That's not the comparison I'm reading, Mason. What I read is the Satanic Panic being compared to the MS-13 panic.
To me it reads as claiming that the justification for SROs in schools--which is violence, not gang activity specifically--is invalid because the whole thing is silly and overblown, like the Satanic Panic.
In many ways, it actually reminds me of the "Satanic Panic" from back in the 1980s, where adults were freaking out about "the kids" somehow being evil, and freaking out over even the slightest "evidence" to support their own delusions.
...and you compare this to the very real phenomenon of school violence? For shame, Mike.
Do you know what it's like to be in a restaurant, see the TV news that they have on talking about a breaking story of Yet Another School Shooting going on at some random school somewhere in the USA, and then you see the name and you have a feeling of horror break over you as you realize "hey, wait a second, my brother is in that school"? Because I do, and it's quite offensive to see people talking about stuff like this as if it's not a real, serious problem.
Fox News said in open court they had the right to lie and there is nothing anyone can do about it.
Actually no, they didn't. First, it wasn't Fox News, but rather the news department of a Fox-affiliated local TV station. Second, that wasn't even the argument that the news department (that was not Fox News) actually made.
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If referring to Google, did you even read mine where I observe that Google prefers lose-lose to paying a pittance?
Yes. Did you read where I completely pwned that line of "reasoning" by pointing out that the traffic Google News delivers to news organizations is indisputably valuable to them, and therefore it's insane to expect Google to pay them for the privilege of giving them something of value, and that the news publishers ought to be happy Google isn't charging them for it instead?
ContentID causes more harm than it prevents. The only takedown system that makes any sense is to follow the pattern our jurisprudence has laid out for literally everything else: innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. And if publishing interests find this inconvenient, well, too bad. They got the DMCA made law using underhanded means, and they've spent 20 years abusing it, and now it's time to throw it out. This is why they can't have nice things.
And, just like the United States, Canada's solution is often to appoint industry lobbyists to positions of power, who immediately get to work making things worse for their entrenched incumbent pals.
They're not making things worse for them; they're making things better for them, at the expense of everyone else. Maybe it would be better to say "making things worse on behalf of their entrenched incumbent pals"?
While you're correct that this is an appropriate response to WBC-style provocateurs such as the Black Israelites, is there any reason to believe that these high school kids knew that that's what they were dealing with? I didn't know about the WBC back when I was in high school, even though they had been active and doing typical WBC stuff for many years by that point.
Theoretically, yes. In practice... it gets very very difficult without mandatory independent code audits. In other words, open-source enforced by law.
(Please note that I'm not saying open-source principles necessarily should be enforced by law. Just that in my professional judgment as a software developer, without that, the technical difficulties you would have in ensuring that software does not do anything malicious, as you want to do, quickly become almost completely insurmountable.)
Anti-SLAPP laws are a great thing. It would be nice to get an "anti-precedent law" along similar grounds: if someone is sued over allegations that a controlling precedent (such as the Betamax case) says are bogus, they can invoke anti-precedent to get a quick dismissal at the vexatious plaintiff's expense.
$9.99 for most works? I can't recall seeing *anything* on Kindle for that much, and I read Kindle ebooks pretty extensively. The vast majority of them--at least the ones I've seen--are in the $3-$7 range.
They didn't "inject themselves into" anything; they got thrust into it against their will by unscrupulous media. If that were the standard, the public figure distinction for libel would be meaningless, as the act of being libeled itself would then turn someone into a "public figure."
Except every poll taken of actual Native Americans (as opposed to their non-Native liberal white knights) shows that 90%+ have no problem with those sports teams, don't consider them racist, and are not only not offended, but find them to be complimentary.
See also: Japanese reactions to Scarlett Johansson being cast in the movie adaptation of the anime Ghost in the Shell. While a bunch of American busybodies were getting all outraged about "whitewashing," most of the Japanese anime fans couldn't see what the big deal was, with "the character was white in the original anime" being a common response when anybody actually bothered to ask them.
I seem to recall that after the first FC ruling, they sent it back to the lower court to decide, among other things, if this was a fair use, because (they explicitly said) it was plausible that it may have been fair use. And then on the second ruling, those very same people said "there's no way this could have possibly been fair use."
Is there any way to use contradictions like this to prove that the judges were dishonest and need to be removed? The Federal Circuit has been operating as a rogue court for decades now, and it would be nice to see something like this used to rein them in.
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To me it reads as claiming that the justification for SROs in schools--which is violence, not gang activity specifically--is invalid because the whole thing is silly and overblown, like the Satanic Panic.
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...and you compare this to the very real phenomenon of school violence? For shame, Mike.
Do you know what it's like to be in a restaurant, see the TV news that they have on talking about a breaking story of Yet Another School Shooting going on at some random school somewhere in the USA, and then you see the name and you have a feeling of horror break over you as you realize "hey, wait a second, my brother is in that school"? Because I do, and it's quite offensive to see people talking about stuff like this as if it's not a real, serious problem.
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Actually no, they didn't. First, it wasn't Fox News, but rather the news department of a Fox-affiliated local TV station. Second, that wasn't even the argument that the news department (that was not Fox News) actually made.
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Yes. Did you read where I completely pwned that line of "reasoning" by pointing out that the traffic Google News delivers to news organizations is indisputably valuable to them, and therefore it's insane to expect Google to pay them for the privilege of giving them something of value, and that the news publishers ought to be happy Google isn't charging them for it instead?
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I nominate him for President of a cell block.
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ContentID causes more harm than it prevents. The only takedown system that makes any sense is to follow the pattern our jurisprudence has laid out for literally everything else: innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. And if publishing interests find this inconvenient, well, too bad. They got the DMCA made law using underhanded means, and they've spent 20 years abusing it, and now it's time to throw it out. This is why they can't have nice things.
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They're not making things worse for them; they're making things better for them, at the expense of everyone else. Maybe it would be better to say "making things worse on behalf of their entrenched incumbent pals"?
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Theoretically, yes. In practice... it gets very very difficult without mandatory independent code audits. In other words, open-source enforced by law.
(Please note that I'm not saying open-source principles necessarily should be enforced by law. Just that in my professional judgment as a software developer, without that, the technical difficulties you would have in ensuring that software does not do anything malicious, as you want to do, quickly become almost completely insurmountable.)
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Down with all we-hate speech! It must be outlawed, for the good of we, who hate it!
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See also: Japanese reactions to Scarlett Johansson being cast in the movie adaptation of the anime Ghost in the Shell. While a bunch of American busybodies were getting all outraged about "whitewashing," most of the Japanese anime fans couldn't see what the big deal was, with "the character was white in the original anime" being a common response when anybody actually bothered to ask them.
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from the why-do-we-still-not-have-an-edit-option dept.
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Is there any way to use contradictions like this to prove that the judges were dishonest and need to be removed? The Federal Circuit has been operating as a rogue court for decades now, and it would be nice to see something like this used to rein them in.
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