Khym Chanur 's Techdirt Comments

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• On the post: Small Nebraska Town Pays $16,000 To Resident It Attempted To Sue Into Silence

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2022 @ 02:22pm

  The court ... refused to extend qualified immunity to the defendants.

  "How were we supposed to know that the right to petition for redress of grievances was protected by the 1st amendment!"

• On the post: Devin Nunes Retires From Congress To Spend More Time Banning Satirical Cows From Trump's New Social Network

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2021 @ 03:40pm

  Note to Devin: you can't sue the SEC for defamation.

  Like that's going to stop him.

• On the post: Hey North Face! Our Story About You Flipping Out Over 'Hey Fuck Face' Is Not Trademark Infringement

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2021 @ 02:23pm

  but so much of it is overblown fluff and nonsense, and all of the various "brand protection" companies out there feel the need to justify whatever bizarrely lucrative contracts these giant companies hand out.

  Hey, gotta generate those billable hours somehow.

• On the post: Hacker Tricked Robinhood Support Into Revealing Data Of 5 Million Users

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2021 @ 02:13pm

  On November 3, said "hacker" convinced company support they were cleared to access “certain customer support systems.”

  So did the attacker take over an existing employee account and then trick a sysadmin into granting that account more privileges? Or was it something really stupid like "I have no employee account, so use Teamviewer/LogMeIn/etc to let me take over your session and use your account"?

• On the post: Klobuchar, Cotton Competition Bill Latest To Pretend 'Big Tech' Is The Only Industry With Problems

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2021 @ 12:13pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: But They're Doing It Too!

  Meanwhile, the admins are actively engaging in editorialization, and not moderation. We all know what's going on.

  No, I don't know what's going on. Please spell it out.-

• On the post: Klobuchar, Cotton Competition Bill Latest To Pretend 'Big Tech' Is The Only Industry With Problems

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2021 @ 11:00am

  Re: Re: Re: But They're Doing It Too!

  Just as techdirt also engages in bad faith moderation, as evidenced above.

  Are you implying that the registered users who flag your comments are doing so in bad faith? If so, how would laws that are meant to eliminate/reduce bad faith moderation deal with site users downvoting in bad faith? Simply get rid of downvoting, and only allow upvoting? Or are you implying that your comments getting flagged are solely the result of actions of the admins, and that us users clicking "flag this comment" have no effect?

• On the post: Copyright Continues To Be Abused To Censor Critics By Entities Both Big And Small

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2021 @ 08:37am

  Nelk Boys: "The copyright claims were just a prank, bro."

• On the post: Elizabeth Warren Threatens Amazon For Selling Books Containing Misinformation; Perhaps Forgetting The 1st Amendment

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2021 @ 12:29am

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  If something like this ends up working against Amazon, its sets a precedent that can be used against others, which is reason enough to oppose it regardless of how you feel about Amazon.

• On the post: Techdirt Is Fighting A New Lawsuit

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2021 @ 10:55am

  DC Appeals Court Affirms Sidelining Of Attorney Larry Klayman, Who Attempted To 'Change Sides' In Litigation

  Is that the article in question?

• On the post: Trump Notifies Attorney General He's Challenging The Constitutionality Of Section 230 On The Dumbest Grounds Possible

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2021 @ 01:59pm

  And I won't even bother responding to the idea that 230 was put in place to encourage censorship on social media when social media... didn't exist when Section 230 was put in place.

  I think what they're trying to say is "the tech industry leans liberal, so any law which gives the tech industry more free reign to do as they want will negatively affect conservatives". (Not agreeing with them, just trying to untangle their words)

• On the post: House Republican's Entire 'Big Tech' Platform Is 'We Must Force Big Tech To Display Our Conspiracy Theories And Lies'

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2021 @ 10:56am

  Re: Re: Re: Glad To Help

  I personally believe that you ought to be allowed such a thing, as long as you post that rule up front, and you have equal enforcement. If there is unequal enforcement, however, that should be a cause for action.

  What if someone thinks there was unequal enforcement, sues, loses because there wasn't any, and the forum has to eat the cost even though they won in court? People hosting forums would be reluctant to moderate when such a thing could happen.

• On the post: Montana Senator Thinks The Third Time Is The Charm For His Anti-Flag Burning Amendment

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2021 @ 02:23pm

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  Desecrating a BLM logo isn't in-of-itself a hate crime in the U.S. There are laws making it if something is already a crime then punishment can be enhanced if it can be shown that the crime was motivated by hatred of a race/religion/etc. Depending on the circumstances of a crime, desecrating a BLM logo might be entered as evidence that the crime was motivated by hatred of blacks. But if you own a BLM logo and desecreate it then that, in-and-of-itself, is perfectly legal (assuming you don't, for example, burn it in a manner that violates a fire-safety law).

• On the post: Former Trump Lawyer Facing Sanctions In Michigan Now Saying The Things She Said Were Opinions Are Actually Facts

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2021 @ 06:22pm

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  The problem is Powell offered three defenses in her motion to dismiss the defamation case: 1) opinion based on disclosed fact, 2) matter of opinion (something that can be proven neither true nor false in a court of law), and 3) that no reasonable person would believe what she said to be statements of fact. While opinion based on disclosed facts is something that perfectly fine for a lawyer to put into a legal filing submitted to the court, the other two things aren't.

• On the post: Former Trump Lawyer Facing Sanctions In Michigan Now Saying The Things She Said Were Opinions Are Actually Facts

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2021 @ 10:32am

  Re: Errors

  Even Trump appointed judges were unimpressed with the legal filings arguing fraud. But I dunno, maybe those Trump appointed judges had TDS as well...

• On the post: Former Trump Lawyer Facing Sanctions In Michigan Now Saying The Things She Said Were Opinions Are Actually Facts

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2021 @ 07:48am

  Re: she's snapped

  she knows she has no evidence, yet she keeps saying she has it.

  You mean you find things like quadruple-hearsay and an anonymous expert witness to be unconvincing?

• On the post: Former Trump Lawyer Facing Sanctions In Michigan Now Saying The Things She Said Were Opinions Are Actually Facts

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2021 @ 06:57am

  I'm kind of surprised that no die-hard Trump supporters have claimed that Powell's stupid antics aren't really stupid antics but instead a clever ruse, and that by deeming them stupid antics we're falling for her ruse hook, line and sinker.

• On the post: Letting Newspapers Band Together To Demand Payments From Internet Companies Is Bad For The Internet And Bad For Journalism

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2021 @ 09:32pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Then shouldn't such a tax be distributed amongst Internet companies in general, including ISPs and the makers of smart phones, rather than just companies which

  [operate] a website or other online service that displays, distributes, or directs users to news articles, works of journalism, or other content on the internet that is generated by third-party news content creators [and] has not fewer than 1,000,000,000 monthly active users, in the aggregate, of all of its websites or online services worldwide.

• On the post: Letting Newspapers Band Together To Demand Payments From Internet Companies Is Bad For The Internet And Bad For Journalism

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2021 @ 02:59pm

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  For the sake of the argument, let's say that journalism won't be able to survive without being subsidized and that the government should do the subsidizing: why should that be done via link taxes?

• On the post: FBI Ignored Its Own Warrant And Search Policies To Seize Millions From People's Safety Deposit Boxes

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2021 @ 12:52pm

  Re: Re:

  According to the govt, it's not a violation of the 4th Amendment because it's the property that's accused of the crime, not the property's owner, and property doesn't have any rights. Why it doesn't violate the 5th Amendment's "nor be deprived of .. property without due process of law" I don't know.

• On the post: State Court Confirms The Obvious: There's No Expectation Of Privacy In Text Messages Sent To Other People

  

  Khym Chanur ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2021 @ 11:06am

  If was obtained via an illegal search, it should be suppressed, even if there's no expectation of privacy in messages he sent to someone else.

  IANAL, but my understanding of U.S. law is if your rights are violated in obtaining some piece of evidence then that evidence can't be used against you, but it can be used against other people because their rights weren't violated.

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