All these people tweeting #GoWokeGoBroke as if businesses don't very carefully think about the business implications of the decisions they make around their public image.
My dudes, you smashed Keurigs but k-cups are still easier to find than whole bean.
You cut swooshes off your socks and let them dangle limply around your ankles. Nike is still here.
Disney? Still so woke that the fascist running Florida is attempting to deploy the power of the state to try and shape the entertainment they release.
In fact, that's what all y'all clownstitutional conservatives are reduced to at this point. Trying hard to make government punish companies because you're salty about how that whole marketplace of ideas thing you used to love is working out now.
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OK - quick contract interpretation thread. And a serious question for the lawyers. Check me on this, please - I'm reading a social media site's terms and conditions, and it looks to me like they may have accidentally made their equivalent of retweets a violation of their TOS.
OK - so here we have the user granting a sublicensable license to the site. And the site, in turn, granting a sublicense to its other users. But the sublicense only allows use "subject to these Terms and Conditions."
And down here we have an IP provision - in "these Terms and Conditions" that expressly says users cannot "modify, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit, or distribute, in any manner, any material on or from" the site - "for any purpose whatsoever."
Let's look at the Bouzy/Romancelandia thing one more time, but only at a limited aspect: why vague policies - like Spoutible's adult content policy - can be problematic. What, in other words, is the big deal?
Some things I want to make clear at the start:
1: Bouzy has every right to run his platform by his rules.
2: What those rules are is up to Bouzy.
3: There is no reason that the rules need to permit any specific content.
I'm not, in other words, going to worry about whether the rules are good rules in some moral or ethical sense. I'm just going to talk about whether the rules are good in a technical, jurisprudential sense.
The whole bill is terrible. It effectively undoes anti-SLAPP (to the limited extent Florida has it), creates an assumption of falsity for anonymously sourced reports while also removing the journalists privilege against being compelled to identify sources, and more.
This bill would, as I read it, let anti-LGBT+ bigots sue people who are mean to them in Florida, judicially assume that their bigotry is the declared truth, and grant them statutory damages if they win.
And it only does that for them - not for any other bigots or racists.
It's designed to create a defamation tourism destination in the USA for JKR.
Florida: Come for the theme parks. Stay for the fascism.
Red. You keep making everything about "sides." It's not. I don't care if Keffals is (to borrow a phrase) literal faeces. Their doxxing and harassment were still wrong, and Kiwi is still a cesspool.
Not thrilled with Bouzy right now. Nate's lawsuit is still hot garbage.
If there is one thing - just one - that I really wish you would take from all of the times you've banged your head against lawtwitter in the last few years, it's this:
You don't have to be on anyone's "side." People are complex. The world is complex. But we have to live in it.
It's OK to be "fierce" and "loyal," but it's not something that has to (or should) apply to everything you do and everyone you interact with. And it's not something that most people apply to everything they do or everyone they interact with.
Spoutible and Bouzy and Courtney. A very quick thread:
1: I have a Spoutible account, although I haven't used it yet. Getting it seemed prudent, all things considered.
2: I'm not Bouzy's biggest fan. That's not news. But I would love to see a true twitter alternative thrive.
3: I don't always agree with @courtneymilan. But I do listen when she talks, because even if I ultimately wind up disagreeing with her, her views are still generally well-reasoned and very clearly expressed. I'd have to be a fool to not listen.
4: I looked at the Spoutible content policies earlier. I agree with Courtney - they are, as written, problematic.
5: "Problematic as written" is not the same as "problematic in practice." It may be that Bouzy is able to consistently apply the vague policies equitably.