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4chan and Kiwifarms Sue Ofcom over Attempt to Enforce Online Safety Act in US(twitter.com)
17 points by EarlKing 1y ago|4 comments
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by EarlKing 1y ago
4chan and Kiwi Farms have obtained common counsel and are suing the UK's Ofcom over their attempts to enforce the Online Safety Act against them, two American companies without minimum ties necessary to establish general personal juris
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by EarlKing 1y ago
And everyone must present ID to post, of course... to "protect the children".
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by EarlKing 1y ago
Then they should go buy a boomerphone that can make calls and text and nothing else and stop screwing things up for the rest of us.
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by EarlKing 1y ago
If that is so then that is a problem to be solved by the local equivalent of child protective services by removing them to a safe environment, not by imposing tyranny on everyone else. See how easy it is to dismantle statist arguments if yo
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by EarlKing 1y ago
If "false information" is common there... don't go there. No, I don't think they, or indeed anyone, needs to be held to a "higher standard". No one is obligated to tell you "the truth" as you see it.
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by EarlKing 1y ago
....and you've never been on /b/ and don't get the reference.
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by EarlKing 1y ago
You forgot the last bit: "Bon appetite!" Definitely the politest way anyone has ever been told to eat shit in human history.
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by EarlKing 1y ago
We'd like to, but Pool's Closed.
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by EarlKing 1y ago
The funny thing about "false information" being "spread" by "8chan admins" (or 4chan for that matter) is.... you can avoid it by simply not going there. Stop going there if you don't like it.
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by EarlKing 1y ago
You're thinking of Jim Watkins who provided the hosting for 8chan, not 4chan. Two completely different image boards.
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by EarlKing 1y ago
And do as much as a sternly worded letter to the editor.
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by EarlKing 1y ago
Already underway in several states. Bills in Texas and Utah have already been approved, with several other states entertaining such proposals, although none have moved out of committee as yet. It's all so tiresome. If this were really
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by EarlKing 1y ago
This is what you get for skimming. :D Just to be sure that I wasn't misremembering, I went through part 2 of the report and back to the original memorandum[1] that was sent out before the full report issued. I've included a few ch
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by EarlKing 1y ago
Original expression, yes, however you should've kept reading: "In the Office’s view, it is well-established that copyright can protect only material that is the product of human creativity. Most fundamentally, the term “author,” w
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by EarlKing 1y ago
It's not just about how you got there. At least in the United States according to the Copyright Office... materials produced by artificial intelligence are not eligible for copyright. So, yeah, some people want to know for licensing pu
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by EarlKing 1y ago
I have a much shorter AGENTS.md: "No."
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by EarlKing 1y ago
People don't vote for this. Politicians do. People need to be made aware of what their politicians are up to in their name and encouraged to punish politicians for their acts of treachery at the polls, including the credible threat of
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by EarlKing 1y ago
What amazes me is that this article fails to mention that the slippery slope is already underway. Multiple states have some variation on the "App Store Accountability Act" that requires you present ID just to download apps, includ
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by EarlKing 1y ago
The average developer, whether of open source or otherwise, refuses to use even the bare minimum of engineering discipline in realizing their programs, thereby resulting in an explosion of bugs that the rest of us have to pay for with our t
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by EarlKing 1y ago
"Futurama does not endorse the COOOOOOL crime of fraudulent misrepresentation!" Seriously, Futurama and Cyberpunk and 1984 were all supposed to be warnings... not how-to manuals.
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by EarlKing 1y ago
..........not a hotdog.
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by EarlKing 1y ago
Haunted? Hell, it's positively possessed.
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by EarlKing 1y ago
....a little of column A, a little of column B, really.
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by EarlKing 1y ago
The fact that they refer to it as "sideloading" rather than just "installing" is all I need to know about where their priorities lie. As long as they view installation of arbitrary programs by end users as being somethin
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by EarlKing 1y ago
Better question: Why do I need to use my bank's special snowflake website, or their special snowflake app, when both do the exact same thing that I was doing via a text terminal dialing into Bank of America's HOMEBANKSF service on
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by EarlKing 1y ago
Just a note: At the bottom of the page they mention a book on Embedded System Design that they contributed to but there's no link. It took a little digging but I found the book they're talking about: https://us.artechho
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by EarlKing 1y ago
We just got through talking about how the players involved have deep pockets, and have a vested interest in seeing their way prevail... so cheap doesn't matter, likely is malleable, which leaves only "fast" which I do not con
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by EarlKing 1y ago
Deep pockets are not a get out of jail free card. If a case escalates to the SCOTUS there will be many firms that submit amicus curiae outlining their position on the matter and how it threatens their rights. Those people, arguably, represe
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by EarlKing 1y ago
In my circle usually people would either go by their middle name or they'd very quickly earn themselves a nickname... although now that I think about it we did use lastnames for some guys. Whatever works, really. Nobody was a stickler

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