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  1. Re:Twitter shouldn't be shutting anyone down.. on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Because that would be unimaginable CENSORSHIP? on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    public responsibility being that same public responsibility brought to bear on image repositories (ie imgur) to ensure they don't host (eg images of child abuse) and they take immediate action against users who attempt to upload such images (like suspending their accounts and forwarding the information to the proper authorities) otherwise they'll get shut down and aggressively persecuted by the Federal Authorities (Megaupload, Piratebay...). It's not just a copyright thing, some of it is actually intended to protect not just children but society as a whole from six year old deviants who don't want to pay for the latest Miley Cyrus pap. OK, it's primarily about copyright.

    I've tried boiling this down half a dozen ways, it keeps coming back to the fact that until you touch someone else's IP, the authorities don't want to fucking know.

  3. Re:Because that would be unimaginable CENSORSHIP? on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    Congress don't make State laws, individual States do.

  4. Re:It's called Free Speech on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    Amendment XIV extends Amendment I to State legislatures and by extension (plenty of case law behind this next bit, pay attention) privately owned public platforms such as LETTERS PAGES IN NEWSPAPERS. If this wasn't true, libel laws COULDN'T exist because there would be no need for them - Prior Restraint would have taken care of it.

  5. Re:Twitter shouldn't be shutting anyone down.. on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    Twitter is a private entity managing a public platform. It has public responsibility as if it WERE the Government, ergo it is subject to the limitations imposed in the Constitution. IF they want to censor, the first thing they should do is lock down the platform so it isn't publicly visible.

  6. Re:Twitter shouldn't be shutting anyone down.. on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    as long as you don't climb over my gate or shoot my dogs to get to my front porch to do it, go nuts.

  7. Re:Twitter shouldn't be shutting anyone down.. on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    if they did that, you'd have two choices: accept the clause and get religion, or sue the Government for passing a Law that violated the First Amendment.

  8. Re:Twitter shouldn't be shutting anyone down.. on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    the Law is the FIRST authority on what is right and wrong. COURTS decide whether a given Law is in line with the Constitution and if it isn't, it is struck out. If you have a problem with a Law and think it isn't Constitutional, sue the State. Don't simply ignore the Law as it stands, because you will get bent over and fucked up the arse with the very Law you're railing against.

  9. Re:Because that would be unimaginable CENSORSHIP? on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    Twitter has prior restraint in their ToS (a gentleman's agreement that they think absolves them from your comments on their PUBLIC platform). Also dotted about is the disclaimer that says comments are owned by their authors. TWITTER have a public responsibility to maintain their publicly accessible platform, up to and including carrying through their promise to censor hate speech (the level of which to be decided by the moral majority as always), to shitcan accounts found guilty by community vote (ie the number of complaints) of inciting hate/violence/sedition... and my mind just blanked. You get what I mean, though. Just because Twitter is privately owned doesn't absolve them of public responsibility by any means.

  10. Re:Because that would be unimaginable CENSORSHIP? on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    complete bollocks. When a public forum says "Comments are the property of their authors", they are attempting to deny responsibility for their publication. That doesn't work since they are providing a public platform, ergo they have a responsibility to make sure nobody gets to engage the Holmes test. Talk of sedition in time of war (and the United States has been in a continuous state of war since 1941) carries with it a very hefty penalty not only for he who says it but also for he who enables him. See Schenck v. United States and refer to the Espionage Act 1917.

  11. Re:Because that would be unimaginable CENSORSHIP? on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 2

    it applies to State legislature as well, by extension to any public body.

    In Talley v. California (1960), the Court struck down a Los Angeles city ordinance that made it a crime to distribute anonymous pamphlets. Justice Hugo Black wrote in the majority opinion: "There can be no doubt that such an identification requirement would tend to restrict freedom to distribute information and thereby freedom of expression... Anonymous pamphlets, leaflets, brochures and even books have played an important role in the progress of mankind."

    In McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission (1995), the Court struck down an Ohio statute that made it a crime to distribute anonymous campaign literature.

    Also see the Due Process Clause in Amendment XIV.

  12. Re:Because that would be unimaginable CENSORSHIP? on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    A private entity which provides a public service is subject to rules of a public entity. Including but not limited to the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, where valid.

  13. Re:Because that would be unimaginable CENSORSHIP? on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 0

    why single out Muslims, though? Orthodox Jews have killed far more people in the Western hemisphere than Muslims in the whole of Human history.

  14. Re:DMR is not a Motorola standard on Jailbreak Turns Cheap Walkie-Talkie Into DMR Police Scanner · · Score: 1

    I think DMR has 8 and 40 bit encryption.

  15. Re: Interoperability be damned on Jailbreak Turns Cheap Walkie-Talkie Into DMR Police Scanner · · Score: 1

    no, the analogue got dumped because a more restrictive technology (ie digital) is easier to regulate, or monitor.

  16. Re:Déjà Vu on Jailbreak Turns Cheap Walkie-Talkie Into DMR Police Scanner · · Score: 1

    it's a Shmoo Convention.

    A Shmoo is a fictional creature first appearing in Lil'Abner in 1948. It's pretty much the Swiss Army Knife of housepets, in that it tastes like anything (depending on how you cook it - handy because it loves to be eaten) and you can use its whiskers as toothpicks, its hide can be used for leather or lumber depending on how thick you slice it, and they'll never go extinct because they feed on air and breed prolifically. As if that wasn't enough, they're great at performing showtunes.

    Ergo, a ShmooCon would be a convention celebrating or showcasing something everyone wants because it fulfills all our needs.

  17. Re:Why is Police band unencrypted? on Jailbreak Turns Cheap Walkie-Talkie Into DMR Police Scanner · · Score: 1

    TETRA is encrypted and runs over the cellular network or in the absence of a network, relayed radio. The other major difference between TETRA and eg GSM is that TETRA can use lower frequencies (outside the GSM bands, eg 425MHz) for broadcasting with air encryption or the cell networks for 1-1 with end to end encryption.

  18. I'd run home to watch the launch on 30 Years Since The Challenger Disaster: Where Were You? (space.com) · · Score: 1

    all I remember is the vehicle clearing the towwer, a big cloud of birds, and a big ball of fire... and every space nerd in my school (myself included) bawling for a week.

  19. the Nexus uses some of Motorola's patents they sold to Google in 2012...

  20. my phone is just over twelve years old. The battery is still good for nine days standby. It gets daily use. I won't even consider another phone.

    MotorRAZR V3 for the win.

  21. Your freedom of speech stops at my ears on Online Ad Czar Berates Adblockers As Freedom-Hating 'Mafia' (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I do not have to listen, much as I am not legally or morally obligated to accept spamvertising or malware on MY computer system.

  22. Re:Great.. on DeLoreans To Go Back To Production (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    my Mk.II Burner has a 30 year old Skyway mag on the front. I still ride it.

  23. Re:Taking cues from NASCAR? on Drone Racing League Wants To Be the Next NASCAR (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I know PSD and hydroplanes use ethanol (I've been to a hydroplane comp, the smell of spiked ethanol hits you from half a mile away), don't know about the others.

  24. Re:Taking cues from NASCAR? on Drone Racing League Wants To Be the Next NASCAR (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Pro Stock dragsters use them. As do most street leagues. And hydroplanes (AKA "powerboats"). And Kart. And Rallycross. Moto. TT. Bracket. Indy.

    NASCAR went from carb to DFI in 2012. Citation

  25. Re:Tamper-proofing on Filmmaker Forces Censors To Watch 10-Hour Movie of Paint Drying (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    864,000 frames of hte same thing would be easy to filter. The few dozen remaining frames of cock-in-ass and lesbo action would thus be easy to spot as they'd be all that's left.