Isn't there a name for this kind of thing?
Something coined somewhere on the internet?
Was it the Schrodinger Effect?
No?
The Schertzinger Effect?
No?
Oh I remember now... the Streisand Effect!
Nobody has said they're not allowed to do this.
It's in no way just a technicality.
People are just pointing out that TS is climbing the moderation learning curve pretty quickly.
Well, that just leaves it up to the heroic libs to register for accounts, and monitor Trump's spewings for TOS violations and broadcast them as widely as possible. (which, of course, may not be very widely as they'll no doubt violate the TOS of any more sane social media site, but we'll have to burn that bridge once we reach it)
Of course, if one is on the African savannah, assuming that hoof beats presage the presence of a horse would be somewhat odd, as zebras are significantly more common than horses.
But in the US or Japan, yes, I suppose if you hear the sound of hooves, assume it's a horse and not a zebra.
It takes being kicked to the gutter for this organisation to realise that 'concrete evidence' is useful for something? Well, at least they finally learned that lesson.
The reality is that Microsoft can direct their subsidiaries & employees to make games for whatever platforms Microsoft chooses. If they can be sufficiently profitable for their purposes in that space without porting games to all four major platforms (and Linux), they will.
A A Milne died in January of 1956, so the bear of little brain remains under copyright in the land where here was born until January 1st 2027. (Author's death plus 70 years calculated from the end of the calendar year of that death)
American creators and corporations beware, the bear is not free to use internationally just yet.
"Incredibly, a tiny fraction of people apparently visited Techdirt from gaming consoles, TVs, or car browsers (?!?)."
I used to analyse traffic for the sites I wrote for a former employer and usually found a few oddities like these at the bottom of the user agent analyses. I mentioned it to the development team and several of them admitted to just accessing the sites with odd browsers just to see if they could, and if the site would work. A few more tech savvy customers could be gotten to admit to the same... but nobody was really using a Nintendo Wii to check their long term savings portfolio for real.
I get a tone of 'then let them eat cake' from your comment.
Such a degree of privilege must be such a comfort.
I hope you don't live in Texas (or a similarly well-regulated energy market) because you and yours will come to regret them before the decade is done.
Whilst using queer as a pejorative is a problem, it is not being used in that sense by Ay200: "but there’s this queer insistence about the Japanese viewpoint"
This is "queer" in the "peculiar, odd, or unexpected" sense.
No need to find offence where there is nothing more than your own ignorance of the English language.
Will they? These alleged criminals (they've not been found guilty yet) will be tried as individuals, not as public servants. So there's no justification for the public purse to be troubled by any fines, or even for footing the cost of their legal representation (unless there is a Legal Aid system like that available to the poorest in the UK, but that's a side question).
The correct outcome, should they be found guilty, is custodial sentences for Santiago and Guzman. I don't know how the courts are likely to treat Santiago's mother for her 'contribution' but unless she's dirt poor, an illegal immigrant or just too hispanic-looking, I don't imagine a custodial sentence is the 'appropriate' answer.
But who knows, with the US 'justice' system.
I think it's pretty clear by now that some police departments are simply the best armed and most predatory of street gangs in their respectively localities.
Most adults wouldn't have the presence of mind to try this, and you expect a high school student to be able to turn the tables on two armed police officers (sorry, "security" officers) when they've already spent more than a decade of their young life being brainwashed to see such individuals as entirely dominant in a school situation?
And you've not even considered the difficulties FaceBook and many other sites have with languages other than English... and even more difficult: languages with loan words from other languages where the loaned word has derogatory implications in one language, but not the other.
That's before we even come close to considering differences in culture in a multi-lingual cultures, or languages shared amongst different cultures with varying mores around offense in a written form.
But that's the entire point of this programme - save the money, save the people and save the cops from themselves and their lack of training by applying more appropriate resources to the problem.
But this isn't a question of US copyright law. It's German law as applied extra-judiciously to a Swiss organisation. I know the US courts like to think this way too, but it's not right to apply US law outside the territorial US either.
Effects?
Isn't there a name for this kind of thing?
Something coined somewhere on the internet?
Was it the Schrodinger Effect?
No?
The Schertzinger Effect?
No?
Oh I remember now... the Streisand Effect!
Re: Re:
Nobody has said they're not allowed to do this.
It's in no way just a technicality.
People are just pointing out that TS is climbing the moderation learning curve pretty quickly.
Re: 'I don't know how but you violated more rules than we have.'
Well, that just leaves it up to the heroic libs to register for accounts, and monitor Trump's spewings for TOS violations and broadcast them as widely as possible. (which, of course, may not be very widely as they'll no doubt violate the TOS of any more sane social media site, but we'll have to burn that bridge once we reach it)
horses & zebras
Of course, if one is on the African savannah, assuming that hoof beats presage the presence of a horse would be somewhat odd, as zebras are significantly more common than horses.
But in the US or Japan, yes, I suppose if you hear the sound of hooves, assume it's a horse and not a zebra.
Re: Re: 'just a few bad apples'...
You must be new here, because it's pretty clear TechDirt is not a blanket supporter of Big Government any more than it's a cheerleader for anarchy.
Re: Re: So we are surprised…
Not surprised at all.
Goofy has about as much credibility as most US Senators and Congresscritters, so the new one was merely joining the club.
"concrete evidence"?
It takes being kicked to the gutter for this organisation to realise that 'concrete evidence' is useful for something? Well, at least they finally learned that lesson.
cutting off their own nose to spite their face?
The reality is that Microsoft can direct their subsidiaries & employees to make games for whatever platforms Microsoft chooses. If they can be sufficiently profitable for their purposes in that space without porting games to all four major platforms (and Linux), they will.
Not in the UK...yet
A A Milne died in January of 1956, so the bear of little brain remains under copyright in the land where here was born until January 1st 2027. (Author's death plus 70 years calculated from the end of the calendar year of that death)
American creators and corporations beware, the bear is not free to use internationally just yet.
(untitled comment)
"Incredibly, a tiny fraction of people apparently visited Techdirt from gaming consoles, TVs, or car browsers (?!?)."
I used to analyse traffic for the sites I wrote for a former employer and usually found a few oddities like these at the bottom of the user agent analyses. I mentioned it to the development team and several of them admitted to just accessing the sites with odd browsers just to see if they could, and if the site would work. A few more tech savvy customers could be gotten to admit to the same... but nobody was really using a Nintendo Wii to check their long term savings portfolio for real.
Won't somebody think of the children
... and remove these thugs from the street?
(the ones in the dark blue uniforms, that is)
Re: victim blaming
I get a tone of 'then let them eat cake' from your comment.
Such a degree of privilege must be such a comfort.
I hope you don't live in Texas (or a similarly well-regulated energy market) because you and yours will come to regret them before the decade is done.
Re: Her future is bright!
Either that or on the stage.
Re: Re: Japan IS dumb about copyright
Whilst using queer as a pejorative is a problem, it is not being used in that sense by Ay200: "but there’s this queer insistence about the Japanese viewpoint"
This is "queer" in the "peculiar, odd, or unexpected" sense.
No need to find offence where there is nothing more than your own ignorance of the English language.
Re:
Will they? These alleged criminals (they've not been found guilty yet) will be tried as individuals, not as public servants. So there's no justification for the public purse to be troubled by any fines, or even for footing the cost of their legal representation (unless there is a Legal Aid system like that available to the poorest in the UK, but that's a side question).
The correct outcome, should they be found guilty, is custodial sentences for Santiago and Guzman. I don't know how the courts are likely to treat Santiago's mother for her 'contribution' but unless she's dirt poor, an illegal immigrant or just too hispanic-looking, I don't imagine a custodial sentence is the 'appropriate' answer.
But who knows, with the US 'justice' system.
(untitled comment)
I think it's pretty clear by now that some police departments are simply the best armed and most predatory of street gangs in their respectively localities.
And they want our respect without question?
Re:
Most adults wouldn't have the presence of mind to try this, and you expect a high school student to be able to turn the tables on two armed police officers (sorry, "security" officers) when they've already spent more than a decade of their young life being brainwashed to see such individuals as entirely dominant in a school situation?
English only?
And you've not even considered the difficulties FaceBook and many other sites have with languages other than English... and even more difficult: languages with loan words from other languages where the loaned word has derogatory implications in one language, but not the other.
That's before we even come close to considering differences in culture in a multi-lingual cultures, or languages shared amongst different cultures with varying mores around offense in a written form.
Re:
But that's the entire point of this programme - save the money, save the people and save the cops from themselves and their lack of training by applying more appropriate resources to the problem.
Everybody wins.
Re: DNS as an encyclopedia
But this isn't a question of US copyright law. It's German law as applied extra-judiciously to a Swiss organisation. I know the US courts like to think this way too, but it's not right to apply US law outside the territorial US either.
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