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• On the post: A Trip Down Memory Lane: People Warned What Would Happen When Congress Passed Bills To Enable Vast Spying

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2013 @ 11:28am

  I like how everyone justifies violating human rights by saying, "It's okay as long as we don't do it to Americans."
  
  Thanks America. Fuck you, too.
  -All Canadians and the rest of the world

• On the post: IRS Audited Over Inappropriate Spending, Claims It Can't Find Its Receipts

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2013 @ 05:45pm

  Re: Turnabout is fair play

  Fine the IRS! Taxpayers will pay either way. :)

• On the post: Utah Sheriff Claims Copyright On Mugshot Photos To Avoid Releasing Them

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2013 @ 09:38am

  They could contract a highschool portrait company who then claims the copyright on the photos. They could even make a deal to transfer the copyrights to a sheriff, or the individual being photographed.

• On the post: Stop & Frisk Accomplishments: Barely Any Illegal Weapons Recovered, But Tons Of Weed Smokers Jailed

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 30 May, 2013 @ 03:06pm

  Re: Worse, the pot busts are largely SYNTHETIC!

  The ironic thing is that marginalizing groups and spreading distrust of authority are probably key factors in laying the breeding ground for extremism and eventually terrorism.

• On the post: US Government Settles Lawsuit Over Seizure Of Laptop Of Bradley Manning's Friend

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 30 May, 2013 @ 02:43pm

  "However, hopefully this stops Homeland Security and ICE from continuing these kinds of politically motivated attacks."
  
  But don't hold your breath.

• On the post: Two Judges Told DOJ It Had To Disclose Spying On Journalist; DOJ Found A Third Judge Instead

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 29 May, 2013 @ 10:36am

  All the more reasons for services like wikileaks?

• On the post: LulzSec Hacker Jeremy Hammond Pleads Guilty To CFAA Charge; Faces 10 Years

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 28 May, 2013 @ 08:22pm

  Re: Re: Re: Absurd

  Infinitely more, seen as that is 0.

• On the post: Dumb Idea Or Dumbest Idea: Letting Companies Use Malware Against Infringers

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 28 May, 2013 @ 02:36pm

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  "Also of note, if it suddenly becomes legal to plant malware/spyware on the computers of anyone suspected of having pirated files, companies around the US are going to go absolutely nuts hacking their competitors, as all they'd need to do to justify it would be to claim that they thought the other company had pirated files on their servers."
  
  Better yet, it would basically legalize the activities of "organizations" like anonymous. Everyone infringes copyright at some point, especially the copyright maximalists. I can only imagine the hilarity of anonymous LEGALLY pulling apart all the IAAs byte by byte.

• On the post: Man Butt Dials 911 While Discussing Murder Plot

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 23 May, 2013 @ 01:16pm

  Re:

  What you ask is simply too much.

• On the post: Chinese Hacks Of Google Database Of Surveillance Targets Highlight How Dumb Technology Backdoors Are

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 22 May, 2013 @ 05:49pm

  Every company out there that is compelled to make backdoors but don't want to should make the leakiest ones out to make the point that it will only reduce security.

• On the post: So It's Come To This: Seven High School Students Arrested For Throwing… Water Balloons

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 22 May, 2013 @ 10:47am

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  The best part is that throwing water balloons is assault but water boarding is totally acceptable.

• On the post: Angry Judge Tells Prenda To Stop Falsifying Alan Cooper's Signature; Calls It Fraud

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 21 May, 2013 @ 08:33pm

  High court lo court

• On the post: Your Word Against Ours: How The FBI's 'No Electronic Recording' Policy Rigs The Game… And Destroys Its Credibility

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 20 May, 2013 @ 09:54am

  Re: No interviews

  Don't talk to police without a [good] lawyer.
  
  Legal scholars continued to be baffled by the sheer number of people who willingly implicate themselves.

• On the post: More Details Show IRS Targeted Groups Critical Of How The Government Was Run

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 13 May, 2013 @ 08:52pm

  "Or does simply asking for that make you a target?"
  
  And you can go on the no fly list too, no extra charge!

• On the post: Monsanto Wins Case Of Seed Patents; Planting Your Own Legally Purchased & Grown Seeds Can Be Infringing

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 13 May, 2013 @ 04:39pm

  Stop allowing the patenting of living things.

• On the post: MPAA Freaks Out: Insists That Having To Consider Fair Use Before Filing A DMCA Takedown Would Be Crazy

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 13 May, 2013 @ 09:00am

  Interesting. If it's ISPs magically waving away infringement, it's really easy to figure out infringement from non-infringement. If they have to do it, it's too hard.

• On the post: China's State-Run TV Uses Daily Show Clip To Demonize US, Viewers Point Out The Irony

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 11 May, 2013 @ 11:51am

  "It's been said that on a long enough time table, everybody's chances for survival goes to zero. I'd make the same argument for oppressive regimes."
  
  This statement makes the dangerous assumption that democracy and freedom are natural endpoints of social evolution. Democracy came about in the West through very specific circumstances, and it could dissolve in the future.
  
  If it's something worth having it must be protected and defended from those that try everyday to turn our country into China (falsely believing that censorship and the erosion of civil liberties is the best way to defend the country). We cannot assume or take for granted achieving and preserving freedom takes hard work.

• On the post: TV Syndication Company Attempts To Take Down Public Domain Content By Abusing Trademark Law

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 03 May, 2013 @ 12:10am

  I'm pretty sure that in cases such as this the DMCA qualifies as a law that blocks speech.

• On the post: Woman Prosecuted For Filming Slaughterhouse From The Road In Utah; Public Backlash Leads To Quick Reversal

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 02 May, 2013 @ 12:35pm

  Re: Re:

  Right but if you are on private property and you break rules that you have been informed of, you are trespassing. The speech itself is not the crime, it's the trespassing. That's the difference.
  
  It doesn't actually give police the ability to arrest you for filming, only for trespassing (by breaking the rules by filming).
  
  Maybe you could make some corporate spying or wiretapping laws work?

• On the post: Woman Prosecuted For Filming Slaughterhouse From The Road In Utah; Public Backlash Leads To Quick Reversal

  

  Jesse ( profile ), 02 May, 2013 @ 12:31pm

  Re: Re:

  Really? I thought unconstitutional laws could be challenged just for being unconstitutional??
  
  I mean, anyone who has had their speech chilled for fear of being prosecuted has been harmed, no?

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