You forgot to add IANAL, to your "probably blatantly, highly illegal".

No, no it is not. It is only illegal to take/send those sorts of pictures for sexual purposes. If taking pictures of naked children was "probably blatantly, highly illegal" then nearly every older parent in America is guilty as almost every person over 30 has at least one naked bathtime picture of themselves in their parent's photo albums. And that was back in the days when you had to take your film in to be processed...

Same, and then I get special inspection every single time I fly because my carry-on contains so many wires and mysterious shapes.

it's "7".

Legal gap - only applied to telecom companies of a certain size - that's why you probably never heard of these tiny podunk companies named in the legal challenge - they're small enough that they didn't need to implement the standard...

Obligatory Real Genius reference required when someone tries to build a space-based energy beam system. All you would need is a large rotating mirror... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYgE2_hDoJY

There's defense like a good offense

Hello, customer support? Yeah, I was driving my new car and when I turned towards my favorite store, the speed dropped to half. What? No, I wasn't going to Wal-Mart, I was going to a different... What? Wal-Mart is your preferred partner? What does that even mean?.... So my car can only go the speed limit if I'm driving to stores that you've partnered with and going anywhere else will result in a speed reduction? AND THE WINDOWS WON'T ROLL UP OR THE DOORS LOCK IN A COMPETITOR'S PARKING LOT?

It isn't that unusual apparently. This exactly what was done to Project Veritas last winter. Oh but that was even better because the FBI was leaking some of the take to the New York Times..you know ....the paper that PV is suing.

While the poster blames Equifax they really should blame the IRS. CGP Grey explains this very well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Except, as it turns out, our government paid for him to give those satellite uplink terminals to the Ukraine - it wasn't as philanthropic as we were led to believe...

The "City of London" is not the same as London, England. The "City of London" is a small area with a population of less than 10,000 permanent residents in London's financial district. The police force known as City of London Police makes an appearance in a lot of UK based copyright crimes as they are basically a for-hire police force who will arrest anyone for the right price.

Bought the Cowboy Neal VR Goggles here and have seen the world differently ever since. Joined /. in 1998 or 1999 and it changed everything

I agree with this point of view. Right now the companies have their cake and are consuming same because of section 230 and the courts mis-reading of it. What it SAYS is that if a company editorializes - they lose protection and may be sued - but the courts aren't recognizing that the "Editing" action referred to in the article is JUST THAT. If section 230 was upheld as written - likely this would be less of a problem because the companies would have lost protection and could be sued. Moving the companies to public utility status would have the effect the law in Texas was after - remove the ability of the companies to editorialize in a manner similar to the fact that the phone company can't modify your conversations on their lines.

So do away with the section 230 protection entirely and remove the ability for the companies to censor anyone. If anything illegal is going on - tell the cops.

I don't know of a single automobile manufacturer that is desperate for new car sales that won't let you repair the one you have. "Oops, you cracked the windshield on your 9 month old, $65,000 car? Better trade it in and receive $5,000 towards the purchase of a newer model!"

Hopefully, the thief isn't the delinquent who lives around the block from you...

The difference is that Amazon is an e-commerce marketplace open to everyone. Imagine if you paid Target $40,000 per month to carry your product in stores, and they put up a laminated cardstock image on the back of a shelf with a notice to "ask an employee to retrieve one for you from the warehouse" while all of the Target branded products are right there for you to grab and put in your cart.

This is no different than Google recommending their own solutions over paid advertisers in Google searches. It's not wrong as long as they make it clear that "searches may include our own branded products in a higher position than our competitors - do your due diligence to make sure you're selecting the correct item to fit your needs".