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[–] [email protected] 70 points 9 months ago

Good for TechDirt, Muckrock and the EFF for telling Appin and Rajat Khare to go pound sand.

May many crabs find your testicles in need of pinching Rajat Khare.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

No they are just lining the Streisand Effect up, so it's ready to be called.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've done more than just that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

You duplicated the http prefix

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

:(

Do you know how many sites I had to try to find one that even worked 😭

QR codes are a free standard why is it this hard to make one

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

There's probably a CLI package you can install

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Maybe 'sad trombone' was still playing?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

That was a good letter they wrote and is even understandable to us not versed in legalese. I especially liked the citation of the US Constitution First Amendment.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The reason why these legal threats work on large publications and agencies like Reuters is they have staff and business units in India. TechDirt being a small outfit based solely in the US has the luxury of telling Appin to eat shit and suffer little to no consequences.

Now why some of these other US based publications are toeing the line set by Khare is baffling.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Now why some of these other US based publications are toeing the line set by Khare is baffling.

The answer is pretty much always "money".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Now we just need a 6 hour hbomberguy video essay about Rajat Khare to really take this to the next level.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago