That Anonymous Coward (profile), 3 Dec 2021 @ 5:49pm
Because when it happens to you its something you deal with, but when it happens to US laws need to change you ignorant peons.
People afraid of looking like they are against something willing to support something completely unconstitutional on its face.
The founders would have horse whipped them.
But hey we live in soundbite policy where people only listen to the soundbite claiming they are against law & order rather than they are supporting the most basic law & order of the land.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 3 Dec 2021 @ 5:40pm
Armslist works within the law.
These demands that they do more than required should be directed at lawmakers not at a court to create new laws fueled by a tragedy.
You could insert the car maker, gas station, clothing store, etc. into these claims & its obvious that none of them are responsible. Armslist followed the law & demanding they should have met a higher burden and should be at fault is grief lashing out supported by a lawyer looking for a payday.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 2 Dec 2021 @ 8:33pm
Re: Re: Re: No surprise
I am often shocked (well not really) by the mental gymnastics that on the 1 hand portray the "bad people" as masters of time & space able to do everything but at the same time claims they are bumbling idiots.
They secretly executed 100's of people with dirt on the Clintons with accidents but couldn't manage to rig an entire election?
And only a few saviors know the truth and keep telling us, yet Killary hasn't managed to kill them off too?
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 2 Dec 2021 @ 5:54pm
Imagine if he put half as much effort into getting the nation vaccinated as he has in holding Twitter "accountable" for a long list of imagined sins.
Delta might never have happened.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 2 Dec 2021 @ 5:52pm
Re: Currently locked out of Twitter
"the registration process does not allow me to not have a phone"
Something something gift of prophecy.
I swear I said something about a bunch of random timeouts forcing people to give twitter their phone number because the appeal would never be heard and it was a soft way to make people hand over their numbers.
Now look at that, you can't even use the service now unless you give them a number.
Thank goodness their systems are really secure & no ones ever exfiled out a buncha of data on users the Kingdom didn't like.... oh wait.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 2 Dec 2021 @ 5:45pm
"I'm honestly perplexed at why Twitter implemented such a broad policy, so difficult to enforce, and so open to abuse. It seems extremely unlike the more thoughtful trust & safety moves the company has made over the past few years."
Because the policy appeals to a certain loud subset who hold office & like to make things hard for Twitter.
You and I disagree about trust & safety being thoughtful, almost 300 days & still I can't get my data despite my rights to my data being very important to them, but this is as stupid as their grand push to drive all possible threats of violence from the platform.
Video shared of someone being fake kidnapped for a party. Person posted if someone grabbed them like they they would hit them.
Person locked out, forced to delete tweet for threatening violence, attach phone number to account, & then serve hours of timeout to think about how wrong it is to suggest defending yourself against an attacker.
Person appealed but was ignored.
Most likely they still have a strike against them in the secret files.
Video of (IIRC) that woman who made nachos on the kitchen counter.
Person commented it made them want to choke someone.
Person locked out, demand to delete tweet for threatening violence, attach phone number to account, & then serve hours of timeout to think about how wrong it is to suggest violence against imaginary hypothetical people.
Person appealed but was ignored.
Appeal finally gotten around to after about a month I think & oh they made a boo boo.
Threats made against hypothetical imaginary "victims" who weren't given any characteristics making them stand ins for a protected class & show me someone who has never said I could kill someone or slap someone in the heat of the moment?
But then what do I know, I used a guy fawkes avatar & that was enough to declare me a public enemy multiple times when I hadn't actually violated any rule or policy, but its perfectly okay to judge me by my avatar rather than the facts.
Telling Trust & Safety they suck & sending Jack a picture of himself saying its the biggest dick you've ever seen gets you soft permabanned & your data kept from you.
Pity no one can get any numbers about how many others have been black holed & are unable to get their data or end their account. Pretty sure its more than just me.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 2 Dec 2021 @ 5:19pm
That thing where they will cry state secrets or tipping their hand to the "bad guys" but shouldn't the DoJ or Congress be demanding accurate reports of what these powers are being used for & whom they are deployed against?
Yes it is because I don't trust them, but after they used Terrorism Fusion Centers to deep dive & surveil grandmas & peaceful protestors exercising their alleged rights there is a big deficit in trust for their claims & actions.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 2 Dec 2021 @ 5:16pm
Can cities sue them for the revenue losses from the stadiums not being filled?
I mean its not like they make back enough to make up for the handouts to these poor owners, might as well find someway to get those dollars back.
Rich old white men demand their serfs work harder for less.
Heard this story a couple thousand times, really can't bring myself to give a shit.
MLB might be a thing... but looking at who is involved, pretty sure a bunch of players could make their own league & kill off the MLB, so they can then turn into the old men who do nothing but complain about spending millions of the billiosn they are earning off the sweat of others.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 1 Dec 2021 @ 6:49pm
We've reached peak 2021...
Congress critters don't even try to pretend there is a real reason for their actions beyond getting paid by corporate benefactors.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 1 Dec 2021 @ 6:47pm
Is it really to much to ask to have everyone outfitted with shock collars that fire when they are wrong about the 1st amendment?
I mean it might mean a lot of these so call 1st amendment champions laying fried in the streets but I can't see a fscking downside to that.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 30 Nov 2021 @ 8:32pm
Re: Re: Re: Re:
Amazon, when they discover counterfeit merch in their warehouse destroys it.
A fast way for Amazon to discover it is consumer complaints & lots of returns.
(One is sort of shocked that Congress hasn't demanded they detect harder like they have with every other nearly impossible thing).
Counterfeits can make their way into legit sources, it happens sometimes.
But there are people who just want the lowest possible price & refuse to consider perhaps this 3rd party seller with 4 negative reviews and has only been on the platform for 3 days might be sketchy.
Amazon will do what they can to keep customers satisfied (not to be confused with happy), but acting like they can detect bots & stop them because Congress said so & ignoring that whole its a global platform thing is more pandering stunts.
Why no massive outcry about those hearty souls who trawl the backroads of 'Merika scooping up exclusive items from WalMart & other stores & putting them online at higher prices?
I mean I heard something about special edition oreos with pokémon characters on them selling for stupidly inflated prices online & people paying those prices.... for a fscking cookie.
Retail Arbitrage has always been a thing, sometimes now people do it electronically. All this outcry over holiday gifts but not a peep when wal; street does it.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 30 Nov 2021 @ 4:36pm
Something something its just like buying bulk bandwidth, you think the markup on christmas toys is bad look at cable!
Such 1st world problems...
Can't get the gaming console/video card/toy we just have to have!
I checked... none of you will actually die without getting these for christmas.
Meanwhile the price fixing of insulin has a bodycount & grinch bots are the thing getting focus.
I hate to break it to everyone...
The world is actually FUCKED.
There is a pandemic, still.
People are trying to pretend we can get back to normal (I'm waiting for the Thanksgiving incubation to finish up).
Our leaders are PISSED that people in the service industry won't go back to being mistreated by Karens for min wage.
Our robot overlord self driving trucks never really took off, perhaps we should have made investments to promote professions that pay really well & don't require a 12 yr degree for an entry level spot.
The can of fixing the infrastructure has been kicked so far down the road that even if we had 5000 truckers appear at the docks ready to haul... the port can't get them loaded & ships offloaded to get us back to normal for a while.
This pandemics been going on for almost 2 years & somehow people think everything SHOULD be okay now.
Take off the rose colored glasses & maybe accept that you won't be getting the hot thing anytime soon, but its not the end of the world.
Somewhere in what passes for a hospital someone is struggling to breathe because someone told the asshole who infected them that the virus isn't real & you can't force us to wear masks!
But yeah Karen, Grinch Bots are the worst thing ever... (just like every fucking year when you can't get the hot item at the lowest price you think you shoudl get).
On the post: Protecting Judges Is Important, But They Don't Get To Throw Out The 1st Amendment For Themselves
Because when it happens to you its something you deal with, but when it happens to US laws need to change you ignorant peons.
People afraid of looking like they are against something willing to support something completely unconstitutional on its face.
The founders would have horse whipped them.
But hey we live in soundbite policy where people only listen to the soundbite claiming they are against law & order rather than they are supporting the most basic law & order of the land.
Mike, we'll always have Ghetto Girl #3.
On the post: Federal Court Dismisses Another Negligence Suit Against Online Gun Marketplace Armslist But Says Section 230 Doesn't Protect It
Armslist works within the law.
These demands that they do more than required should be directed at lawmakers not at a court to create new laws fueled by a tragedy.
You could insert the car maker, gas station, clothing store, etc. into these claims & its obvious that none of them are responsible. Armslist followed the law & demanding they should have met a higher burden and should be at fault is grief lashing out supported by a lawyer looking for a payday.
On the post: Charter Spectrum Funds Front Group To Try And Kill Small Maine Town's Plan For Better Broadband
We only funded it, we didn't have anything else to do with it, despite it doing exactly the single thing that would benefit us.
For less than creating this fake group and its advertising they probably could have improved service to the town...
On the post: Colorado Appeals Court Says A Drug Dog That Alerts On Now-Legal Weed Can't Create Probable Cause For A Search
But its to hard to do it the right way, we like our shortcuts & want to keep using them.
On the post: Josh Hawley Thinks We Should Break Up Twitter Because He Doesn't Like The Company's Editorial Choices
Re: Re:
Yet still more effort than hes put into stopping the pandemic.
If the universe was actually fair he'd have fallen in the first wave of covid.
On the post: The Bad Apples Control The Bunch: USA Today Report Details Law Enforcements Punishment Of Good Cops
Re: Re: Re: No surprise
I am often shocked (well not really) by the mental gymnastics that on the 1 hand portray the "bad people" as masters of time & space able to do everything but at the same time claims they are bumbling idiots.
They secretly executed 100's of people with dirt on the Clintons with accidents but couldn't manage to rig an entire election?
And only a few saviors know the truth and keep telling us, yet Killary hasn't managed to kill them off too?
On the post: Josh Hawley Thinks We Should Break Up Twitter Because He Doesn't Like The Company's Editorial Choices
Imagine if he put half as much effort into getting the nation vaccinated as he has in holding Twitter "accountable" for a long list of imagined sins.
Delta might never have happened.
On the post: Twitter's New 'Private Information' Policy Takes Impossible Content Moderation Challenges To New, Ridiculous Levels
Re: Currently locked out of Twitter
"the registration process does not allow me to not have a phone"
Something something gift of prophecy.
I swear I said something about a bunch of random timeouts forcing people to give twitter their phone number because the appeal would never be heard and it was a soft way to make people hand over their numbers.
Now look at that, you can't even use the service now unless you give them a number.
Thank goodness their systems are really secure & no ones ever exfiled out a buncha of data on users the Kingdom didn't like.... oh wait.
On the post: Twitter's New 'Private Information' Policy Takes Impossible Content Moderation Challenges To New, Ridiculous Levels
"I'm honestly perplexed at why Twitter implemented such a broad policy, so difficult to enforce, and so open to abuse. It seems extremely unlike the more thoughtful trust & safety moves the company has made over the past few years."
Because the policy appeals to a certain loud subset who hold office & like to make things hard for Twitter.
You and I disagree about trust & safety being thoughtful, almost 300 days & still I can't get my data despite my rights to my data being very important to them, but this is as stupid as their grand push to drive all possible threats of violence from the platform.
Video shared of someone being fake kidnapped for a party. Person posted if someone grabbed them like they they would hit them.
Person locked out, forced to delete tweet for threatening violence, attach phone number to account, & then serve hours of timeout to think about how wrong it is to suggest defending yourself against an attacker.
Person appealed but was ignored.
Most likely they still have a strike against them in the secret files.
Video of (IIRC) that woman who made nachos on the kitchen counter.
Person commented it made them want to choke someone.
Person locked out, demand to delete tweet for threatening violence, attach phone number to account, & then serve hours of timeout to think about how wrong it is to suggest violence against imaginary hypothetical people.
Person appealed but was ignored.
Appeal finally gotten around to after about a month I think & oh they made a boo boo.
Threats made against hypothetical imaginary "victims" who weren't given any characteristics making them stand ins for a protected class & show me someone who has never said I could kill someone or slap someone in the heat of the moment?
But then what do I know, I used a guy fawkes avatar & that was enough to declare me a public enemy multiple times when I hadn't actually violated any rule or policy, but its perfectly okay to judge me by my avatar rather than the facts.
Telling Trust & Safety they suck & sending Jack a picture of himself saying its the biggest dick you've ever seen gets you soft permabanned & your data kept from you.
Pity no one can get any numbers about how many others have been black holed & are unable to get their data or end their account. Pretty sure its more than just me.
On the post: Documents Shows Just How Much The FBI Can Obtain From Encrypted Communication Services
That thing where they will cry state secrets or tipping their hand to the "bad guys" but shouldn't the DoJ or Congress be demanding accurate reports of what these powers are being used for & whom they are deployed against?
Yes it is because I don't trust them, but after they used Terrorism Fusion Centers to deep dive & surveil grandmas & peaceful protestors exercising their alleged rights there is a big deficit in trust for their claims & actions.
On the post: MLB Removes References To Current Players On MLB.com Due To Lockout
Can cities sue them for the revenue losses from the stadiums not being filled?
I mean its not like they make back enough to make up for the handouts to these poor owners, might as well find someway to get those dollars back.
Rich old white men demand their serfs work harder for less.
Heard this story a couple thousand times, really can't bring myself to give a shit.
MLB might be a thing... but looking at who is involved, pretty sure a bunch of players could make their own league & kill off the MLB, so they can then turn into the old men who do nothing but complain about spending millions of the billiosn they are earning off the sweat of others.
On the post: Take-Two Interactive Appears To Be Morphing From Game Publisher Into IP Troll
The first thing we do is kill all the lawyers. - Shakespeare
(Who's estate I expect to send a C&D and take down demand over me using the words)
What do you call a million lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
A good start!
On the post: The Bad Apples Control The Bunch: USA Today Report Details Law Enforcements Punishment Of Good Cops
Re: No surprise
They show up on techdirt telling us 230 is moon law meant to enslave us to the lizard aliens & bill gates?
On the post: Senator Tillis To President Biden: How Dare You Nominate To The FCC Someone Prepared To Protect The Public
We've reached peak 2021...
Congress critters don't even try to pretend there is a real reason for their actions beyond getting paid by corporate benefactors.
On the post: Even As Grifters Insist Otherwise, Courts Know That Social Media Are Not State Actors Because Of Section 230
Is it really to much to ask to have everyone outfitted with shock collars that fire when they are wrong about the 1st amendment?
I mean it might mean a lot of these so call 1st amendment champions laying fried in the streets but I can't see a fscking downside to that.
On the post: Silly, Pandering Politicians Introduce Silly, Pandering 'Cyber Grinch' Law That Would Ban Buying Bots
Re: War on Christmas
They don't care because the base will be fired up & ignoring anything else they do.
On the post: Silly, Pandering Politicians Introduce Silly, Pandering 'Cyber Grinch' Law That Would Ban Buying Bots
Re: Re: Re: Re:
Amazon, when they discover counterfeit merch in their warehouse destroys it.
A fast way for Amazon to discover it is consumer complaints & lots of returns.
(One is sort of shocked that Congress hasn't demanded they detect harder like they have with every other nearly impossible thing).
Counterfeits can make their way into legit sources, it happens sometimes.
But there are people who just want the lowest possible price & refuse to consider perhaps this 3rd party seller with 4 negative reviews and has only been on the platform for 3 days might be sketchy.
Amazon will do what they can to keep customers satisfied (not to be confused with happy), but acting like they can detect bots & stop them because Congress said so & ignoring that whole its a global platform thing is more pandering stunts.
Why no massive outcry about those hearty souls who trawl the backroads of 'Merika scooping up exclusive items from WalMart & other stores & putting them online at higher prices?
I mean I heard something about special edition oreos with pokémon characters on them selling for stupidly inflated prices online & people paying those prices.... for a fscking cookie.
Retail Arbitrage has always been a thing, sometimes now people do it electronically. All this outcry over holiday gifts but not a peep when wal; street does it.
On the post: Miramax Survives Copyright Dispute Over 'Pulp Fiction' Poster Initiated By Opportunistic Photographer
Copyright means never having to keep your contracts on file...
On the post: Silly, Pandering Politicians Introduce Silly, Pandering 'Cyber Grinch' Law That Would Ban Buying Bots
Re: Re:
"Congress and government can work on different issues at the same time."
[CITATION NEEDED]
"are perfectly capable of being angry at the injustices of the world"
800,000ish dead people wonder where their law demanding Government be truthful about the pandemic is while they debate Grinch Bots.
On the post: Silly, Pandering Politicians Introduce Silly, Pandering 'Cyber Grinch' Law That Would Ban Buying Bots
Something something its just like buying bulk bandwidth, you think the markup on christmas toys is bad look at cable!
Such 1st world problems...
Can't get the gaming console/video card/toy we just have to have!
I checked... none of you will actually die without getting these for christmas.
Meanwhile the price fixing of insulin has a bodycount & grinch bots are the thing getting focus.
I hate to break it to everyone...
The world is actually FUCKED.
There is a pandemic, still.
People are trying to pretend we can get back to normal (I'm waiting for the Thanksgiving incubation to finish up).
Our leaders are PISSED that people in the service industry won't go back to being mistreated by Karens for min wage.
Our robot overlord self driving trucks never really took off, perhaps we should have made investments to promote professions that pay really well & don't require a 12 yr degree for an entry level spot.
The can of fixing the infrastructure has been kicked so far down the road that even if we had 5000 truckers appear at the docks ready to haul... the port can't get them loaded & ships offloaded to get us back to normal for a while.
This pandemics been going on for almost 2 years & somehow people think everything SHOULD be okay now.
Take off the rose colored glasses & maybe accept that you won't be getting the hot thing anytime soon, but its not the end of the world.
Somewhere in what passes for a hospital someone is struggling to breathe because someone told the asshole who infected them that the virus isn't real & you can't force us to wear masks!
But yeah Karen, Grinch Bots are the worst thing ever... (just like every fucking year when you can't get the hot item at the lowest price you think you shoudl get).
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