss Jack Dorsey's Plans For Dealing With Disinformation?
Re: Re: Re: Re:
Its a function of how my mind works.
When I could tweet the running joke was calling him the Sen from VA as he hates the state he represents so much he won't even live there.
But then I also saw the video of the hitler youth in the wheelchair beating the crap out of a tree in a forest & someone asked why he was doing it I would have tweeted "Because the trees can stand".
But I am an asshole like that :)
On the post: Journalism Forces Wireless Industry To Belatedly Fix Text Message Flaw That Let Hackers Access Your Data For $16
Re: Re:
Nah even the most brain addled understood the idea that for $16 your bank account could be drained.
Now its all "fixed" so we can stop wondering if there is anything else waiting to screw us.
On the post: Parler Forced To Explain The First Amendment To Its Users After They Complain About Parler Turning Over Info To The FBI
Re: Re:
Well they stopped having them in the 60's so kids wouldn't learn their rights and be like those uppity hippies.
On the post: Why Did Not A Single Representative Want To Discuss Jack Dorsey's Plans For Dealing With Disinformation?
Re: Performance art by non-artist
They have citizens who have black lung voting for them because they promised to bring back coal.
Ignoring its dangerous, its killing them, & there are no longer the good jobs they remember out there.
But the idea that coal would solve everything again is all they needed to blindly support everything these idiots want to do.
On the post: Why Did Not A Single Representative Want To Discuss Jack Dorsey's Plans For Dealing With Disinformation?
Re: Thank you for your insightful pandemic analysis.
They supported the idea it was no worse than the flu.
They said mask didn't work.
They held up needed aid.
All to stroke the ego of a madman that mattered more to them than the idiots who elected them thinking they would care about them.
The antimaskers & antivaxxers are the fault of government.
The first time they decided to create a religious waiver to let idiots skip vaccines that have been proven safe & effective they gave them the power to demand to be taken seriously.
Yes there is a tiny fraction of people who have bad reactions to vaccines, but there is a tiny fraction of us citizens killed by terrorists flying planes into buildings... we don't offer a waiver to not get felt up to get on a plane.
Sitting members of Congress EVEN TODAY claim masks do not work, they are responsible for feeding the insanity of muh rights!
I don't think it is impossible to ask that members of congress who promote not getting the vaccine or wearing a mask get bitchslapped.
It would be impossible for me to demand that media censor anything they say in real time to avoid offending me, without actually giving them the list of things that offend me.
Congress says only take away speech I dislike when it is said by someone on the otherside... and people cheer these chucklefucks on for doing it. Sen Hawley is all upset about his 1st Amendment rights & is demanding the government step in and force platforms to allow him to say what he wants...
Congress is wasting time on these hearings that aren't meant to do anything but make soundbites, we still have people losing their homes, losing their businesses, going to bed hungry because they wanted to make sure they could blame the otherside when they came to power for wasting money on saving people... but rubber stamped bailing out companies with billions in assets who threatened bad things would happen if they weren't saved... who then bought back stock and laid of workers.
They held up aid we should have gotten months ago debating which american's are worthy of assistance in the middle of a pandemic. Half a million shouldn't have died, but hey POTUS said it was no big deal so I don't have to wear a mask.
On the post: Why Did Not A Single Representative Want To Discuss Jack Dorsey's Plans For Dealing With Disinformation?
Re: Re:
No I'm not.
Mr. Warner and Hawley only have homes in VA.
On the post: Journalism Forces Wireless Industry To Belatedly Fix Text Message Flaw That Let Hackers Access Your Data For $16
"Telecom giants should be getting out ahead of security flaws before they become widespread problems, not belatedly acting only after news outlets showcase their apathy and incompetence. "
The cost of ignoring it - $0
The fines for ignoring it - $0
The penalties of consumers leaving - $0 (something something captive market)
The cost of fixing it - $1.35
Shareholder value must be increased by $0.75 (the rest was a CEO bonus for getting them an extra $0.75)
If the system is still working, why spend anything more than we have to on it?
Bailing wire & bubblegum fixes are enough to keep it going until they aren't.... then we can just get our political appointees to funnel us money to underwrite fixing the shit we've ignored for decades and don't want to pay for.
On the post: Nike Sues MSCHF Over Its High Profile Satan Shoes, Claiming Unsafe Blood May Dilute The Exalted Nike Swoosh
Something something artists Andy Warhol, Richard Prince, Jeff Koons, etc...
Wikipedia - Appropriation (art)
Izod suing an artist for airbrushing an image a customer wanted on one of their shirts makes as much sense.
Remove Satan & no one cares.
This is about appealing to a loud segment of society that is always looking to stop evil, unless their leaders are doing it.
666 shoes isn't competing.
They bought the shoes, modified them, & sold them.
Deadmau5's 'Nyanborghini Purracan'
Nearly every customized car
The lawsuit is stupid, the company should bitch slap the lawyers for wasting resources.
Grammie bought a mass produced objet d'art, painted it & changed it around then sells it at a church bizarre... we should roll out the IP enforcers to execute a no knock raid?
Tempest, teapot, legal performance art.
All to make sure the evangelicals will keep buying nikes (which they would have anyways knowing they were made by slave labor which reminds them of the good old days)
On the post: Parler Forced To Explain The First Amendment To Its Users After They Complain About Parler Turning Over Info To The FBI
I miss civics...
On the post: Why Did Not A Single Representative Want To Discuss Jack Dorsey's Plans For Dealing With Disinformation?
"That doesn't mean I'm convinced it will absolutely work, but I do think it's worth experimenting with."
It couldn't be worse than having hearings where elected officials just randomly spew out soundbite worthy phrases that mean nothing & at worst undermine the Constitution.
Congress believe they can just demand it, its entirely possible, & any delay is an attack on them personally.
Not one of them, except maybe Sen from Virginia Hawley, gives a shit what tech does. They will always manage to keep pissing off one side or the other which then will be mined & refined to pure outrage to power their reelection campaigns.
500K+ people are dead because they did nothing to fix the problems, instead having hearings to make soundbites to get reelected by cashing in on fantasy while knowing full well they would be first in line for vaccines.
Imagine how much better the rollout would have gone if Congress was the last to get the vaccine. That they understood they are supposed to put us first for a change.
But instead we'll hear more stories about how tech is evil from both sides while everyone ignores the evil that is political ambitions that is willing to kill half a million citizens rather than stand up for the truth.
On the post: Law Firm Hoping To Add Legal Losses To Plaintiffs' Gambling Losses By Suing Google, Apple Over Casino Apps
Re: Re:
That actually makes more sense then many of the cases we've seen.
On the post: Law Firm Hoping To Add Legal Losses To Plaintiffs' Gambling Losses By Suing Google, Apple Over Casino Apps
'Merika!
Where its never my fault for things I've done, its the fault of the guy with the deepest pockets remotely connected to it!
On the post: Drone Operator Sues North Carolina Over Its First Amendment-Violating Surveyor Licensing Laws
I wonder how they keep food fresh in NC considering they still are only allowed ice blocks.
On the post: Wireless Industry Eyes Nontransparent 'Trust Score' To Determine Who Can Market Via Text Message
Re: How to fight back
This doesn't work.
Something something call on my POTS line from myself.
Caller ID claims the call is coming from inside the house, but its unpossible.
The system is wide open for abuse, and they have no motivation to do anything about it.
We pay them to tell us who is calling, the other team pays them to let them pretend to be other people.
I'm the last person to support the idea of lets hold the 3rd party responsible for the actions of others, but they are charging us to provide us with information that can be faked & then have the gall to offer an extra service, for a fee, that claims to protect you from fake callers that they could stop if they put any effort into it, but the fees mean more.
On the post: Appeals Court Actually Explores 'Good Faith' Issue In A Section 230 Case (Spoiler Alert: It Still Protects Moderation Choices)
I'm not broken, I don't need to be fixed.
Poor discriminated against thing.
Given the huge number of high profile ex-gays who end up being teh gay again, I am thinking perhaps its not a choice, like joining a bigoted hateful group calling themselves a church is, but just the way we are.
All this money wasted on a pointless lawsuit, something something help the poor & needy??
Good Faith... saying my skyfriend thinks you are broken & can change to make me feel better... seems like shitty faith to me.
But then I'm an immortal so I'm used to being the embodiment of evil from small minded folks, they judge me & boy howdy do they get pissed when I judge them right back.
None of the religions I founded every abused kids & covered it up.
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