That Anonymous Coward (profile), 23 Jan 2019 @ 2:53am
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*drop the large pile of caselaw where stalkers sent men to ex gf's or just objects of their obsession's door for the 'rape fantasy' sex they really really wanted*
By your standard rental car companies should be liable for not running deep background checks to make sure a renter didn't have a history of drunk driving convictions when he gets hammered and runs over a family of Mormons.
Everyone wants to hold tech responsible for not "Bandersnatching" (sue me choose your own adventure) every single possible option someone might take.
Would you like to have to tick a box for every item you purchase promising to not use them in a list of 1000's of possible bad outcomes?
There is no magic duty for a 3rd party in this case to divine the intentions of every account creator and invest tens of thousands to make sure it really is a horny guy just wanting to get laid & not a bad actor.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 22 Jan 2019 @ 3:42am
"It seems reasonable to ask that the requestor to disclose what they intend to do with the information, some of which can be of a personal nature."
I invite you to ask the officer why he wants your information before providing it to him, lemme know how that works out for you.
Wacky idea... don't use your job account for personal matters & don;t use your personal account for job matters... ohhh look your imaginary problem just went away.
I think people need to file mass requests Former Rep. Boone's details... she obviously is trying to hide something hugely damning... why else would she throw up a bill that will cost the tax payers so much more to fight in court when its clear it won't survive.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 16 Jan 2019 @ 2:52pm
Our biggest problem is and remains that we reward them for headlines. Our 'leadership' cares more about headlines & good press, so we have these show trials convicting people of horrible crimes they imaged had to have happened. Man with an IQ of around 60 (IIRC) put into motion a bomb plot to blow up a federal building?? And the media gave them pats on the back for "protecting" us.
The 'leadership' demands everything be big, showy, and not have any chance of the accused fighting back. Abacus charged as part of the banking collapse... a tiny tiny bank who operated a bit differently but within the rules... Goldman Sachs, well we decided to not bring the case because the jury would be confused by all of the experts & jargon. (Ignore the asshat who made this decision is now in-house counsel for Goldman Sachs.) Lives ruined, bail out cash giving no interest loans for CEO's wives, homes stolen by companies with no interest in the properties, and nothing done to stop them from doing it again.
We need to stop only 'rewarding' slam dunk show trials, sometimes investigations are messy & not super clear & clean but when we decline to investigate or bring to justice those who have power & influence so we can keep our same level of funding the system is horribly broken.
Its a pity it is only 1 person freed from a show trial conviction to secure more funding when there are so many others in jail for nothing more than securing the budget.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 15 Jan 2019 @ 6:58pm
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Or perhaps that was just the cover story after Craigs motion to have the lawyer representing Twitter thrown off the case, anything he submitted be ignored, & he prepare himself to be called as a witness about Twitters evil shadowbans for Craig to grill on the stand.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 11 Jan 2019 @ 4:28pm
"It is utterly bizarre that anyone at Bird thought this was a good idea."
From a company who just dumps a bunch of unwanted scooters in cities & collects cash from people using them & they care so much about their items they allow them to end up impounded for a long enough time that the city legally can sell them off at auction to try and recoup their costs in cleaning up the mess.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 11 Jan 2019 @ 12:47pm
Re: Re: Re: Re: Nebulous systems
While someone like blue could try to game the system knowing the super secret word pool, it is easy enough to add the forbidden words phrases to moderation bot checks.
I 'whine' when I hit moderation & make jokes, but it doesn't make me that sad in the end because my posts end up approved rather quickly. I think the last word that got me moderated was Sharknado, but then I'm not quite right in the head. Expletive filled rants appear as soon as I post, but i say sharkando and get moderated...
TD has recruited the community into moderation, we can press a button on things we think are bad, enough hit it and it gets hidden but not removed. People can check and see for themselves why it got hidden, which is way better than black holing them without any explanation.
I got timed out for calling myself faggot, my favorite sex worker Maggie got timed out for making a joke about burning the white house like in 1812, I have talked about nuking DC and infecting congress with the marburg virus (ebola with an attitude) and not a blip. There doesn't seem to be any real pattern beyond someone got offended and reported it, yet Twitter claims to have 'standards' that play out wildly differently showing they aren't a standard.
I did a search on Twitter for faggot and got a long list of people who weren't suspended & forced to delete the tweet to keep posting, so their reasoning was bullshit. If I tweet things you find offensive there is this whole block/mute thing you can use... but instead they gameified reporting people and then trying to wedge the tweets into the 'rules' to justify it.
Trying to dumb down the world to be pasty, bland, beige without any possibility of offending anyone is insane. I get advertisers not wanting their ads to appear on Stormfront, but to single out a page & give no hints or guidance that makes sense about what is in violation is stupid.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 10 Jan 2019 @ 7:33pm
Re: Re: Nebulous systems
Why are they in this impossible position? Oh because they caved rather than stand up for themselves.
YouTube is bleeding content creators b/c their system is weighted towards thinking corporations are never wrong. It is bad enough that some moron is abusing the DMCA to remove reviews of their shitty nazi love story, but hundreds of dollars go missing when fake companies claim and monetize content with bogus claims that they keep putting off over & over then drop then resubmit again. Content creators get slapped with not being advertiser friendly, with no idea what about the video was bad & after appeal they get approved for advertising but still no idea what tripped it in the first place.
I have an account on Ars, I prefer posting here. I run afoul of the moderation bot here from time to time, luckily for me I can annoy Mike or Tim until they fix it. :)
Instead of trying to appease everyone by promising they will never advertise next to something someone might object to they should just promise speedy removals.
For Google to whine about a page not being right, where there isn't Adsense on the page, is highly stupid. Because someone might have posted something that offended some reviewer, but we can't tell you what word or phrase it was... Gee its almost like they want magically to withhold payments with the thinnest of excuses. Its hard to challenge being charged with breaking the law when you are not allowed to know what the law says. (See also: Georgia)
All of the major platforms are having the same problem, they are terrified of someone getting upset & are willing to nuke first & sort it out later just in case. They ignore the system is being gamed & never mention taking actions against bad actors.
Twitter banned me for calling myself a faggot, in a post I made over a year prior, as a group of interconnected accounts mass reported me. Twitter was happy to lock me out to keep those poor people who had to go through YEARS of my tweets to find one that Twitter would smack me for. I had to appeal twice because the first person couldn't see anything beyond the word faggot, when I appealed again I once again asked them to explain how calling myself faggot was promoting hatred towards others and intimidating them.
All of the platforms could make changes but they fear that loud groups will complain how naughty people are being allowed to run wild on the platform, because we normalized the idea that no one should ever be offended.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 10 Jan 2019 @ 1:14pm
"First, understand that as a publisher, you are responsible for ensuring that all comments on your site or app comply with all of our applicable program policies on all of the pages where Google ad code appears. This includes comments that are added to your pages by users, which can sometimes contain hate speech or explicit text. "
I can understand why Google is confused as they feel they are responsible for all content they index on the web. Why else would they be responding to DMCA notices over content they don't control?
"Knowing this, please read Strategies for managing user-generated content. Make sure you understand how to mitigate risk before you enable comments or other forms of user-generated content. Managing comments on your site pages is your responsibility, so make sure you know what you’re getting into. For example, you’ll need to ensure you review and moderate comments consistently so as to ensure policy compliance so that Google ads can run. "
Nice policy, dumbasses. Do you think perhaps giving a hint about what you actually find objectionable MIGHT be useful rather than sites having to post entire dictionary pages until we can find the handful of forbidden words?? You OBVIOUSLY know which words you forbid, so why keep it a fsckign secret? (Unless you are unwilling to provide it because you've outsourced your reviews to ESL reviewers in other countries who can not interpret anything as a native speaker would & just tick the box on anything that they might feel ookie about even if the ookiness is caused by not understanding context or multiple meanings to things.)
Have a fscking policy, but spell out the actual violations. No website has weeks to test & retest a page you all complain about looking for the single word that gets it flagged. (Cause one is willing to bet that those same words in a slightly different order don't trip the ZOMG NO ADS FOR JOO! emails.)
It is more insane that even after the site removes the fscking ad code from the page... you still come back bitching about the super secret thing that means you won't Adsense the page, that doesn't have adsense on it...
"dangerous and derogatory" You understand these words have 3000 meanings depending on the region, culture, & local laws on the subject... so they are pretty much worthless unless you just want to arbitrarily punish people but hide behind policy.
230 says something about not being held as the publisher of other peoples words... why is your policy not reflective of this? Why is it Mike has gotten a couple contacts from some alphabet agencies over comments made, but not about the most "dangerous and derogatory" post on the site?
Perhaps having a nebulous system isn't a good way to run a business, that if you make it to hard to get an straight answer people will look elsewhere. I mean its not like you've assisted corporation claim ownership over white noise, bird calls, silence... oh... wait.... you have. And because your system is so opaque, unresponsive, & weighted against users they just give up.
At least when Twitter went stupid & banned me they showed me the naughty tweet that caused it, & rejected the appeal because it promoted hatred towards others... which it did no such thing. It was because they saw the word faggot & assumed there was no use of that word except by bad people to make other people sad. When I called them out to explain how calling myself the offending word promoted hatred towards others did they stop & consider context and notice... they were out of their fscking minds.
Go home Adsense, you're drunk. Stop giving unhelpful definitions & flag specific things if you want people to bother. The web is much worse when the users can't participate because sites have to fear that someone will type an unknown forbidden word or phrase that will kill the pittance of revenue you provide. You might think you are the only game in town... Have you stopped and considered that's what 'Ask Jeeves' or 20 other forgotten search engines thought when you launched?
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 9 Jan 2019 @ 5:07am
One would love a journalist to as the unions head why they are against it. They claim it is only a few bad apples, wouldn't these records help prove that? Wouldn't it help to keep bad apples from being shifted to other barrels who might not be able to discover how bad the apple is? Why are they defending the few bad apples?? Do they like bad apples?
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 8 Jan 2019 @ 12:21pm
And this is why there needs to be a painful fine for sending a bogus notice.
Also how long before we think they will be repped by Guardlay in mass lawsuits claiming the loss of billions from evil evil pirates who wouldn't even pony up the $1 rental fee because they would spend to much time cringing to actually finish it??
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 8 Jan 2019 @ 11:58am
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I can respect that but at the same time there are vocal groups on both sides pushing their own agendas & sucking all of the air out of the room for the rest of us.
This is the ultimate in soundbite living, we care nothing beyond the soundbite & if anything challenges that is fake.
2 years in we still have a group of people screaming not my President & when we impeach him Hillary gets the job.
We have people who are taking sides, if they make sense or not, simply because duty to party has reached demanding adherence to the line.
We have people hyper offended by words & are trying to push for punishing people for using them... but only those bad people on the otherside.
While we might disagree, we can't seem to raise our profile above the din. No one pays attention to the real issues because the focus is on those that rile the base up even if they dunno why they are riled up.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 8 Jan 2019 @ 8:40am
In a nation where they keep telling us this is a free market & Judges have ruled that a single provider is enough to claim the market is competitive this is shocking?
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 8 Jan 2019 @ 8:39am
It is false and defamatory to suggest that Julian Assange is sad he has been forgotten by the world. It is false and defamatory to suggest that Julian Assange is surrounded by a team of incompetents & idiots. It is false and defamatory to suggest that Julian Assange that a majority of these things have actually been said.
It is true and famatory to suggest that Julian Assange did this to stroke his own ego & chase the spotlight.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 8 Jan 2019 @ 8:37am
Re: CONFIDENTIAL LEGAL COMMUNICATION NOT FOR PUBLICATION.
While it 'might' work in the UK, the bumptious legal threat "CONFIDENTIAL LEGAL COMMUNICATION NOT FOR PUBLICATION" means nothing. It is used by pretend lawyers & really stupid ones to try and frighten recipients into pretending they have to listen to them.
Y'all send me an email & tell me not to tell anyone... You aren't the FISA court so my response is GFY.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 8 Jan 2019 @ 8:28am
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Well when they won't let you win an office so you can line your pockets that way you find other means.
He will be a featured speaker on certain circuits, he will extol the virtues of being an angry old man, & he will make bank.
He will run campaigns to raise money for stupid "projects" where only a small fraction will end up spent on the fools errand & the rest will buy him more coverage.
We are rapidly approaching the point when the base can see a video of them cutting the head off of a hooker & still claim it is fake news. Are we going to believe our leaders or our own lying eyes??
When our political system devolves to this level, we are getting what we deserve. It's okay if he raped kids, at least he'll vote right. It's okay if he says he is a god fearing family man & left his wife & kids for a stripper, at least he'll vote right.
People are more concerned about making sure no one else can get an abortion than if the guy they elected has taken his mistress for 14 of them. They want the freedom to do what they want and to make sure no one else can do what they want if they disapprove of it.
If I refused to bake a cake because you are an evangelical, I'll be buried (well once we have a government again) in fines, penalties, & legal cases... but if your 'strongly held' beliefs say you ain't gotta serve no n-words you are a hero to the crowd who believe freedom is only for them not anyone else.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 7 Jan 2019 @ 6:26pm
That time that they expected a silly lawsuit to come from LV, and the lighting never struck... so they made their own storm.
LV sues over Shitty Bag
How much would that advertising have cost them to get? LV didn't play their usual role of sue first, pay bills later. Instead they tried a whisper campagin to kill off the product by making baseless threats.... one does wonder what business model exists selling LV bags the the Pooey bag together.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 7 Jan 2019 @ 12:58pm
It is rather confusing how a state could think locking the law behind doors you have to pay to open is a good idea.
We have enough secret laws in this country already, all for our own good (despite the overwhelm evidence it is being abused & nothing is ever done to deal with the abuses).
Pretty sure citizens paid you all to make these laws, yet you think they need to pay you more to check and see if they are violating the law... when we're taught from an early age that ignorance of the law is no excuse...
I really want to see someone end up in court & try the defense of ignorance of the law is no excuse your honor, but I shouldn't have to pay a fee to an outside vendor to learn what the law actually says.
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By your standard rental car companies should be liable for not running deep background checks to make sure a renter didn't have a history of drunk driving convictions when he gets hammered and runs over a family of Mormons.
Everyone wants to hold tech responsible for not "Bandersnatching" (sue me choose your own adventure) every single possible option someone might take.
Would you like to have to tick a box for every item you purchase promising to not use them in a list of 1000's of possible bad outcomes?
There is no magic duty for a 3rd party in this case to divine the intentions of every account creator and invest tens of thousands to make sure it really is a horny guy just wanting to get laid & not a bad actor.
On the post: Lucasfilm Steps In After FanFilm That Tried To Follow The Rules Was Claimed By Disney Over Star Wars Music
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/09/22/this-isnt-your-fathers-trilogy
On the post: Oregon Lawmaker Wants Public Records Requesters To Tell Gov't Agencies What They Plan To Do With Released Documents
I invite you to ask the officer why he wants your information before providing it to him, lemme know how that works out for you.
Wacky idea... don't use your job account for personal matters & don;t use your personal account for job matters... ohhh look your imaginary problem just went away.
I think people need to file mass requests Former Rep. Boone's details... she obviously is trying to hide something hugely damning... why else would she throw up a bill that will cost the tax payers so much more to fight in court when its clear it won't survive.
On the post: Judge Recommends Vacating The Sentence Of One Of The FBI's Handcrafted Terrorists
Our 'leadership' cares more about headlines & good press, so we have these show trials convicting people of horrible crimes they imaged had to have happened.
Man with an IQ of around 60 (IIRC) put into motion a bomb plot to blow up a federal building?? And the media gave them pats on the back for "protecting" us.
The 'leadership' demands everything be big, showy, and not have any chance of the accused fighting back. Abacus charged as part of the banking collapse... a tiny tiny bank who operated a bit differently but within the rules... Goldman Sachs, well we decided to not bring the case because the jury would be confused by all of the experts & jargon. (Ignore the asshat who made this decision is now in-house counsel for Goldman Sachs.) Lives ruined, bail out cash giving no interest loans for CEO's wives, homes stolen by companies with no interest in the properties, and nothing done to stop them from doing it again.
We need to stop only 'rewarding' slam dunk show trials, sometimes investigations are messy & not super clear & clean but when we decline to investigate or bring to justice those who have power & influence so we can keep our same level of funding the system is horribly broken.
Its a pity it is only 1 person freed from a show trial conviction to secure more funding when there are so many others in jail for nothing more than securing the budget.
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On the post: Scooter Company Bird Sends Absolutely Bullshit Copyright Threat Letter To Cory Doctorow For Reporting On Modifying Scooters
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On the post: Scooter Company Bird Sends Absolutely Bullshit Copyright Threat Letter To Cory Doctorow For Reporting On Modifying Scooters
From a company who just dumps a bunch of unwanted scooters in cities & collects cash from people using them & they care so much about their items they allow them to end up impounded for a long enough time that the city legally can sell them off at auction to try and recoup their costs in cleaning up the mess.
Seems to make sense to me...
On the post: Google Still Says Our Post On Content Moderation Is Dangerous Or Derogatory
Re: Re: Re: Re: Nebulous systems
I 'whine' when I hit moderation & make jokes, but it doesn't make me that sad in the end because my posts end up approved rather quickly. I think the last word that got me moderated was Sharknado, but then I'm not quite right in the head. Expletive filled rants appear as soon as I post, but i say sharkando and get moderated...
TD has recruited the community into moderation, we can press a button on things we think are bad, enough hit it and it gets hidden but not removed. People can check and see for themselves why it got hidden, which is way better than black holing them without any explanation.
I got timed out for calling myself faggot, my favorite sex worker Maggie got timed out for making a joke about burning the white house like in 1812, I have talked about nuking DC and infecting congress with the marburg virus (ebola with an attitude) and not a blip. There doesn't seem to be any real pattern beyond someone got offended and reported it, yet Twitter claims to have 'standards' that play out wildly differently showing they aren't a standard.
I did a search on Twitter for faggot and got a long list of people who weren't suspended & forced to delete the tweet to keep posting, so their reasoning was bullshit.
If I tweet things you find offensive there is this whole block/mute thing you can use... but instead they gameified reporting people and then trying to wedge the tweets into the 'rules' to justify it.
Trying to dumb down the world to be pasty, bland, beige without any possibility of offending anyone is insane. I get advertisers not wanting their ads to appear on Stormfront, but to single out a page & give no hints or guidance that makes sense about what is in violation is stupid.
On the post: Google Still Says Our Post On Content Moderation Is Dangerous Or Derogatory
Re: Re: Nebulous systems
Oh because they caved rather than stand up for themselves.
YouTube is bleeding content creators b/c their system is weighted towards thinking corporations are never wrong.
It is bad enough that some moron is abusing the DMCA to remove reviews of their shitty nazi love story, but hundreds of dollars go missing when fake companies claim and monetize content with bogus claims that they keep putting off over & over then drop then resubmit again.
Content creators get slapped with not being advertiser friendly, with no idea what about the video was bad & after appeal they get approved for advertising but still no idea what tripped it in the first place.
I have an account on Ars, I prefer posting here. I run afoul of the moderation bot here from time to time, luckily for me I can annoy Mike or Tim until they fix it. :)
Instead of trying to appease everyone by promising they will never advertise next to something someone might object to they should just promise speedy removals.
For Google to whine about a page not being right, where there isn't Adsense on the page, is highly stupid. Because someone might have posted something that offended some reviewer, but we can't tell you what word or phrase it was... Gee its almost like they want magically to withhold payments with the thinnest of excuses. Its hard to challenge being charged with breaking the law when you are not allowed to know what the law says. (See also: Georgia)
All of the major platforms are having the same problem, they are terrified of someone getting upset & are willing to nuke first & sort it out later just in case. They ignore the system is being gamed & never mention taking actions against bad actors.
Twitter banned me for calling myself a faggot, in a post I made over a year prior, as a group of interconnected accounts mass reported me. Twitter was happy to lock me out to keep those poor people who had to go through YEARS of my tweets to find one that Twitter would smack me for. I had to appeal twice because the first person couldn't see anything beyond the word faggot, when I appealed again I once again asked them to explain how calling myself faggot was promoting hatred towards others and intimidating them.
All of the platforms could make changes but they fear that loud groups will complain how naughty people are being allowed to run wild on the platform, because we normalized the idea that no one should ever be offended.
On the post: Google Still Says Our Post On Content Moderation Is Dangerous Or Derogatory
I can understand why Google is confused as they feel they are responsible for all content they index on the web. Why else would they be responding to DMCA notices over content they don't control?
"Knowing this, please read Strategies for managing user-generated content. Make sure you understand how to mitigate risk before you enable comments or other forms of user-generated content. Managing comments on your site pages is your responsibility, so make sure you know what you’re getting into. For example, you’ll need to ensure you review and moderate comments consistently so as to ensure policy compliance so that Google ads can run. "
Nice policy, dumbasses. Do you think perhaps giving a hint about what you actually find objectionable MIGHT be useful rather than sites having to post entire dictionary pages until we can find the handful of forbidden words??
You OBVIOUSLY know which words you forbid, so why keep it a fsckign secret? (Unless you are unwilling to provide it because you've outsourced your reviews to ESL reviewers in other countries who can not interpret anything as a native speaker would & just tick the box on anything that they might feel ookie about even if the ookiness is caused by not understanding context or multiple meanings to things.)
Have a fscking policy, but spell out the actual violations.
No website has weeks to test & retest a page you all complain about looking for the single word that gets it flagged. (Cause one is willing to bet that those same words in a slightly different order don't trip the ZOMG NO ADS FOR JOO! emails.)
It is more insane that even after the site removes the fscking ad code from the page... you still come back bitching about the super secret thing that means you won't Adsense the page, that doesn't have adsense on it...
"dangerous and derogatory"
You understand these words have 3000 meanings depending on the region, culture, & local laws on the subject... so they are pretty much worthless unless you just want to arbitrarily punish people but hide behind policy.
230 says something about not being held as the publisher of other peoples words... why is your policy not reflective of this?
Why is it Mike has gotten a couple contacts from some alphabet agencies over comments made, but not about the most "dangerous and derogatory" post on the site?
Perhaps having a nebulous system isn't a good way to run a business, that if you make it to hard to get an straight answer people will look elsewhere. I mean its not like you've assisted corporation claim ownership over white noise, bird calls, silence... oh... wait.... you have. And because your system is so opaque, unresponsive, & weighted against users they just give up.
At least when Twitter went stupid & banned me they showed me the naughty tweet that caused it, & rejected the appeal because it promoted hatred towards others... which it did no such thing. It was because they saw the word faggot & assumed there was no use of that word except by bad people to make other people sad. When I called them out to explain how calling myself the offending word promoted hatred towards others did they stop & consider context and notice... they were out of their fscking minds.
Go home Adsense, you're drunk.
Stop giving unhelpful definitions & flag specific things if you want people to bother. The web is much worse when the users can't participate because sites have to fear that someone will type an unknown forbidden word or phrase that will kill the pittance of revenue you provide. You might think you are the only game in town... Have you stopped and considered that's what 'Ask Jeeves' or 20 other forgotten search engines thought when you launched?
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On the post: California Supreme Court Rejects Sheriffs' Union's Attempt To Block New Open Records Law
They claim it is only a few bad apples, wouldn't these records help prove that?
Wouldn't it help to keep bad apples from being shifted to other barrels who might not be able to discover how bad the apple is?
Why are they defending the few bad apples??
Do they like bad apples?
On the post: Producers Of Movie About Falling In Love With Nazis Using DMCA To Silence Criticism
Also how long before we think they will be repped by Guardlay in mass lawsuits claiming the loss of billions from evil evil pirates who wouldn't even pony up the $1 rental fee because they would spend to much time cringing to actually finish it??
On the post: New York Times Moves To Dismiss Joe Arpaio's Defamation Lawsuit By Pointing Out It's Impossible To Defame Him
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This is the ultimate in soundbite living, we care nothing beyond the soundbite & if anything challenges that is fake.
2 years in we still have a group of people screaming not my President & when we impeach him Hillary gets the job.
We have people who are taking sides, if they make sense or not, simply because duty to party has reached demanding adherence to the line.
We have people hyper offended by words & are trying to push for punishing people for using them... but only those bad people on the otherside.
While we might disagree, we can't seem to raise our profile above the din. No one pays attention to the real issues because the focus is on those that rile the base up even if they dunno why they are riled up.
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On the post: Irony Alert: Wikileaks Sends Reporters A List Of 140 Things Not To Say About Julian Assange; Tells Them Not To Publish
It is false and defamatory to suggest that Julian Assange is surrounded by a team of incompetents & idiots.
It is false and defamatory to suggest that Julian Assange that a majority of these things have actually been said.
It is true and famatory to suggest that Julian Assange did this to stroke his own ego & chase the spotlight.
On the post: Irony Alert: Wikileaks Sends Reporters A List Of 140 Things Not To Say About Julian Assange; Tells Them Not To Publish
Re: CONFIDENTIAL LEGAL COMMUNICATION NOT FOR PUBLICATION.
Y'all send me an email & tell me not to tell anyone...
You aren't the FISA court so my response is GFY.
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He will be a featured speaker on certain circuits, he will extol the virtues of being an angry old man, & he will make bank.
He will run campaigns to raise money for stupid "projects" where only a small fraction will end up spent on the fools errand & the rest will buy him more coverage.
We are rapidly approaching the point when the base can see a video of them cutting the head off of a hooker & still claim it is fake news. Are we going to believe our leaders or our own lying eyes??
When our political system devolves to this level, we are getting what we deserve.
It's okay if he raped kids, at least he'll vote right.
It's okay if he says he is a god fearing family man & left his wife & kids for a stripper, at least he'll vote right.
People are more concerned about making sure no one else can get an abortion than if the guy they elected has taken his mistress for 14 of them. They want the freedom to do what they want and to make sure no one else can do what they want if they disapprove of it.
If I refused to bake a cake because you are an evangelical, I'll be buried (well once we have a government again) in fines, penalties, & legal cases... but if your 'strongly held' beliefs say you ain't gotta serve no n-words you are a hero to the crowd who believe freedom is only for them not anyone else.
On the post: Pooey Puitton Proactively Sues The Shit Out Of Louis Vuitton
LV sues over Shitty Bag
How much would that advertising have cost them to get?
LV didn't play their usual role of sue first, pay bills later.
Instead they tried a whisper campagin to kill off the product by making baseless threats.... one does wonder what business model exists selling LV bags the the Pooey bag together.
On the post: Despite Losing Its Copyright Case, The State Of Georgia Still Trying To Stop Carl Malamud From Posting Its Laws
We have enough secret laws in this country already, all for our own good (despite the overwhelm evidence it is being abused & nothing is ever done to deal with the abuses).
Pretty sure citizens paid you all to make these laws, yet you think they need to pay you more to check and see if they are violating the law... when we're taught from an early age that ignorance of the law is no excuse...
I really want to see someone end up in court & try the defense of ignorance of the law is no excuse your honor, but I shouldn't have to pay a fee to an outside vendor to learn what the law actually says.
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