Isn't it about time that we got some campaign finance reform.
Bills like this, the florida social media crap etc. can never pass Constitutional muster. So they're performative legislation, performed to act as a campaign advert and not to seriously perform their job.
So these bills, if passed and found to be unconstitutional, the cost of writing, passing and litigating them, should be passed on to the relevant campaigns as costs.
It won't be the easiest thing to hammer out detail-wise, but it's long past time for these stump-speech laws to be gone, and stop clogging our legislatures, and our courts as an attempt to chip away at rights as a side-effect of having the public fund their re-election campaign.
"Feee market is great when it lets me do what I want
Free market is horrible and unfair and crap and they need to pay me for emotional distress when it doesn't let me do what I want waaaaaaah!"
-- Every Conservative ever
Since we don't know what was deleted, then we're just going to have to take the worst case, and assume they may have deleted material relevant to every case they're working on in the time period covered by the deletions, and charge them accordingly.
Luckily, MN law is VERY interesting, and LOTS of relevant sections of law.
609.498 TAMPERING WITH WITNESS
By deleting evidence, they're attempting to dissuade witnesses, by removing the ability to defend themselves, and holding themselves outside the law, and unaccountable. Range of penalties here, first degree is 5 years and $10,000 fine. Felony charge regardless
609.856 USE OF POLICE RADIOS DURING COMMISSION OF CRIME;
As with the vest, they were probably kitted out, and the statute just requires possession of a police radio during a crime. In fact, it would also count cellphones used for official business at any time.
Penalty 3 years and $5000 Felony charge
609.88 COMPUTER DAMAGE.
Data falls under the statute that it was intentioanlly destroyed, and since it almost certainly enables a loss of at least $2500 (bail may be more than that) then it's the top tier penalty, of 10 years and $50,000 fine. felony charge
So, we add that up, and it''s something like 30 years, and $88,000 in fines max per case, for 5 felony charges and a Gross Misdemeanor
Surely officers have no problems with charges being stacked, right, I mean it's ok to do to others, so they're fair game right.
The big question he's got to ask himself is this
"All those rich people backing him and supporting his lawsuit and saying he's right etc. How many of them are going to reach into their pockets and pay these fees for the suit they encouraged him to file?"
The answer is, of course, none. He was just a handy moron to use as they did, and they stopped caring about him as soon as he stopped being useful, which was months ago.
Of course, like many in an abusive relationship, he won't leave his abusers, but will find excuses for them not supporting him.
It's not that they hate them. It's that they want them considered sub-human, contemptable, unreliable liars that no-one should ever listen to.
That way when the inevitable comes out, they've already discredited the witness, AND made it seem like they were corrupted by the sex worker, and didn't do it of their own free will and hypocrisy.
It's pretty clear that they were utterly shit as attorneys anyway. so they won't have much in the way of assets, because what work they had done won't have generated much money. They also have little prospect in furthering their legal career because of their manifest inability to comprehend things. So they're dead-ended at the bottom as lawyers.
The grift is the only way.
So they do these performative suits, funded by others to raise their profile, not caring what happens to their ability to practice law (because they know its never going to take them anywhere, and they may lose it through malpractice anyway if they try); they do this safe in the knowledge that when the shitstorm dumps on them, they can then turn around and play the biggest ever victim to those who concern themselves with virtue-signaling and the like.
They have to play the victim, and the only way to do that is to make themselves the victim of the system, by DELIBERATELY feeding themselves into the disciplinary process.
They've set themselves up to fail, then using that fail to claim persecution. Then they're using that claim of persecution to create themselves a cozy career as a pundit, or consultant, or speaker.
They are the essence of the person killing their parents, and then demanding leniency because they're been recently orphaned.
And the thing that is the most grating, is that in every other aspect in life, their target market is vehemently (and sometimes violently) opposed to this exact grift. Show them a person who goes around faking tripping on broken sidewalks to get compensation for a living, or deliberately gets into car crashes but when it happens here, they're all sympathy and - more importantly - money.
doesn't happen then happens multiple times at once...
An Embracer regional passenger jet was hit this week as it took off from a chicago airport. they had to declare an emergency, burn off fuel to max max landing weight, and then land for inspection. Some damage found. No clue on who's drone as yet.
If it's not something I want, i'm not interested, because I know I'll win.
I (and others at TF) look over a whole lot of DMCA requests and most are bad. What if I told you I'm working on one example, where the claiming company deals in a very specific type of content, which the receiving company knows. Yet they've had a notice with 300+ entries, claimed to have checked them all and found that only one or two are inaccurate. I've gone through the list (ever had the fun of going through the details of a list that's been DMCA'd and recovering the data? It's slow, but possible) and I found that over 20% are not only not what was claimed, but were content by the US government and thus in the public domain - and it was INCREDIBLY obvious that was the case.
I found maybe 4% of the claims that were actually work whose rights belong to the DMCA claimant.
This is absolutely standard. it's normal. It's how things are.
Officer perkins! You said the quiet thing loud so you got to be punished. We'll increase your quota by 20%, AND you get the crappy bodycamera with the faulty battery. Don't do it again!
If they couldn't follow the reporting restrictions, then they have shown 'intent'. It's not like 'oh that stuff we seized accidentally fell in my pocket". They intended to take it, and didn't follow the legal proceedures to get those things.
And no, it is not double standards, to hold those taking property to the highest of standards.
"Any seizure not promptly reported will be considered illegal. Items seized will be returned to the owner, and felony theft charges will be filed against those responsible for the action. "
Because if it's not reported, it's not fully completing the requirements for a seizure. And if it's not a properly done seizure, then it's theft, and should be prosecuted accordingly.
politicians have to give in to lobbyists.
If they don't, then the vast sums spent on lobbying is wasted.
If these companies are wasting vast sums on lobbying, then they're not going to be profitable, and thus they're going to fail.
So for politicians, it's a simple choice of do what lobbyists say, or the industry will collapse and it'll be their fault.
Of course, anyone with a brain will see right through this, but then anyone with a brain would tell lobbyists to - what was the phrase Peter Sunde once used.. oh yes! They would tell lobbyists to go and sodomise themselves with a retractable baton.
Let's be honest, this 'speed running', is as close to running as most of those who'll stay on GETTR will manage, unless it's to lick Prince Covfefe's shoes....
it's both everywhere and nowhere. It can cover everything while covering nothing. It's the ultimate in easy punches that can't hit back. And it's the tired target of people who blame anything they can't/won't/don't understand.
It used to be rock+roll, then it was video games, now this.
They don't like it, they're not 'on top of it', thus it shouldn't be allowed. And how do you stop it being allowed? By blaming it for any ill you can.
All it does show, is the people casting the stones are lazy, ignorant, and have zero personal accountability in their quest for power and control.
On the post: In Josh Hawley's World, People Should Be Able To Sue Facebook Both For Taking Down Stuff They Don't Like AND Leaving Up Stuff They Don't Like
Isn't it about time that we got some campaign finance reform.
Bills like this, the florida social media crap etc. can never pass Constitutional muster. So they're performative legislation, performed to act as a campaign advert and not to seriously perform their job.
So these bills, if passed and found to be unconstitutional, the cost of writing, passing and litigating them, should be passed on to the relevant campaigns as costs.
It won't be the easiest thing to hammer out detail-wise, but it's long past time for these stump-speech laws to be gone, and stop clogging our legislatures, and our courts as an attempt to chip away at rights as a side-effect of having the public fund their re-election campaign.
On the post: Survey Confirms Los Angeles Sheriff's Department Is Still Home To Dangerous Gangs, Has No Solid Plan To Eliminate Them
You know what this sounds like?
It sounds like a RICO!
Woop woop someone get popehat on the line, we found a rico!
On the post: Area Free Market Proponent Sues Facebook For Defaming Him By Moderating His Personal Marketplace Of Climate Change Ideas
"Feee market is great when it lets me do what I want
Free market is horrible and unfair and crap and they need to pay me for emotional distress when it doesn't let me do what I want
waaaaaaah!"
-- Every Conservative ever
On the post: Minnesota Troopers Decided Being Sued For Excessive Force Was The Perfect Time To Delete Emails And Text Messages
Ok, simple way to sort it then.
Since we don't know what was deleted, then we're just going to have to take the worst case, and assume they may have deleted material relevant to every case they're working on in the time period covered by the deletions, and charge them accordingly.
Luckily, MN law is VERY interesting, and LOTS of relevant sections of law.
609.43 Misconduct of public officer of employee
1 year and $3000 fine per instance. Gross Misdemeanor
609.48 Perjury
Penalty 7 years and a $14,000 fine for a felony case, 5 years and $10,000 otherwise. Felony charge
609.486 COMMISSION OF CRIME WHILE WEARING OR POSSESSING BULLET-RESISTANT VEST.
Fun one - we can assume they accessed official computers while on duty, in which case they were almost certainly wearing a vest.
Penalty 5 years and a $10,000 fine. Felony charge
609.498 TAMPERING WITH WITNESS
By deleting evidence, they're attempting to dissuade witnesses, by removing the ability to defend themselves, and holding themselves outside the law, and unaccountable. Range of penalties here, first degree is 5 years and $10,000 fine. Felony charge regardless
609.856 USE OF POLICE RADIOS DURING COMMISSION OF CRIME;
As with the vest, they were probably kitted out, and the statute just requires possession of a police radio during a crime. In fact, it would also count cellphones used for official business at any time.
Penalty 3 years and $5000 Felony charge
609.88 COMPUTER DAMAGE.
Data falls under the statute that it was intentioanlly destroyed, and since it almost certainly enables a loss of at least $2500 (bail may be more than that) then it's the top tier penalty, of 10 years and $50,000 fine. felony charge
So, we add that up, and it''s something like 30 years, and $88,000 in fines max per case, for 5 felony charges and a Gross Misdemeanor
Surely officers have no problems with charges being stacked, right, I mean it's ok to do to others, so they're fair game right.
On the post: Computer Repair Shop Owner Has To Pay Twitter's Legal Fees Over Bogus SLAPP Suit Regarding Hunter Biden's Laptop
The big question he's got to ask himself is this
"All those rich people backing him and supporting his lawsuit and saying he's right etc. How many of them are going to reach into their pockets and pay these fees for the suit they encouraged him to file?"
The answer is, of course, none. He was just a handy moron to use as they did, and they stopped caring about him as soon as he stopped being useful, which was months ago.
Of course, like many in an abusive relationship, he won't leave his abusers, but will find excuses for them not supporting him.
On the post: Backpage Founders Trial Finally Begins
Re:
It's not that they hate them. It's that they want them considered sub-human, contemptable, unreliable liars that no-one should ever listen to.
That way when the inevitable comes out, they've already discredited the witness, AND made it seem like they were corrupted by the sex worker, and didn't do it of their own free will and hypocrisy.
On the post: More Pro-Trump Lawyers Sanctioned For BS Election Fraud Lawsuits
Won't Matter
it's integral to the grift.
It's pretty clear that they were utterly shit as attorneys anyway. so they won't have much in the way of assets, because what work they had done won't have generated much money. They also have little prospect in furthering their legal career because of their manifest inability to comprehend things. So they're dead-ended at the bottom as lawyers.
The grift is the only way.
So they do these performative suits, funded by others to raise their profile, not caring what happens to their ability to practice law (because they know its never going to take them anywhere, and they may lose it through malpractice anyway if they try); they do this safe in the knowledge that when the shitstorm dumps on them, they can then turn around and play the biggest ever victim to those who concern themselves with virtue-signaling and the like.
They have to play the victim, and the only way to do that is to make themselves the victim of the system, by DELIBERATELY feeding themselves into the disciplinary process.
They've set themselves up to fail, then using that fail to claim persecution. Then they're using that claim of persecution to create themselves a cozy career as a pundit, or consultant, or speaker.
They are the essence of the person killing their parents, and then demanding leniency because they're been recently orphaned.
And the thing that is the most grating, is that in every other aspect in life, their target market is vehemently (and sometimes violently) opposed to this exact grift. Show them a person who goes around faking tripping on broken sidewalks to get compensation for a living, or deliberately gets into car crashes but when it happens here, they're all sympathy and - more importantly - money.
On the post: Canadian Cops Blow Off Drone Operation Laws, Crash Their Drone Into A Landing Airplane
doesn't happen then happens multiple times at once...
An Embracer regional passenger jet was hit this week as it took off from a chicago airport. they had to declare an emergency, burn off fuel to max max landing weight, and then land for inspection. Some damage found. No clue on who's drone as yet.
On the post: Fake 'U.S. Copyright Office' Imposter Gets Google To Delist URLs On Section 1201 Grounds
Re: overwhelmingly illegitimate
What are you betting?
If it's not something I want, i'm not interested, because I know I'll win.
I (and others at TF) look over a whole lot of DMCA requests and most are bad. What if I told you I'm working on one example, where the claiming company deals in a very specific type of content, which the receiving company knows. Yet they've had a notice with 300+ entries, claimed to have checked them all and found that only one or two are inaccurate. I've gone through the list (ever had the fun of going through the details of a list that's been DMCA'd and recovering the data? It's slow, but possible) and I found that over 20% are not only not what was claimed, but were content by the US government and thus in the public domain - and it was INCREDIBLY obvious that was the case.
I found maybe 4% of the claims that were actually work whose rights belong to the DMCA claimant.
This is absolutely standard. it's normal. It's how things are.
On the post: Political Consultant Misrepresents Nearly Everything In Arguing That The Gov't Should Make Google/Facebook Pay News Orgs
People who make a living spraying shit everywhere, sprays shit everywhere.
Film at 11
On the post: Rockstar Begins A War On Modders For 'GTA' Games For Totally Unclear Reasons
Re:
Yeah, but the online streamer/youtuber system mostly abandons GTAOnline, and uses NoPixel, or 5PD, or similar.
On the post: New Hampshire PD's Recruitment Pitch Lists Qualified Immunity As A Job Perk
Officer perkins! You said the quiet thing loud so you got to be punished. We'll increase your quota by 20%, AND you get the crappy bodycamera with the faulty battery. Don't do it again!
On the post: Louisiana & Alabama Attorneys General Set Up Silly Hotline To Report 'Social Media Censorship' They Can't Do Anything About
Re:
I also can't wait for 6 months time, when we file FOIA requests on this data, to see what they got.
On the post: Louisiana & Alabama Attorneys General Set Up Silly Hotline To Report 'Social Media Censorship' They Can't Do Anything About
Ok, so who's with me on filing complaints about Parler?
On the post: Oversight Unable To Discover Which FBI Agents Leaked Clinton Investigation Info Because Goddamn Everyone Was Leaking Stuff
We are the FBI, one of our primary roles is counter-intelligence, finding and stopping leaks and intelligence operations operating on US soil.
We are also the FBI. We ourselves leak so badly, that we can't tell which of us is leaking to who.
Not sure where you got the idea that these two statements might be contradictory....
On the post: Maine Legislature Ends Civil Asset Forfeiture In The State
Re: Re:
If they couldn't follow the reporting restrictions, then they have shown 'intent'. It's not like 'oh that stuff we seized accidentally fell in my pocket". They intended to take it, and didn't follow the legal proceedures to get those things.
And no, it is not double standards, to hold those taking property to the highest of standards.
On the post: Maine Legislature Ends Civil Asset Forfeiture In The State
Reporting requirements can be fixed easily.
"Any seizure not promptly reported will be considered illegal. Items seized will be returned to the owner, and felony theft charges will be filed against those responsible for the action. "
Because if it's not reported, it's not fully completing the requirements for a seizure. And if it's not a properly done seizure, then it's theft, and should be prosecuted accordingly.
On the post: Telecom Industry Spends $320,000 Every Day Lobbying Against Policies It Doesn't Like
Its simple
politicians have to give in to lobbyists.
If they don't, then the vast sums spent on lobbying is wasted.
If these companies are wasting vast sums on lobbying, then they're not going to be profitable, and thus they're going to fail.
So for politicians, it's a simple choice of do what lobbyists say, or the industry will collapse and it'll be their fault.
Of course, anyone with a brain will see right through this, but then anyone with a brain would tell lobbyists to - what was the phrase Peter Sunde once used.. oh yes! They would tell lobbyists to go and sodomise themselves with a retractable baton.
On the post: It Appears That Jason Miller's GETTR Is Speed Running The Content Moderation Learning Curve Faster Than Parler
Let's be honest, this 'speed running', is as close to running as most of those who'll stay on GETTR will manage, unless it's to lick Prince Covfefe's shoes....
On the post: Why Do We So Quickly Blame The Internet And Anonymity For Things That Are Not About Anonymous People Online?
Why is obvious
It's easy to blame social media.
it's both everywhere and nowhere. It can cover everything while covering nothing. It's the ultimate in easy punches that can't hit back. And it's the tired target of people who blame anything they can't/won't/don't understand.
It used to be rock+roll, then it was video games, now this.
They don't like it, they're not 'on top of it', thus it shouldn't be allowed. And how do you stop it being allowed? By blaming it for any ill you can.
All it does show, is the people casting the stones are lazy, ignorant, and have zero personal accountability in their quest for power and control.
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