...is that the US is not in last place, even among so-called "developed" nations. It's still not cold comfort, though, because we could have decent infrastructure but the politicians are too goddamn corrupt.
This lawsuit may be useful for fundraising campaigns and silly pandering about how much of a "victim" Hart is, but it's not a serious legal complaint and the courts are likely to treat it with exactly the level of respect it deserves.
Basically this. These lawsuits are done by bad-faith grifters so they can "take on the socialist dumb-o-crats and big tech" to raise money rather than win a case (unless they forum-shop for a really bad circuit).
Interestingly, if Democrats can successfully stop telecom companies from donationing to Republicans
Dems and people on the left can't do it via legislation because of the first amendment. We can use other means, such as boycotts, pressure campaigns, etc., though.
Interesting that Hustler v. Falwell is mentioned, because the dramatization of that case and the lead-up to it in The People vs. Larry Flynt galvanized me into a civil libertarian and a card-carrying member of the ACLU.
From the latest followup posted, it seems they actually think they might be able to work something out (which probably means either they are painfully naive or it's not Nintendo).
Even the ever-intransigent IP bully Nintendo is willing to bend. Check this out. (For some strange reason, Nintendo doesn't take the same strict manipulative attitude to hardware as they do to software, otherwise neither the chiptune scene nor NES and Super NES clones would exist)
Obviously he hasn't read some of the textbooks used in the nation where people were taught that slavery was good for the darkies & without us helping them that way they would still be in the jungle killing each other.
He doesn't even have to look very far. There are lots of them in Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive.
Is this the same Armstrong Williams responsible for for being in a scandal where he was paid $240,000 to shill for No Child Left Behind?
Even though I couldn't find the Daily Show with Jon Stewart clip, I remember it almost verbatim:
News reporter: "Were you being paid by a company to promote No Child Left Behind?"
Armstrong Williams: "No, no, no…"
<pause>
Armstrong Williams: "I own the company."
Jon Stewart <in the voice of Comic Book Guy>: Worst…Damage Control…ever!
I wish the clip weren't excised from the internet because it's permanently relevant. Must be Williams' right to be forgotten…
The United States didn't need such a law. Cubby v Compuserve was from 1991, predating section 230 by several years.
There's also the case of Stratton Oakmont v. Prodigy, which had the opposite ruling. Rather than let both rulings remain and lead to legal uncertainty, §230 was created to resolve it once and for all.
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That's irrelevant as to whether the first amendment can prohibit them from being blocked by the government, which in this case they do not.
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The Olympics?
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The only shocking thing about this...
...is that the US is not in last place, even among so-called "developed" nations. It's still not cold comfort, though, because we could have decent infrastructure but the politicians are too goddamn corrupt.
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Lawsuit as Fundraising tactic…
Basically this. These lawsuits are done by bad-faith grifters so they can "take on the socialist dumb-o-crats and big tech" to raise money rather than win a case (unless they forum-shop for a really bad circuit).
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Re: DeSantis' odds
I like those odds, because I could win big by betting against them!
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Re: Heads I Win
Dems and people on the left can't do it via legislation because of the first amendment. We can use other means, such as boycotts, pressure campaigns, etc., though.
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you mean this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9TL3rDXVcM
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So does IP, yet the US constitution says that those laws could be made.
(BTW, even without the US constitution's clauses on © and patents, I still think we'd have © and patent law due to the fact that we signed international IP treaties and have to abide by them).
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Re: Hustler v. Falwell
Interesting that Hustler v. Falwell is mentioned, because the dramatization of that case and the lead-up to it in The People vs. Larry Flynt galvanized me into a civil libertarian and a card-carrying member of the ACLU.
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It's just that in the past it was overt racism instead of the coy and cowardly "I'm not racist" racism where people don't own their racism.
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Re: Re: naming the bully
Even the ever-intransigent IP bully Nintendo is willing to bend. Check this out. (For some strange reason, Nintendo doesn't take the same strict manipulative attitude to hardware as they do to software, otherwise neither the chiptune scene nor NES and Super NES clones would exist)
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He doesn't even have to look very far. There are lots of them in Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive.
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Armstrong Williams? Rings a bell…
Is this the same Armstrong Williams responsible for for being in a scandal where he was paid $240,000 to shill for No Child Left Behind?
Even though I couldn't find the Daily Show with Jon Stewart clip, I remember it almost verbatim:
I wish the clip weren't excised from the internet because it's permanently relevant. Must be Williams' right to be forgotten…
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Really? Back up those claims, Koby.
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There's also the case of Stratton Oakmont v. Prodigy, which had the opposite ruling. Rather than let both rulings remain and lead to legal uncertainty, §230 was created to resolve it once and for all.
Why are you so bad at this, Koby?
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Re: ad hoc innoc time
Go away, Blue Balls.
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Re: Livestream
I wonder if qualified immunity applies to © infringement. It would raise a question as to which interests are louder: the MAFIAA or the police unions.
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Big Tech vs. Big Telecom
I would say that it definitely is a policy choice that has to do with campaign contributions.
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Re: Fair use and Lenz v. Universal
I don't think this is just a © thing but a youtube thing: Since © is an "opt-out" system, and the copyright industries go haywire if video services such as youtube or tiktok don't pay their tribute (I'm a © owner, so I understand), they automatically treat any work of authorship as ©'d until proven otherwise. Thankfully, YouTube (or Google, rather) has really good lawyers working there, so they can mitigate some of damage on how to apply © at scale and would probably leave the music up as there's a public interest angle there (and therefore fair use).
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The GOP was going in this direction for a long time, since either Reagan or Nixon...
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