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• On the post: Lindsey Graham Promises To Try To Repeal Section 230 Every Week

  

  sumgai ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2024 @ 10:56am

  Not to mention, but NO, you don't need our opinions. Unless you're actually someone in the stratosphere of of the powers-that-be, then you can't possibly do anything of repute upon learning what our opinions might be. You're new here, so Lesson #1 is, don't antagonize the hoi-poi. Doing so tends to earn flags, and thence the hiding of your posts. Don't say you were never warned.

• On the post: Court: No, You Can’t Sue Facebook Claiming It Takes Down More Pro-Palestinian Speech Than Pro-Israel Speech

  

  sumgai ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2024 @ 06:36pm

  Upon re-reading TFS, I see that I somehow missed the "little" fact that the case was filed pro se. Even so, things like this take money - filing fees are no longer in the province of 'easy to swallow', they're now designed to dissuade people from attempting to achieve redress. This guy got nowhere fast, and is now out at least a couple grand for his efforts. But don't think that I'm feeling sorry for this dickhead. He knew, or should've known two things:

  • That court cases are nothing more than a gamble;

  and

  • Just like any game of chance in Las Vegas, the house always wins.

• On the post: Court: No, You Can’t Sue Facebook Claiming It Takes Down More Pro-Palestinian Speech Than Pro-Israel Speech

  

  sumgai ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2024 @ 06:13pm

  You might be a bad legislator if...

  you can bet there would be a shit ton of very, very stupid lawsuits.

  Either that, or shit ton of very, very over-expansive geo-blocking. My subject line is referring to legislators that don't think about the ramifications of having their citizenry cut off from a very sizable (and popular) chunk of the internet, should crappy laws like this be upheld by the courts. Talk about a fractured society! Wanna know my personal theory here? I believe that this isn't performative legislation, it's a case where each non-Democrat legislator (in each red state) is trying to prove who's got the biggest dick. You know, sort of like "My dick is so big, it's got its own postal zip code", that kind of thing.

• On the post: Court: No, You Can’t Sue Facebook Claiming It Takes Down More Pro-Palestinian Speech Than Pro-Israel Speech

  

  sumgai ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2024 @ 06:00pm

  All it would take

  All it would take for shit cases like this to disappear overnight would be for the courts to start sanctioning lawyers who are supposed to know better. When long-standing statute law and multiple case laws have been published for every lawyer to read and heed, then it does the judicial system no good to not punish attorneys for repeated abuse like this.

• On the post: Fucking Hell: David Mamet Files The Most Pointless, Silly Amicus Brief In Supreme Court Content Moderation Case

  

  sumgai ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2024 @ 06:08pm

  Already, not alreacy. Remind me to put the cat down off my lap before I start typing my reply.

• On the post: Fucking Hell: David Mamet Files The Most Pointless, Silly Amicus Brief In Supreme Court Content Moderation Case

  

  sumgai ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2024 @ 06:07pm

  Rather, Alreacy Been Copyrighted

• On the post: Fucking Hell: David Mamet Files The Most Pointless, Silly Amicus Brief In Supreme Court Content Moderation Case

  

  sumgai ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2024 @ 06:06pm

  No, it's the first one. Same brief, filed in two different courts. The sentence you quoted did not state "the only amicus brief ever to be filed that includes the line..."

• On the post: California DA’s Office Used A Made-Up Story About A Dead Kid To Pitch Its Fentanyl Fantasies

  

  sumgai ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2024 @ 05:41pm

  The dumb-asses painted their own targets on their head/backs/asses, and proceeded to pop up and proclaim their need to be shot down. Much fun ensued.

• On the post: Clingy Guy Who Filed A SLAPP Suit Against Women He Dated Has Lawsuit Thrown Out… Immediately Refiles (Oh, And Also Gets Convicted For Tax Fraud)

  

  sumgai ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2024 @ 10:00am

  Only if the case draws the same judge. If it's someone else, then there's a chance that #2 won't be cognizant of the previous case. But the filing is still so defective that the chances of it passing muster are still somewhere between a snowball's chance in hell, and #45's re-election.

• On the post: Ben Franklin Was All About Content Moderation

  

  sumgai ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2024 @ 02:40pm

  A newspaper is a publication.

  True, as far as it goes.

  A platform is an arbitrary word with no relevance at all.

  Absolutely incorrect. The word 'platform' is a reference to "where one stands on a given topic". In the days of old (when I was first brought to life), people of like mindedness composed platforms that contained planks. These planks were statements of belief in how the platform should be assembled and then used. The real-world analogy really should not escape you, and I don't wish to elucidate any further, thank you. And here we actually do have a dichotomy, wherein the newspaper is a method for the dissemination of information, i.e. a publication, but as it is controlled (or moderated, if one prefers), by at least one human being, it becomes also a platform in that the controller is permitting, even encouraging, some content, and actively discouraging other content. That's the controller's statement of beliefs, and the publication of those beliefs is the controller's platform. Since this all seems to be overly complicated for even some TD contributors that I respect, I'm gonna simplify it for everyone: Franklin said he'd consider taking money for printing things he might dislike, but he didn't flatly state that he'd print anything and everything that came his way. He went on to state further that he would not besmirch his personal reputation, nor that of the newspaper, by inserting into it material he considered to be antithetical to the public' best interests. Argue away with that, be my guest. But since push will soon come to shove, I suggest that you wait and see what the court's opinion has to say. Might be enlightening, who knows.

• On the post: Robocallers Used Sloppy Biden Deepfake To Try And Keep Voters From The Polls On Presidential Primary Day

  

  sumgai ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2024 @ 11:20am

  The period goes outside. Fuck all the people who ignore the Chicago Manual Of Style, and the horses they rode in on.

• On the post: Investigative Report Proves What Most People Already Suspected: The ‘War On Woke & DEI’ Mostly Pushed By A Bunch Of Censorial, Racist Shitheads

  

  sumgai ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2024 @ 10:55am

  No, rich suckers are giving money to even richer assholes. That's how money works, it flows from the bottom upwards, leaving room at the bottom for poor people.

• On the post: Investigative Report Proves What Most People Already Suspected: The ‘War On Woke & DEI’ Mostly Pushed By A Bunch Of Censorial, Racist Shitheads

  

  sumgai ( profile ), 24 Jan, 2024 @ 10:52am

  I did read it for you. It wasn't even a salad, it was goulash of bullshit, horseshit, camelshit, and whaleshit (they had to drag it up from the bottom of the ocean, that's how low it was), all mashed together in and extreme effort to prove exactly how correct the NYT report is.

• On the post: Was The NO AI FRAUD Act Written By A Fraudulent AI? Because Whoever Wrote It Is Hallucinating

  

  sumgai ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2024 @ 12:41pm

  I see what you did there. Good play on words!

• On the post: Freshman State Lawmaker Wants To Ban Porn In Oklahoma 

  

  sumgai ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2024 @ 12:39pm

  Deevers is a pastor? What happened to separation of Church and State? Wasn't that doctrine the very reason for preventing the making of laws like this?

• On the post: DOJ Report Calls Botched Uvalde School Shooting Response A Series Of ‘Cascading Failures’

  

  sumgai ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2024 @ 12:18pm

  ... or any police narrative that sounds even remotely like COA. (Covering Our Asses)

• On the post: Was The NO AI FRAUD Act Written By A Fraudulent AI? Because Whoever Wrote It Is Hallucinating

  

  sumgai ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2024 @ 10:47am

  Just think ow [sic] what the cops could do with such a law, as using a phone to record their actions is using digital technology.

  Or look at it from the other direction. Think about how:

  • Body cameras won't be worn any more, because they're digital.
  • No more fax machines, they're all digital now.
  • Ditto for printers!
  • Wanted posters will once again be hand-drawn for manual distribution.
  • Wire-tap recordings will once again be tape recorded in analog, not with digital means.
  • A resurgence in film and paper will come about, because long-distance surveillance will require analog cameras - nothing digital will be allowed.

  And that's just off the top of my head, there are probably way more limits on the police using digital tech to definitively describe a "suspect" than I can come up with in just a few moments. Of course, if I can see this, then so can others in a position to insert an amendment to exclude law enforcement activities from this particular steaming pile of bullshit.

• On the post: Was The NO AI FRAUD Act Written By A Fraudulent AI? Because Whoever Wrote It Is Hallucinating

  

  sumgai ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2024 @ 10:25am

  The answer is Yes. Yes, Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar and Rep. Madeleine Dean are, by definition and example both AI's masquerading as humans. Q.E.D.

• On the post: Trump Has To Pay $392k For His NY Times SLAPP Suit

  

  sumgai ( profile ), 22 Jan, 2024 @ 11:06pm

  Woosh!

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  sumgai ( profile ), 22 Jan, 2024 @ 06:44pm

  The fact that it says about me is that I support freedom of speech.

  You can't support freedom of speech if you are attempting to bully a property owner into submission that he/she must carry your speech. That's a direct example of a dichotomy. Further, you continually exhibit an ignorance that defies all rational thinking. Even after more than 90 posts to this thread alone, you either don't see and understand, or you are being willfully ignorant about the fact that speech is not the issue here, free or otherwise. It's all about association, and until you "get it", you are going to continually be flagged for your ignorance. Plan on it. Claims of censorship were always a Republican/Conservative screeching point, because none of them paid attention in class when the subject of the day was The Constitution. They all thought they heard "prostitution", and said that's a good idea, let's skip out of class and go bang a whore. Thats why this country in in a world of shit right now, because some people's kids .... Oh, Christ, why am I even trying to talk sense to you. I need a bath and a shower both to clean the crud off my body, after dealing with the like of you. To quote Charles Dickens, I devote thee to the devil.

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