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The Loner
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This part especially is infuriating.
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The Loner@theloner.bsky.social |
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Software dev, ttrpg GM, progressive, code is speech. 'You either die a SpongeBob or live long enough to become a Squidward' -Contrapoints.
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The Loner
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This part especially is infuriating.
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Bolts
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Prosecutors in Virginia routinely pressure defendants to give up their constitutional protections against unreasonable search for years. This “encourages bad policing,” one defense attorney told Bolts, since they have “free rein to do whatever they want” with no consequences.
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Attorney Major of Florida
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Dems need to immediately put their weight behind a federal Anti-SLAPP statute. A real one. With expedited hearings and automatic fee shifting.
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The Loner
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Bill of attainders are illegal in this country.
www.law.cornell.edu/constitution...
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Paul Frazee 💥
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DMs on Bluesky will not be "end-to-end encrypted" until we are able to do some more protocol work. We have very careful access controls within our systems. If you're extremely privacy conscious, I'd recommend using Bluesky DMs to share your Signal accounts!
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Attorney Major of Florida
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So we're supposed to be allies because they're the only democracy in the Middle East, right? Cause umm.... this doesn't seem very Democratic.
www.axios.com/2024/05/21/i...
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Attorney Major of Florida
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Every social media platform needs a feature where if you type the words "fairness doctrine," you have to pass a quiz on the subject before you can post.
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The Loner
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I always assumed his FUCK LUXEMBOURG arm tattoo would be his downfall.
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Popehat
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Actually, the First Amendment is a relative success story amongst rights, the most robust and protected the most reliably compared to others under U.S. law.
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The Loner
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And even with just GDPR, europe does a good job enforcing data privacy
techcrunch.com/2023/09/15/t...
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The Loner
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DSA is a separate topic about content that is separate from the GDPR. No one in this thread advocated for DSA in this country, as it suffers from the Hungary issue of it being potentially abused by its worst member states.
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Bluesky
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Now available: DMs! Start a private conversation with a friend directly on Bluesky within the Chat tab. 💬 Update to the latest version of the app (1.83) or refresh on desktop to start chatting!
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The Loner
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That is a nothingburger of a sentence. Existing laws regulating data privacy in healthcare and financial industries have been upheld in court without violating 1A. Unless you're in favor of repealing HIPAA, you should not be opposed to a data privacy bill.
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The Loner
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Where do you think the money made from ad revenues go to or money from sponsorships is pulled from? They have bank accounts, assets, and employees that are within US jurisdiction or treaties. And Europe is doing just fine enforcing data privacy laws on TikTok.
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The Loner
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And the answer is a data privacy bill consistently yelled by actual privacy experts as Himes alluded to. When folks like @evacide.bsky.social who literally removes stalkerware from domestic violence victims calls a ban a sham, that is a good sign to go back to the drawing board.
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The Loner
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Given that folks on the intelligence committee have seen it and have not been convinced, I'm highly skeptical they have the "smoking gun" they think they have
himes.house.gov/2024/3/himes...
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Radley Balko
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New at The Watch: Trump wants to deport more people than the populations of NYC, Chicago, and L.A. combined. It would cost $1 trillion+, and require a force larger than the U.S. Army. It also can't be done. But that isn't the point. It's about giving his supporters the human suffering they crave.
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Andy Craig
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Deporting US citizens isn’t a theoretical concern either, there have been cases of it happening. Any kind of mass ramping up would inevitably sweep up more.
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Tim Onion
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Micah
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this country is run by Fox News grandpas
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Mike Masnick
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Fun to compare this to the hyperventilating over TikTok/China.
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Faine Greenwood
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It’s true that Israel has lately been a lot less cagey about their “alleged” nuclear weapons than they have been, including elected officials suggesting they be used on Gaza. Again, this is a rather relevant factor if you’re discussing why the rest of the world is approaching Israel the way it is.
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melissa~
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update: i have now been harassed into actually liking magic the gathering
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Gareth Lewin
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Following @mmasnick.bsky.social and the threads he replies to has made me realize that Americans treat the constitution the way religious people treat the bible. The parts they like they insist on a dogmatic literal interpretation and the parts the don’t like they just ignore existing.
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The Loner
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This, at least Biden has renounced the Hyde Amendment and stood firm on his abortion policy for the military. My senator, Bob Casey, still supports the Hyde Amendment even in '22 and has no plan to remove the Comstock Act.
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Drew Harwell
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The hypocrisy of Congress' jawboning around TikTok. "An authoritarian playbook, threatening companies for merely associating with and/or defending" a company's rights @mmasnick.bsky.social www.techdirt.com/2024/05/10/c...
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Freedom of the Press Foundation
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Criticizing Israel? A new anti-terrorism bill would allow the government to take away vital tax exemptions from nonprofit news outlets. Freedom of the Press Advocacy Director Seth Stern writes on the Intercept.
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Don Moynihan
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Authoritarian regimes seek to delegitmate and control aspects of society that are not some measure of independence: That includes universities, the government bureaucracy, a free press, and, civil society. Here Goldberg talks about the growing attack on nonprofits and philanthropic organizations.
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Erin Biba
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Huge protest happening right now in Tel Aviv. Insta screenshots from: Standing Together: A Jewish-Arab org fighting for social justice for Palestinians Breaking the Silence: former isreali soldiers that educate about the atrocities committed by the Isreali army in the occupied territories.
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The Loner
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This lesbian bar doesn't have a fire exit! Enjoy your death trap, ladies!
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Karl Bode
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reuters has really done an amazing job detailing, piece by piece, how tesla is basically a giant pile of fraud built on the back of poorly built tech and the empty promises of an opportunistic bullshitter
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The Loner
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And I thought Pennsylvania Democrats can be bad at times.
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The Loner
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Reskeet with your mental state
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Mike Masnick
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Anyway, enough rambling. Full writeup is here. And, as a reminder, I'm not a lawyer, I just play one on the internet (or, more accurately, have people constantly falsely assume I am one). www.techdirt.com/2024/05/02/w...
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The Loner
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Laughs in Gregory Lee Johnson.
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Seth Cotlar
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We could do this with the anti-Vietnam War protests as well. They were profoundly unpopular at the time. Now we look back at those “annoying kids” and wonder why more politicians weren’t listening to them.
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Seth Cotlar
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Today we look back positively on the lunch counter sit ins of 1960-1, as products of a movement that understood how to protest “the right way.” The overwhelming majority of Americans in 1961, however, disagreed. Their contemporaries thought those disruptive students were doing it all wrong.
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Dell Cameron
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I one-hundred percent believe this, which is why this is such a disaster. I hope the Biden plan of winning by swinging mythological middle-aged white men still sitting on the fence works out.
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The Loner
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Ya as someone who is voting for him mostly on risk management/project 2025/PA being a swing state, I completely understand that he pissed people off and is his responsibility to win your vote, not me or anyone else on this site. I myself have decided to split my vote on reps over the tiktok ban.
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maraleia
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The fact that Scott Galloway and Kara Swisher are friends says everything we need to know about both of those pieces of garbage.
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Hypervisible
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The Sinophobia of politicians and tech execs was, and remains, a key factor in campaigns against TikTok.
Any account of how the ban came to exist that doesn’t discuss that element is just misleading. www.wsj.com/tech/how-tik...
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The Loner
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Thanks for the share! Just RSVP'd.
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Jon of The North
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Micah
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I miss when tech moguls at least pretended to care about anything but their own petty bullshit even Elon, once upon a time, presented himself as trying to make the world a better place now we see their actual dreams, and it’s all “I wish to be a medieval baron” which is both evil and boring
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Brooke Binkowski
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When you super fucked up
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Attorney Major of Florida
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Every decade or so we go through the college protest story all over again with the same results.... John Pike, the cop seen in the viral photo from UC Davis, was never charged. He either resigned or got fired, then got over $38,000 from worker's comp for "psychiatric" damage from his own actions.
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Dell Cameron
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There‘a no decade in the past 80 years when peace protesters in the US haven’t been illegally spied on, infiltrated, rounded up, beaten and jailed on pretextual charges. The perception of some gap between between the era of cointelpro & the post-9/11 surveillance state is a mirage.
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Tim Onion
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NEWS: My friends and I now own and run The Onion. I’ll be the CEO. We’re keeping the entire staff, bringing back The Onion News Network, and will share the wealth with staff. Basically, we’re going to let them do whatever they want. Get excited.
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Jessica Lyons
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Collaboration software used by federal government agencies — this includes apps from Microsoft, Zoom, Slack, and Google — will be required to work together and be securely end-to-end encrypted, if legislation proposed by US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) passes.
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