I told her to send that shit to the police.. Why yes, her state does have laws about child porn that are in play if a boy sends his own child porn. And applies to his friends who dared him to do it.

Somewhere, someplace, there are girls ranking guys who go to their school. If the list ever came to light, nobody would bat an eyelash or treat it as a violation of the male students in question. I’m not saying that this should be the standard we live by, just that it’s not at all strange for teenagers to notice and…

Trump’s stance is invalidated as soon as he leaves office. If the legitimacy to which Netanyahu clings is based on words Trump says now, that’s a pretty flimsy claim to begin with.

I think you just spent 4 paragraphs not comprehending purposeful exaggeration.

It would help the reputation of Obamacare/ACA quite a lot for the plans that exist to not hose people and families who don’t receive subsidies due to being just beyond the earnings cutoff. I think a lot of people are so caught up in the benefits to folks who do receive subsidies that they either forget, or remain…

Because it’s Youtube offering the service here, not the rights holder.

And things like Safe Harbour are why DMCA is inherently flawed and potentially over-correction legislation is occurring, because it meant billion dollar companies could legally do fuck all until rights holders scanned through all the footage after it was uploaded to find it when in the meantime the facilitators made…

But even your analogy doesn’t make sense. It’s not checking for literal ownership of every item to the creator but checking to see if there’s any obvious copyright of major IP.

In The War On Cars interview, Ray goes on to talk about his distaste for gas-guzzling SUVs—which will definitely not be news to Car Talk listeners—and why he thinks gas prices should be steadily raised to $7 a gallon like in Europe, both inherently reasonable policy positions for someone to have, even someone who…

Literally none of these things follow from the analogy, or are remotely decent representations of the point I was making. I said that landlords aren’t responsible for knowing whether their tenants own all of the objects contained in their apartments. You’re the one who trotted out BS about landlords doing background…

Are we seriously going to defend the sanctity of a losing team’s attempt to get their big shooter to 60 as a consolation prize? Give me a break. The first clip shows Jimmer trying to take a bad shot, but in the second one he was correctly calling for the ball. I’m far less offended by his attempts to get himself going…

If they have the ability to know you’re a criminal, or good reason to suspect it and do nothing then they can be potentially liable to crimes committed, especially if in the property itself.

I love how Netanyahu appears to believe that anything Trump says or does even remotely confers credibility onto his positions. Like, yay! <baby claps> Trump said you guys have sovereignty over Golan Heights! You think anyone gives the slightest of shits about that? You’re only proving how pathetic you are that you…

None of what you just said made any sense, or fit into the analogy at all. If my landlord does a background check on me, finds out I’m a lowlife, rents an apartment anyway, and later on I’m proven to be a thief, the landlord isn’t going to be fined by the city for allowing a lowlife—someone with, say, an abnormally…

Yes, but money and corporations are always, 100% bad. Haven’t you been paying attention? It’s why everyone at GMG works for free.

That’s probably what will happen if the EU takes this shit too far. Right now, they’re definitely preparing to just surgically remove EU citizens’ ability to do things on their platforms. But if a complete break is necessary, I have no doubt they’ll do that before allowing the EU policy to become global law.

This isn’t about creative freedom, it’s the fact their beloved algorithms may have to instead be replaced by human moderators.

It’s going to turn YouTube and other sites like it into corporate facing channels.

But it isn’t draconian. It forces sites that have made millions from not moderating stolen content to now actually moderate.

But, really, this is about money. Article 13 is a threat to these tech companies’ bottom lines.