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by timdev2 6y ago
Stratton Oakmont v Prodigy Services is only tenuously related to your gripe about websites removing content. Stratton didn't sue Prodigy for taking down posts by Stratton. They sued Prodigy for not taking down allegedly defamatory post
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by timdev2 6y ago
I'm asking you for a hypothetical - they can be acting with as much or as little "good faith" as you like.
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by timdev2 6y ago
Okay, let's just strike the "otherwise objectionable" at the end of (c)(2)(A): What cause of action do you imagine you'd have that wouldn't be barred by 1A?
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by timdev2 6y ago
Imagine a world where Section 230 doesn't exist. A mean corporation takes down your post, or bans you. What cause of action do you imagine you'd have that wouldn't be barred by 1A? By and large, 230 acts merely as a procedura
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by timdev2 6y ago
Have you considered that your problem is not with Section 230, but with the First Amendment?
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by timdev2 6y ago
These companies, and the systems and platforms they own, have not become "the public square" any more than a widely read newspaper, or the only Kinkos in town have. Nor are they utilities. You're using words and phrases with
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by timdev2 6y ago
I don't see how Packingham or Marsh are likely to be relevant here. While the former has some lofty language about central social media has become in society, it's still a decision about state action. Marsh seems like a reach as w
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by timdev2 6y ago
The pledge itself is creepy but isn't a free speech issue. Compelled recitation of the pledge by agents of the state, like schools, at least to me, is.
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by timdev2 6y ago
Not everything that isn't a common carrier is a traditional publisher. Bars, for example.
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by timdev2 6y ago
Twitter has a 1st Amendment right to decide what you may or may not read on Twitter .
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by timdev2 6y ago
That doesn't explain what "agreements" you think twitter is "breaking". There's a lot of disinformation about 230 floating around, but as the EFF page points out, it's a broad protection. It isn't at
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by timdev2 6y ago
> How do you feel about registering hate speech in a domain name, or someone else's trademark? In the US, all kinds of speech is "awful but lawful", including hate speech. I don't think registrars should be policing l
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by timdev2 6y ago
Many retail stores do this to their vendors. Amazon does it to it's "sellers", which are really just a category of "customers". As an amazon seller, you pay for the privilege of selling through their platform.
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by timdev2 7y ago
It's certainly limiting, though you can write (or find implementations[0] of) custom types[1] that can be pretty powerful (void where prohibited, limitations apply). [0] https://github.com/martin-georgiev/postgresq
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by timdev2 7y ago
Right. That. An ORM for (only) PostgreSQL would seem odd -- though I do wonder if that might pay off in some ways.
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by timdev2 7y ago
> you automatically invalidate one of ORMs biggest selling points which is being SQL-database agnostic. I haven't heard anyone talk seriously about database-agnosticism since the very early 2000s. Maybe some commercial products sti
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by timdev2 7y ago
Anecdotally, I observed daytime public intravenous drug use within my first 3 hours on the ground in Frankfurt a few years ago. I don't know exactly where, but it was within walking radius of the main train station. I think it was in
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by timdev2 7y ago
You replied to a post complaining that the policy also seemed to be giving violent individuals a pass, and accused them of "think[ing] that non-violent addicts should be put into prison". Which was neither said nor (as you claim)
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by timdev2 7y ago
What strict gun laws in Seattle are you referring to, exactly?
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by timdev2 7y ago
Last time I rented from Avis I didn't even sign paperwork. I made the reservation, then changed it from the app on my phone in the airport before my flight. After I arrived, I went to the rental area, the app directed me to a car. I
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by timdev2 7y ago
In the context of an administrative search at the airport, security guards can already just search whomever. Arguably, the machines are able to clear ~50% of travelers and exempt them from a more intrusive search.
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by timdev2 7y ago
Or you put off getting care because you don't want to spend a four-figure sum only to find out it's a problem that will resolve itself. I know people, with insurance and without, that have done just that.
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by timdev2 7y ago
The passport control officers were probably upset/suspicious because they couldn't establish when the family entered the country (or schengen zone), and thus couldn't confirm that they hadn't overstayed. From the officer
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by timdev2 7y ago
I don't disagree substantively with your sentiments, but you're conflating TSA and CBP. TSA is ostensibly about security on airplanes (or more realistically "security theatre"), and are not law enforcement. You primaril
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by timdev2 8y ago
It's not an awful way to do things, provided your app can run comfortably in a lambda. You get dev ergonomics (run locally like a traditional app), and you avoid cold-starts for infrequently-invoked endpoints. You still get all the &q
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by timdev2 8y ago
I've seen that situation as well. My approach recently has been to build things where running on Lambda is a feature, and not so much an architectural decision. The aws-serverless-express library basically wraps an express (or other si
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by timdev2 8y ago
Mostly because databases are the key piece o data-persistence infrastructure. Spinning up a MySQL db to dev against, or a single server for a hobby project is quick and easy. In production, all of a sudden you have a lot of work to do, esp
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by timdev2 8y ago
Completely disagree. Absentee ballots work fine already. Who needs the feature creep of a nationwide interlinked voting system. Voting via the browser is such a terrible idea for manifold reasons that ought to be obvious.
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by timdev2 8y ago
Probable cause is a low bar, but it's quantifiably higher than no bar. What constitutes sufficient PC for a warrant is a related, but distinct issue from whether PC (however interpreted) is required at all.
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by timdev2 9y ago
I'm worried that paranoia is a thing of the past. I somewhat concerned that a (free) national ID scheme will be the result of the "Voter ID" push from the GOP in recent years.

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