Texas republicans certainly made clear that they believe all of those are 'conservative values/speech' but strangely enough Koby never seems to be able to follow suit and explain what they mean when they talk about 'conservative speech' whenever asked. Can't imagine why.
Ah, nothing like china reminding people once again how pathetically easy it is to offend them with nothing more than accurate history, and all that that implies about them.
If the only way you can keep your prestigious image is to scrub any mention or evidence of your terrible actions then you've made clear that the only thing you regret about those actions is not that you did them but merely that people know about them.
Fb and Twitter management hate conservatives, which is their right to hold that opinion, but they operate to outlaw conservative speech on the platforms covertly, using arbitrary rules
Which 'conservative speech' is being banned again and as always be specific.
And it remains aggressively idiotic that state leaders continue to block such efforts, often under the misleading claim of "market freedom," simply because AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast don't like a challenge or competition.
The word you're looking for isn't 'idiotic' it's 'corrupt'. The politicians involved know full well what they are doing they just don't care because it pays better to sell out their constituents.
Parler/GETTR: 'How dare that other homeowner try to kick people out of their house just for taking a dump in the middle of a crowded room, don't they know people have a right to act horribly in property that's not theirs?! They can say what they want about 'proper behavior' and 'acceptable forms of discussion' but everyone knows that sort of response from the homeowner is nothing less than tyrannical censorship and the proper response is for the snowflakes in the house to just suck it up and grow thicker skin!'
Amused observers: 'Someone just took a dump in the middle of your living-room.'
Parler/GETTR: 'Get those people out of here, how dare they violate the rules of acceptable behavior I set out for my guests?! When we set rules we expect our visitors to adhere to those and if they can't then they are out the door and have no-one to blame but themselves!'
It's certainly along those lines but I wouldn't say it reaches the point of a SLAPP suit just yet for the simple fact that they don't seem to have filed an actual lawsuit, however given their behavior to date it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if they tripled-down and did just that in another month.
But that part of the job is something it doesn't do particularly well. However, it does seem to be able to locate cash for cops or federal officers to take -- something that doesn't do anything to improve the security of transportation.
Find some contraband? Maybe get a pat on the back and a 'good job' from the boss.
Find a bunch of money? Oh would you look at that, someone's getting a little extra next paycheck and/or just ensured a very friendly relationship with the local cops/federal officers who just had their budget padded out.
Whether TSA, federal agents or the local police it's no wonder they spend more time trying to find money to steal than contraband to stop as only one of those provides a personal financial benefit in finding it. Stealing a pile of cash should never have been a profitable act for law enforcement as as reprehensible as their actions are by providing that financial link such corruption become inevitable since the incentives are heavily skewed towards 'steal everything not nailed down and/or on fire, then break out the fire extinguishers and hammers.'
Ah but you see that would require admitting to police corruption and holding them accountable and the people who were cheering on 'tough on crime' programs and slogans are probably not going to be too thrilled with that idea.
'Here's some scapegoats now please don't look closer'
Fortunately, the Torrance PD seems to be taking this seriously. It has given the DA's office 200 gigabytes of data covering officers' text messages. And the DA's office has been ensuring this information is passed on to the public defender's office, so both parties can determine what cases might be affected by these cops and their racist attitudes.
Literally the end of the last paragraph:
Several of those officers have been investigated for deploying excessive force or killing citizens. In almost every case, they've been cleared of wrongdoing.
I guarantee they're only 'taking it seriously' because they decided that it's not a viable option to just brush everything under the rug and pretend nothing happened, and figured it's safer to throw a few of their officers under the bus rather than risk having the entire department looked over.
You do not get such blatant and open bigotry like that unless those involved feel very safe doing so, so I've no doubt that this is a department-wide issue and not just 'a few bad apples' that I'm sure they'd love for the public to think it is.
I really only see two ways to read this. Either the exec who reached out was lying through their teeth when they said they'd do something about the bogus claims or the 'enforcement' company they are paying doesn't actually listen to their client and is perfectly fine issuing bogus legal threats on their behalf even against said client's wishes.
Gross dishonesty or willingness to continue paying a pack of out of control legal thugs, not a good look and either way just giving more and more reason to avoid both companies like the plague.
What could possibly go wrong with setting the precedent that entirely unrelated third-parties could be bound by legal restrictions they had absolutely no involvement with like attorney-client privilege?
You have to wonder if the hypocrites at PV realizes how badly they are shooting themselves in the back here. If they actually do 'win' this case then it seems they are opening themselves wide open for being sued into oblivion the next time their sources are anything but squeaky clean and entirely above board and given this is PV we're talking about that's not an 'if' scenario that's a 'when'.
One of these days I'd love for a defense attorney to call the 'it's not a fifth amendment violation' bluff/lie by asking for immunity for their client for anything that resulted from the unlock. After all if the defendant isn't being asked to provide evidence that might incriminate them and all that the police/prosecutors are after is the password then they would have no problem providing that immunity since that's all they claim to want.
Of course they would never accept such a deal for the simple reason that they and everyone else know full well that they're after what the password provides access to(and what providing it means) but it would at least force them to scramble to come up with some undoubtedly laughable excuse for why immunity for useless information is suddenly a huge problem to provide.
So long as it's just the peons freezing to death and not anyone 'important' I don't see anything changing sadly, why bother risking political 'donations' on a maybe/probably a freeze will hit if it will almost certainly cost you those 'donations'?
'Not everyone is paying for their sins in suffering yet!'
'Trafficking is terrible, why just look at the people we threw to the wolves by backing FOSTA and who are worse off because of our efforts, now we want to spread that to everywhere so finally people will suffer for their sin- be spared from sex trafficking which will surely go away if we don't have to see it.'
Yeah, the State Department really needs to look into sticking with a source that's not insane, terrified of the body and grossly hypocritical, pairing with that pack of lunatics is not going to help it's message or the people it claims to want to help.
Only to the insane, ignorant or deranged who look at such charming platforms as 4chan and think 'This is nice I suppose but how good would it be with less moderation?'
Theft is a heinous crime... unless you've got a badge
Never mind the children's game of 'cops and robbers' these days the cops are the robbers except worse.
No seizure of funds without a conviction related to the cash in question, none of the money goes to the departments stealing it in any case, and wrongful seizures are paid back in full and with interest(on top of a full refund of the victim's legal fees) with that money paid personally by the robbers involved rather than by the department they work for. Just a few simple changes and you could all but solve this problem practically overnight.
Once is a coincidence.
Twice is suspicious.
Three times is enemy action.
'It was an accident' might fly if other people weren't also reporting similar but as that's apparently not the case this sounds more like 'Oh crap, we got caught trying to silence someone highlighting how our game is broken this time, time to backtrack'.
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Well this is awkward...
On the post: Weeks After Blasting Twitter For 'Strangling Free Expression' GETTR Bans The Term 'Groyper' In Effort To Stop White Nationalist Spam
Re: Re: 'Oh, you know the ones...'
Texas republicans certainly made clear that they believe all of those are 'conservative values/speech' but strangely enough Koby never seems to be able to follow suit and explain what they mean when they talk about 'conservative speech' whenever asked. Can't imagine why.
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'If you ignore all my crimes I'm a great person!'
Ah, nothing like china reminding people once again how pathetically easy it is to offend them with nothing more than accurate history, and all that that implies about them.
If the only way you can keep your prestigious image is to scrub any mention or evidence of your terrible actions then you've made clear that the only thing you regret about those actions is not that you did them but merely that people know about them.
On the post: Weeks After Blasting Twitter For 'Strangling Free Expression' GETTR Bans The Term 'Groyper' In Effort To Stop White Nationalist Spam
'Oh, you know the ones...'
Fb and Twitter management hate conservatives, which is their right to hold that opinion, but they operate to outlaw conservative speech on the platforms covertly, using arbitrary rules
Which 'conservative speech' is being banned again and as always be specific.
On the post: 3 Out Of 4 Americans Support Community Broadband, Yet 19 States Still Ban Or Hinder Such Networks
Well past time to throw benefit of the doubt away
And it remains aggressively idiotic that state leaders continue to block such efforts, often under the misleading claim of "market freedom," simply because AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast don't like a challenge or competition.
The word you're looking for isn't 'idiotic' it's 'corrupt'. The politicians involved know full well what they are doing they just don't care because it pays better to sell out their constituents.
On the post: Weeks After Blasting Twitter For 'Strangling Free Expression' GETTR Bans The Term 'Groyper' In Effort To Stop White Nationalist Spam
'How dare you act like us in our house?!'
Parler/GETTR: 'How dare that other homeowner try to kick people out of their house just for taking a dump in the middle of a crowded room, don't they know people have a right to act horribly in property that's not theirs?! They can say what they want about 'proper behavior' and 'acceptable forms of discussion' but everyone knows that sort of response from the homeowner is nothing less than tyrannical censorship and the proper response is for the snowflakes in the house to just suck it up and grow thicker skin!'
Amused observers: 'Someone just took a dump in the middle of your living-room.'
Parler/GETTR: 'Get those people out of here, how dare they violate the rules of acceptable behavior I set out for my guests?! When we set rules we expect our visitors to adhere to those and if they can't then they are out the door and have no-one to blame but themselves!'
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Not a SLAPP yet, but give it a month
It's certainly along those lines but I wouldn't say it reaches the point of a SLAPP suit just yet for the simple fact that they don't seem to have filed an actual lawsuit, however given their behavior to date it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if they tripled-down and did just that in another month.
On the post: Dallas PD Brags About Stealing Money From A Woman At An Airport, Is Now Facing Scrutiny From Its Oversight Board
All a matter of priorities
But that part of the job is something it doesn't do particularly well. However, it does seem to be able to locate cash for cops or federal officers to take -- something that doesn't do anything to improve the security of transportation.
Find some contraband? Maybe get a pat on the back and a 'good job' from the boss.
Find a bunch of money? Oh would you look at that, someone's getting a little extra next paycheck and/or just ensured a very friendly relationship with the local cops/federal officers who just had their budget padded out.
Whether TSA, federal agents or the local police it's no wonder they spend more time trying to find money to steal than contraband to stop as only one of those provides a personal financial benefit in finding it. Stealing a pile of cash should never have been a profitable act for law enforcement as as reprehensible as their actions are by providing that financial link such corruption become inevitable since the incentives are heavily skewed towards 'steal everything not nailed down and/or on fire, then break out the fire extinguishers and hammers.'
On the post: California Police Officers' Bigoted Text Messages Have Just Undone Dozens Of Felony Cases
Re: Get tough on crime
Ah but you see that would require admitting to police corruption and holding them accountable and the people who were cheering on 'tough on crime' programs and slogans are probably not going to be too thrilled with that idea.
On the post: California Police Officers' Bigoted Text Messages Have Just Undone Dozens Of Felony Cases
'Here's some scapegoats now please don't look closer'
Fortunately, the Torrance PD seems to be taking this seriously. It has given the DA's office 200 gigabytes of data covering officers' text messages. And the DA's office has been ensuring this information is passed on to the public defender's office, so both parties can determine what cases might be affected by these cops and their racist attitudes.
Literally the end of the last paragraph:
Several of those officers have been investigated for deploying excessive force or killing citizens. In almost every case, they've been cleared of wrongdoing.
I guarantee they're only 'taking it seriously' because they decided that it's not a viable option to just brush everything under the rug and pretend nothing happened, and figured it's safer to throw a few of their officers under the bus rather than risk having the entire department looked over.
You do not get such blatant and open bigotry like that unless those involved feel very safe doing so, so I've no doubt that this is a department-wide issue and not just 'a few bad apples' that I'm sure they'd love for the public to think it is.
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I really only see two ways to read this. Either the exec who reached out was lying through their teeth when they said they'd do something about the bogus claims or the 'enforcement' company they are paying doesn't actually listen to their client and is perfectly fine issuing bogus legal threats on their behalf even against said client's wishes.
Gross dishonesty or willingness to continue paying a pack of out of control legal thugs, not a good look and either way just giving more and more reason to avoid both companies like the plague.
On the post: Hey The North Face! When You Said Sending Us A Bogus Trademark Threat Was A Mistake, We Believed You; So Why Did You Do It Again?
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Basic pattern recognition skills?
On the post: Confused Judge Grants Project Veritas' Prior Restraint Against The NY Times
'Pentagon papers'? Never heard of 'em
What could possibly go wrong with setting the precedent that entirely unrelated third-parties could be bound by legal restrictions they had absolutely no involvement with like attorney-client privilege?
You have to wonder if the hypocrites at PV realizes how badly they are shooting themselves in the back here. If they actually do 'win' this case then it seems they are opening themselves wide open for being sued into oblivion the next time their sources are anything but squeaky clean and entirely above board and given this is PV we're talking about that's not an 'if' scenario that's a 'when'.
On the post: Another Illinois Appeals Court Handles Compelled Password Production, Says There's No Fifth Amendment Issue Here
Not a problem at all... unless they're lying
One of these days I'd love for a defense attorney to call the 'it's not a fifth amendment violation' bluff/lie by asking for immunity for their client for anything that resulted from the unlock. After all if the defendant isn't being asked to provide evidence that might incriminate them and all that the police/prosecutors are after is the password then they would have no problem providing that immunity since that's all they claim to want.
Of course they would never accept such a deal for the simple reason that they and everyone else know full well that they're after what the password provides access to(and what providing it means) but it would at least force them to scramble to come up with some undoubtedly laughable excuse for why immunity for useless information is suddenly a huge problem to provide.
On the post: Texas Regulators Learned Nothing From February's Carnage, Prepare To Repeat The Cycle
'We did nothing and we're all out of ideas.'
So long as it's just the peons freezing to death and not anyone 'important' I don't see anything changing sadly, why bother risking political 'donations' on a maybe/probably a freeze will hit if it will almost certainly cost you those 'donations'?
On the post: State Department Report Repeats Talking Points From Group Who Wants To Ban All Porn
'Not everyone is paying for their sins in suffering yet!'
'Trafficking is terrible, why just look at the people we threw to the wolves by backing FOSTA and who are worse off because of our efforts, now we want to spread that to everywhere so finally people will suffer for their sin- be spared from sex trafficking which will surely go away if we don't have to see it.'
Yeah, the State Department really needs to look into sticking with a source that's not insane, terrified of the body and grossly hypocritical, pairing with that pack of lunatics is not going to help it's message or the people it claims to want to help.
On the post: Robert Reich Loses The Plot: Gets Basically Everything Wrong About Section 230, Fairness Doctrine & The 1st Amendment
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Only to the insane, ignorant or deranged who look at such charming platforms as 4chan and think 'This is nice I suppose but how good would it be with less moderation?'
On the post: DEA Gives Former Marine Back $86,900 Cops Took From Him During A Nevada Traffic Stop Caught On Body Cam
Theft is a heinous crime... unless you've got a badge
Never mind the children's game of 'cops and robbers' these days the cops are the robbers except worse.
No seizure of funds without a conviction related to the cash in question, none of the money goes to the departments stealing it in any case, and wrongful seizures are paid back in full and with interest(on top of a full refund of the victim's legal fees) with that money paid personally by the robbers involved rather than by the department they work for. Just a few simple changes and you could all but solve this problem practically overnight.
On the post: Amazon DMCA Strikes Video About 'New World' Bug, Reinstates Video, Promises Review Of Process
Once is a coincidence.
Twice is suspicious.
Three times is enemy action.
'It was an accident' might fly if other people weren't also reporting similar but as that's apparently not the case this sounds more like 'Oh crap, we got caught trying to silence someone highlighting how our game is broken this time, time to backtrack'.
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No worries, things can get a little hectic with a bunch of replies to replies just wanted to get clarification.
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