It's a shame to witness the death of America via this trial and sentence. The entire world is watching the once land of blind justice collapse in on itself.
Anyone who could believe that the trial was just? Already the other defendants have brought evidence that the prosecutors and even the AG brought illegal pressure to bear on the coroner to change his report (or be replaced....this is documented).
That's fair to you? The world is watching and they aren't so blind. Two-tiered justice capped by mob rule. That's what America now looks like.
Congratulations. You could be writing a different column. But you just don't think it will happen to you one day.
"They complain that what these platforms are doing to their posts must somehow be violating their First Amendment rights—and they are completely and utterly wrong on that point."
No they aren't. These monopolies have taken the place of the Common Square and must now be treated just like the phone company is. They have no Free Speech rights at all.
Just because that does not happen to be the way it is this minute doesn't mean you need to write non-stop about how Jordan and Gaetz are " utterly" wrong.
You should instead be writing about how utterly right they are and what steps we all should be taking to move these monopolies to the status of public utility.
You are letting your prejudice cloud your writing.
When you write: "Governor Ron DeSantis' war on imagined anti-conservative bias" this is so obviously deluded that everything you wrote after and even everything you wrote before, immediately fails.
What is the point of reading the work of someone who thinks that anti-conservative bias and censorship is "imagined." So it was people's imagination that the top conservative in the United States was de-platformed? Are you an escaped inmate from a decayed mental institution or do you just play one on TV?
I mean what is the point is writing as you do? Does anyone believe a word you say?
Former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell -- last seen being sued by a voting machine maker after making (and filing) a bunch of baseless claims about a "stolen" election -- is headed to Detroit, Michigan. There will be some more Michigan-focused courtroom action, but it won't be Powell playing offense.
1.Powell was not Trump's lawyer former or current.
Powell was last seen on video at a recent convention predicting the decertification of Joe Biden by August.
The claims are not baseless. There are mountains of proof.
The election wasn't "stolen". The election was instead stolen.
Patience,little locust. You have no idea at all what role Powell will be playing, but my money is on her going on offense.
Dominion can not bear examination of their machines. This is a gigantic bluff on their part and you fell for it. Remind me to play poker with you. You are so easily led astray by your TDS.
The term disinformation is an insult to the intelligence of any human. It is nothing more and nothing less than an excuse for censorship.
If you don't think what someone says is true? Then don't listen to it! It's not disinformation. It's simply a different point of view.
Big Brother is coming for Tech Dirt, too. Soon, you too will be accused of spreading disinformation.
Instead of acceding to it (because Trump)? You should be fighting it tooth and nail. They will come for you next.
Disinformation is a term used by totalitarians to suppress freedom of speech and expression. It is the death knell of a free society, an innovative society. The lifeblood of a dynamic society is the freedom to speak "disinformation" at any and all times.
What is bizarrely ignorant is anyone who would not be in favor of bringing tech totalitarian censorship to justice. Maybe almost as bizarrely ignorant as anyone who would write an article in favor of totalitarianism.
In the first few sentences of the complaint, the fools claim the Act infringes on the ability of the tech monopolies' editorial judgment. Meaning they are admitting they are a publisher. Meaning 230 protection should be immediately revoked for all tech totalitarian monopolies. Oopsie.
If the schoolmarm dictators at big Tech were smart they'd lobby for public utility status and fire all moderators. Farmers need a lot of workers and so do chicken processing plants. All the insane modulators/monitors whatever the devils are calling themselves this week can go find useful work picking grapes and oranges.
However, if the tech monopolies want to continue to exercise editorial judgment? Great. No more 230 and then they can be sued into eternity by all of the Americans they've harmed by their un-American anti-Free Speech actions.
The idiocy of big tech censorship was illustrated perfectly this past week when Facebook had to stop banning the Wuhan lab theory of COVID. Logical and scientific thought is full of theories to be considered, not censored. I hope they win. Then let the lawsuits flood in. Can't wait.
Paper ballots, hand counted in front of observers at each precinct. That's the way they do it in other countries, like England.
Elections should never be done with "machines," which have been shown over and over and over again to be easily hackable. Why are the techies at Tech Dirt not aware of this fact?
The cop's lawyers are correct and their objections should prevail.
What a person says in private has nothing to do with the trial: only their actions should be judged.
Furthermore, a cop using the n-word, the same word that black people use 10 times a day means nothing. If blacks can use the word, so can others including cops.
Moreover, what the cop said is obviously true: A corrupt black-supremacist DA is not prosecuting violent crimes, which are committed most of them by black people (vastly out of proportion to their population). You just don't like the way he said what was true in his eyes and the eyes of most people.
You apparently think that if someone's speech is not polite according to your sensibilities, it should be prohibited and/or used to pillory the speaker, the opposite of the principle of Free Speech.
You are letting your emotions cloud your thinking. If the cop broke the law, convict him of breaking the law and punish him. Don't convict him on his speech.
It's far more likely that the removal of qualified immunity defense will not cause police to "act legally" but instead simply cause few if any to want to be cops.
With that protection removed, anyone can sue any cop for any reason....and they surely will. Every cop will become mired in multiple law suits, some of which may succeed, most of which probably will not.
It won't matter though. Policing as an occupation will be dead. Who on earth would want to work a job where they can be sued all day and all night for anything at any time?
You seem to believe that qualified immunity, the concept, is solely in place so the cops can do illegal things. That's not what it's there for. You'll find out. Soon enough. Keep on with this madness. Reap the whirlwind.
So this prof was discredited and disgraced, eh? Looks like he was MeToo'ed after talking positively about Kavanaugh's frame up. So then he was framed.
Since when is he disgraced? How is he discredited? Looks like he may have hit on a student. So what? Who cares? Why is this the framing for a story on Big Tech monopoly and censorship?
The issue is the totalitarianism, not if some hetero dude said something to some people about some things.
So totalitarian censorship by crazed lunatics is not that important? Well, just what is important in your little world? As I said before: they coming for you, buddy. Will it be important then for you? Ron White was right: You just can't fix stupid..
What a breath of fresh air for a company to ban social justice banshees from the company. The business of Bandcamp is music not who has the correct political beliefs. He should have gone farther. All the people doing their social justice idiocy should have been let go.
Replaced by people who want to work, not monitor others. Such a great development. We can only hope that all companies dismantle all of the Diversity Departments immediately. I know. Those employees will have to go back to being Starbucks baristas, where they belong.
The next step would be cutting all HR departments by 90 percent. Or 99 percent. They are utterly useless and serve no positive purpose. Perhaps the ones that are cut can become farm workers thus obviating the need to have illegals come in to do jobs Americans won't do.
We an only hope and pray that this is a trend that will take over all American companies.
Uh, Chauvin did not murder anyone. At the trial the other angle was shown in full that clearly shows there was no knee on Floyd's neck. The autopsy shows no evidence whatsoever of murder. It's difficult to understand how anyone who watched even a small part of the trial could write this nonsense.I
t looks pretty clear the trial will be thrown out on appeal, so the only thing that changed, history-wise, was the justice system was corrupted and policing weakened, which will (and already has) lead to thousands of violent deaths in black communities all over the US.
So Dominion is "Definitely" not saying what Dominion is saying? Huh?
Why is Dominion saying anything if no one is saying what has been said about Dominion for the past 10 years?
Why would a corrupt company supported by ignorant fools think they could sue anyone when they have already been revealed for years to be corrupt?
Why would TechDirt support these corrupt corporations? It makes no sense. Why would you want to go with this?
It does not matter What Hawley agrees or disagrees with. The totalitarian, censoring, anti-American companies should be broken up because they censor views.
Censorship (aka moderation) is a double-edged sword that you don't see coming for you. Soon you will be wishing the Josh Hawley had succeeded. They coming for you, matey.
More body cam footage shows the Lil Homicide Thug had a gun and threw it.
Oops. Busted.
Try to find a 13 year old who doesn't hang at 3AM in Chicago with gangsters next time.
It would make your phony Narrative a bit more believable. Still not believable, but maybe a few more retarded morons would believe that 13 year olds that call themselves Lil Homicide and run around with guns at 3 in the morning are "victims."
It looks more like you are a "victim" of stupidity.
When a military officer decides to disobey orders from law enforcement repeatedly?
We aren't all on the same side.
The US Military officer should be court martialed for insubordination. Of all people, he should have understood authority since he lives it every day of his ding dang life.
It looks like he decided that he could provoke a big pay out in a law suit and that's just what he is doing now.
And yes, the Mexican cop talked too much shit. He let his anger at the US Military man's blatant disobeying orders get to him.
But that doesn't negate the US Military man's nonsense. DO NOT RESIST ARREST. DO NOT DISOBEY THE POLICE.
Something that it seems every race understands and does. All except one race. And it apparently does not matter if members of that race are in the US Military, where obeying orders are their everyday 24/7 life.
It beggars belief. Wtf? How was this US Military person so stupid?
On the post: Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin Sentenced To Twenty-Two Years For Killing George Floyd
Death
It's a shame to witness the death of America via this trial and sentence. The entire world is watching the once land of blind justice collapse in on itself.
Anyone who could believe that the trial was just? Already the other defendants have brought evidence that the prosecutors and even the AG brought illegal pressure to bear on the coroner to change his report (or be replaced....this is documented).
That's fair to you? The world is watching and they aren't so blind. Two-tiered justice capped by mob rule. That's what America now looks like.
Congratulations. You could be writing a different column. But you just don't think it will happen to you one day.
On the post: Marco Rubio Jumps To The Head Of The Line Of Ignorant Fools Pushing Dumb Social Media Regulation Bills
Dumb
What he's pushing may be dumb, but it's at least something.
What are you pushing for a long past due change to this censorship anti-American madness?
Complain about Rubio less, be constructive more.
On the post: Creating State Action Via Antitrust Law And Making The People Who've Been Wrong About The Constitutionality Of Content Moderation Suddenly Right
Wrong?
"They complain that what these platforms are doing to their posts must somehow be violating their First Amendment rights—and they are completely and utterly wrong on that point."
No they aren't. These monopolies have taken the place of the Common Square and must now be treated just like the phone company is. They have no Free Speech rights at all.
Just because that does not happen to be the way it is this minute doesn't mean you need to write non-stop about how Jordan and Gaetz are " utterly" wrong.
You should instead be writing about how utterly right they are and what steps we all should be taking to move these monopolies to the status of public utility.
You are letting your prejudice cloud your writing.
On the post: Florida Steps Up To Defend Its Unconstitutional Social Media Law And It's Every Bit As Terrible As You'd Imagine
Failure
When you write: "Governor Ron DeSantis' war on imagined anti-conservative bias" this is so obviously deluded that everything you wrote after and even everything you wrote before, immediately fails.
What is the point of reading the work of someone who thinks that anti-conservative bias and censorship is "imagined." So it was people's imagination that the top conservative in the United States was de-platformed? Are you an escaped inmate from a decayed mental institution or do you just play one on TV?
I mean what is the point is writing as you do? Does anyone believe a word you say?
On the post: Former Trump Lawyer Facing Sanctions In Michigan Now Saying The Things She Said Were Opinions Are Actually Facts
Errors
Former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell -- last seen being sued by a voting machine maker after making (and filing) a bunch of baseless claims about a "stolen" election -- is headed to Detroit, Michigan. There will be some more Michigan-focused courtroom action, but it won't be Powell playing offense.
1.Powell was not Trump's lawyer former or current.
Dominion can not bear examination of their machines. This is a gigantic bluff on their part and you fell for it. Remind me to play poker with you. You are so easily led astray by your TDS.
On the post: Data Analysis Shows That Trump's Messages Still Received Tons Of Attention; Though His Disinformation Doesn't Travel As Far
Disinfo
The term disinformation is an insult to the intelligence of any human. It is nothing more and nothing less than an excuse for censorship.
If you don't think what someone says is true? Then don't listen to it! It's not disinformation. It's simply a different point of view.
Big Brother is coming for Tech Dirt, too. Soon, you too will be accused of spreading disinformation.
Instead of acceding to it (because Trump)? You should be fighting it tooth and nail. They will come for you next.
Disinformation is a term used by totalitarians to suppress freedom of speech and expression. It is the death knell of a free society, an innovative society. The lifeblood of a dynamic society is the freedom to speak "disinformation" at any and all times.
On the post: Washington Post Runs Bizarrely Ignorant Opinion Piece Claiming Florida's Content Moderation Law Is Constitutional
Bizarre
What is bizarrely ignorant is anyone who would not be in favor of bringing tech totalitarian censorship to justice. Maybe almost as bizarrely ignorant as anyone who would write an article in favor of totalitarianism.
On the post: First Legal Challenge To Florida's Unconstitutional Social Media Moderation Law Has Been Filed
The first few sentences
In the first few sentences of the complaint, the fools claim the Act infringes on the ability of the tech monopolies' editorial judgment. Meaning they are admitting they are a publisher. Meaning 230 protection should be immediately revoked for all tech totalitarian monopolies. Oopsie.
If the schoolmarm dictators at big Tech were smart they'd lobby for public utility status and fire all moderators. Farmers need a lot of workers and so do chicken processing plants. All the insane modulators/monitors whatever the devils are calling themselves this week can go find useful work picking grapes and oranges.
However, if the tech monopolies want to continue to exercise editorial judgment? Great. No more 230 and then they can be sued into eternity by all of the Americans they've harmed by their un-American anti-Free Speech actions.
The idiocy of big tech censorship was illustrated perfectly this past week when Facebook had to stop banning the Wuhan lab theory of COVID. Logical and scientific thought is full of theories to be considered, not censored. I hope they win. Then let the lawsuits flood in. Can't wait.
On the post: Arizona County's Voting Machines Rendered Unusable By OAN-Financed Vote Auditors
Machines
Hey Sport,
How about stop using machines at all?
Paper ballots, hand counted in front of observers at each precinct. That's the way they do it in other countries, like England.
Elections should never be done with "machines," which have been shown over and over and over again to be easily hackable. Why are the techies at Tech Dirt not aware of this fact?
it beggars belief.
On the post: Violent, Bigoted Cop Accused Of Beating Another Cop Is Upset His Text Messages Expose Him As A Violent Bigot
Well Done
The cop's lawyers are correct and their objections should prevail.
What a person says in private has nothing to do with the trial: only their actions should be judged.
Furthermore, a cop using the n-word, the same word that black people use 10 times a day means nothing. If blacks can use the word, so can others including cops.
Moreover, what the cop said is obviously true: A corrupt black-supremacist DA is not prosecuting violent crimes, which are committed most of them by black people (vastly out of proportion to their population). You just don't like the way he said what was true in his eyes and the eyes of most people.
You apparently think that if someone's speech is not polite according to your sensibilities, it should be prohibited and/or used to pillory the speaker, the opposite of the principle of Free Speech.
You are letting your emotions cloud your thinking. If the cop broke the law, convict him of breaking the law and punish him. Don't convict him on his speech.
On the post: New York Police Union Tells NYPD End Of Qualified Immunity Will Force Officers To... Act Lawfully
Most Likely
It's far more likely that the removal of qualified immunity defense will not cause police to "act legally" but instead simply cause few if any to want to be cops.
With that protection removed, anyone can sue any cop for any reason....and they surely will. Every cop will become mired in multiple law suits, some of which may succeed, most of which probably will not.
It won't matter though. Policing as an occupation will be dead. Who on earth would want to work a job where they can be sued all day and all night for anything at any time?
You seem to believe that qualified immunity, the concept, is solely in place so the cops can do illegal things. That's not what it's there for. You'll find out. Soon enough. Keep on with this madness. Reap the whirlwind.
On the post: Disgraced Yale Law Professor Now Defending Anti-Vaxxers In Court With His Nonsense Section 230 Ideas
Dis and dis and dat
So this prof was discredited and disgraced, eh? Looks like he was MeToo'ed after talking positively about Kavanaugh's frame up. So then he was framed.
Since when is he disgraced? How is he discredited? Looks like he may have hit on a student. So what? Who cares? Why is this the framing for a story on Big Tech monopoly and censorship?
The issue is the totalitarianism, not if some hetero dude said something to some people about some things.
On the post: The Oversight Board's Decision On Facebook's Trump Ban Is Just Not That Important
Nonchalant
So totalitarian censorship by crazed lunatics is not that important? Well, just what is important in your little world? As I said before: they coming for you, buddy. Will it be important then for you? Ron White was right: You just can't fix stupid..
On the post: Basecamp Bans Politics, An Act That Itself Is Political
No Reason
What a breath of fresh air for a company to ban social justice banshees from the company. The business of Bandcamp is music not who has the correct political beliefs. He should have gone farther. All the people doing their social justice idiocy should have been let go.
Replaced by people who want to work, not monitor others. Such a great development. We can only hope that all companies dismantle all of the Diversity Departments immediately. I know. Those employees will have to go back to being Starbucks baristas, where they belong.
The next step would be cutting all HR departments by 90 percent. Or 99 percent. They are utterly useless and serve no positive purpose. Perhaps the ones that are cut can become farm workers thus obviating the need to have illegals come in to do jobs Americans won't do.
We an only hope and pray that this is a trend that will take over all American companies.
On the post: Thanks To Crappy Cable Channel Bundles, Non-Watchers Hugely Subsidize Tucker Carlson And Fox News
who you gonna believe
So you seriously believe that the most-watched guy on cable at this time, it's only because of bundling?
It couldn't be because his shows are great? It couldn't be because he is a dissident voice?
Breathtaking. Truly astonishing. In all my days, I never thought I'd witness such a flow from another human being in America.
On the post: The Other George Floyd Story: How Media Freedom Led To Conviction In His Killer's Trial
Astonishing
Uh, Chauvin did not murder anyone. At the trial the other angle was shown in full that clearly shows there was no knee on Floyd's neck. The autopsy shows no evidence whatsoever of murder. It's difficult to understand how anyone who watched even a small part of the trial could write this nonsense.I
t looks pretty clear the trial will be thrown out on appeal, so the only thing that changed, history-wise, was the justice system was corrupted and policing weakened, which will (and already has) lead to thousands of violent deaths in black communities all over the US.
On the post: MyPillow CEO Sues Dominion For Violating His Company's Right To Say The Things About Election Fraud It Definitely Isn't Saying
Saying
So Dominion is "Definitely" not saying what Dominion is saying? Huh?
Why is Dominion saying anything if no one is saying what has been said about Dominion for the past 10 years?
Why would a corrupt company supported by ignorant fools think they could sue anyone when they have already been revealed for years to be corrupt?
Why would TechDirt support these corrupt corporations? It makes no sense. Why would you want to go with this?
It's astonishing.
On the post: Josh Hawley: We Must Break Up Companies Whose Politics I Disagree With For Discriminating Against People Whose Politics I Agree With
Agreement is Irrelevant
It does not matter What Hawley agrees or disagrees with. The totalitarian, censoring, anti-American companies should be broken up because they censor views.
Censorship (aka moderation) is a double-edged sword that you don't see coming for you. Soon you will be wishing the Josh Hawley had succeeded. They coming for you, matey.
On the post: Released Body Cam Footage Shows Chicago Cop Shoot And Kill An Unarmed 13-Year-Old
Oopsie
More body cam footage shows the Lil Homicide Thug had a gun and threw it.
Oops. Busted.
Try to find a 13 year old who doesn't hang at 3AM in Chicago with gangsters next time.
It would make your phony Narrative a bit more believable. Still not believable, but maybe a few more retarded morons would believe that 13 year olds that call themselves Lil Homicide and run around with guns at 3 in the morning are "victims."
It looks more like you are a "victim" of stupidity.
On the post: I Guess They're Not All On The Same Side: Cops Brutalize Soldier For [Checks Notes] Leading Them To A Well-Lit Area
You Are So Right
"We" all aren't on the same side.
When a military officer decides to disobey orders from law enforcement repeatedly?
We aren't all on the same side.
The US Military officer should be court martialed for insubordination. Of all people, he should have understood authority since he lives it every day of his ding dang life.
It looks like he decided that he could provoke a big pay out in a law suit and that's just what he is doing now.
And yes, the Mexican cop talked too much shit. He let his anger at the US Military man's blatant disobeying orders get to him.
But that doesn't negate the US Military man's nonsense. DO NOT RESIST ARREST. DO NOT DISOBEY THE POLICE.
Something that it seems every race understands and does. All except one race. And it apparently does not matter if members of that race are in the US Military, where obeying orders are their everyday 24/7 life.
It beggars belief. Wtf? How was this US Military person so stupid?
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