politics
Monday, March 23, 2026
his defense in court will be someone trying to hand him a gun
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
This is a crazy ruling
it rules against copyright and for piracy
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131
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it has implications beyond that too, but explicitly rules in favor that ISPs are not liable for whatever the fuck you do as an end customer, and are not expected to provide private customer data to 3rd parties
it's a really strong ruling, most people expected cox to win on a technicality
but they looked past the technicality, and ruled maximally in favor of consumer privacy and free speech rights
they won the lower rulings
Cox appealed and won in the Supreme Court
honestly, I'm surprised by this ruling, because it drastically weakens IP protections
idk if AI has contributed to this a bit, since everyone is tip-toeing around
yeah
I think we all know AI datasets are technically breaking stupid laws, so we're all slowly going to just accept that these laws were stupid and need to be modernized
I do wonder if this will actually change anything though. Like, will ISPs no longer actively care at all about piracy since it's been ruled that they cannot be sued for it? Or will it continue as is with no changes because they still want to curb piracy, just not be sued for failure.
The majority’s decision thus permits ISPs to sell an internet connection to every single infringer who wants one without fear of liability and without lifting a finger to prevent infringement. It also means that Cox is free to abandon its current policy of responding to copyright infringement. As Cox’s counsel conceded at oral argument, under the rule the majority adopts today, the safe harbor provision will not “d[o] anything at all” going forward, id., at
Replying to TinyBomby #tinybomby The majority’s decision thus permits ISPs to sell an internet connection to every single infringer who wants one without fear of liability and without lifting a finger to prevent infringement. It also means that Cox is free to abandon its current policy of responding to copyright infringement. As Cox’s counsel conceded at oral argument, under the rule the majority adopts today, the safe harbor provision will not “d[o] anything at all” going forward, id., at
so yeah basically if they want to just not do anything about people breaking copyright, they're allowed to do nothing
Replying to Dialga #god_of_time so yeah basically if they want to just not do anything about people breaking copyright, they're allowed to do nothing
As I said, it's possible this changes nothing, but it also means that the ISPs could just stop everything because it no longer has any profit incentive. Like, purely monetarily, they don't want to cancel pirates because that's just money lost.
Thursday, March 26, 2026
Friday, March 27, 2026
Why would ICE be in toronto
I mean, this is clearly just a virtue signal thing, typical politician behaviour
well, they should leave then
Just put them at american airports
Oh I looked it up, this is specifically related to that
she is pushing for US customs enforcement to not be allowed to operate in Canada, which is fair
it would be insane for canadian mounties to just sit in american airports causing problems
TSA has not been payed for over a month, so everything is falling apart
ICE is not the authority for VISAs though is it
I thought they were just enforcement
hopefully it is solved by may!
I see. I guess having an office to handle Visas makes sense then