Don't do it! I used to make it into the Funniest of the Week pretty regularly when I commented as an AC. After a couple of years, I created a profile and, well, since then I've been that teary-eyed kid in the corner limply holding a 'Participant' ribbon in his cold, damp fingers ;)
No, that section was the one I was talking about, but it really only discusses Kavanaugh's support for the freedom of a corporation to exercise its free speech rights via editorial discretion:
Put another way, he believes that the First Amendment prohibits the government from telling ISPs and other communications providers that they have to carry competitor's content
I just didn't see a mention anywhere about the issue of ISPs being 'communications providers' vs 'content providers'... at least, not in the article. Some of the commenters have, of course, brought up the issue using the analogy of a phone company being given editorial control over our conversations.
Ken White wrote about Kavanaugh's First Amendment record today... the post doesn't really get into any details about his telco opinions, and seems to miss the absurdity of an ISP being a publisher with editorial discretion. It's a long article, but this seems to be a bit of a glaring omission.
the DOJ has engaged in some highly-questionable prosecutions based on highly-questionable interpretations of US law. It seems when tech/data is involved, common sense is the first victim.
Common Sense has the worst luck. Avoids law enforcement like the plague, and still gets its ass kicked on a regular basis.
Small platforms, even a one-person business, can cause as much damage to right holders as big companies, if their content is spread (first on this platform and possibly within seconds throughout the whole internet) without their consent.
So, they're actually straight-up admitting that copyright as it currently exists is an archaic legal construct that's failed to evolve to survive in the environment created by current technology?
Let's hope nobody figures out a workable method of time-travel anytime soon: these half-wits would start sending space heaters back to the dinosaurs.
Saying that the NYT shouldn't have chosen to publish something by one of its reporters because it's hypocritical, short-sighted, alarmist drivel that makes them look stupid isn't the same as saying that they should've been legally barred from printing it.
Yeah, my comment came out a little negative along the lines of 'all marketing is evil'; there are plenty of cases where advertising has been used to help innovative products get a foothold and change how we live (while I hate their closed-systems approach to tech, Apple does provide a lot of examples).
I probably should have used the word 'tell' instead of 'convince', because it feels like more of the behemoths of today have shifted to the "don't fix the product, fix the customers' expectations" approach.
so finding out what your customers actually want is kinda important
If you're a huge corporation with an enormous marketing department, I think this idea turns into 'develop sub-standard crap, convince customers they actually want it.'
Proper companies do not grow larger than what they can actually handle.
Makes sense. In the case of Article 13, smaller companies could just limit their traffic and therefore have fewer lookups to run against the EU's universal database of "all rightsholders, copyrighted material, fair use, exceptions, and situational interpretations".
Instructions: 1. Open vacuum-sealed pouch. 2. Remove blue test strip. 3. A blue test strip indicates the presence of narcotics. 4. Officer may override blueness at his/her discretion.
It's assumed (wrongly) that minors have few, if any, Constitutional rights.
So, kids do have Constitutional rights -- you think they'd mind telling the rest of us where they got 'em? (I've been asking around, and this country seems pretty damn dry right now. You gotta pay through the nose just to get the low-grade shit that's been cut with crap like 'national security' and 'third party doctrine' and 'good faith'...)
Kylan Scheele got a great educational bonus thanks to his prank, and it's probably the most important lesson Truman High School ever taught him: this world is full of idiots, and the biggest and most humorless of them all tend to be attracted to positions of authority.
Abbas was charged with “involvement in a terrorist group”, “spreading false news” and “misuse of social networks.”
Egypt, man... what a primitive backwater. I mean, how uncivilized do you have to be to arrest someone using trumped-up terrorism charges because he 'reported fake news on the internet'?
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No, that section was the one I was talking about, but it really only discusses Kavanaugh's support for the freedom of a corporation to exercise its free speech rights via editorial discretion:
Put another way, he believes that the First Amendment prohibits the government from telling ISPs and other communications providers that they have to carry competitor's content
I just didn't see a mention anywhere about the issue of ISPs being 'communications providers' vs 'content providers'... at least, not in the article. Some of the commenters have, of course, brought up the issue using the analogy of a phone company being given editorial control over our conversations.
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Ken White wrote about Kavanaugh's First Amendment record today... the post doesn't really get into any details about his telco opinions, and seems to miss the absurdity of an ISP being a publisher with editorial discretion. It's a long article, but this seems to be a bit of a glaring omission.
https://www.popehat.com/2018/07/10/youll-hate-this-post-on-brett-kavanaugh-and-free-speech /
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the DOJ has engaged in some highly-questionable prosecutions based on highly-questionable interpretations of US law. It seems when tech/data is involved, common sense is the first victim.
Common Sense has the worst luck. Avoids law enforcement like the plague, and still gets its ass kicked on a regular basis.
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Small platforms, even a one-person business, can cause as much damage to right holders as big companies, if their content is spread (first on this platform and possibly within seconds throughout the whole internet) without their consent.
So, they're actually straight-up admitting that copyright as it currently exists is an archaic legal construct that's failed to evolve to survive in the environment created by current technology?
Let's hope nobody figures out a workable method of time-travel anytime soon: these half-wits would start sending space heaters back to the dinosaurs.
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Yeah, my comment came out a little negative along the lines of 'all marketing is evil'; there are plenty of cases where advertising has been used to help innovative products get a foothold and change how we live (while I hate their closed-systems approach to tech, Apple does provide a lot of examples).
I probably should have used the word 'tell' instead of 'convince', because it feels like more of the behemoths of today have shifted to the "don't fix the product, fix the customers' expectations" approach.
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so finding out what your customers actually want is kinda important
If you're a huge corporation with an enormous marketing department, I think this idea turns into 'develop sub-standard crap, convince customers they actually want it.'
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Re: Companies can always limit their market size
Proper companies do not grow larger than what they can actually handle.
Makes sense. In the case of Article 13, smaller companies could just limit their traffic and therefore have fewer lookups to run against the EU's universal database of "all rightsholders, copyrighted material, fair use, exceptions, and situational interpretations".
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Re: Deja vu
Instructions:
1. Open vacuum-sealed pouch.
2. Remove blue test strip.
3. A blue test strip indicates the presence of narcotics.
4. Officer may override blueness at his/her discretion.
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...the education and alcohol sectors are not common marketplaces...
I think that might be open to debate.
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It's assumed (wrongly) that minors have few, if any, Constitutional rights.
So, kids do have Constitutional rights -- you think they'd mind telling the rest of us where they got 'em? (I've been asking around, and this country seems pretty damn dry right now. You gotta pay through the nose just to get the low-grade shit that's been cut with crap like 'national security' and 'third party doctrine' and 'good faith'...)
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'Propaganda' really isn't the word I expected that comment to end with.
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Abbas was charged with “involvement in a terrorist group”, “spreading false news” and “misuse of social networks.”
Egypt, man... what a primitive backwater. I mean, how uncivilized do you have to be to arrest someone using trumped-up terrorism charges because he 'reported fake news on the internet'?
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They're called Faraday hats, dammit!
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Re: Not quite there yet
Now, interfering with the brain's signals, that very much doable by today's standards.
Here's twenty bucks, don't worry about it.
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