You don’t even know what a “sealion” is in the context you’re trying to use it in. Like “critical race theory” and “cancel culture” and “woke”, you’re using a phrase you don’t understand that was invented by people you probably hate so you can water it down into meaning absolutely nothing because appearances matter more than substance to you.
No, it’s an opinion. Some other site might think the video is 100% factual even if it’s all a bunch of lies and bullshit. Opinions generally aren’t defamatory.
230 doesn’t protect platforms from lawsuits over their own speech. But given the high bar to clear for defamation, that epidemiologist will have one hell of a time suing YouTube over a takedown of a video they could easily repost on any other site willing to host it.
It’s more about perceived hypocrisy and a disingenuous feeling of the arguments provided by those accused of taking “donation” bribes. While Lofgren’s arguments might be bullshit in terms of where they’re coming from, the arguments themselves are sound enough that any possible financial motive she may have for making the arguments doesn’t make them any less sound. The people I usually see accused of making “bribed” arguments don’t often put forth arguments that hold water.
Or, to put it as The Onion might (and Clickhole did): Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point
I didn’t say I wanted them to get that big. If anything, I’m on the side of a “smaller” Internet—smaller communities, services, smaller amounts of assholes clogging up everyone’s timelines and imageboards and such. But I’m aware that the world doesn’t work that way; there’s a chance the “next Facebook” could become as big as Facebook someday. Before that happens, I’d like to see the government find a way to rein in the power wielded by the current leaders of “Big Tech”. But if these bills have problems that will end up fucking over smaller companies as well as the big ones, why that argument is being put forth matters slightly less to me than the argument itself.
It has effectively been censored within the confines of that private institution.
No, it’s been moderated off a platform. For the speech to be censored, it would have to be suppressed from being repeated anywhere else—which it can’t be because Twitter doesn’t have the right or the power to do that.
Devin Nunes, not following, don’t care.
You should. His lawsuits are the definition of “censorship via legal action”—SLAPPs in the face of the First Amendment, if you will—so I’d think someone as opposed to censorship as you claim to be would want to know whether his efforts to censor his critics are succeeding.
Or maybe you just don’t care when it’s a conservative trying to silence a critic of conservatives and their ideology, which seems to overlap with yours in ways you’re afraid to admit.
It doesn’t count if you can’t prove that money is the biggest reason, or even the only reason, she’s saying what she’s saying—which I’m betting you can’t.
Can you prove that those donations are the root of her belief in the issues with those antitrust bills? Because I don’t think you can, but you’re welcome to give it the ol’ sixth-grade summer school try.
I’m willing to hold Democrats accountable for their fuck-ups, sure. Now prove that Democrat lawmakers personally and specifically ordered people to specifically place COVID patients specifically in nursing homes. If you can’t do that, fuck off.
Those antitrust bills will affect more than Facebook and Google—and they’ll also affect the next service that becomes as big as Facebook or Google. If you can’t prove she was bribed to say those bills need a rewrite or three, you’re fucked in re: this argument. Go have a conversation with ol’ Brainy Smurf; I’m sure he’d appreciate your brand of baseless bullshit.
Trying to give oxygen to conspiracy theories doesn’t help, either, but you’re doing exactly that anyway, so maybe stop getting your news from places that believe the Big Lie and maybe we’ll stop thinking you’re one of the Big Liars.
If we had rolled out HyCl as a stop gap the rates of death would have been lower.
You can’t know that with the certainty of God Herself, so don’t make those kinds of proclamations as if you are God. You’re not God and you never will be.
Well documented and studied material.
It isn’t as effective as you want us to think it is. But sure, keep repeating the same shit that Trump does. You gonna whine about all that non-existent widescale election fraud, too? Fuck off outta here, Lostcause.
You’re saying Democrat lawmakers personally ordered COVID patients to be placed in nursing homes, and you expect me to take the rest of your bullshit seriously? Fuck off, you property fetishist.
No, I don’t want them on my platform. For me, i bury them in the sandbox.
A bit of breaking news for you: Burying them on your property means they’re still on your property. Putting them out of sight doesn’t kick them off, and they could point to that fact if you ever said you don’t associate with racist assholes.
Uh, no. Just no.
Why not? Back then, enslaved people were considered property, and you seem to care far, far, far, far, far more about property than you do about people. What makes you skittish about that particular idea when damn near every idea you’ve expressed on this site to date heavily implies that property is all that matters to you?
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You don’t even know what a “sealion” is in the context you’re trying to use it in. Like “critical race theory” and “cancel culture” and “woke”, you’re using a phrase you don’t understand that was invented by people you probably hate so you can water it down into meaning absolutely nothing because appearances matter more than substance to you.
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No, it’s an opinion. Some other site might think the video is 100% factual even if it’s all a bunch of lies and bullshit. Opinions generally aren’t defamatory.
On the post: Florida Steps Up To Defend Its Unconstitutional Social Media Law And It's Every Bit As Terrible As You'd Imagine
230 doesn’t protect platforms from lawsuits over their own speech. But given the high bar to clear for defamation, that epidemiologist will have one hell of a time suing YouTube over a takedown of a video they could easily repost on any other site willing to host it.
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Cable isn’t an “interactive web service”. Try again.
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Oooh, right in the anti-conservative bias. The “repeal 230” trolls are gonna feel that one in the morning.
On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 288: Rep. Zoe Lofgren Sees Problems On Every Page Of These Antitrust Bills
It’s more about perceived hypocrisy and a disingenuous feeling of the arguments provided by those accused of taking “donation” bribes. While Lofgren’s arguments might be bullshit in terms of where they’re coming from, the arguments themselves are sound enough that any possible financial motive she may have for making the arguments doesn’t make them any less sound. The people I usually see accused of making “bribed” arguments don’t often put forth arguments that hold water.
Or, to put it as The Onion might (and Clickhole did): Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point
On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 288: Rep. Zoe Lofgren Sees Problems On Every Page Of These Antitrust Bills
I didn’t say I wanted them to get that big. If anything, I’m on the side of a “smaller” Internet—smaller communities, services, smaller amounts of assholes clogging up everyone’s timelines and imageboards and such. But I’m aware that the world doesn’t work that way; there’s a chance the “next Facebook” could become as big as Facebook someday. Before that happens, I’d like to see the government find a way to rein in the power wielded by the current leaders of “Big Tech”. But if these bills have problems that will end up fucking over smaller companies as well as the big ones, why that argument is being put forth matters slightly less to me than the argument itself.
On the post: Florida Steps Up To Defend Its Unconstitutional Social Media Law And It's Every Bit As Terrible As You'd Imagine
For starters, you promote the still-unproven claim that a lab in Wuhan intentionally released the COVID-19 virus.
On the post: Florida Steps Up To Defend Its Unconstitutional Social Media Law And It's Every Bit As Terrible As You'd Imagine
No, it’s been moderated off a platform. For the speech to be censored, it would have to be suppressed from being repeated anywhere else—which it can’t be because Twitter doesn’t have the right or the power to do that.
You should. His lawsuits are the definition of “censorship via legal action”—SLAPPs in the face of the First Amendment, if you will—so I’d think someone as opposed to censorship as you claim to be would want to know whether his efforts to censor his critics are succeeding.
Or maybe you just don’t care when it’s a conservative trying to silence a critic of conservatives and their ideology, which seems to overlap with yours in ways you’re afraid to admit.
On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 288: Rep. Zoe Lofgren Sees Problems On Every Page Of These Antitrust Bills
It doesn’t count if you can’t prove that money is the biggest reason, or even the only reason, she’s saying what she’s saying—which I’m betting you can’t.
On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 288: Rep. Zoe Lofgren Sees Problems On Every Page Of These Antitrust Bills
Can you prove that those donations are the root of her belief in the issues with those antitrust bills? Because I don’t think you can, but you’re welcome to give it the ol’ sixth-grade summer school try.
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ahahaha holy fuck you actually think there was widespread opposition to slavery
the South literally fought a war to preserve slavery, you asshole
Yeah, but given how much of a fetishist you are for property rights, I’m pretty sure you would’ve defended that law back then.
The law says you don’t have to host racist speech on a service you own, yet you’ve said you’d do it anyway, so…that’s on you, Lostcause.
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I’m willing to hold Democrats accountable for their fuck-ups, sure. Now prove that Democrat lawmakers personally and specifically ordered people to specifically place COVID patients specifically in nursing homes. If you can’t do that, fuck off.
On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 288: Rep. Zoe Lofgren Sees Problems On Every Page Of These Antitrust Bills
“Every accusation, a confession”, indeed.
On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 288: Rep. Zoe Lofgren Sees Problems On Every Page Of These Antitrust Bills
Those antitrust bills will affect more than Facebook and Google—and they’ll also affect the next service that becomes as big as Facebook or Google. If you can’t prove she was bribed to say those bills need a rewrite or three, you’re fucked in re: this argument. Go have a conversation with ol’ Brainy Smurf; I’m sure he’d appreciate your brand of baseless bullshit.
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Trying to give oxygen to conspiracy theories doesn’t help, either, but you’re doing exactly that anyway, so maybe stop getting your news from places that believe the Big Lie and maybe we’ll stop thinking you’re one of the Big Liars.
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You can’t know that with the certainty of God Herself, so don’t make those kinds of proclamations as if you are God. You’re not God and you never will be.
It isn’t as effective as you want us to think it is. But sure, keep repeating the same shit that Trump does. You gonna whine about all that non-existent widescale election fraud, too? Fuck off outta here, Lostcause.
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You’re saying Democrat lawmakers personally ordered COVID patients to be placed in nursing homes, and you expect me to take the rest of your bullshit seriously? Fuck off, you property fetishist.
On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 288: Rep. Zoe Lofgren Sees Problems On Every Page Of These Antitrust Bills
Prove she was bribed to say what she said. We’ll wait.
On the post: Florida Steps Up To Defend Its Unconstitutional Social Media Law And It's Every Bit As Terrible As You'd Imagine
A bit of breaking news for you: Burying them on your property means they’re still on your property. Putting them out of sight doesn’t kick them off, and they could point to that fact if you ever said you don’t associate with racist assholes.
Why not? Back then, enslaved people were considered property, and you seem to care far, far, far, far, far more about property than you do about people. What makes you skittish about that particular idea when damn near every idea you’ve expressed on this site to date heavily implies that property is all that matters to you?
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