I dunno-- Youtube’s complaint seems like it will stand up in court.
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And the SWATting? The part where people’s lives were actually in danger?
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That’s the state’s concern. I don’t think youtube has standing to bring such a case. Perhaps the evidentiary bar is too high.
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I think the point is that according to the article, the state doesn’t seem to be pursuing it at all.
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And the state won’t pursue it, because then they’d have to admit that cops, by design, pose an existential threat to random ordinary people just going about their day and minding their own business.
Even in cases where the swatter is prosecuted, everyone bends over backwards to absolve police of even the tiniest sliver of responsibility for their own actions.
More to the point of the original post, Google is a Corporate Person whose Inalienable Right to Increase Shareholder Value is enshrined in the constitution, while Andrew Finch is was just some meatsack who should have been paying more attention if he didn’t want to be murdered by police on his own front porch.
ETA: corrected verb tense.
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I am not an employee, and it can be precarious at times, but when I read about things like this, I’m super glad to be freelance. Because fuuuuuuuuck that noise.
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I predict requiring these to fly in ten years or less. To vote, even sooner (in red states).
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You might be right, but I forewent 
an iud because it tweaked some body horror in me. Nothing implanted. I mean intellectually I know it’s just an anxiety thing on my part, and I’m no Luddite but I’ll be avoiding implantation as long as I can.
Fucking cyberpunk dystopia is right.
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Good. I’ve always been suspicious of IUDs, just because their job (it seems to me) is to irritate tissue. And there have been a lot of design failures over the years.
But I love my intra-ocular lenses. Not only got rid of cataracts but fixed my myopia, which was horrendous.
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No matter how many times I hear about people selling their blood instead of just volunteer donations, it just never gets any less creepy.
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Every time I hear about this, I think about the Tom Waits song where he sings “I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch”.
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How much do you get for a kidney? How much for the second one?
Gad.
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Also, like most safety nets, it excludes certain people…
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Like the article says, it won’t give them the data required to do what they say they want to do.
Mass shootings are just a fig leaf for mass surveillance. It’s not hard to figure out who they’re really after.
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Liver’s a better bet. It regenerates and then you can sell it again.
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