Funny how many articles which appear here take positions which benefit sites which exist and profit from defamation, piracy, hacking, cyberterrorism, etc.
Weird, because on his podcast, he interviewed someone from NIST.
Koby, If you could make more insightful comments like these and less painfully stupid comments vis-à-vis intermediary liability, I would like you a lot, lot more.
How the FSCK did someone get put on the FCC when they have no understanding of the basics of bandwidth work & ignored that ATT refused to pay Googles bandwidth bill for 1 month[?]
You answered your own question, That Anonymous Coward. They were put on the FCC to rubber-stamp mergers and let the telecom monopolies do as they please, not to serve the taxpaying public.
Having listened to the podcast, I got the feeling that Edelman put up a good fight but Mike Masnick was able to shoot down his points in a smart way. For instance, by bringing up the DMCA as an example of what a world with a weakened or nonexistent §230 would look like.
While I don't agree with Mr. Masnick on everything, I do not want to get into a debate with him, because he'd probably win.
The only good thing that came out of AT&T's ownership of WarnerMedia is that new Warner Bros. Movies were available to stream on HBO Max at the same time they were out on theaters. To be fair to Karl Bode, COVID-19 putting everyone under de facto house arrest had more to do with that, but I'm still extremely grateful for it.
It's also worth remembering that your smart TV is just one in a long line of systems collecting and monetizing your data, including the streaming hardware you're using (Roku, etc.)
Welp, I guess hooking up a Roku to a dumb TV has its own privacy problems as well.
There's a reason I use BMI, but not because I think they're the good guys. It's just that ASCAP went after creative commons and that infuriated me (I wasn't much of an artist then, but it just proved that ASCAP didn't care about what the songwriter wanted for their own music). Lawrence Lessig asked to debate the president of ASCAP (but I doubt in the trollish way as an opportunity to berate that Ben Shapiro or Marjorie Taylor Green would and do). The president of ASCAP responded that Creative Commons was trying to "silence" him. After that clownish behavior, I decided to go with BMI seeing as they were the lesser of two evils. I mean, I had no doubt that BMI was doing sketchy stuff, but I don't recall a single time that they assailed their own clientele's interests in the same way that ASCAP had.
Re: Re: "preexisting" (with umlauts that don't reproduce) ??????
Where the HELL did you get that? NO American, not even the most academic, has spelled it with umlauts for a hundred years! -- It's not uncommon, not rare, not even a possible affectation: NO American uses accented characters. It's not just extra trouble, but not correct at all in American writing!
First of all, they're diaereses, not umlauts. umlauts change the pronunciation of the vowel, whereas diaereses split a diphthong.
Second of all, you must not read the New Yorker. Their orthography has diaereses all over the place in words where two of the same vowel next to each other have different sounds, such as "coöperate", "reënactment", "preëmptive", etc.
I thought it looked cool, so I adopted it. Apparently, so did Stephen T. Stone. If you have such a big problem with it, take it up with the New Yorker magazine.
Imagine if they did that to a progressive or better yet a corporate democrat president? I bet there wouldn't have been a single whisper out of the major media outlets over it. With conservatives decrying anyone against it as unAmerican.
Al Gore and John Kerry are corporate Democrats who lost elections. Yet none of them incited mobs who stormed the capitol threatening to kill legislators who were certifying elections also certified by the courts (including justices Trump appointed), state legislators, and state attorneys general (including GOP ones). Al Gore conceded when he lost Bush v. Gore, which-may I remind you-was actually a close election unlike all the battleground states Trump lost. As for Kerry, he conceded almost immediately. There were definitely irregularities in Ohio, and Barbara Boxer did indeed object to the certification of the election (not unlike Hawley and Cruz not certifying Biden's win), but it was bloodless, and that's not something Trump can claim when we transitioned to Biden.
Oh, I don't know. Maybe all of the assholes who want to be the Internet PC police? Or how about all of those upstream service providers who are so thin skinned that they think the words of other people on sites run by other people who use their services are somehow their own words coming straight out of their mouth.
DID YOU NOT MISS WHAT HAPPENED ON JANUARY 6TH?!?!?!? That wasn't just a disagreement, that was fucking terrorist. FOH.
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Re: Re: that Pennywise book is so, so hilariously bad-sounding:
For real? That sounds like one of those Christian nutcases here in the US who think Adam, Eve, and/or Jesus rode dinosaurs...
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Very few conservatives (come to think of it, very few people) are principled in this aspect.
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Re:
Weird, because on his podcast, he interviewed someone from NIST.
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Re: Re: More socially useful cryptocurrencies?
Koby, If you could make more insightful comments like these and less painfully stupid comments vis-à-vis intermediary liability, I would like you a lot, lot more.
On the post: FCC's Carr Thinks 'Big Tech' Should Subsidize His Pals In 'Big Telecom'
Re:
You answered your own question, That Anonymous Coward. They were put on the FCC to rubber-stamp mergers and let the telecom monopolies do as they please, not to serve the taxpaying public.
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Re: Re: Re: You Wish Government Could Do It Too
I hereby summon Stephen T. Stone to propel forth his copypasta of Justice Kavanaugh's opinion on compelled speech…
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Bad dudes (in Arizona)
CYBER NINJAS HIJACKED THE PRESIDENT*!
ARE YOU A BAD ENOUGH DUDE TO FIND OUT WHAT REALLY HAPPENED**?
*('s legitimate electoral victory)
**(Biden won Arizona fair and square)
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Re: the 🙃 emoji
The "🙃" emoji may be the most appropriate here, which I have interpreted in all cases when people use it as "this is most f'ed up."
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Re:
Or better yet, just sell anything from the French state of Isigny, for it will be "d'Isigny" (That's actually how Walt Disney got his surname!).
On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 283: Debating Section 230, With WIRED's Gilad Edelman
Having listened to the podcast…
Having listened to the podcast, I got the feeling that Edelman put up a good fight but Mike Masnick was able to shoot down his points in a smart way. For instance, by bringing up the DMCA as an example of what a world with a weakened or nonexistent §230 would look like.
While I don't agree with Mr. Masnick on everything, I do not want to get into a debate with him, because he'd probably win.
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Re: HP/Compaq redux
Well, John Stankey certainly lives up to his family name; his management skills are quite "stanky"!
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The only good thing.
The only good thing that came out of AT&T's ownership of WarnerMedia is that new Warner Bros. Movies were available to stream on HBO Max at the same time they were out on theaters. To be fair to Karl Bode, COVID-19 putting everyone under de facto house arrest had more to do with that, but I'm still extremely grateful for it.
On the post: Smart TV Makers Will Soon Make More Money Off Your Viewing Habits Than The TV Itself
Uh oh…
Welp, I guess hooking up a Roku to a dumb TV has its own privacy problems as well.
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The reason I use BMI
There's a reason I use BMI, but not because I think they're the good guys. It's just that ASCAP went after creative commons and that infuriated me (I wasn't much of an artist then, but it just proved that ASCAP didn't care about what the songwriter wanted for their own music). Lawrence Lessig asked to debate the president of ASCAP (but I doubt in the trollish way as an opportunity to berate that Ben Shapiro or Marjorie Taylor Green would and do). The president of ASCAP responded that Creative Commons was trying to "silence" him. After that clownish behavior, I decided to go with BMI seeing as they were the lesser of two evils. I mean, I had no doubt that BMI was doing sketchy stuff, but I don't recall a single time that they assailed their own clientele's interests in the same way that ASCAP had.
On the post: Why Is Wired So Focused On Misrepresenting Section 230?
Re: Re: "preexisting" (with umlauts that don't reproduce) ??????
First of all, they're diaereses, not umlauts. umlauts change the pronunciation of the vowel, whereas diaereses split a diphthong.
Second of all, you must not read the New Yorker. Their orthography has diaereses all over the place in words where two of the same vowel next to each other have different sounds, such as "coöperate", "reënactment", "preëmptive", etc.
I thought it looked cool, so I adopted it. Apparently, so did Stephen T. Stone. If you have such a big problem with it, take it up with the New Yorker magazine.
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Re: Re:
Al Gore and John Kerry are corporate Democrats who lost elections. Yet none of them incited mobs who stormed the capitol threatening to kill legislators who were certifying elections also certified by the courts (including justices Trump appointed), state legislators, and state attorneys general (including GOP ones). Al Gore conceded when he lost Bush v. Gore, which-may I remind you-was actually a close election unlike all the battleground states Trump lost. As for Kerry, he conceded almost immediately. There were definitely irregularities in Ohio, and Barbara Boxer did indeed object to the certification of the election (not unlike Hawley and Cruz not certifying Biden's win), but it was bloodless, and that's not something Trump can claim when we transitioned to Biden.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: We Knew It Was Just Political
LOL Fair enough.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: We Knew It Was Just Political
Sorry, "that was fucking terrorist" should be "that was fucking terrorism". My bad.
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Re: Re: Re: We Knew It Was Just Political
DID YOU NOT MISS WHAT HAPPENED ON JANUARY 6TH?!?!?!? That wasn't just a disagreement, that was fucking terrorist. FOH.
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Re: Re: And which 'politics' would those be by chance? Be specif
Storming a legislative house attempting to assassinate legislators is not a "disagreement". It's terrorism.
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