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• On the post: Theresa May Tries To Push Forward With Plans To Kill Encryption, While Her Party Plots Via Encrypted Whatsapp

  

  Gorshkov ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2017 @ 03:35am

  Hmmmmm ........

  does this mean that the Tories are terrorists, and should be locked up?

• On the post: Frontier Fires State Senate Leader (Who Also Worked For Frontier) For Supporting Attempts To Improve Broadband Competition

  

  Gorshkov ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2017 @ 11:30am

  Re:

  Unbelievable he was working for the isp and the legislature overseeing it.

  I don't disagree with you, but I'm curious - how else do you expect it to be when a position in the state senate is not a full time job? Starting senators make $16,000, and the highest paid makes $55,000. Bottom line: There is not a single senator in the state who is NOT going to be in a conflict of interest from time to time.

• On the post: Appeals Court Upholds Life Sentences For Silk Road Mastermind

  

  Gorshkov ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2017 @ 03:45am

  Slight difference

  The government got its man, but it also showed it's willing to pin life sentences on third party marketplace facilitators, which is a bit like locking up Backpage execs because sex traffickers use their site to… oh wait.

  I don't think that comparison is quite valid. Backpage is a site that is used, incidentally, by some people involved in illegal activities - but silk roads was designed and operated SPECIFICALLY AND INTENTIONALLY for illegal activities.

  And personally, I think contracting a murder or two DOES justify a life sentence - there's a big difference between that and mere "third party marketplace facilitation".

• On the post: Swiss Government Blows Off Turkish President's Demands For Prosecution After He's 'Insulted' By A Local Tabloid

  

  Gorshkov ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2017 @ 07:32pm

  Re:

  Baron von Robber said:

  I heard he has a thing for Mexican midgets and dressing up like Judy Garland.

  Wrong. He has a thing for Mexican midgets dressed up like Judy Garland.

• On the post: UK Intellectual Property Office Refuses Beer Brewery's Request To Block Trademark Application For Whisky

  

  Gorshkov ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2017 @ 06:16pm

  Yeah, right

  People only buy whiskey because they can't find the rum isle in the liqueur store ........

• On the post: Techdirt's First Amendment Fight For Its Life

  

  Gorshkov ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2017 @ 06:34am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Popehat

  That would kinda/sorta depend on your definition of "best" now, wouldn't it?

• On the post: Techdirt's First Amendment Fight For Its Life

  

  Gorshkov ( profile ), 11 Jan, 2017 @ 05:24pm

  Re: Re: Re: Popehat

  I don't. I've been reading both Popehat and BestNetTech since they started, and this is the first time I've ever felt the need to send Ken a note about anything.
  
  And I don't read his twitter feed, because I don't do twitter or any other "social" media.

• On the post: Techdirt's First Amendment Fight For Its Life

  

  Gorshkov ( profile ), 11 Jan, 2017 @ 02:04pm

  Re: Popehat

  I just send an email to Ken White with a link to this story - hopefully it'll get his attention

• On the post: Harrisburg, PA Mayor Picks And Chooses Who The 'Real' Journalists Are

  

  Gorshkov ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2016 @ 08:12pm

  Support

  I just turned off my adblocker, went to the paper's website, and read every article there from the last week.
  
  'Nuff said.

• On the post: 40 Years Ago, The CIA's Top Lawyer Said Bringing Espionage Charges Against Leakers Was Useless

  

  Gorshkov ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2016 @ 05:59pm

  Re:

  Given the fact that this was during the height of the cold war, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you're wrong.
  
  The scary thing for me is this: How bad does that make the current administration, if they're out-paranoing cold warriors?

• On the post: FBI Doesn't Want Privacy Laws To Apply To Its Biometric Database

  

  Gorshkov ( profile ), 12 May, 2016 @ 06:35pm

  What they're saying is basically this:
  
  We're having difficulty finding the terrorist needle in the haystack. Let us have a BIGGER haystack, 'cause that will make it easier to find the needle. Don't worry if a lot of it is really weeds and dirt; that just means there's less hay to sort through.

• On the post: Canadian And American Politicians Use Ottawa Shootings As Excuses To Demand More Surveillance, Greater Policing Powers

  

  Gorshkov ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2014 @ 09:10pm

  A *Small* Correction

  Contrary to what the story says, the legislative changes are NOT, in fact, a knee-jerk reaction to the events. These changes have been scheduled for months, and were, in fact, scheduled to be introduced the day of the shooting.
  
  Even if you consider the proposed changes to be overboard and overbroad (I certainly do), it's nothing more than a very bad coincidence.