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www.unitedstatescourts.org 9y ago

Federal judge enjoins Department of Labor's “overtime rule”

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www.rt.com 9y ago

Linux vulnerability leaves top sites wide open to attackers

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www.unitedstatescourts.org 9y ago

'Clock boy' Ahmed Mohamed's federal civil suit against his school district

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www.unitedstatescourts.org 9y ago

Bankruptcy Filing of Nick Denton of Gawker

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www.bloomberg.com 10y ago

World's Negative-Yielding Bond Pile Tops $7 Trillion: Chart

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popehat.com 10y ago

President Obama and the Rhetoric of Rights

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www.unitedstatescourts.org 10y ago

Federal indictment of Kim Dotcom

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www.eater.com 10y ago

Just Mayo Is Just Fine with the FDA

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www.unitedstatescourts.org 10y ago

Criminal Complaint of Enrique Marquez, Alleged San Bernardino Co-Conspirator

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www.unitedstatescourts.org 10y ago

Gillette's Lawsuit Against Dollar Shave Club for Alleged Patent Infringement

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www.unitedstatescourts.org 10y ago

Mike Huckabee's Campaign Sued for Playing “Eye of the Tiger” at Kim Davis Rally

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wattsupwiththat.com 10y ago

Approximately 92% of USHCN surface temperature data consists of estimated values

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www.unitedstatescourts.org 10y ago

Lawsuit filed against sites that posted Ashley Madison data dump

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www.unitedstatescourts.org 10y ago

Indictment of rentboy.com employees and users

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www.unitedstatescourts.org 11y ago

Facebook Sued for Violation of Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act

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www.unitedstatescourts.org 11y ago

Unsealed indictment against FIFA officials

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github.com 11y ago

Bing Webmaster Tools does not support HTTPS SNI

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www.unitedstatescourts.org 11y ago

The full Ross Ulbricht court docket

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www.rulesofevidence.org 11y ago

Federal Rules of Evidence

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fakena.me 11y ago

Generate five random english words

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scholar.google.com 11y ago

Federal Trade Commission Sues Butterfly Labs

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scholar.google.com 11y ago

US V. Brown, Dist. Court, MD Tennessee 2014

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www.technologyreview.com 11y ago

The Hidden World of Facebook “Like Farms”

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fakena.me 11y ago

Fake name generator for social media

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www.youtube.com 12y ago

CNBC accidentally outs Apple CEO Tim Cook

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stevengoddard.wordpress.com 12y ago

No Global Warming Since The Kyoto Treaty Was Rejected

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wattsupwiththat.com 12y ago

Dataset of datasets shows no warming this millennium

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wattsupwiththat.com 12y ago

When did global warming begin?

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getaddr.bitnodes.io 12y ago

Visualizing the bitcoin nodes around the world

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globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com 12y ago

US blogger fined 8,000 Euros by France for criticizing Société Générale

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[dead] 8 years ago

In the name of anti-racism, engage in racism. Got it.

And was there a breach of a the Terms of Service by companies taking all this data and using it for non-academic purposes? Yes there was.

There's a legal concept of 'waiver' meaning that even if something is prohibited in a contract, but the parties don't enforce that part, then that part is later not enforceable. Facebook was fully aware of this behavior, chose not to enforce the ToS, and therefore it waived that clause. Therefore no breach.

I've learned through lots of experience that political ideals that are held for national issues go out the window when it comes to local issues. This goes for both sides of the political spectrum.

From the ruling by the court:

Other dishonest conduct during this lawsuit further supports the Court’s finding that Mr. Lawson intentionally manipulated the app to get paid for not working. During discovery he produced a resume that falsely represents that he attended a Loyola Marymount University Master of Fine Arts program from August 2012 to May 2015, and even lists a specific grade point average; however, Mr. Lawson was only enrolled in the program for one year and did not graduate. When confronted at trial with this misrepresentation, Mr. Lawson testified that he listed all three years because he was “still involved in various activities” and he felt “still part of [the Loyola Marymount] community.” (Dkt. No. 208 at 48:13-16.) This explanation is not credible.

So cloudflare terminates the account of some pathetic racists, but happily continues to host Ripoff Report, a company whose basic business model is to defame people online and then extort them for money. You know, a site that actively ruins people lives, employment, etc. But a silly racist message board is what moves the CEO to take action.

I have no problem with this since they're a private company and they can do that with their own services. Dropping an easy target like some racist idiots is one thing... yet Cloudflare apparently has no problem hosting Ripoff Report, a company whose business model is entirely about defaming people online and then extorting them to remove the content. This shittiest of shitty companies that has real-world devastating consequences for people does a lot more damage than some clowns on a racist forum.

Weird, as a COO this doesn't accurately describe me or my peers in the slightest bit. Sounds like you had a bitter experience somewhere along the way with a bad team.