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9 months ago
in Want to Read Sarah Palin’s Private E-Mails? on The Inquisitr
Posting the illegally obtained e-mails of an elected government official is "fair use"? Really?
This really disappoints me, as a reader, I would have thought that you wouldn't stoop to Gawker levels for traffic, and then hide behind "fair use".
This really disappoints me, as a reader, I would have thought that you wouldn't stoop to Gawker levels for traffic, and then hide behind "fair use".
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1 year ago
in Give Rev Wright a chance to convince you (Scripting News) on Scripting News
It would have been interesting to see what his other two responses were. In the wake of 9/11, "self-examination" was not really an option for our government to respond with, so I want to know what the other two things God allegedly told Wright were.
That aside, if Wright has truly been trashed falsely by the media, why didn't Obama just stand up for him? Part of me thinks Obama threw him under the bus for political expediency, and if that's the case, then I wonder just how different a candidate he really is.
That aside, if Wright has truly been trashed falsely by the media, why didn't Obama just stand up for him? Part of me thinks Obama threw him under the bus for political expediency, and if that's the case, then I wonder just how different a candidate he really is.
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I doubt most Americans would have been willing to sit through the lecture on prophetic preaching in the Black Liberation theology tradition. It was easier to denounce the word, because there are a lot of folks who wouldn't get it anyway. Just look at some of the comments on the longer clips at youtube, the ones that provide context. People still don't get it, even after watching the whole thing. Unfortunately, a large number of people made up their mind based on what they saw last week and no context in the world is going to make them think it's ok to say "God damn America." The goal is to keep that population as small as possible.
I'm happy to take that on board. JR has my 100% support in making the call to publish this. Our interest was in being part of the conversation on a topic as it crossed both politics and tech (and you'll see my 4chan follow up as well in where this is heading), perhaps we could have done it better. Certainly though these sorts of posts aren't big traffic drivers for us (least based on our first 4 months) so I can promise you that traffic wasn't the biggest factor.
In terms of fair use, taking a screenshot from a publicly available site does, at least within my understanding of copyright law, constitute fair use. In saying that in no way am I, nor the site condoning the act that saw these emails enter the public sphere. We're not hiding behind fair use, it's simply a case in fact, until I hear a convincing argument otherwise.