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- CEO of Henderson-based Parler says even his lawyers are abandoning him. [The Verge]
- Here’s a look at Nye County’s overt partnership with ICE. [TNI]
- A Lyon County judge denied Alice Little’s petition to reopen brothels. [TNI]
- Nevada vows to keep the pressure on sex traffickers in 2021. [RJ]
- We are all missing the extra CES money (and traffic) this year as the show goes online. [Las Vegas Sun]
Does anyone remember our last CES? We had a huge number of Chinese visitors, many direct from Wuhan, and yet our alleged covid crisis didn't start until months later. I was deathly ill in late January last year, and I think it might have been the respiratory illness associated with the Wuhan virus.
No, just the PCR test. Negative.
My comment was not partisan. It was true. There are actual recordings. I get deleting the conspiracy theory nonsense, but my comment here was true and relevant.
I'll start by acknowledging that we're never going to make everyone happy all the time. That being said, what we're trying to do is keep this place from becoming (or continuing to be) a cesspool of partisan bickering, negativity and conspiracy theories (from both sides of the isle). So we apologize to you (and others) if you think your comment was improperly deleted, but we are going to err on the side of caution, at least until we can navigate this blog back to its target discourse. Thanks for being patient.
So go get an anti-body test. I thought the same thing but the test showed no virus.
Maybe your antibodies diminished over time, as apparently can happen with this particular virus.
@1:03pm – the RJ ran a report back in April 2020 from a CES attendee that supports your recollection. They even quote his January 10th posting as support. Link: https://bit.ly/2Ka3zVA Quoted from article: [In a Jan. 10 post, Webber wrote: “The lounge at the #LasVegas airport sounds like an infirmary: all sorts of people sneezing & coughing. I think there are 3 reasons for this. 1) hard partying from #CES2020 2) global travelers from many regions in flu season 3) prevalence of conditioned indoor air in LV.”]
Maybe your antibodies diminished over time….
So why do ants never get sick?
– because they have ant-i-bodies
Please, give the partisan stuff a rest. It's been months now. Most of us are tired of it.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
But, there was an "insurrection" at Meadows Mall over the weekend? I saw it on Twitter but the main stream media didn't cover it. Oh, the humanity!
But the Mall of America is not the Mall of the Meadows. So how can there can be an inusurrection?
Yes, thank you!!!!!!!
Who are the attorneys who ditched Parler?
Not the NRA firm. The one with Erika Pike Turner,Garman, Turden and Gordon.
I am going to read the complaint sometime this week. This should be an interesting area of law. Unless blog police object.
I keep seeing this Adam Kutner add that shows his whole staff dressed in black and white. It also shows 4 people sitting at a table with legal pads nodding at each other. Are these people attorneys? does anyone know them? and why isn't Adam in any of this until the very end?
@1:18pm, ur like devoting way too much time and effort on this…
anyone else get their Pfizer/Modern shot(s) yet?
No way this is important I think I know the ad. A dark haired female gazes deeply into the camera at one point, it is then that I know you cannot hide your injuries from her.
I know one of the guys is a real attorney. I'm thinking yes, that's the real staff.
Doesn't Kutner only employ one real attorney besides himself? They don't exactly do a lot of litigating.
Someday this blog will host a fascinating dialogue on the law as a commercial enterprise versus a higher calling. I practice law for my sense of what constitutes justice, but I absolutely respect that it is a commercial enterprise like any other: sell something that someone values enough to purchase.
Anybody concerned that there is practically speaking, no town square anymore?
If your views don't conform to someone else's view, you have no place to exercise free speech. Yes, these are private companies. Anyone remember the company town cases where the corporation controlled speech in the company town? Does anyone think of the parallel with China where every thought is monitored through control of the internet?
These are things worthy of thought about justice and the constitution. More important I think, than who appears in a Kutner TV ad.
You are about to be deleted, but before you go, I agree.
There are more avenues for speech then ever before. You can go to redit, start a blog, record a podcast. You are complaining because someone got removed from some social media sites after violating their private rules made by a private company. You can still go to the town square. Walk your lazy ass down there and hold a sign. To claim your speech is being muted considering the avenues To deliver messages these days is laughable. Also there is the thought of competition. If people are upset of the rules private companies have, then start a competitor.
yeah! go out to Pahrump and complain where 6 people can hear it. WE, the majority, don't want to hear it where WE live. Your speech is bad. WE like homogeneous speech that's the political class and media tell us is good!
8:32 – excellent way to make an excellent point.
Off to the camps! https://thepostmillennial.com/exposed-pbs-chief-counsel-re-education-camps
@9:56 …If people are upset of the rules private companies have, then start a competitor.
People did that, but were shut down by the big three. Parler is the most recent example. All of the avenues you mentioned require the services of someone like Amazon and Apple or Twitter. Without user of their services, you have no voice.
Back in the day, there were many independent internet service providers (ISP) and Chat Rooms. The belief then was the independence and variety of service providers would guarantee free use of the internet as a platform for free speech. The ISP's are gone leaving only Apple, Amazon and Twitter whose servers control nearly all avenues of speech. A monopoly. If they don't like you, you are silenced.
Sisolak rolled out a third version of covid vaccine tiers. Can that guy ever make a correct decision first? I've never had an opinion either way about him. But he has completely botched this vaccine rollout.
Moments like this I really wish Chris G won the primary.
I think it's telling that some attorneys yesterday (or at least on an attorney blog) were attempting to discuss free speech and then their comments get removed. Irony is thick. Constitutional law and politics overlap – so if we can't discuss constitutional rights- what is allowed on this blog? I'm curious. And – I am going to start another blog.
I'm sure it was your comment that was removed and that's why you are fired up. I'm also sure that you, and others who are now crying about their comments being removed can't tell the difference between discussions about constitutional law and political bickering. This isn't Parlor, nor is it Facebook or Twitter. Please take your political commentary back there, or please do start your other blog post haste, and take all the wingnuts with you so this can get back to being a "las vegas law blog", which discusses "las vegas, nevada legal news, rumors, gossip, etc."
Please go. And take your political friends with you.
bye felicia!
"If you don't like Twitter – start your own app!" they say. Oh the irony in that, because it turns out not only do you have to build your own app, you will then be blocked by the URL host, so build your own server farm. And if you do that, you may have to build your own fiberoptic cable system because the Amazon one may not let you use it… oh don't forget your own bank, because Chase may prevent you from funding things they don't like…
Some things to ponder:
1. How long before your bank refuses to allow you to use your debit/credit card to purchase firearms/ammunition?
2. How long before your mortgage lenders/mortgage broker/employer go through your social media post to determine if you are credit worthy or employable?
3. How long before all donations to religious institutions that uphold traditional marriage and other conservative values must be made in cash, because no bank will let you run that transaction through them?
Slippery slope is…well.. slippery.
9:02 spot on. I'm not under the spotlight now but when am I next?
THIS blog is for "las vegas, nevada legal news, rumors, gossip, etc." There's nothing wrong with the blog admins keeping the discussion on point. There's a time and place for things. This is neither the time nor place for politics. Go somewhere else for that. We're sick of it.
9:02 interesting point. Did you also apply your slippery slope to gay wedding cakes? Because… private businesses can't be forced to bake cakes for gays and they can't be forced to host your crazy conspiracy theories either. What's good for the goose is good for you, buddy. Laws for me are also for you, especially when you the one who insisted on them. No more crying now, baby; go home to mommy.
9:26 – Ignoring all the 6th grade rhetoric, I am glad that you brought up the Christian Baker case. The thing that is different between the Parler v. Christian Baker (I am assuming that you are referring to Masterpiece Cakeshop) is that in Lakewood, CO (where the Cake shop is) – there are at least 4 other bakeries that were willing to make that cake, let alone thousands upon thousands of bakeries in Oregon alone that would do it.
The issue is that Amazon controls nearly 70% of the all web hosting (Microsoft controls 16% on top of that). Apple and Google stores control 91% of application distributions. Between Facebook/Instagram and Twitter, these companies control nearly 87% of all social media, including offshoots like SnapChat, etc.. Thus, these companies are effectively creating monopolies that potentially may require antitrust involvement/regulation to prevent what happened to Parler and others that dare challenge the homogenous thought of the Big Tech Bros. I am not sure how you conduct legal research if you believe the Parler case is akin to Masterpiece Cakeshop.
9:55 – that was the point i was just about to make. The internet is monopolized by Big (liberal communist) Tech. The libs want to be controlled – the they don't have to think for themselves. And of course- there are plenty of bakery's willing to bake cakes. Desperate and predictable point by 9:26.
in terms of this blog – control it all you want, that is the admins right. I just think its funny that conversations about free speech get shut down by people who "don't want to see it." Don't read it if you don't want to see it. Keep scrolling. That's the prob with censorship – the internet gods decide what is worthy for those of us who do want to consume other peoples thoughts – as well as speak our own.
8:42 has the right idea. Start your own blog. Talk to whomever will listen. That is where the constitutional rights take us– your right to talk is not infringed but does not equal a requirement that everyone has to hear or listen or act as your platform. I post here periodically but understand that this is not my house and that my decision to participate here comes at the whim of the blog hosts and admins.
@10:35 …Start your own blog…
That sounds good, but it is not that simple. The administrator of this blog can shut you down. The service that hosts this blog is blogspot.com, they can shut down this site if they decide the content is not to their liking. And to the point made by others, blogspot.com is hosted on Google servers. If Google decides the people using the blog services a too this, or too that, Google can shut it down.
ALL communication sources are controlled by a small handful of companies that actively decide what you can, and cannot, read or hear. You should be very worried.
11:38 But I am not worried. And the reason is that the market controls. Amazon and Google have terms of service policies in the same way that law firms have policies regarding who they will represent or assist. Repugnant people and ideas have a tougher, but not impossible, road to hoe. If Google shuts it down, there are alternative, fringe hosting sites that will ultimately host. When those fringe sites become stronger due to the market bearing it, Google will agree to host it. But this notion that all speakers should proceed unfettered and deserve equal access is folly.