Mike Masnick
Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
- It is astounding to me how many people are trying to equate TALKING TO COPS as a form of civil disobedience. Like, what are we doing here?
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View full threadFWIW JBS had the idea, to take on legal risk to publicize a bad legal system. You say no actual benefit-but you and many readers of articles+posts today gave attention to border control's treatment of a citizen. Afaik Piker makes political commentary 365 days a year that I never pay attention to.
- He would have gotten just as much attention AND not put himself in legal liability if he just refused to answer questions, and then talked about *the attempt to get him to talk* after they let him go, as they are legally required to do.
- No. A US citizen is not, by definition, an "applicant for admission". That statute does not apply.
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View full threadNope. Asking for an attorney during a preliminary inspection or refusing to answer question is going to be enough suspicion to get you a secondary inspection. You’re not entitled to talk to an attorney during any of this so why would they care you asked for one?
- This is all literally wrong. Please stop spewing false things. You can absolutely say that you won't answer any questions without a lawyer present. They can hold you for some time. They can hassle you. But asking for a lawyer generally *decreases* their willingness to do so.
- Dem amendment that won't go anywhere (but at least someone is doing *something*) that would tell FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr to stop violating the 1st Amendment all the time... docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/...
- This is Mark Rober, who is my kids’ favorite celebrity (and the only person they’re allowed to watch on YouTube).
- i just watched this thing and it is the best thing i think i have seen this year
- You have to watch the follow up ones over the next few years. Also his crow challenge course. Each one is more incredible than the last.
- First Waymo ride 🤯
- It is truly amazing. Also, after just a few rides it starts to feel... normal.
- No one is arguing you don’t have the right to be represented by an attorney. The question before you is whether a US citizen subject to an inspection at the border by CBP is better off stonewalling and asking for an attorney or simply answering their questions.
- Asking for an attorney is not "stonewalling". It is also WAY more likely to get you out of their faster than agreeing to talk. You have it literally exactly backwards.
- I'm glad he finally figured out the problem, but this post is satisfying just as proof that I'm not the only one with 400+ tabs open.
- sounds as though there is some overlap with www.programmablemutter.com/p/blitzscali...
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View full threadNot surprising in some ways - as the first paragraph more or less acknowledges, it is picking up the baton from your January post (and there ain't no copyright in titles anyways ...)
- Ha! I hadn't even read that far to realize. I've now read the piece, which is great, and I'm semi-relieved in that the piece I was thinking of writing focuses on a very different angle actually.
- People are still yelling at me and trying to defend Piker's decision to chat away with CBP so I wrote about the myriad ways it was stupid.
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- You can read the article in which I answer this. Or you could listen to the dozens of people who have already explained this to you. It is fucking bizarre that you appear unwilling to read or listen to actual experts. At no point did anyone say they would make up a false charge & send him away.
- Everyone was talking about the House GOP's attempt to put a decade-long moratorium on state AI laws, but I decided to write about how the broad language in the bill would stop a ton of other laws as well... including ones the GOP probably supports. Such stupid policymaking.
- But you know that is absolutely not why the AI companies want freedom to do it. Theres a reason why they are gathering everyone’s data and it is not for our benefit. Sort of surprised you didn’t even slightly touch on this. I would wager everything my assumption is accurate.
- Of course. But everyone else has already talked about that. What good is it for me to repeat the basic facts everyone knows. My point was to highlight the other thing.
