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  • On the post: German Politician Thinks Gmail Constituent Messages Are All Faked By Google

    Igualmente69 ( profile ), 19 Feb, 2019 @ 10:38am

    Re: "complaints ... due to Google lobbying and astroturfing"

    Oh, so you missed the recent Techdirt article that referenced an independent study which clearly showed that most of the lobbying came from legacy industry sources, much more than Google?

  • On the post: A Conversation With EU Parliament Member Marietje Schaake About Digital Platforms And Regulation, Part I

    Igualmente69 ( profile ), 19 Feb, 2019 @ 12:37pm

    "All sorts of hardware manufacturers from Apple to John Deere have developed innovative new ways to lock down computers and steal our property rights. Stifle that, please!" You trust the same government that designed the laws that allowed those companies to screws us, to stop the companies from screwing us?

  • On the post: Someone Impersonated New Jersey's Attorney General To Demand Cloudflare Takedown 3d Printed Gun Instructions

    Igualmente69 ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2019 @ 11:14am

    Re: Re: Why Are 3D Gun Plans Better Than Child Porn?

    0 children died last year from "gun violence," which is not an object that exists. The children who died where killed by individual actions taken by people who illegally used guns.

  • On the post: Key Supporter Of FOSTA, Cindy McCain, Misidentifies 'Different Ethnicity' Child; Claims Credit For Stopping Sex Trafficking That Wasn't

    Igualmente69 ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2019 @ 12:10pm

    Re:

    If she really did say what she was quoted in the article as saying then that definitely would be legally actionable defamation. Calling someone a human trafficker would definitely cause them contempt and ridicule, and since it was specific info that was clearly false, seems like she should get sued.

  • On the post: Key Supporter Of FOSTA, Cindy McCain, Misidentifies 'Different Ethnicity' Child; Claims Credit For Stopping Sex Trafficking That Wasn't

    Igualmente69 ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2019 @ 12:07pm

    Re:

    Kind of makes you think that maybe she is completely dishonest, and doesn't actually care about sex trafficking in first place.

  • On the post: The Splinters Of Our Discontent: A Review Of Network Propaganda

    Igualmente69 ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2019 @ 01:14pm

    Re: Re:

    I read every word of the article. It actually said they did so, unintentionally, in the pursuit of truth and objectivity.

  • On the post: The Splinters Of Our Discontent: A Review Of Network Propaganda

    Igualmente69 ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2019 @ 12:32pm

    Re: Fixing the problem

    "...elected officials are beholden to no-one but individual voters, and who seek their positions only for the good of the public."

    There is no way to have "campaign finance reform" without eliminating free speech. People might say otherwise but if you reasonably analyse their proposals every single one of them fails.

    Even if you could, this is against human nature and will never happen. Politicians have power, and positions of power necessarily attract people who want power for non-altruistic reasons. Study history; there are no exceptions. No country has a good government staffed only or even mostly by people who seek positions only for the good of the public, and there never will be one.

    That's the point of the American system of limited and divided government. It isn't perfect, but it is better than the alternatives.

  • On the post: The Splinters Of Our Discontent: A Review Of Network Propaganda

    Igualmente69 ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2019 @ 12:12pm

    Taking it as a given that the "conservative" propaganda sphere is guilty of the things the book and the article accuses it of, one needs to keep in mind that the idea that mainstream journalistic outfits are objective and fact-based is false.

    For example, if you read a mainstream newspaper, or watch local news, you would think there is an "opioid crisis." This is false, there is no crisis. There is no issue with doctors prescribing too much medicine, or companies lying about drugs being addictive. The vast majority of people who overdose are mixing pills with alcohol, which 100% of them are told not to do, or using illegal drugs in addition to their prescriptions.

    What about FOSTA(or is it SESTA?), which as Techdirt itself relentlessly documented, eventually passed based on straight up lies and distortions, primarily from established, mainstream sources?

    Again, as documented by Techdirt with regularity, mainstream outlets flat out say incorrect things about technology-related topics, things that could have easily been checked with a single phone call. Ditto for repeating claims by legacy copyright industries.

    There are many, many more examples. You can't just wave these things away; the idea that journalism could be mostly trusted before but now there is a subset that spews lies while the rest bravely clings to standards of professionalism is simply not the case. Journalism could never be trusted. The real issue is a lack of critical thinking in our society.

  • On the post: Turkish Court Jails Journalist For Telling The Truth About A Politician's Offshore Tax Shelter

    Igualmente69 ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2019 @ 08:04am

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    "A court's job is NOT to Legislate."
    The problem is that you say that as if it is a universal principle, and it isn't.

    You should probably research the history of English common law, which has been inherited, with modifications and exceptions, by the U.S. The main defining feature of the common law is that, in fact, judges DO make law. You might not like it, you might be a conservative that doesn't like "judicial activism", but your belief is irrelevant to the factual matter.

    You could have said that the Turkish legal system doesn't follow that principle, and then there could be a reasoned response about how they think that it should, but that would be a separate issue, and you didn't say that.

    If you aren't already a fan of Robert Bork, you should look him up, you would like him.

  • On the post: Turkish Court Jails Journalist For Telling The Truth About A Politician's Offshore Tax Shelter

    Igualmente69 ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2019 @ 07:55am

    Re: Re: Re: Contraire

    '"So, you're opposed to civil disobedience?"

    The simplest reply to that would be "So, you're opposed to laws?"'

    It wouldn't actually. That reply would make no sense at all, and your use of it shows you lack basic reasoning skills. According to your logic, slaves should just do their work without pay, with no fuss, because that was/is the law in their jurisdiction? If you are gay and it is illegal to be gay, you better just stop being gay or go to jail. If this is truly what you think, you are a scumbag, no ifs, ands, or buts about it.

    Tyranny is tyranny, no matter how many people support it, or what country it is in. It is hard to even comprehend the moral and ethical bankruptcy of your position.

    Civil disobedience is not opposition to laws, it is opposition to unjust laws. No, people do not have to bow down to their overlords and do everything they are told. Yes, they can judge for themselves whether their problem with a law goes beyond mere disagreements in desired policy, and is in fact opposition to injustice.

  • On the post: Google Shows What Google News Looks Like If Article 11 Passes In The EU Copyright Directive

    Igualmente69 ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2019 @ 01:38pm

    Re: Re:

    They show up regardless. I was giving non-trolls an opportunity for jokes at their expense.

  • On the post: Google Shows What Google News Looks Like If Article 11 Passes In The EU Copyright Directive

    Igualmente69 ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2019 @ 01:37pm

    Re: Re: Funny...

    Are you being serious? After seeing your comment I looked through all of Tim Cushing's posts in January and didn't find a single one that could be called "extreme-right".

  • On the post: Google Shows What Google News Looks Like If Article 11 Passes In The EU Copyright Directive

    Igualmente69 ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2019 @ 12:54pm

    I wonder how the token anti-Google troll is going to spin this to insult Mike.

  • On the post: EU Parliament Puts Out Utter Nonsense Defending Copyright Directive

    Igualmente69 ( profile ), 15 Jan, 2019 @ 11:24am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    Why should Google have to pay more?

  • On the post: EU Parliament Puts Out Utter Nonsense Defending Copyright Directive

    Igualmente69 ( profile ), 15 Jan, 2019 @ 11:23am

    Re: Re: Re:

    You apparently missed the part where he explained specifically how this is not the case.

  • On the post: Creators Of Dance Moves Suing Creators Of Fortnite Over Copyright Infringement That Can't Possibly Have Happened

    Igualmente69 ( profile ), 02 Jan, 2019 @ 11:08am

    Re:

    Oops, the article itself made the same point. Apparently I missed that paragraph.

  • On the post: Creators Of Dance Moves Suing Creators Of Fortnite Over Copyright Infringement That Can't Possibly Have Happened

    Igualmente69 ( profile ), 02 Jan, 2019 @ 09:48am

    One thing that is bothering me about this, after reading about it initially a few weeks ago, is that unless Alfonso Ribiero had in his contract for Fresh Prince that he retained rights to any dance he created working on the show, shouldn't the dance, even if it could be copyrighted, be owned by the producers of the show, and not him?

  • On the post: Students Make A Video Depicting A School Shooting; Sheriff Decides Everyone Needs To Have Their Rights Violated

    Igualmente69 ( profile ), 29 Dec, 2018 @ 03:53pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Sheriff had help

    Actually there aren't limits for judges. They cannot be sued for judicial actions under any situation, ever. If they were proven to have broken laws, they could be charged with a crime, but not sued by anyone. And it has to be shown conclusively that a prosecutor had no possible basis for the charges, no matter how flimsy, and acted with deliberate malice, in order to sue them, which is nearly impossible.

  • On the post: Dangerous Court Ruling Says Colleges May Be Required To Block Access To Certain Websites

    Igualmente69 ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2018 @ 11:26am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: justice or Social Justice

    I think both of you are being unfair to the other's points. It is clear that the actual report states that unwanted staring is categorized in a workplace sense as undesirable but is not called rape, and the report makes no claims that it should be legally actionable. However, the point about a push towards making accusations of sexual assault punished without due process is also valid, and it is plausible to be worried about such people using the report as a one basis for punishing people.

  • On the post: Dangerous Court Ruling Says Colleges May Be Required To Block Access To Certain Websites

    Igualmente69 ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2018 @ 11:02am

    Re:

    Thanks for linking to an utterly illogical article filled with ad-hominem attacks and straw-men that totally fails to, you know, prove the point it claims to make.

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