The district attorney did not receive fair notice of what constitutes libel? Wasn't four years of law school sufficient notice? This is nothing more than lawyers protecting other lawyers here.
So Citizens United tells us that spending money is a form of speech. So not spending money is a form of silence. Is this judge saying that we don't have the right to not speak? More broadly, we see this all the time, where the right frequently insists that we spend our money in certain ways, which is now a form of compelling speech.
You may be right Thad, but just to respond to Hanlon's Razor: never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice masquerading as stupidity. Because there's a lot of that going around these days.
This article doesn't really attack forfeiture the way we'd like it to. Presumably these houses were bought at auctions which were advertised and to which the public was invited. So out of thousands of houses sold over the years, a handful going to policemen seems normal actually.
Verizon got what they wanted when they bought Tumblr: knowledge of each and every person's kinks. So now why would they need Tumblr anymore? Want to run for Congress? Better not cross Verizon! Oh, and the Russians probably got all that too when they hacked Yahoo.
Well, maybe not, but who knows? I'd sure rather it wasn't even a possibility.
This is really good and I eagerly await the other parts.
To individuals or small businesses, the industry behemoths might as well be the government because (1) they are orders of magnitude larger, (2) we can rarely say no, and (3) we have little to no direct influence over them.
From The Guardian: "Six4Three alleges the cache shows Facebook was not only aware of the implications of its privacy policy, but actively exploited them, intentionally creating and effectively flagging up the loophole that Cambridge Analytica used to collect data."
There's your tech dirt, and the reason I posted the link to the insider chat.
"It was reported here last week that, in 2012, Vance ordered his prosecutors to drop a promising criminal-fraud investigation against Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump, Jr., who were suspected of misleading potential buyers of condos in the Trump SoHo building; the order came after their father’s attorney, Marc Kasowitz, paid Vance a visit. Soon after Vance’s office dropped the investigation, Kasowitz donated and raised a combined total of more than fifty thousand dollars for Vance’s reëlection campaign."
Well, I'm assuming that because the investigation is sensitive that means there is an investigation. Of course, not by Trump but it's happening!
I guess when you are a whistle blower you just better know what you are talking about, like Snowden was. Even if you're right it will blow back hard on you, but if you are wrong, well, then you threw your life away for almost nothing.
How can you write an article about Pam Bondi, and even mention the Ethics Commission, and not mention how she called off her investigation into Trump University just as she received $25,000 from Trump? Set the stage with that, so people know the kind of person you are talking about. Bring the context! Then we'll understand better how much credence to lend her ideas.
(You're usually pretty good about the context actually, so good in fact that's what made this article stand out.)
In cases of prosecutorial misconduct, the most fitting penalty is for the prosecutors to receive a sentence equal to the sentence that the defendant would have received.
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Blocking by phone number does nothing when robots are spoofing the numbers in the first place.
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I grow weary of this site's bothsidesism, which plays directly into one side's game.
On the post: Ex-NSA Personnel Spied On Americans And Journalists For The United Arab Emirates
I don't know what UAE has to do with Jamal Khashoggi. It was Saudi Arabia's MBS ("Mohammed Bone Saw") who murdered Khashoggi.
Other than that, a fine article sir.
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The district attorney did not receive fair notice of what constitutes libel? Wasn't four years of law school sufficient notice? This is nothing more than lawyers protecting other lawyers here.
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On the post: As A Final Fuck You To Free Speech On Tumblr, Verizon Blocked Archivists
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Because there's a lot of that going around these days.
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On the post: As A Final Fuck You To Free Speech On Tumblr, Verizon Blocked Archivists
Well, maybe not, but who knows? I'd sure rather it wasn't even a possibility.
On the post: If You're Surprised By Verizon's AOL, Yahoo Face Plant, You Don't Know Verizon
Re: Dear Verizon...
On the post: Rudy Giuliani's Paranoid Nonsense Tweet Is A Good Reminder That We Need Actual Cybersecurity Experts In Government
https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1041168209074941952
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To individuals or small businesses, the industry behemoths might as well be the government because (1) they are orders of magnitude larger, (2) we can rarely say no, and (3) we have little to no direct influence over them.
On the post: To Obtain Documents About Facebook Data-Sharing, UK Gov't Seizes And Detains A US Executive Working For A Different Company
There's your tech dirt, and the reason I posted the link to the insider chat.
On the post: Manhattan DA Cy Vance Says The Only Solution To Device Encryption Is Federally-Mandated Backdoors
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/why-didnt-manhattan-da-cyrus-vance-prosecute-the- trumps-or-harvey-weinstein
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On the post: Apple Demands Retraction Of Bloomberg's Big 'Chip Infiltration' Story; Bloomberg Has Some Explaining To Do
Re: Re: Denials everywhere...
On the post: DOJ Rings Up Another Leaker, Nailing Financial Investigation Official For Handing Docs To Buzzfeed
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I guess when you are a whistle blower you just better know what you are talking about, like Snowden was. Even if you're right it will blow back hard on you, but if you are wrong, well, then you threw your life away for almost nothing.
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How can you write an article about Pam Bondi, and even mention the Ethics Commission, and not mention how she called off her investigation into Trump University just as she received $25,000 from Trump? Set the stage with that, so people know the kind of person you are talking about. Bring the context! Then we'll understand better how much credence to lend her ideas.
(You're usually pretty good about the context actually, so good in fact that's what made this article stand out.)
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