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• On the post: Court Upholds Conviction Of Cop Who Threatened, Beat, Tased, And Arrested A Man For Complaining About Being Beaten By Him Earlier

  

  limbodog ( profile ), 10 Jul, 2019 @ 07:17am

  Re: Selling bodycams to citizens

  Wouldn't they be illegal in many states for recording people without their permission?

• On the post: If 'Big Tech' Is a Huge Antitrust Problem, Why Are We Ignoring Telecom?

  

  limbodog ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2019 @ 07:02am

  Every time Senator Warren tweets/posts about this I ask that

  Comcast et al would be a much more appropriate starting point.

• On the post: FCC Under Fire For Putting ALEC Rep On 'Consumer' Advisory Board

  

  limbodog ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2019 @ 11:27am

  Can Ajit Pai be impeached

  He's a "federal officer" isn't he?

• On the post: EU Puts An End To The Open Internet: Link Taxes And Filters Approved By Just 5 Votes

  

  limbodog ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2019 @ 10:27am

  Re: Re: Re:

  That, and people should all go to the websites of the supporters of this bill and start quoting from scripts/novels/whatever and then flag those posts as copyright infringing posts. If it's a news agency, write letters to the editor quoting some movie script without credit. Etc. Let them enjoy the resulting lawsuits/fines

• On the post: Enough MEPs Say They Mistakenly Voted For Articles 11 & 13 That The Vote Should Have Flipped; EU Parliament Says Too Bad

  

  limbodog ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2019 @ 07:34am

  Re: Archive.org

  Blame the mouse house for that. Copyright protection shouldn't last over a century. 15-20 years would be plenty. Imagine if art was allowed to enter our culture before it was forgotten.

• On the post: If You Value The Reputation Of Your Restaurant, Maybe You Should Stop Serving Cops

  

  limbodog ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2018 @ 11:19am

  Wait... but

  Isn't this exactly what slander/libel laws are for? There's a video proving the act that the police claimed to have happened did not. The police officers made up the claim, so they knew it wasn't true, and it's pretty hard to believe it was anything other than a desire to punish someone for contempt-of-cop.
  
  I know slander and libel can be hard to prove, but this one seems like it'd be pretty easy.

• On the post: Cops Follow Up Officer-Involved Shooting By Heading To Funeral Home To Apply Dead Man's Fingers To His Locked Phone

  

  limbodog ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2018 @ 12:49pm

  Re: Re: It's been said many times before, but it bears repeating

  "Semantic nonsense" is how our system of laws works. It's also a great name for a post-industrial noise band.

• On the post: Cops Follow Up Officer-Involved Shooting By Heading To Funeral Home To Apply Dead Man's Fingers To His Locked Phone

  

  limbodog ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2018 @ 09:47am

  It's been said many times before, but it bears repeating

  Fingerprints are usernames, not passwords. It's not a good idea to confuse the two.

• On the post: The Washington Post Thinks Overpaying For Broadband Bundles Is A Hoot

  

  limbodog ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2018 @ 10:49am

  Trolling on a professional level

  My class in advertising way back in the day left one particular lasting impression: those commercials that you hate? Advertisers love those because you remember the name when you're at the store.
  
  Well WaPo has taken this to a new level. You have to pay to view their website now (I think you get one or two freebies, then it's paywall). This article is clearly going to incense a lot of people. And those angry people? They're going to want to go all YouTube-Comments on WaPo's ass. But first, they have to pay for the privilege.

• On the post: Shareholder Groups Say Apple Should Do More To Address Gadget 'Addiction' Among Young People: Should It?

  

  limbodog ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2018 @ 07:04am

  Backwards

  Our understanding of addiction has been overturned. We know now that it's less about the object of the addict's focus, and more about the dissatisfaction with their lives. (see "Rat Park" etc.)
  
  If kids are focused entirely on gadgets, perhaps that means they're missing a connection to family/friends that should be looked at.

• On the post: Court Holds NYPD In Contempt For Refusing To Hand Over Documents Related To Black Live Matter Surveillance

  

  limbodog ( profile ), 11 Dec, 2017 @ 08:46am

  Re:

  It looks to me like it's not just the NYPD. It appears to be the city government over them as well. The NYPD brass has to report to someone. I'd say that they need to be dragged into it.

• On the post: India Embraces Full Net Neutrality As The U.S. Turns Its Back On The Concept

  

  limbodog ( profile ), 08 Dec, 2017 @ 07:00am

  As The U.S. Turns Its Back On The Concept

  Ugh. I hate that the "US" is being lumped together as turning its back on NN. We all know it isn't the population of the US doing it, but corrupt saboteurs doing it. At the very least, it should say "US Government"

• On the post: Michigan Lawmaker Doesn't Understand Her Own Bill Hamstringing Broadband Competition

  

  limbodog ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2017 @ 07:27am

  Let's be clear

  You call it "her own bill", but in reality she is just the messenger.

• On the post: Wall Street Predicts Apathetic Regulators And Limited Competition Will Let Comcast Double Broadband Prices

  

  limbodog ( profile ), 05 Oct, 2017 @ 07:41am

  Wall Street Predicts Apathetic Regulators

  You misspelled 'complicit'

• On the post: Trump's FCC Boss Blasts Apple For Refusing To 'Turn On' FM iPhone Chipsets That Don't Actually Exist

  

  limbodog ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2017 @ 01:57pm

  He has the easiest job in the world

  Pai has got to have such an easy job. He is handed his marching orders: obey the cable companies, ignore everyone else. And yet he keeps messing up. How incompetent a saboteur do you have to be to mess up something that easy? He's like a cartoon bad guy - Gargamel without the cat to save him from himself.

• On the post: Prepare For An Epic Bullshit Sales Pitch For The Competition-Killing Sprint, T-Mobile Merger

  

  limbodog ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2017 @ 06:53am

  We need the "How it Should Have Ended" guys to start doing PR campaign parodies.

• On the post: Florida Sheriff Plans To Use Hurricane Irma To Bump Up Arrest Numbers, Fill His Jail

  

  limbodog ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2017 @ 07:11am

  So... No safe refuge from a deadly hurricane for anyone without an ID?

  And I thought the voter suppression was bad!

• On the post: Comcast Whines That The Net Neutrality Debate It Keeps Rekindling Is A Lot Like 'Groundhog Day'

  

  limbodog ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2017 @ 07:09am

  Whoosh!

  Apparently Comcast missed the point where Phil had to learn to become an ethical and generous person before the loop stopped.

• On the post: Former FCC Commissioner Tries To Claim Net Neutrality Has Aided The Rise Of White Supremacy

  

  limbodog ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2017 @ 09:26am

  What a ridiculous notion!

  Net Neutrality clearly did not aid in the rise of white-supremacy. He should be ashamed of making stuff like that up. People need to stick to the facts. like how Net Neutrality causes autism.

• On the post: Comcast Tries, Fails To Kill Lawsuit Over Its Hidden, Bogus Fees

  

  limbodog ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2017 @ 07:57am

  I have nothing intelligent to add

  But I look forward to the day that Comcast is mounted on a wall like Blockbuster is today - a memento of an extinct species.

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