wilson was a fascist and set us on this course. you can’t expect a fascist government to keep fascists out of power.

but the problem is in the creation of these executive agencies. someone coming along to abuse them was in the cards the whole time.

the executive is the one to execute, because where else could you even put it?

the congress. the congress could make a law. it’s that simple. the fugitive slave act didn’t need a fucking Agency of Slave Recovery.

For truly independent agencies, I think you need to amend the constitution for that.

i don’t think we need most of these agencies at all, but those that are needed could still be created directly under the supervision of congress. would it make their lives harder? yes. but it would also stop any autocratically-minded executive from doing what’s being done.

The FBI helps coordinate multi state investigations

the marshals already existed before the fbi.

I feel there is nuance.

I have a joke that the Congress would create a department of impeachment and place it under the president. I know it’s not really a knee slapper.

congress has been abdicating since the Wilson administration (at least) and we are now seeing the consequences of those actions.

if you had elected me to be president, i’d have scuttled an aircraft carrier and a nuclear sub during my inauguration speech, and I’d be dismantling the bureau of Indian affairs, the bureau of prisons, the federal bureau of investigation, the central intelligence agency, and the NSA ( whose full name i can’t summon at the moment) just as we see trump dismantling agencies I think are mostly benign.

the problem is that Congress has had no courage for a century.

someone comes to town, someone leaves town

by cory doctorow

copyright is immoral

you didn’t even mention xmpp

they might claim they’re harmed if the information is distributed for free. I don’t care. that’s not theft.

since the defendant is also a capitalist firm, I can see the similarities, but if someone were to simply be liberating the information, I don’t see that as stealing.

yes. @remindme@mstdn.social

thebadspace has no real rhyme or reason either and lists a lot of folks I think are fine, and also gives (almost) no reason or receipts.

the Lemmy block system works as intended. if you want some other system, use some other service. but being a federated system, you can’t actually stop the data from being visible, or someone from creating a new user and interacting, if your post is public.

stealing others’ work

Reuters still has their analysis. nothing was stolen.

Whether you support IP or not, the AI company is clearly in the wrong here.

they’re both wrong to restrict access. if legal analysis is necessary to understand the law, then restricting access to that analysis, or it’s free dissemination, is also wrong.

I don’t trust that judge’s ability to determine whether they were copied if it wasn’t verbatim. which is what copyright is. to control an idea, you need a patent.

tragic. no one should need to pay to read the law

right. I just thought they’d made the news today or something.

what did PayPal do?

no, it’s not. harm reduction is when you recognize the bad thing is going to happen and you do something to mitigate the problem.