- It will initiate spiraling attempts to establish increasingly complex legislation to "clarifiy" and "define" free speech in increasingly turgid legal verbiage.
- It will likely play into the creation of misguided (but increasingly popular) "zero tolerance" state laws.
- It will do nothing to cut down on wrongful arrests or prosecutions.
Cops don't usually read or understand the law. They react to 'keyword triggers.' Which is a fancy way of saying: (a) slap a label on someone (b) make the arrest (c) let the judge sort it out.
This is supposed to be over now that a bunch of people in the Ukraine say it's over?
Yeah, we'll see how well trampling on free speech works out when Russia crosses the Ukrainian border to "restore legal order" and "protect ethnic Russians" from hooligans about two days from now.
Considering some of the bootcamps named are charging fees in the $15K range, I could see where some oversight might be justified. Whether or not the CA government is the best choice to provide said oversight is another matter.
Right now, I think the cost might be a bigger impediment to a would-be coder than anything the government is currently doing.
Why can't they all just stop trying to put a candy coating on the real problem and tell it like it is?
Truth is: they are all scared to death of this monster they've created - and just like with J. Edgar Hoover back in the 60s and 70s - there isn't an elected official anywhere in the US government that has a sufficient enough political (or physical) death wish to dare try to put a leash on this puppy.
Like Dr. Dippel von Frankenstein, they're now wringing their hands and asking: "What have we done?"
Has Techdirt's brain gone out to lunch on this one?
Oh boy! Bad Target! Bad Bad Target!
Imagine...wanting to sell somebody music on hard media so anyone could play it anywhere, loan it to anybody, reencode it to play on any - and as many - devices as they like, and even sell it to somebody else. Much better to require them to buy an expensive appliance locked into a single company store if they want to hear a certain song.
Yeah, that really sucks. Target is acting like a child by not being willing to go along with Apple/RIAA's new vision of reality (i.e. distribution monopoly) people like Beyonce have so obviously signed onto.
Yes indeed. It's perfectly fair and grownup to say "my bat, my ball, my rules" if you're Apple. But not if you're a retailer who would rather not encourage or give silent unintended support to the practice of single sourcing music.
DRM-Digital is not the wave of the future. It's a throwback to the days when records were only playable on specific record players - and each record player manufacturer was busy signing exclusive contracts with as many musicians as possible. Want Caruso? Buy Victorola. Want Jolson? Buy Westinghouse. Want to listen to everything? Plan on buying several players.
Sometimes the more things change, the sooner they go back to what they used to be.
Well there's a certain wisdom in keeping your friends close, your enemies closer, and an employee who could cause you major embarrassment closest of all.
At least if he remains a government employee they can enforce his silence.
If Yoo were working as a legal advisor for a different country - and promulgating the same actions against the United States as he advocated the US had the right to employ against others - there would already be a CIA drone circling around with his picture loaded in it's memory banks.
His statement is just another attempt at damage control when you consider that EVERY senator and congressman currently in office is either directly implicated in this fiasco - or asleep at the wheel when it happened - and utterly derelict in their sworn duty afterwards.
Coulda, shoulda, woulda...
That's a child's response to an adult's question.
Too bad none of this was a concern for these so-called representatives until it became glaringly obvious the people they were representing weren't about to let it continue any longer.
Save your hand-wringing gentlemen and ladies of the House and Senate. Just sit quietly until next election when we can finally vote your fucking asses right out of office.
Assuming, of course, you (and our ripe for impeachment President) allow the upcoming elections to take place.
Once again we see a young politician, obviously in way over his head, being managed by people with an agenda.
In such an environment, who can you believe any more?
It's no less ridiculous to argue all this concern is "about nothing" as it is to speculate exactly how much these agencies have on the president - or what threats might have been made regarding his personal safety if he didn't back down. Because either speculation could easily 'explain' the president's sudden and absolute flip-flop on all his previous positions on these issues.
The left out charges for being a kiddie porn addict, drug dealer, dog abuser, movie and music pirate, jaywalker, domestic terrorist, library book stealer, and disturber of the peace...wtf?
In the wake of all the continuing revelations, and refusal to provide any substantive responses to legitimate concerns and questions, I see no reason to extend this rogue administration any courtesy or benefit of doubt.
To re-purpose former CIA anti-terrorism director Cofer Black's now infamous words about 9/11:
All you need to know is that there was a before PRISM and there was an after PRISM. After PRISM, the gloves come off.
On the post: Supreme Court May Take A Shot At Defining The Point At Which Protected Speech Becomes An Unprotectable 'Threat'
- It will initiate spiraling attempts to establish increasingly complex legislation to "clarifiy" and "define" free speech in increasingly turgid legal verbiage.
- It will likely play into the creation of misguided (but increasingly popular) "zero tolerance" state laws.
- It will do nothing to cut down on wrongful arrests or prosecutions.
Cops don't usually read or understand the law. They react to 'keyword triggers.' Which is a fancy way of saying: (a) slap a label on someone (b) make the arrest (c) let the judge sort it out.
On the post: Dutch Ruppersberger Proposes Replacing Bulk Metadata Collections With Targeted Pen Register Searches
On the post: YouTube Gives UK Gov't Broad Powers To Censor Videos It Doesn't Like, Even If They're Legal [Update: Or Not]
So freedom ends
So freedom ends
Not with a bang but 'an accommodation.'
(with apologies to T.S.Eliot)
On the post: Hey, Ukraine, How'd Tamping Down Free Speech Work Out For You?
Seriously?
Yeah, we'll see how well trampling on free speech works out when Russia crosses the Ukrainian border to "restore legal order" and "protect ethnic Russians" from hooligans about two days from now.
Can you say: Hungary? Czechoslovakia? Romania...?
On the post: California Cracking Down On Coding Bootcamps For Teaching Coding Without A License
Ok...but
Right now, I think the cost might be a bigger impediment to a would-be coder than anything the government is currently doing.
On the post: Obama Plans Cosmetic Changes To NSA: Embraces 'The Spirit Of Reform' But Not The Substance
re: Obama
On the post: Obama Plans Cosmetic Changes To NSA: Embraces 'The Spirit Of Reform' But Not The Substance
from the 'We are so pwned' dept.
Truth is: they are all scared to death of this monster they've created - and just like with J. Edgar Hoover back in the 60s and 70s - there isn't an elected official anywhere in the US government that has a sufficient enough political (or physical) death wish to dare try to put a leash on this puppy.
Like Dr. Dippel von Frankenstein, they're now wringing their hands and asking: "What have we done?"
On the post: Upset About Beyonce Going Digital, Target Refuses To Stock New Album
Oh boy! Bad Target! Bad Bad Target!
Imagine...wanting to sell somebody music on hard media so anyone could play it anywhere, loan it to anybody, reencode it to play on any - and as many - devices as they like, and even sell it to somebody else. Much better to require them to buy an expensive appliance locked into a single company store if they want to hear a certain song.
Yeah, that really sucks. Target is acting like a child by not being willing to go along with Apple/RIAA's new vision of reality (i.e. distribution monopoly) people like Beyonce have so obviously signed onto.
Yes indeed. It's perfectly fair and grownup to say "my bat, my ball, my rules" if you're Apple. But not if you're a retailer who would rather not encourage or give silent unintended support to the practice of single sourcing music.
DRM-Digital is not the wave of the future. It's a throwback to the days when records were only playable on specific record players - and each record player manufacturer was busy signing exclusive contracts with as many musicians as possible. Want Caruso? Buy Victorola. Want Jolson? Buy Westinghouse. Want to listen to everything? Plan on buying several players.
Sometimes the more things change, the sooner they go back to what they used to be.
On the post: German Court Says CEO Of Open Source Company Liable For 'Illegal' Functions Submitted By Community
Re: Maybe I'll sue...
On the post: Cops And Schools Collide Again: School Fight Ends With Tased Teen In Medically-Induced Coma
Stop right where you are! You know the score, pal. You're not cop, you're little people!
On the post: Keith Alexander Offered To Resign, But White House Said No Because It Didn't Want Snowden To Win
At least if he remains a government employee they can enforce his silence.
On the post: Eric Schmidt Claims Google Considered Moving Its Servers Out Of The US To Avoid The NSA
spin spin spin
That's the equation
spin spin spin
It's a lie for every purpose
Under heaven...
On the post: Keith Alexander, On Stage While Story Of NSA Infiltrations Breaks, Tries To Mislead With Response
If they ever do another remake of 1984, I want Alexander in it as O'Brien!
On the post: Rep. Mike Rogers Angrily Defends Bathroom Spycam
On the post: Apple Rejects Thomas Jefferson Book App, Claiming It's Just A Book... Even Though It's Not
Re:
Came back for seconds.
On the post: Guy Who Wrote Legal Memos Defending US Torture Defends NSA Because It Takes Too Long To Obey The Constitution
This man needs a drone
If Yoo were working as a legal advisor for a different country - and promulgating the same actions against the United States as he advocated the US had the right to employ against others - there would already be a CIA drone circling around with his picture loaded in it's memory banks.
On the post: Rep. Morgan Griffith: If Latest Leaks On NSA Had Come Out Earlier, NSA-Defunding Amendment Would Have Passed
More bullshit and spin
Coulda, shoulda, woulda...
That's a child's response to an adult's question.
Too bad none of this was a concern for these so-called representatives until it became glaringly obvious the people they were representing weren't about to let it continue any longer.
Save your hand-wringing gentlemen and ladies of the House and Senate. Just sit quietly until next election when we can finally vote your fucking asses right out of office.
Assuming, of course, you (and our ripe for impeachment President) allow the upcoming elections to take place.
On the post: Jennifer Hoelzer's Insider's View Of The Administration's Response To NSA Surveillance Leaks
In such an environment, who can you believe any more?
It's no less ridiculous to argue all this concern is "about nothing" as it is to speculate exactly how much these agencies have on the president - or what threats might have been made regarding his personal safety if he didn't back down. Because either speculation could easily 'explain' the president's sudden and absolute flip-flop on all his previous positions on these issues.
On the post: Government Argues Bradley Manning Was An Anarchist, As Case Closes
What got left out
They're trying to let this guy off easy.
On the post: Congress Should Support Amash Amendment Just Because White House Statement Is So Insulting
Time to call it what it is and deal with it
To re-purpose former CIA anti-terrorism director Cofer Black's now infamous words about 9/11:
All you need to know is that there was a before PRISM and there was an after PRISM. After PRISM, the gloves come off.
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