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  • Just because that's what the USA first amendment regulates, it does not mean that is what the concept itself is.

  • Welcome to reddit lemmy

  • Their security was a bit wank.

  • "we can excuse mass surveillance, but we draw the line at racism" is what I get from that.

  • Aibohphobia, the fear of palindromes

  • But still boring

  • I do wonder how much of this is just that moderate parties are boring.

  • They're arguing it under section 20, probably this part

    the making available to the public of the work by electronic transmission in such a way that members of the public may access it from a place and at a time individually chosen by them.

    It looks like they're arguing that by hosting the games valve are acting as a pirate MP3 site.

    I think they would have to prove that they did so knowingly, which can only really be done if they ignored takedown notices.

  • This was inevitable after valve caved to pressure from card processors. The sharks have smelt blood.

  • Juries are very unpredictable in such cases. And that’s what they are playing on.

    This is in the UK, except in very rare exceptions, we don't have juries for civil matters.

  • Interesting

    The preposition till is ubiquitous in informal register of modern English; nonetheless, in formal register it is often replaced with until or to, except in some varieties, such as Indian English. This predisposition is likely influenced by the widespread misapprehension that till is a clipping of until, which it is not (until being an enhanced form of till). The spelling 'til, itself also deprecated by some writers, was born of that same misapprehension.

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/till

  • Republican Gov. Larry Rhoden signed legislation into law last week that authorizes challenges by individuals and election officials.

    It would be a terrible shame if a bunch of people started challenging Larry's citizenship.

  • Oddly, due to maritime law, it's the cargo owners who would have to pay if the ship was only damaged but not sunk.

  • I used to be an editor on there so have a lot of mixed feelings about it, there's a lot of bullshit that goes on.

    It's good for hard sciences, but most articles on "soft" subjects like history do have a pro western liberal capitalist bias. Although the amount of bias usually depends on what senior editor decided he owns the article, despite "owning" articles being against the Wikipedia rules.

  • This isn't surprising.

    Even if WhatsApp is really E2EE and doesn't include backdoors (which is a big if), it almost certainly isn't overwriting the deleted data in a secure way (does android/iOS even have a way to do this?)

  • I'm pretty sure 200km of fibre isn't going to be cheap either

  • To analyse the impact of this study I recommend that we set up an interdepartmental committee with fairly broad terms of reference so that at the end of the day we'll be in the position to think through the various implications and arrive at a decision based on long-term considerations rather than rush prematurely into precipitate and possibly ill-conceived action which might well have unforeseen repercussions.

  • He was considered conservative in his time, although in a way that doesn't really exist any more, opposing social change whatever the source. He strongly opposed fascism for instance.

    I don't think he was particularly racist for his time. He partly gets that reputation because he was writing about foreign cultures for readers who had zero understanding of them, when his own understanding came from being part of the British empire.