Oh, you’re looking for a specific article on a specific topic, is that it? Then the proper syntax is site:www.techdirt.com, not ‘domain something something’. (That site:… portion can be placed anywhere on the address bar, it doesn’t matter where.)
And whereas most browsers, and DNS servers, will just automatically insert the ‘www.’ portion for a correct resolution, failing to enter it into the search query can often result in a lack of responsive entries. Just sayin’……
Doing that makes no difference with this current issue.
Hate to break it to you, but Windows is just as secure as MacOS and Linux, assuming a competent administrator (applies to all of them, an incompetent admin can make any of them vulnerable). You hear about Windows more often because it's a bigger target, but the vast majority of infections for any of them are through malware and usually because someone did something stupid and let it through the front door.
(3) an Internet website, platform, or other interactive computer service for downloading any application or software for use on a computer or electronic device that is designed to assist or facilitate efforts to obtain an elective abortion or an abortion-inducing drug; or
(4) an Internet website, platform, or other interactive computer service that allows or enables those who provide or aid or abet elective abortions, or those who manufacture, mail, distribute, transport, or provide abortion-inducing drugs, to collect money, digital currency, resources, or any other thing of value.
So the way this is written, it seems like ISPs will be required to block Google Play/Apple App Store since there are likely apps that will help people find abortion drugs. It doesn't just specify to residents of Texas so if they have them at all they would be blocked. It would also appear to block access to things like Planned Parenthood's website or any company that sells the drugs (Walgreens, CVS etc) AND that of their payment processors.
So, you know, on top of the obvious 1A trampling issues, it would appear to run afoul of interstate commerce laws too as it would appear to regulate legal content in other states.
The bill is also threatening criminal prosecution to abortion funds AND THEIR DONORS. If you have donated to an organization that helps people in Texas acquire an abortion, they are coming to criminally prosecute you.
Agreed. At the moment, CoD sells more on Playstation than Xbox. What Sony is really after, though, is preventing MS from putting Activision games, especially CoD, on Gamepass. And let's be real, if regulators made them divest the CoD IP and Sony snapped it up, what do you think are the chances it became a Playstation exclusive?
If the positions were reversed there's no chance that Sony would keep CoD available on Xbox after the current contract and it would only appear on PC after a year or two when they milked the current version and are ready to release the next.
To voice our dissent with Texas SB-797, we're going to design, print, deliver, and donate 500+ "various" languages (Arabic, Hindi, English Gay Pride, Spanish, Vulcan, Klingon, and others) "In God We Trust" 16x20 posters to schools in Texas, flooding the public school system with our IGWT artwork.
We're also going to rent billboard space across the state -- I'm looking at you Southlake and Mineola!
I'm sorely tempted to donate, especially if I can get a sign written in Vulcan or maybe Klingon.
The next thing they're going to demand is not only that mail providers not classify them as spam, but a requirement that they MUST pass them through and bypass any spam filters or other rules that might prevent them from being delivered.
If you're talking about voice and data services over satellite then, yes, those would be common carrier-type services. DirecTV is more akin to a cable TV package. It costs DTV money to carry it, why should they be required to subsidize OAN's existence? Bandwidth is not unlimited, they can only carry so many channels on the satellites. Do you think Comcast should be forced to carry every single channel in existence? If not then why should DTV have to?
I don't know how old you are so maybe you weren't around for things then but the whole invasion of Iraq thing happened under George H. W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Biden was just a Senator. He is no more culpable than any of the other 99 Senators.
(A) IN GENERAL.—A covered person may not provide online hosting services or back-end online services to any other entity that is not owned by the covered person.
It would basically make cloud computing illegal. Google, Microsoft, Amazon etc would all have to shut down their cloud computing divisions, they can't even spin them off as a subsidiary. A strained reading of it would potentially make the Apple/Google/Microsoft app stores illegal too.
Maybe if you're dropping hundreds of dollars on content it might be okay. The last time I made a purchase with Bitcoin about a month ago I made the mistake of sending it to my wallet instead of directly to the receiving address. When I tried to send it, it wouldn't let me because the network fees were going to be around $15 on a $30 purchase.
I had the exact same thought reading the article. But Google is big enough that the board knows they can't bully them so they are allowed to continue unimpeded.
People of Tennessee, I beg of you: stop electing fools who are so focused on culture warrioring that they can't even be bothered to understand the bills they've introduced.
Some of us are trying. The problem is that we're surrounded by red counties that only care about the R next to the name.
It's up to 265,670 views and 2006 comments as of 14:40 UTC on Jan 8. A good quarter of the way there.
Hate to break it to you, but Windows is just as secure as MacOS and Linux, assuming a competent administrator (applies to all of them, an incompetent admin can make any of them vulnerable). You hear about Windows more often because it's a bigger target, but the vast majority of infections for any of them are through malware and usually because someone did something stupid and let it through the front door.
Blocking Apple/Google app stores too?
Agreed. At the moment, CoD sells more on Playstation than Xbox. What Sony is really after, though, is preventing MS from putting Activision games, especially CoD, on Gamepass. And let's be real, if regulators made them divest the CoD IP and Sony snapped it up, what do you think are the chances it became a Playstation exclusive?
I think you misunderstand. They were not making that argument themselves, they were making a prediction of what SCOTUS will say.
Let's be real
If the positions were reversed there's no chance that Sony would keep CoD available on Xbox after the current contract and it would only appear on PC after a year or two when they milked the current version and are ready to release the next.
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From his https://www.gofundme.com/f/fight-texas-in-god-we-trust-school-signs for this.
I'm sorely tempted to donate, especially if I can get a sign written in Vulcan or maybe Klingon.Do you have a source on this? It's not that I doubt you, it's just rather vague and I'd like to read more.
next up: you MUST pass political email requirements
The next thing they're going to demand is not only that mail providers not classify them as spam, but a requirement that they MUST pass them through and bypass any spam filters or other rules that might prevent them from being delivered.
If you're talking about voice and data services over satellite then, yes, those would be common carrier-type services. DirecTV is more akin to a cable TV package. It costs DTV money to carry it, why should they be required to subsidize OAN's existence? Bandwidth is not unlimited, they can only carry so many channels on the satellites. Do you think Comcast should be forced to carry every single channel in existence? If not then why should DTV have to?
Not how copyright works
I'm surprised this wasn't mentioned. In the C&D:
That's...not how copyright works.
Re: You REALLY are in so tight propaganda bubble that don't know
I don't know how old you are so maybe you weren't around for things then but the whole invasion of Iraq thing happened under George H. W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Biden was just a Senator. He is no more culpable than any of the other 99 Senators.
Do you want to destroy the internet? This is how you do it.
Did anyone catch this wonderful bit of the bill?
It would basically make cloud computing illegal. Google, Microsoft, Amazon etc would all have to shut down their cloud computing divisions, they can't even spin them off as a subsidiary. A strained reading of it would potentially make the Apple/Google/Microsoft app stores illegal too.
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Paypal doesn't allow their service to be used for any adult content or items.
Re: Bitcoin fixes this
Maybe if you're dropping hundreds of dollars on content it might be okay. The last time I made a purchase with Bitcoin about a month ago I made the mistake of sending it to my wallet instead of directly to the receiving address. When I tried to send it, it wouldn't let me because the network fees were going to be around $15 on a $30 purchase.
Re: So does Google..
I had the exact same thought reading the article. But Google is big enough that the board knows they can't bully them so they are allowed to continue unimpeded.
Some of us are trying. The problem is that we're surrounded by red counties that only care about the R next to the name.