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Comment Re: i guess its good (Score 1) 311

Funny enough when you aren't making everything you say up to drive fear and anger in your voter base, you won't get banned for posting misinformation. Hence why there aren't a lot of "censored" liberals on Twitter. You can fact check liberals claims and things line up most of the time and if it isn't perfect it's close. Meanwhile conservatives just invent things like election stealing, claiming covid is fake, ivermectin will cure fake covid, and how many other idiotic things. I'm sure there have been liberals that have been censored or banned but they were inconsequential local idiots nobody paid attention to anyway because liberals are smart enough not to believe made up fantasy crap.

Comment Re:I smell BS. Stop with all the fearmongering. (Score 1) 71

Omicron is causing people to lose their sense of smell? BFD... As long as you're still alive and now have immunity to more deadly variants, you're still way ahead in my opinion.

Articles like this are just worthless fearmongering to try to keep people from going out and facing Omicron head on. The deep state depopulation plan is pooched if enough people catch Omicron to create genuine herd immunity. No more lockdowns, no more death jab mandates, no more face condumbs. FJB!

Wish they would hurry up and "depopulate" the severely mentally handicapped like you who don't understand and ignore science. You are ignoring people who have dedicated their lives to help keep people healthy and ensure we all live as long as possible. You are ignoring them to listen to some random youtuber who claims to have met Q at his local 7 Eleven and gotten the scoop on the deep state and hollywood pedophiles. Go put a rope around your neck bud. Figures someone with a shit take like that would post as anonymous coward.

Comment The thing is (Score 1) 94

The person who takes a photo owns that photo. Unless there is a contract beforehand about photo distribution the model does not have any say. If someone takes a selfie they own the photo. If they let their significant other take the photo and they don't have some kind of contract written out they can distribute those photos LEGALLY just about in any way they choose. This doesn't apply to something like a candid photo because if you are in your own home you have an expectation of privacy. However if someone poses and models for the photographs whoever took the photos owns them and can distribute them how they see fit. A verbal agreement isn't going to be any good in court. So legally if you take a photo and the person you took the photo of agreed to pose naked or in a sexual way for the photo without a written agreement not to distribute it there isn't any legal recourse. They are the clear legal owners of the photograph. Photos of people in public belong to the photographer. If you are on the beach or shopping at the grocery store and someone takes your photo they can sell it or give it away however they want. You don't have any kind of expectation of privacy in public.

So Facebook can for sure legally stop selfies from being distributed. If it's not a selfie the person modelling for the photo doesn't really have any rights to the photo itself or what is done with it.

Twitters plan on the other hand is 100% illegal and going to be impossible to defend in court. They are planning on just allowing anyone to ask to have any photo with them in it removed from the platform. If I take a picture at a political rally someone in the background who isn't even the subject of the photo would be able to contact twitter, prove they are in the photo and have it removed. Public place, no reasonable expectation of privacy and copyright laws all give the power to the photographer in this kind of case. Anywhere public you can be photographed and you have zero recourse because you are IN PUBLIC.

It will be interesting to see how quickly these platforms get crapped on in court by the EFF and other technology rights groups over these heavy handed policies.I'm all for protecting peoples privacy but if you pose naked for photos someone else is taken you don't legally own them or have any power over them. If I hand my camera to someone else and they take 5 photos with it legally they own the copyright on those 5 photos because they are the one who created them by clicking the button. They are the artist, not the model so a simple handwritten contract dated and signed with photos taken on phones by both parties is enough. If you are in a relationship have a blanket contract on nude photos not being distributed or shared in any way without express permission.

Comment Re:Doctor Woke (Score 1, Insightful) 162

Since the show went woke, it became absolutely dire. Dear entertainment industry, woke is bad, stop forcing your SJW crap down our throats, we hate it.

Sorry bud, but being respectful of other people and their cultures and trying to avoid things like stereotypes that upset them isn't "woke" or any other term you want to apply to it. There are a lot of people with physical and mental disabilities in this world, showing them on TV isn't "woke" either. It's just showing an accurate representation of people you would run into in the real world. Maybe what you call "woke" the rest of the world calls not being an arsehole. You should try it out one day.

Comment Re:Hopefully they'll have better writers (Score 2) 162

It wasn't bad shows that made me quit watching. I'm just tired of waiting 18-24 months for 8-10 episodes. It's a science fiction show you can literally make up any subject you want to and cram it in the lore. If they can make 20+ episodes of half a dozen police crime shows for 20+ years straight then science fiction writers should be able to at least give us 12 episodes per calendar year. I'm done with Dr. Who for now. I'll likely watch it in 10 years when they have a few episodes available. At the rate they have been releasing them the last few years there should be at least 15-20 episodes made from 2021-2032.

Comment A'yup (Score 5, Insightful) 99

2015, early 2016 before the BREXIT vote everyone in the entire world told the citizens of the UK that it was going to destroy their ability to easily do business with the majority of their customers. They dismissed it as "fake news" and voted for BREXIT anyway because that's what ignorant racists do. They vote for anything and anyone that tells them they can get foreigners out of their country. Now shops and factories are closed or running at low capacity because they can't get workers from the EU. Many businesses are closing or relocating to EU countries so they don't have to close due to the inability or sheer enormity of costs and the delays involved now with shipping from the UK to EU countries. It's simply amazing to me that so many people are SHOCKED that exactly what economics experts said would happen, is happening. It's why governments and news agencies pay them for their opinions and use their information to help make decisions. They went to school for years and have spend their careers studying the EU economy. it's literally their jobs. Good luck UK hope you learn your lesson about racism, populism, and nationalism. Also listen to experts, they are called experts for a reason. When someone hands you a coffee and says "be careful that's very hot" you probably shouldn't immediately pour it on your crotch but that's exactly what the UK did with the BREXIT vote.

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