Re: More dangerous than just copyright infringement!
There is a case like that. A political site leeched an image from some guy. Guy notices the hits and sees that they are wankers so he changes the image hosted on his server to something more amusing. Which is reflected on the political site.
Guy gets charged for hacking the political site. Hijinks ensue! He obviously "hacked" the other site...
So not only would those messages be available to every government for the asking. (And to everyone else once that leaks), it would be super easy for FB to use the contents for their own purposes.
Sounds legit to me.
Doesn't this mean that all of the EU would be subject to whatever rulings might come to pass in China? Time to scrub Tiamon Square from the global record!
In the States, "Fake News" means anything critical of the president. Why should it be any different in Singapore? The sitting president just called for a boycott of companies critical to his shenanigans.
Because Spectrum can't monitor every website I go to, slow the services they don't like, use my metadata to sell targeted adds, block voip or VPN services they don't like, and I have several other ISP's to choose from.
Oh wait - none of that is true! They have an unshakable monopoly over my internet and have shown they are willing to block, throttle and upcharge in the past.
Do you think that is a process that could be completed in under ten years?
Better to not pass the damn thing and writeup some legislation that reduces patent protection rather than increasing it.
Fighting a law all the way to the Supreme Court is a lengthy and expensive prospect. In the meantime bad patents would continue to churn at an accelerated rate.
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Re: Re: Re:
Who are "They"?
On the post: The Impossibility Of Content Moderation: YouTube's New Ban On Nazis Hits Reporter Who Documents Extremism, Professor Teaching About Hitler
Re: Re: So, let me play a Proud boy....
So the choice is no moderation, bad moderation, or no content.
Which one are you choosing?
On the post: The Impossibility Of Content Moderation: YouTube's New Ban On Nazis Hits Reporter Who Documents Extremism, Professor Teaching About Hitler
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If you're a shitbag on the left, you get a pass though.
And no matter what evident to the contrary, you are going to whine about nazi's being persecured unfairly.
On the post: The Impossibility Of Content Moderation Plays Out, Once Again, On YouTube
Re: Evidently "humiliating but not life-threatening" is OK somet
Where does the article say that Crowder was threatening Maza's life?
On the post: Settlement In Tom Brady Photo Case Leaves Issue Of Copyright On Embedded Images Unsettled
Re: More dangerous than just copyright infringement!
There is a case like that. A political site leeched an image from some guy. Guy notices the hits and sees that they are wankers so he changes the image hosted on his server to something more amusing. Which is reflected on the political site.
Guy gets charged for hacking the political site. Hijinks ensue! He obviously "hacked" the other site...
On the post: Caterpillar Inc. Bullies Cat And Cloud Coffee Shop Over Its Store's Apparel
Re: As an aside, I am disappointed...
But can we pet the hipsters?
On the post: Trump Whines About AT&T, Ignores His FCC Has Spent Two Years Kissing The Company's Ass
Re:
Well he's blissfully unaware that CNN's ratings are up. So he's an idiot and a liar.
On the post: European Court Of Justice Suggests Maybe The Entire Internet Should Be Censored And Filtered
Re:
It sounds to me like Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek is legitimately a corrupt oaf.
I'm not so sure about that, but obviously hers is a party of fascists if they support this sort of censorship.
On the post: Trump Whines About AT&T, Ignores His FCC Has Spent Two Years Kissing The Company's Ass
Classy
Sure is classy for the sitting president to tell people to shut down any news critical of him like that isn't it?
On the post: As Germany Floats The Idea Of Encryption Backdoors, Facebook May Already Be Planning To Undermine Its Own Encryption
Unecrypted
So not only would those messages be available to every government for the asking. (And to everyone else once that leaks), it would be super easy for FB to use the contents for their own purposes.
Sounds legit to me.
On the post: European Court Of Justice Suggests Maybe The Entire Internet Should Be Censored And Filtered
Local Law
Doesn't this mean that all of the EU would be subject to whatever rulings might come to pass in China? Time to scrub Tiamon Square from the global record!
On the post: Caterpillar Inc. Bullies Cat And Cloud Coffee Shop Over Its Store's Apparel
Cats
CAT is an abbreviation, not an acronym. As least as far as I could see the letters don't form a TLA.
On the post: New Study Shows That All This Ad Targeting Doesn't Work That Well
Re: Re: Re: Facebook and Google need to suck up more and more da
Hey Blue Balls - Thanks for posting! How is that "Cabbage Law" working out for you?
Is your super-nice blog doing free speech better than TD yet? No? Aw.
On the post: Killing News Comments Only Solidified Google, Facebook Dominance
Re: Re: Techdirt Community
definitely not the brave, open, free speech forum claimed
I never claimed that. Could you please point us to the super unmoderated web blog you run that is chock fulla free speech?
...didn't think so.
On the post: Singapore's Fake News Law Is Also An Internet Surveillance Law
Fake Out
In the States, "Fake News" means anything critical of the president. Why should it be any different in Singapore? The sitting president just called for a boycott of companies critical to his shenanigans.
On the post: If 'Big Tech' Is a Huge Antitrust Problem, Why Are We Ignoring Telecom?
Obviously
Because Spectrum can't monitor every website I go to, slow the services they don't like, use my metadata to sell targeted adds, block voip or VPN services they don't like, and I have several other ISP's to choose from.
Oh wait - none of that is true! They have an unshakable monopoly over my internet and have shown they are willing to block, throttle and upcharge in the past.
On the post: Qualcomm Used Patent Monopolies To Shake Down The Entire Mobile Phone Industry For Decades
Free Market
Patent and IP law are crass government protectionism, and have nothing to do with "Innovation" or "Property."
But I'm sure this is just a (Multi-billion) dollar exception.
On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
Re: Not quite
I believe the answer he gave once was "Cabbage Law" contains laws so important that no one has written them down. Seriously.
On the post: Bethesda And Zenimax Settle 'Redfall' Trademark Dispute With Trollish Book Publisher
Re:
Better would be not seeing these trademark bullying cases at all, two krap settlements don't make it right. Take what we can get I guess?
The other article doesn't mention the parent company ZeniMax, which is actually kinda an odd oversite:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110927/10013316111/bethesda-turns-down-quake-fight-ove r-scrolls-name-takes-guaranteed-loss-going-to-court.shtml
On the post: Congress Now Pushing 'Bring Back The Patent Trolls' Bill
Re: Jurisdiction fight!
Do you think that is a process that could be completed in under ten years?
Better to not pass the damn thing and writeup some legislation that reduces patent protection rather than increasing it.
Fighting a law all the way to the Supreme Court is a lengthy and expensive prospect. In the meantime bad patents would continue to churn at an accelerated rate.
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