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• May 16th, 2018 @ 4:25pm

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  on As Intermediary Liability Is Under Attack, Stanford Releases Updated Tool To Document The State Of Play Globally
  Saying the site hosting the speech should be liable is like saying the car manufacturer should be held liable if you get pulled over and charged with a DUI.
• May 3rd, 2018 @ 4:28pm

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  on Cops Aren't Just Submitting DNA Samples To Genealogy Services; They're Also Obtaining Customer Info
  and this is EXACTLY why I'll never use any of these "genealogy" services...
• Apr 26th, 2018 @ 10:16am

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  on Cops Follow Up Officer-Involved Shooting By Heading To Funeral Home To Apply Dead Man's Fingers To His Locked Phone

  This leads to another problematic aspect of the search: dead men can't be criminally charged.

  But dead men can assist with obtaining criminal charges for those still alive...

• Mar 23rd, 2018 @ 10:08am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: So lovely...

  on Spanish Hate/Anti-Terrorism Speech Laws Doing Little But Locking Up Comedians, Artists, And Dissidents
  Reminds me of the experiment with monkeys, a ladder, some bananas, and a water hose...
  
  http://www.wisdompills.com/2014/05/28/the-famous-social-experiment-5-monkeys-a-ladder/
• Mar 23rd, 2018 @ 9:52am

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  on Spanish Hate/Anti-Terrorism Speech Laws Doing Little But Locking Up Comedians, Artists, And Dissidents
  Looks like Spain is finally realizing how profitable it is running a prison system. Now they need an easy way to overfill their prisons...Just like the US.
• Mar 19th, 2018 @ 12:23pm

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  on The Future The FBI Wants: Secure Phones For Criminals, Broken Encryption For Everyone Else

  No backdoors, claims FBI director Chris Wray, just holes for the government to use at its pleasure.

  So basically, you want a backdoor?

• Mar 9th, 2018 @ 2:11pm

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  on Trump's Video Game Summit: Developers On One Side, Partisan Hack Puritan Cosplayers On The Other
  So when are we going to add TV shows (AMC's Walking Dead and Breaking Bad series) and gangsta rap to the list? Don't just limit this to violent video games, there's movies, TV shows, and music that we need to bring into this.
  
  
  /sarcasm
• Mar 1st, 2018 @ 2:07pm

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  on China Briefly Bans The Letter 'N' On Social Media After Anger Over Plans To Make Xi Jinping 'Dictator For Life'
  Wow. Ba i g the letter " "? that is goi g to make posts a little hard to u dersta d.
• Feb 27th, 2018 @ 12:32pm

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  on Anti-NRA Censorship Efforts Echo Earlier Pro-NRA Censorship Efforts, And Learn No Lessons From Them

  ...[T]here are so many things we can't talk about because [the network is] running so damn scared. We have been trying to get a gun control piece on since the beginning of the season, and they are so afraid of the NRA lobby we haven't been able to.

  Sounds like we need to classify the NRA as a "Terrorist Organization".

• Feb 22nd, 2018 @ 11:35am

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  on The Death Of Net Neutrality Will Be Official In April (Cue The Lawsuits)
  This is already happening...
  
  Sprint and Hulu:
  https://www.theverge.com/2017/.../sprint-free-hulu-unlimited-plan-partnership-mobile
  
  T-Mobile and Netflix:
  https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wSrm/t-mobile-unlimited-netflix-on-us
• Feb 22nd, 2018 @ 11:32am

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  on The Death Of Net Neutrality Will Be Official In April (Cue The Lawsuits)
  Isn't it a little too early to start planning April Fool's jokes???
• Feb 8th, 2018 @ 4:29pm

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  on Blizzard Still Trying To Take Down WoW Vanilla Fan Servers While Refusing To Offer A Competing Product
  This is one of the things I like about Secret World - Legends. When they re-released the game, you still have the option to play the "classic" version.
  
  In my opinion, World of Warcraft started going downhill after the release of Cataclysm. The game world completely changed and I lost interest in the game.
• Jan 24th, 2018 @ 11:21am

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  on Italian Government Criminalizes 'Fake News,' Provides Direct Reporting Line To State Police Force
  IF this law ever makes it to the United States, I think we can finally shut down Faux News!!!
• Jan 10th, 2018 @ 11:32am

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  on Trump's New Rural Broadband Executive Order Doesn't Actually Do Much Of Anything

  Trump's New Rural Broadband Executive Order Doesn't Actually Do Much Of Anything.

  That can be shortened down to "Trump Doesn't Actually Do Much Of Anything." and still have the same meaning...

• Jan 5th, 2018 @ 10:53am

  Re: FTFY

  on Indiana Legislator Wants To Force NFL Team To Hand Out Refunds To Fans 'Offended' By Kneeling Players
  I think the opening scene in the HBO Series, "The Newsroom" hit the nail on the head. I'm saddened that the show was cancelled. I guess it hit a little too close to "home".
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCEu-WWgB7s
• Dec 11th, 2017 @ 11:48am

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  on Court Says Google Must Unmask Person Who Left Wordless, One-Star Review Of Local Psychiatrist
  Not sure about the rest of you, but when I look at company/product reviews, I always throw out 5-star(paid reviews) and 1-star(most likely disgruntled customers) when looking up businesses.
• Dec 1st, 2017 @ 1:56pm

  Re: Sniffing the First iPhone

  on Senator Wyden Asks DHS To Look Into Cell Tower Spoofer Use By Foreign Entities In Washington DC
  No cell tower spoofer is needed. All you need to do is tune into FoxNews.
• Nov 28th, 2017 @ 3:57pm

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  on Court Says Cop's Theft Of Evidence Shouldn't Have Any Effect On Man's 15-Year Drug Sentence
  I wonder if the drug dealers read techdirt? If so, I'd think Officer Marcos Carrion should be watching his back. From what I see in the movies, drug dealers don't deal with thieves very well...
• Nov 7th, 2017 @ 1:28pm

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  on Dear Senators Portman & Blumenthal: What Should Blogs Do If SESTA Passes?
  I think we should sign up any congressman/woman that supports SESTA to these spam sites. Let them deal with spam. That way maybe some REAL anti-spam laws will be drafted.
• Nov 1st, 2017 @ 11:42am

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  on Reporter Arrested, Thrown To The Ground For Cursing
  Resisting arrest...I love that one. If I'm "resisting" arrest, then what charges am I being "arrested" for? If there are no "charges" then you are not "arresting" me. Therefore it is impossible for me to "resist" being arrested...
  
  I know this logic will fly WAY over some people's heads.

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