Requiring a pinky promise of a court order [i]s woefully insufficient [to prevent surveillance abuse]. – Ron Wyden
The Department of Justice has charged [Adrian O. Pena,] a Deputy U.S. Marshal for…using access to a controversial phone tracking service offered by a company called Securus to track the physical location of people he had personal relationships with as well as their spouses…between September 2016 and October 2017…He did this by uploading fake documents to the Securus platform that he claimed gave him authority to obtain requested location data…Securus is a massive prison and law enforcement contractor that, among many other things, previously offered a service for geolocating nearly all phones in the United States called Location Based Services…
The Spiral of Absurdity (#916)
All prohibitionism is the same:
According to [fantasists at] the…DEA…teens simply message a sequence of emojis that symbolize the substance they’re after so that their dealer can avoid any kind of digital detection. The secret codes also help youngsters keep their habits a secret from their parents, who likely have no idea what the emojis actually represent. Now, the DEA has released a chart titled “Emoji Drug Code: Decoded ” to [spread disinformation] about the [reasons for]…the soaring number of adolescent overdose deaths…
The only winners are the ambulance-chasers:
A [professional “survivor”] who brought a civil lawsuit seeking [to cash in with a FOSTA-enabled nuisance “]sex trafficking[” lawsuit]…against Craigslist [is out of luck, as he lawyers should’ve told her, because]…the online service is immune from the claims under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act…
Seems like a significant fraction of child porn is spread by cops:
Maryland [cop] Daniel Morozewicz…has…pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing over 12,000 files of child pornography…on the BitTorrent file sharing network. Morozewicz also used multiple electronic devices to download and distribute child pornography involving [toddlers] and infants…
Unsafe for Human Consumption (#1208)
Media stenographers are always happy to indulge cops’ violent fantasies:
The Kansas City, Kansas Police Department is [spread]ing [moronic copaganda] about…fentanyl…[an important medicine which, despite a fantasy popular among cops, is not an aerosol and cannot be absorbed through casual] exposure…[a hysterical pig named] Dallas Thompson [suffered a panic attack when he thought he was exposed, and] his [gang wasted] five rounds of Narcan [despite that medicine only being effective vs opiates, not panic attacks. But] the [prohibitionist gang] is still e[ager to tell tall tales about drugs and brag about what might heroes they supposedly are]…
Hint: if five doses of Narcan doesn’t help, you’re not overdosing on opioids.
The Puritan Recrudescence (#1230)
Journalism is slowly dying of gullibility:
The New Yorker…staff writer Sheelah Kolhatkar wrote a lengthy feature detailing horrific allegations of child sexual abuse material allegedly uploaded to Pornhub…[and] spend[ing] thousands of words praising #Traffickinghub creator…Laila Mickelwait for [supposedly] helping women…Kolhatkar…describes Mickelwait designating Pornhub a sex-trafficking ring before highlighting her supposed mission: holding Pornhub’s parent company MindGeek “accountable”. The problem is that despite Mickelwait’s protestations, her goal isn’t to save victims. It’s to abolish the porn industry…
Here are FIRE’s first new ads; there are five in all and they’ll play in sequence.
Journalism has been dead since the Obama administration. What’s dying is Big Media, as its previously gullible audience are discovering it lied to them.