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  • On the post: Lawmakers Who Insisted The US Gov’t Should Never Combat Foreign Influence Online, Vote To Combat TikTok’s Foreign Influence Online

    That One Guy ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2024 @ 03:43pm

    'The government has no business medling in speech(that I agree with)!'

    Time and time again numerous politicians and other expose that when they say they support the first amendment and free speech what they mean is 'speech I agree with and nothing else'.

  • On the post: Jonathan Haidt’s Book ‘The Anxious Generation’ Is Coddling The American Parent; Giving Them Clear, Simple & Wrong Explanations For What’s Ailing Teens

    That One Guy ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2024 @ 03:17pm

    'Is it my fault? ... no, it's anyone's fault BUT mine...'

    'Kids in the modern day are increasingly depressed', it must be social media because it certainly has nothing to do with them having to watch all the 'adults' screw everything up and go out of their way to make the world that the kids are going to be handed as bad as possible, while ignoring their own kids and letting anything but the parents raise them.

  • On the post: Senate Approves Section 702 Reauthorization, Keeps Only The Bad Stuff

    That One Guy ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2024 @ 03:17pm

    If you never ask you'll never be told no

    And I'm sure the two unnamed ISP's were both totally real and not all all under any sort of pressure to provide those statements in order to pressure the politicians to pass the bill right now, do it quick before the terrorists(read: public) win... The only reason to not require the government to follow the most basic of limitations that is 'follow the constitution and get a warrant if you're going to do a search of someone's life' is if both the senators and the government agencies know that they are doing a lot of stuff that would not pass legitimate legal scrutiny(the FISA Rubber-Stamp-O-Matic doesn't count).

  • On the post: Senate Must Follow House’s Lead In Passing Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act

    That One Guy ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2024 @ 12:08am

    The only reason I can think of to vote 'no' is if they hate the fourth amendment so...

    Well with all the recent hubbub about how vital it is to protect the privacy of US citizens I'm sure this will easily sail through a senate vote since all it's doing is ensuring that those government agencies engaging in invasive collections of personal data have to follow the constitution and get a warrant to do so rather than just sidestepping it and paying someone else to do it for them.

  • On the post: Senate Must Follow House’s Lead In Passing Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act

    That One Guy ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2024 @ 12:04am

    The Trump Campaign thanks you for your declaration of support for them at the polls.

  • On the post: Senate Must Follow House’s Lead In Passing Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act

    That One Guy ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2024 @ 12:01am

    Vote to stop the problem from getting worse NOW, work on a long-term fix LATER

    Obviously I’ve realized for years that both parties are tremendously corrupt, and third-party alternatives are unviable, but what to do now? Vote for the party that isn't actively trying to burn the country and/or the rights and laws it's build upon to the ground(that would be the party that didn't try to overthrow the last election just in case the previous bit was too subtle) when any major election pops up in order to try to at least limit the damage at the moment, meanwhile do what you can to change things starting on a more local level so that down the line voting for other alternatives might be a viable choice. When all the choices are bad sometimes the best available option is doing damage control so that down the line other, hopefully better options have a chance to be on the table.

  • On the post: The US Banning TikTok Would Play Right Into China’s Hands, And Destroy Decades Of US Work On Promoting An Open Internet

    That One Guy ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2024 @ 02:57pm

    Uhh, no? If the democrats really want to protect minorities and other groups from the GOP they can just do that, at no point are they 'required' to help the GOP screw people over just so they can maybe slip in some language that might help.

  • On the post: The US Banning TikTok Would Play Right Into China’s Hands, And Destroy Decades Of US Work On Promoting An Open Internet

    That One Guy ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2024 @ 01:51pm

    'Oh no Mr. Wolf, please don't throw me into the briar patch....'

  • On the post: Congressional Testimony On Section 230 Was So Wrong That It Should Be Struck From The Record

    That One Guy ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2024 @ 01:48pm

    If they had them they'd present them. They haven't so they must not

    As always the biggest sign of how good and well written 230 is is how the only arguments people can present against it are utterly fact-free and divorced from reality. If good, fact-based and grounded-in-reality arguments to overturn 230 existed they would have been presented by now, the fact that they've yet to be says louder than words that those arguments do not exist.

  • On the post: Congressional Testimony On Section 230 Was So Wrong That It Should Be Struck From The Record

    That One Guy ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2024 @ 01:40pm

    Once is coincidence. Twice is suspicious. Three times is enemy action. If they keep finding only the liars and the 'ignorant' to give testimony you can be pretty confident that it's not by chance.

  • On the post: The US Banning TikTok Would Play Right Into China’s Hands, And Destroy Decades Of US Work On Promoting An Open Internet

    That One Guy ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2024 @ 12:57pm

    There's shooting your own foot and then there's calling in an air strike on it...

    US Government: And about your latest attempt to control speech on the internet- Foreign Governments from this point onward: Points to TikTok ban US Government: ... I'll just show myself out shall I?

  • On the post: UK Prosecutors Apologize For Pursuing BS Charges Against A Photographer

    That One Guy ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2024 @ 01:48am

    'Sure you probably won't be found guilty, but you're still getting a beating so...'

    They offered no evidence to support their charges. To excuse their behavior they claimed that they dropped the case after realizing that they 'no longer' had 'sufficient' evidence, something you'd think they would have realized well before one day shy of the trial. Either they are employing the most inept and/or lazy people possible and every last one of them should be fired right alongside the cops who cooked up the bogus charges or the entire point was to harass a journalist and then drop the case as soon as the victim might have had the chance to defend themself and insist that the police show their work, making clear that attempting to record the police is not a risk-free endeavor.

  • On the post: Cops Claim Body Cam Footage Of Wrong Address Raid Would Be ‘Dangerous’ To Release To General Public

    That One Guy ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2024 @ 01:01am

    'One of those dogs is rabid. You won't tell me which. Therefore I will assume it's all of them.'

    When departments pull stunts like this I can only assume that they're operating under the idea of 'if the public/press doesn't know which specific officers are involved they can't name and shame them', missing out that if the public doesn't know which specific officers are guilty the safest and most reasonable response at that point is to assume that all of them are.

  • On the post: Cops Claim Body Cam Footage Of Wrong Address Raid Would Be ‘Dangerous’ To Release To General Public

    That One Guy ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2024 @ 12:57am

    Easy, if horrifying to explain

    Waiting for someone to leave their house before arresting them isn't nearly as fun and what's the point of being a cop if you can't bust into someone's house guns drawn and shouting orders/firing rounds in order to show off how manly you are and/or get that juicy adrenaline fix?

  • On the post: Sextortion Is A Real & Serious Criminal Issue; Blaming Section 230 For It Is Not

    That One Guy ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2024 @ 03:03pm

    IF Online THEN Blame 230

    The issue is that 230 has been used as such a universal boogieman by liars for so long that anytime something bad happens online the kneejerk reaction is that 230 must be involved and responsible somehow. (230 making Steve Dallas lawsuits a lot more difficult might also have something to do with instances like this..)

  • On the post: Cops Claim Body Cam Footage Of Wrong Address Raid Would Be ‘Dangerous’ To Release To General Public

    That One Guy ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2024 @ 03:02pm

    Either they did nothing wrong or it would damage their reputation, pick ONE

    At the same time, the RPD claimed that releasing the body camera footage might expose confidential information about search warrant execution or damage officers’ reputations. Just imagine the response by police if the other side tried to use their own argument in court when defending themselves. Defense attorney: Your Honor while I will of course continue to insist that my client did nothing wrong I strongly request that the video of my client be barred from being used in court or released as it would be damaging to their reputation should the jury and/or public be able to see what they did.

  • On the post: Chemtrail Legislation Is The New Normal In A Severely Abnormal America

    That One Guy ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2024 @ 02:40pm

    "If I'm nice to the leopards I'm sure they'll never turn on me...'

    Ah yes, what could possibly go wrong with courting the lowest common denominator and pretending that the lunatics are Serious People(tm) with Serious Concerns(tm) that should be taken seriously?

  • On the post: Chemtrail Legislation Is The New Normal In A Severely Abnormal America

    That One Guy ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2024 @ 02:36pm

    They aren’t interested in governing; they’re only interested in performance art and constantly hurting people. Partially true I'd say, those are the methods to attain power and perks of having it respectively to them I'd say. Modern republicans have no interest in governing as that implies serving the public, sharing power and caring about the public's rights and lives, and that wouldn't be fun at all. Rather what they want is to rule, where they get to do whatever they want, and there's nothing to stop them because they have all the power.

  • On the post: Will Elon Sue? NBC News Finds, Yet Again, That ExTwitter Has ‘Verified’ Neo-Nazi Accounts, With Ads Appearing Next To Their Content

    That One Guy ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2024 @ 01:56pm

    'That one is LITERALLY quoting Hitler.' 'Paid account?' 'Yes?' 'Move on then.'

    Elon: How dare you not list all of the accounts you found in a quick search rather than only the most notable ones, that's going to make it much harder for us to perform our own 'internal review' and clear them of all wrongdoing since they're paid accounts and those can do no wrong!

  • On the post: Blame Silly Politicians For Google Starting To Block News Sites In California

    That One Guy ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2024 @ 02:39pm

    If you charge for doing something people(or companies) will do it less

    Even knowing how stupid people can be it still blows me away that people would be gullible enough to blame Google for this, as though it's completely unreasonable for them to not want to pay for the privilege of giving other sites traffic. If you don't want Google removing links like that go after the actual source of the problem, the companies and politicians who are trying to implement the tax that's causing the problem.

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