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Peter Cohen boosted

I've spent decades obsessed with the weirdest corner of the weirdest section of the worst internet law in the US: Sec 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a 1998 law that makes it a felony to help others change how their computers work, to serve them rather than the manufacturer.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/28/mcbroken/#my-milkshake-brings-all-the-lawyers-to-the-yard

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Jack Yan (甄爵恩) boosted

ICYMI: #EnemiesFromWithin
"Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth)
@adamscochran

Since people seem to have missed this one, unsealed in the Smith filing:

-Trump used a burner phone, routed through a foreign country to contact Michigan house speaker.

-He tried to pressure the speaker in this off book call.

-Speaker McCarthy knew about the burner phone "

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/10/27/2280028/-Trump-Allegedly-Used-Burner-Phone-Routed-Through-Egypt-To-Illegally-Pressure-Michigan-House-Speaker?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web

#fascism