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Sombrerotron
Aug 1, 2004

Release my children! My hat is truly great and mighty.

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

that's gonna be one of those EULA tests where they're deemed unenforceable because nobody reads that poo poo and the company makes zero effort to enforce any of it except at their own convenience.

you've got a whatever it's called, an implicit contract or something
idk about that, typically EULAs require the user to explicitly agree

also the standards for private persons who cannot really be expected to read and understand all of it may not apply to professional organisations

did the EULA actually prohibit any kind of scraping at the time when CCDH collected the data for its reports? if so, maybe they've got something of a case against CCDH (though probably only on technical grounds, divorced from the reports' content). if not, then, well

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Zamujasa
Oct 27, 2010



Bread Liar
the reply to that lawsuit is pretty great

Powerful Two-Hander
Mar 10, 2004

Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.


Sombrerotron posted:

idk about that, typically EULAs require the user to explicitly agree

also the standards for private persons who cannot really be expected to read and understand all of it may not apply to professional organisations

did the EULA actually prohibit any kind of scraping at the time when CCDH collected the data for its reports? if so, maybe they've got something of a case against CCDH (though probably only on technical grounds, divorced from the reports' content). if not, then, well

yeah I guess it depends, if the EULA said "you absolutely cannot do X" then an organisation might be held to it, but an actual mortal user might not be if there was no reasonable way to comply or expectation that they could. but if twitter are just making poo poo up or, more likely, trying to retcon whatever the API TOS were then it's not going to fly.

also I don't think you can easily claim that someone is
now in breach of something that you (the company "you") failed to enforce for the last 15 years just because you changed your idiot mind

what's really funny though is that musk's lawyers will quite happily take his money without giving the slightest poo poo about whether the case has legs or not

E: I should clarify that this is all even if wasn't fundamentally a bullshit case which it is

Powerful Two-Hander fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Aug 1, 2023

Hoshi
Jan 20, 2013

:wrongcity:

Main Paineframe posted:

she changed it to lindayaccs a couple of days before she posted the "should I change to lindayaxx" joke

this is so dumb. i can see a screenshot where there’s no s on 7/23 and then the poll is on 7/28. so gizmodo did a thing about someone taking a handle she had for a few days. why even do it this way??

Powerful Two-Hander
Mar 10, 2004

Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.



lol drat

Zamujasa
Oct 27, 2010



Bread Liar
big "someone is signing your name on stupid letters" energy

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



Zamujasa posted:

big "someone is signing your name on stupid letters" energy

it is and i'm all for it :allears:

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Roberta Kaplan is representing them? she's the one who fought pro-bono for gay marriage to be recognised in the us https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Windsor (yes I know that Obergefell v Hodges forced its legality but recognition was an important first step shut up)

also the person who bankrupted the people behind the unite the right nazi rally in charlottesville

and most recently won the defamation suit against trump for raping e jean carroll (and yes, the judge specifically ruled that while the legal term was sexual battery, he cannot counter-sue for defamation if someone calls it rape https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-rape-e-jean-carroll-sexual-abuse-jury-judge-2023-7?r=US&IR=T )

so she has a history of taking on pieces of poo poo and winning, even if they were as powerful as the former president of the us

Tayter Swift
Nov 18, 2002

Pillbug

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

also lol at "it's the internet's town square! Free speech!" but also you have to pay to enter the square and you're not allowed to tell anyone what you heard

an x is literally a square turned inside out

gschmidl
Sep 3, 2011

watch with knife hands

Tesseraction posted:

Roberta Kaplan is representing them? she's the one who fought pro-bono for gay marriage to be recognised in the us https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Windsor (yes I know that Obergefell v Hodges forced its legality but recognition was an important first step shut up)

also the person who bankrupted the people behind the unite the right nazi rally in charlottesville

and most recently won the defamation suit against trump for raping e jean carroll (and yes, the judge specifically ruled that while the legal term was sexual battery, he cannot counter-sue for defamation if someone calls it rape https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-rape-e-jean-carroll-sexual-abuse-jury-judge-2023-7?r=US&IR=T )

so she has a history of taking on pieces of poo poo and winning, even if they were as powerful as the former president of the us

Dare I be hopeful the nazi pedo shitboer will receive a comeuppance?

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

she's the person to do it if anyone can

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



elon "elon musk" musk will never be stopped as he is god's punishment for an evil world

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

Cat Face Joe posted:

elon "elon musk" musk will never be stopped as he is god's punishment for an evil world

Correct.

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
we chose the form of the destroyer

Zamujasa
Oct 27, 2010



Bread Liar
putting the x in torment nexus

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually

infernal machines posted:

we chose the form of the destroyer
id rather we were roasted in the depths of a sloar along with the shubs and the zulls tbqh

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple on pizzadog derangement syndrome

Zamujasa posted:

putting the x in torment nexus

Sombrerotron
Aug 1, 2004

Release my children! My hat is truly great and mighty.

infernal machines posted:

we chose the form of the destroyer
Mr. Hair Plugged

Armitag3
Mar 15, 2020

Forget it Jake, it's cybertown.


Horse gifter of the apocalypse

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
the pale waddler

Shumagorath
Jun 6, 2001
get the hat and neckerchief on his yacht photo and there’s your Stay-Puft

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

infernal machines posted:

the pale waddler

the translucent walrus

Kenny Logins
Jan 11, 2011

EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A WHITE WHALE INTO THE PEQUOD. IT'S HELL'S HEART AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I STRIKE AT THEE ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, ISHMAEL.
hmm. he must be an energy vampire then

MononcQc
May 29, 2007

qirex posted:

it's always amazing to me that to the reactionary brain, pointing out facts or directly quoting people is "activism"

scientists ought to mix chemicals until a strong, sudden exothermic reaction happens. If you somehow pick a hypothesis first and try to prove it, that's activism. Unless somehow it involves measuring the dimensions of people's skulls, which is all fine and good to Musk.

MononcQc
May 29, 2007

torment ne<blink>X</blink>us

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

The Management posted:

people with multiple phds are almost always idiots in every area that isn’t their expertise, and also in practical applications of their own field

smart enough to get a phd, not smart enough to stop at one

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

https://twitter.com/xDaily/status/1686389866870050817?s=20

i guess coca-cola loves child porn

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord
Have any news outlets reported on him unbanning the csam posters

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN
i wonder if they had to do that for the women's world cup

The Atomic Man-Boy
Jul 23, 2007

infernal machines posted:

we chose the form of the destroyer

He looks like the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, so it checks out.

Shumagorath
Jun 6, 2001

The Atomic Man-Boy posted:

He looks like the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, so it checks out.
way to swipe my joke elron

Bugsy
Jul 15, 2004

I'm thumpin'. That's
why they call me
'Thumper'.


Slippery Tilde

Improbable Lobster posted:

Have any news outlets reported on him unbanning the csam posters

wapo did but I havent seen it from anywhere else.

Celexi
Nov 25, 2006

Slava Ukraini!
he probably threatened anyone that reported on it with twitter bans or stealing their handle lol

Qtotonibudinibudet
Nov 7, 2011



Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki

Improbable Lobster posted:

Have any news outlets reported on him unbanning the csam posters

does the podcast that focuses on internet content moderation policy count

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

guess hiring the yaccX had its intended effect of reassuring the advertisers

Improbable Lobster posted:

Have any news outlets reported on him unbanning the csam posters

yeah, a bunch of them did

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp
note that there's no way for us to know if elong gave them a 99.9% discount on the ad package

4lokos basilisk
Jul 17, 2008


Zamujasa posted:

putting the x in torment nexus

torment lexus would be more accurate

rowkey bilbao
Jul 24, 2023

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

now that'll be a december to remember

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EricBauman
Nov 30, 2005

DOLF IS RECHTVAARDIG
apparently theyre no longer doing the poo emoji thing



https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgwapz/blaze-your-glory-twitter-has-a-bizarre-new-slogan-after-x-rebrand

i think its more likely that it got them in trouble with someone than that they realized its the lamest childish thing anyone has ever done

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