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Comment Re:Well, duh. (Score 3, Informative) 190

Just like Biden having secured enough electoral votes to become the next president. It's an indisputable fact.

This is a great example of someone being supremely confident in something that is flat-out wrong.

The "indisputable fact" is that neither candidate has secured a single electoral vote because no state has certified their electors yet.

According to your own rules, your obviously wrong post should be removed. Is that what you want?

Comment Let the lawsuits commence. (Score 1) 328

by azuroff (#60642418) Attached to: Expensify's CEO Emailed Users To Encourage Them To 'Vote For Biden'

6. USE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Expensify and our Partner Companies may use your Personal Data in the following ways:

to facilitate the creation of and secure your account on our network;

identify you as a Member in our system;

to provide improved administration of the Expensify Service;

to improve the quality of experience when you interact with the Expensify Service, including staff training;

to send you a welcome email to verify ownership of the email address provided when your account was created;

to send you administrative email notifications, such as security or support and maintenance advisories;

to collect fees and payments owing to us;

to respond to your inquiries related to employment opportunities or other requests and to resolve disputes;

to provide you with access to and information about customized features, new functionality, and partner integrations;

to send with your consent (or where a friend has referred you to us) promotional communications;

to provide you with hardcopy or electronic newsletters, or surveys;

to send with your consent (or where a friend has referred you to us) upgrades and special offers related to the Expensify Service and for other marketing purposes of Expensify or our Partner Companies;

to make telephone calls to you, from time to time, as a part of secondary fraud protection or to solicit your feedback;

to verify your identity as part of compliance with requirements of with Partner Companies or applicable regulations; and

to compare information provided by you for accuracy and verification with third parties.

I don't see anything in their privacy policy (https://use.expensify.com/privacy) about using personal data for political pitches. I can definitely see them being sued over this stunt.

Comment Re:Seems fair (Score 1) 254

by azuroff (#60142202) Attached to: Snapchat To Stop Promoting Trump's Content

No, it doesn't. Please read section 230 before commenting. Online content providers can editorialize user posts, remove them, or add disclaimers and that specifically does not mean they are liable for said content.

It's like online content providers are a private mall. You can go in the mall and talk. If you scream, or harass other customers, the mall is free to kick you out. Under no circumstance is the mall liable for the things you say, even if they let you stay. And that is, quite frankly, how it should be here in the land of private ownership.

Unless you want to legalize Big Gay Al coming on your property at 2am with a bullhorn and a sequined g-string so he can promote his Big Gay Animal Sanctuary using your porch as a platform, I suggest we leave things the way they are. Private property is, you know, private.

I agree that social media today is much like a shopping mall in the real world. Privately owned, yet still a public arena. And in several states, including California (where most of these companies are headquartered), we have the constitutional right to speak freely in privately-owned shopping malls, even if the mall's owners disagree with that speech (see Pruneyard v. Robbins).

Unless your porch is generally open to the public at large, Big Gay Al still doesn't have the right to your porch at 2 am. In fact, from what I could read, the cases so far have only been about shopping malls specifically - it's still an open question whether it also applies to stand-alone big box stores.

Comment Re:The charade will come to an end (Score 1) 334

There should be testimony to congress about what went wrong to the American people. Lives were ruined, people bankrupted, businesses closed, careers destroyed, people committed suicide, too many people died.

The only testimony before Congress we're likely to see is a string of so-called "experts" repeating "Orange Man Bad" over and over again.

Comment Read the license agreement... (Score 4, Insightful) 275

by azuroff (#57640084) Attached to: Nasty Adobe Bug Deleted $250,000 Worth of Man's Files, Lawsuit Claims

Adobe's lawyers will point to the Terms of Use (https://www.adobe.com/legal/terms.html) that he agreed to before using the software, and that will be that.

9.2 We specifically disclaim all liability for any actions resulting from your use of any Services or Software. You may use and access the Services or Software at your own discretion and risk, and you are solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from the use of and access to any Service or Software.

Comment One can dream... (Score 5, Interesting) 80

by azuroff (#57183782) Attached to: Comcast/Charter Lobby Asks FTC To Preempt State Broadband Regulations

Dear NCTA,

We agree with you 100% that market forces are the best way to prevent bad behavior. Accordingly, we will instruct each city and state that grants one of your member companies a cable franchise to open up those franchises to any company desiring to provide internet service. Once every household in the country has a minimum of 4 different ISPs to choose from, we can discuss the state-level regulations mentioned in your letter.

Sincerely,
The FTC

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