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• On the post: Palworld Creator Loves That Others Are Trying To Clone The Game

  

  Samuel Abram ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2024 @ 03:55pm

  Fair enough.

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

  

  Samuel Abram ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2024 @ 03:29pm

  Exactly what I was thinking!

• On the post: ‘Lol, No’ Is The Perfect Response To LAPD’s Nonsense ‘IP’ Threat Letter Over ‘Fuck The LAPD’ Shirt

  

  Samuel Abram ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2024 @ 03:25pm

  Into the annals of Techdirt history!

  This response should go down in the Techdirt history books alongside: -"Call it The Streisand Effect" -"Protocols, Not Platforms" -"Hello! You've been directed here because you're wrong about §230!" -"Elon's Content Moderation Speed-running curve" and more I can't name…

• On the post: DeSantis Signs Bills To Create 25-Foot Halo Around Cops, Strip Oversight Boards Of Independence

  

  Samuel Abram ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2024 @ 03:10pm

  I feel that the best measure of a democracy is the way those in control treat the indigenous population.

  On that measure, the US Department of the Interior gave the Prairie band of the Pawatomi Nation's land back: https://nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/report-doi-places-prairie-band-potawatomi-nation-s-northern-illinois-reservation-land-into-trust

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

  

  Samuel Abram ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2024 @ 11:12am

  Reminds me of a joke: "What do you call a person who doesn't practice law as it is but as they wish it would be?" "A law professor."

• On the post: Palworld Creator Loves That Others Are Trying To Clone The Game

  

  Samuel Abram ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2024 @ 10:54am

  Imagine Nintendo doing anything like this. You simply can’t.

  Not so fast. Keep in mind that Nintendo regularly licenses Metroidvania games (and other games from genres they created or popularized) on their platforms such as the Nintendo Switch. So actually, I can easily imagine such a scenario, and I'm not John Lennon or his ghost.

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

  

  Samuel Abram ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2024 @ 10:28am

  I'm not sure whether Allison Stranger's testimony indicates that she's extremely and willfully ignorant or is extremely and willfully mendacious.

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

  

  Samuel Abram ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2024 @ 10:20am

  Christ: "What a dumbass!"

• On the post: The Motion Picture Association Doesn’t Get To Decide Who The First Amendment Protects

  

  Samuel Abram ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2024 @ 02:06pm

  The biggest threat to the MPA

  You know what I think is the biggest threat to the MPA? This: https://seedandspark.com/ It's a crowdfunding web site specifically for movies and film. Now, maybe it's a conspiracy theory I'm entertaining, but what if a revitalized SOPA could be used to take down a web site such as that, thus ensuring a monopoly for the MPA? I mean, I know that YouTube and Vimeo exist, but what seed and spark show (like Kickstarter and indiegogo before it) is that you can create an alternative model to the MPA. The fact is, we love their movies and we love their shows. We just hate how they abuse their employees and treat their customers. Now the customers can have a say.

• On the post: DeSantis Signs Bills To Create 25-Foot Halo Around Cops, Strip Oversight Boards Of Independence

  

  Samuel Abram ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2024 @ 05:35am

  I just realized that you said Florida should be returned to the Seminole. I completely agree with that. But then you said that you don't think there are any left, which is bullshit. For instance, Native American Filmmaker Sterlin Harjo is Seminole. Natives are still here, you just have to pay attention.

• On the post: Bandai Namco Sends Threat Letter To Modding Site Over Supposed Trademark Issues

  

  Samuel Abram ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2024 @ 04:29am

  Believe it or not, there was once a time when Japanese culture was very open. Capcom put in an OC Remix OST in one of their video games and allowed OC Remix to give away the OST. Doujin Manga was prevalent and none of the Doujin Manga-ka were victims of litigation. What changed? Well, before, Japan didn't really have a lot of lawyers, so that's why copyright action wasn't taken, outside of Nintendo. But once there was legislation that criminalized copyright infringement due to trade agreements such as the TPP (which the US didn't sign but Japan did), that's when big companies such as Bandai Namco went after fan projects. (This is not definitive but my interpretation)

• On the post: DeSantis Signs Bills To Create 25-Foot Halo Around Cops, Strip Oversight Boards Of Independence

  

  Samuel Abram ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2024 @ 04:09am

  Moving takes resources and not everyone can do it.

• On the post: DeSantis Signs Bills To Create 25-Foot Halo Around Cops, Strip Oversight Boards Of Independence

  

  Samuel Abram ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2024 @ 03:39am

  An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere. If you want Florida to fuck off, then that means that you don't care about the innocent people who are stuck there, or even the liberals and other left-wingers who live there (like my sister and her fiancé).

• On the post: DeSantis Signs Bills To Create 25-Foot Halo Around Cops, Strip Oversight Boards Of Independence

  

  Samuel Abram ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2024 @ 04:54pm

  Ah, thank you. To be frank, It was a quick google search. That being said, it really does say something when New York City residents feel safer in their own city than Winnipeg residents do in theirs, so I stand by my link.

• On the post: DeSantis Signs Bills To Create 25-Foot Halo Around Cops, Strip Oversight Boards Of Independence

  

  Samuel Abram ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2024 @ 03:27pm

  Crime ridden democrat cities

  I live in New York City, which is even safer than Winnipeg, in Manitoba, Canada.

• On the post: Meta’s Dumb Deletion Of Links To Journalism Shows Why Attempts To Tax Platforms That Link To Journalism Is Even Dumber

  

  Samuel Abram ( profile ), 08 Apr, 2024 @ 05:41pm

  meta can simply stop linking to news websites in Canada if they want to save money

  They're already doing that and have been doing that for a while.

• On the post: NYC Officials Are Mad Because Journalists Pointed Out The City’s New ‘AI’ Chatbot Tells People To Break The Law

  

  Samuel Abram ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2024 @ 11:34am

  But being in power in New York is all about an self-entitled ass!

  Yup. The only time we actually had a good mayor was Fiorello LaGuardia.

• On the post: Elon Lost The Spam Wars To ‘Pussy In Bio’ Spam

  

  Samuel Abram ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2024 @ 02:57pm

  No. I oppose electing people that commit high crimes, treason, organized crime, crimes against humanity, seditious conspiracy to vio,ate [sic] constitutional rights, and tbat are controlled by lobbtpyists [sic].

  So, you oppose electing Donald Trump for an inconsecutive second term/dictator for life?

• On the post: Hillary Clinton Joins The Chorus Of Ignorant Pundits Insisting Section 230 Must Go

  

  Samuel Abram ( profile ), 02 Apr, 2024 @ 05:53pm

  Hillary Clinton is on the right-wing side of neoliberalism. She is more invested in the preservation of the regime than the will or best interests of the American public.

  I had her as my state's senator. I can confirm what you said with over 9000% clarity.

• On the post: Hillary Clinton Joins The Chorus Of Ignorant Pundits Insisting Section 230 Must Go

  

  Samuel Abram ( profile ), 02 Apr, 2024 @ 05:51pm

  If your [sic] a politician running for office, it is a reasonable assumption that you understand the laws and frameworks in place.

  But Hillary isn't a politician running for office. She ran and lost in both 2008 and 2016, and was the first lady from 1993-2001, The US Senator for New York State from 2001-2009, and the Secretary of Defense from 2009-2013. She's basically a Politica Emerita now. She's no longer going to run for president after her humiliating loss to Trumpy in 2016. That being said, this is actually worse, because even with all this experience she doesn't see anything that was actually good she and her husband did and wants to exacerbate the evil she and her husband did.

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