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lol, of course you double down on the accusation instead of identifying a single statement as evidence for it. QED. To the original Arsians, thanks for the enjoyable ride. A few of you know where to find me away from this place, keep in touch.

Nilay correctly identifies the problem but I think he jumps to conclusions with his proposed solution. Twitter has historically fueled user participation by stirring the pot, either with bots or genuine content, by including disagreeable content in user's feeds. Elon could take the approach that...

I do not disagree. My primary issue was with Twitter's collaboration with the federal government to censor Administration-identified political targets, revealed under the Freedom of Information Act (see one of my previous much-downvoted posts). Where Twitter is not acting as an agent of the...

Identify one single statement I made that advocated white supremacy. I get that you don't know me, or my middle eastern wife, or my biracial kid, but hey that doesn't stop people from conflating advocacy for open platforms with advocacy for distasteful content that an open platform inevitably...

The Supreme Court, in Norwood v. Harrison (1973), called it “axiomatic” that the government “may not induce, encourage or promote private persons to accomplish what it is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish.” The Freedom of Information Act disclosures showed Twitter was acting at the behest...

Thanks for proving my point.

Skokie's state action was overt and direct and Twitter's was covert and indirect. See, e.g.: https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-be ... 1660732095

From an IP perspective, the automotive industry is an interesting ecosystem because the big automotives largely share IP in a complex web of cross-licenses. In this case, it's safe to conclude that Ford and VW have broad licenses to Argo's patents by virtue of their investments in the company...

I know, right? I even think that the Supreme Court made the correct decision in National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie, 432 U.S. 43 (1977), which no doubt appalls you.

Certainly. I remember when Ken first created the SoapBox in the forums. But at that time a diverse range of opinions was still tolerated and discussed. I remember getting into discussions of my own anarcho-capitalist positions with many of the other Ars greybeards and I wasn't called a fascist...

Ars stopped being a good read a long time ago and its writers and readers are a political monoculture of Eurotrash DemSoc nanny-statism who paint everyone who dislikes that model as "fascist." When that attitude started creeping into the articles themselves, I left. I come back once in a while...

I'm no fan of Trump or the GOP, but I also recognize the other side of the mono-party is no better and I'm enjoying the weeping and gnashing of teeth from that corner of the political swamp at the restoration of open speech on one of the large social media platforms.

How many other oceanographers have found wrecks 5km deep in under 12 days? If it's so "unremarkable" why didn't someone else do it in the 74 years between the sinking and the discovery? What is remarkable is the capacity of modern internet dwellers to so easily disregard the accomplishments of...

This is the kind of content for which I first came to Ars Technica over twenty years ago. Less politics, more of this, please. Thank you.

Have you ever tried WebEx? Zoom is rainbows and unicorns compared to that shitshow.

Ars hasn't yet posted anything about Oracle having filed its brief with the Supreme Court. Perhaps Google hasn't given Tim his talking points yet. For those interested, here's the brief: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/ ... filing.pdf Amicus briefs for Oracle are starting to come in now...

At that point, Blizzard has a copyright claim against the mod author, because the mod author assigned his/her copyright to Blizzard. Once you've assigned sole ownership to someone else, you don't have the right to it anymore. That's assuming a court upholds this copyright assignment language...

Quite the title: Fox News would be proud. We've been living in a world where APIs are copyrightable at least since March 27, 2018, when the Federal Circuit issued its opinion, and the sky has not fallen. Software development goes on, uninterrupted. Open source developers haven't been put out of...

I grew up with classic Sesame Street, Mister Rogers, Electric Company, and 3-2-1 Contact. Here’s a favorite that came to mind: Red Ball 1-2-3.

There is a solution for employers to protect their intellectual property rights while respecting employee mobility: trade secret law and non-disclosure agreements. Both work just fine without a non-compete agreement. In the states that allow non-competes, often the employer combines a...