MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Is Trying To Launch a Social Media Site, and It's Already Resulted In a Legal Threat (thedailybeast.com) 229
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Daily Beast: MyPillow founder and staunch Trump ally Mike Lindell plans to launch a social network of his own in the next few weeks, creating a haven for the kind of pro-Trump conspiracy theories that have been banned on more prominent social-media sites. On Lindell's "Vocl" social media platform, users will be free to claim that a supercomputer stole the election from Donald Trump, or that vaccines are a tool of the devil. Any new social media network faces serious challenges. But Vocl must grapple with a daunting problem before it even launches: a website called "Vocal," spelled with an "A," already exists.
On Thursday, lawyers for Vocal's publicly traded parent company, Creatd, Inc., warned Lindell, in a letter reviewed by The Daily Beast, to change his social media network's name and surrender ownership of the Vocl.com domain name. If Lindell refuses to change the name, he could face a lawsuit. While Lindell has promised to turn Vocl into a "cross between Twitter and YouTube," Vocal is a publishing platform similar to Medium where writers can post and monetize articles. "It is clear that you are acting with bad faith and with intent to profit from Creatd's mark," the letter reads, claiming Lindell's Vocl would "tarnish" the Vocal brand. Creatd owns the trademark for using "Vocal" in a number of ways related to social networking, including creating "virtual communities" and "online networking services." Along with surrendering ownership of the Vocl.com domain name, Creatd wants Lindell to destroy any products with Vocl branding and never use the name again. "Creatd is prepared to take all steps necessary to protect Creatd's valuable intellectual property rights, without further notice to you," the letter reads. On Friday morning, the MyPillow CEO said: "It has nothing to do with their trademark. I haven't even launched yet. But it has nothing to do with us." He claims Vocl is also an acronym that stands for "Victory of Christ's Love."
Early Friday afternoon, Lindell told The Daily Beast to say, "We looked into it, and we believe it would be confusing, so we are going to announce a different name and URL by Monday."
On Thursday, lawyers for Vocal's publicly traded parent company, Creatd, Inc., warned Lindell, in a letter reviewed by The Daily Beast, to change his social media network's name and surrender ownership of the Vocl.com domain name. If Lindell refuses to change the name, he could face a lawsuit. While Lindell has promised to turn Vocl into a "cross between Twitter and YouTube," Vocal is a publishing platform similar to Medium where writers can post and monetize articles. "It is clear that you are acting with bad faith and with intent to profit from Creatd's mark," the letter reads, claiming Lindell's Vocl would "tarnish" the Vocal brand. Creatd owns the trademark for using "Vocal" in a number of ways related to social networking, including creating "virtual communities" and "online networking services." Along with surrendering ownership of the Vocl.com domain name, Creatd wants Lindell to destroy any products with Vocl branding and never use the name again. "Creatd is prepared to take all steps necessary to protect Creatd's valuable intellectual property rights, without further notice to you," the letter reads. On Friday morning, the MyPillow CEO said: "It has nothing to do with their trademark. I haven't even launched yet. But it has nothing to do with us." He claims Vocl is also an acronym that stands for "Victory of Christ's Love."
Early Friday afternoon, Lindell told The Daily Beast to say, "We looked into it, and we believe it would be confusing, so we are going to announce a different name and URL by Monday."
A better name (Score:3, Insightful)
Just call it "Great Republican Lies". At least you could trust that the name of the site is the truth.
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Well, it's possible that "grl" is already a porn site name... (no, I didn't check)
PillowTalk? (Score:4, Interesting)
Or perhaps not...
Re:PillowTalk? (Score:4, Funny)
How about Twatter?
The Internet has a LIberal Bias (Score:2, Insightful)
And by god True American (TM) conservative billionaire patriots aren't going to take it lying down. No sir!
What we need are safe spaces for conservatives!
More echo chambers! Keep out all the lying liberals!
That said, this lawsuit is crap. There is no reasonable chance that the pillow guy's domain name (vocl.com) is going to be confused with with the established (vocal.com) domain name. If he chooses to fight it I'm on his side.
If a court rules that there is a conflict, then it means that every
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IANAL and certainly not an expert on Trademark law. But having owned a few trademarks and read a few lawsuits about them, this doesn't even break from the pack in terms of viability.
Being "confusingly similar" in a category for which a trademark is used is ample reason to bring (and win) an infringement suit. It doesn't work with homophones (remember M$ and their idiotic whinging about "Mike Rowe Soft" years ago?), but this is only one letter off.
And it appears they already scared the pillow eejit off, so t
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Being "confusingly similar" in a category for which a trademark is used is ample reason to bring (and win) an infringement suit. It doesn't work with homophones
Yes it does. This is not to say that two marks being homophones automatically renders one infringing, but under in re du Pont, in considering the mark one must look at "the similarity or dissimilarity of the marks in their entireties as to appearance, sound, connotation and commercial impression."
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Very interesting, I hadn't read that.
And oh, how glad am I that now I have... [justia.com]
My jaw is slack. I lost count of the low whistles I uttered involuntarily. This certainly lends credence to the pen being mightier than the sword... SO satisfying.
That was an utterly joyful read. Thank you.
What was the follow-up? Did duPont pay the $101,000,000, or print their scarlet letter for all to see?
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Fine, fine. The case is In re E. I. DuPont DeNemours & Co., 476 F.2d 1357 (C.C.P.A. 1973) [google.com]. DuPont won an appeal overturning the PTO's refusal to register the RALLY mark for an automobile cleaning chemical on the basis that there was already a RALLY detergent. The case is not really interesting other than the laundry list of factors to consider for likelihood of confusion in trademark law, and it is well-known in that context:
In testing for likelihood of confusion under Sec. 2(d), therefore, the following, when of record, must be considered:
(1) The similarity or dissimilarity of the marks in their entireties as to appearance, sound, connotation and commercial impression.
(2) The similarity or dissimilarity and nature of the goods or services as described in an application or registration or in connection with which a prior mark is in use.
(3) The similarity or dissimilarity of established, likely-to-continue trade channels.
(4) The conditions under which and buyers to whom sales are made, i. e. "impulse" vs. careful, sophisticated purchasing.
(5) The fame of the prior mark (sales, advertising, length of use).
(6) The number and nature of similar marks in use on similar goods.
(7) The nature and extent of any actual confusion.
(8) The length of time during and conditions under which there has been concurrent use without evidence of actual confusion.
(9) The variety of goods on which a mark is or is not used (house mark, "family" mark, product mark).
(10) The market interface between applicant and the owner of a prior mark:
(a) a mere "consent" to register or use.
(b) agreement provisions designed to preclude confusion, i. e. limitations on continued use of the marks by each party.
(c) assignment of mark, application, registration and good will of the related business.
(d) laches and estoppel attributable to owner of prior mark and indicative of lack of confusion.
(11) The extent to which applicant has a right to exclude others from use of its mark on its goods.
(12) The extent of potential confusion, i. e., whether de minimis or substantial.
(13) Any other established fact probative of the effect of use.
The point is that a junior user doesn't get to say that their mark is merel
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Sorry, I wasn't being... anything. I fully get what you're saying about the Trademarks, and am sincerely thankful for the understanding. As someone who may someday have to defend my marks against infringement, that knowledge is extremely useful.
Now, back to the link I posted... sure I can't remember the last time I experienced schadenfreude like that, if ever. Do you know what happened in the outcome of that case??
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As someone who may someday have to defend my marks against infringement, that knowledge is extremely useful.
Ah defending against trademark infringement. Here's the dirty secret of trademarks: registering a trademark is reasonably affordable, and it's a good, prudent step to take. But beyond C&D letters, most people aren't prepared to engage in expensive trademark litigation. Fees and costs might be recovered, but often aren't. And typically a solid win is merely an injunction, not money damages (which are merely compensatory anyway, not punitive). Thus their value is somewhat overblown, and they mainly see
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Re:Trump couldn't get a good deal with Gab or Parl (Score:5, Funny)
So he got one of his buddies to give him a better deal.
I just wish my dog loved me like Mike Lindell loves Trump.
Re:Trump couldn't get a good deal with Gab or Parl (Score:4, Insightful)
So he got one of his buddies to give him a better deal.
I just wish my dog loved me like Mike Lindell loves Trump.
When you believe the only thing stopping you from murdering or raping someone is the watchful eye of an invisible being in the sky, it's not difficult to understand how one can be taken in by a charlatan.
Re:Trump couldn't get a good deal with Gab or Parl (Score:4, Informative)
The only people who believe that are idiots like you who say dumb things like that.
Funny thing, that question is the one Christians ask of Atheists. What's stopping you from murdering or raping if you don't believe in (a) god? Or, the follow up question, what are you going to do when you die? Don't you want to get into heaven?
So yes, I do know what these people believe because they wear it on the shirt sleeves and since they're the ones who bring up the subjects, they truly are idiots who believe that.
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I have seen plenty of science cheerleaders using this as a debate item with catholic cheerleaders. But we all know cheerleaders are just bimbos who don't really understand what they're cheering for.
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You want your dog to hump your leg all day? Really?
The Dog Analogy has It's Limits (Score:2)
"I just wish my dog loved me like Mike Lindell loves Trump."
In that scenario, your dog ends up in death row at the pound, wondering whether or not you'll ever show up to save him.
Poor guy can flip a coin.
Sounds like an idea he should sleep on (Score:2)
There are countless forums on the internets that allow pseudo names and have moderators who aren't going to kick you out for not liking your ideas.
We don't need another social network. Social networks are for cat videos. Political activism belongs on better suited platforms where it's about sharing ideas, not friends lists.
How does he have the money? (Score:2, Interesting)
Dominion Voting Systems is suing Lindell for $1.3 billion [cbsnews.com] for his repeated and ongoing lies about a rigged election.
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Because you typically have plenty of money while the court case is still ongoing. It's when the court case is over that he may find himself bankrupt.
Re: How does he have the money? (Score:2)
The odds dominion wins and gets anything like a billion dollars are about zero.
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Only in your fevered nutjob dreams.
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He may actually be right. Even if Dominion wins, the judgment will likely be much smaller. And Lindell can declare bankruptcy to avoid paying anything for years.
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Indeed. The odds of them winning and getting a couple of hundred million bankrupting Lindell in the process are however incredibly high. Since he doesn't actually have $1bn I agree Dominion won't get that.
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This is why he needs the web site, to shake down the nutjobs for money to save the "conservatives". He's only following his mentor, the previous Whiner-in-Chief who has moved onto a similar scam now that his creditors are starting to close in.
Disappointed in supercomputer theory (Score:4, Interesting)
I was interested in reading about the story of this supercomputer that had become both self-aware and pro-human and decided to do the only thing it could to take down a President who had never done better than getting the 2nd most human votes in any election he'd ever been in, outright stealing the election through some clever and complicated scheme that should make a better move than Transcendence.
Well sadly it turns out that QAnon morons just think you need a supercomputer to do basic database work:
https://www.factcheck.org/2020... [factcheck.org]
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If you think that major public figures literally eat babies then supercomputers barely count as decoration.
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Well, there's still the theory that the Vatican is operating an encrypted satellite system that they used to flip Trump votes to Biden.
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Well, there's still the theory that the Vatican is operating an encrypted satellite system that they used to flip Trump votes to Biden.
And the qcumbers have the signed Italian police affidavit (written in plain English of course) to prove it!
"Victory of Christ's Love" (Score:2)
There's a backronym if ever there was one.
What is creatd? Can't they spell? (Score:2)
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I think it's a part of systemd. Somewhere.
My gut says we're going to find out (Score:2)
Either that or he's back on the sauce.
Oh goodie. (Score:2)
A site where all the crazy people can get together.
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I'm starting to worry about him. (Score:2)
Missed the obvious (Score:5, Funny)
Trump lost because he was an idiot... (Score:2)
With that being
Re:Conspiracy theories? (Score:5, Funny)
Based on the summary, it sounds like they will be pushing at least one very popular conspiracy theory: that a terrorist intends to torture basically everyone in fire, without letting them die from it, all the while insisting that he loves them and wouldn't be doing this if they had previously said they loved him back (but now it's too late).
Re:Conspiracy theories? (Score:5, Informative)
In fact, I have studied the Bible in significant depth, and my reading comprehension skills are tip-top. My criticism wasn't about what the Bible says, but rather, the Fundamentalist interpretation of it. Did you know, for example, that in the original Greek gospels, Jesus never once said the word "hell?" He did talk a lot about a valley on the edge of the city of Jerusalem (named "Gehenna" which does not mean "hell" and never did). The translators decided that when Jesus talked about that valley, what he really meant was a pit of eternal fire where God tortures non-believers, so they went ahead and changed the word from "Gehenna" to "hell," you know, so we wouldn't get our little heads all confused.
So, I agree, the Bible actually says nothing of the sort. But Fundamentalists sure insist that it does. They hold that God is the one who created this eternal torture-chamber, and that God set up the rule that determined that most people go there, and that the only way to escape this torture is to profess your love for him. "Terrorist" is a very adequate description of someone who would do that.
And I call it a "conspiracy theory" since there is zero reason to believe it, even if you DO want to believe that this ancient book contains an accurate description of reality.
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No, I don't post as AC. You seem to have gotten the posts on this thread confused.
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So you hold that only a tiny fraction of Fundamentalists believe in the doctrine of hell?
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I don't presume to know what others believe
In the case of Fundamentalism, you don't need to presume. Such people are quite fond of broadcasting their beliefs, loudly and frequently. Entire television networks have been devoted to this purpose. They plaster warnings of hell up on billboards. They publish books without end. They saturate the Internet with websites inviting you to go to their churches so that you can escape hell.
Maybe you just live in an area where it is less prominent.
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I live in an area where none of that really exists.
Re:Conspiracy theories? (Score:5, Informative)
All your quotes are in English. They have been slanted to favor a specific interpretation. That's why I studied the Bible in Greek. There is also plenty of contextual information to know that further colors the meaning of Jesus' statements, like for example the practice of burning trash and corpses in the valley, since it was used as the city dump (making statements about the unquenchable fire actually have obvious real-real world realities to which they may refer).
I am not alone in my interpretation. There is actually considerable debate about this in the Christian world, and in typically Christian fashion, people on every side tend to get really dogmatic about how right they are, and how clear-and-obvious their interpretation is. Based on your final statements about being secular, I imagine that you really don't care about this, which would explain why you don't know much about it. There isn't any reason why you would.
So, even though there is a whole lot more that could be said about this, complete with relevant facts, I won't bother getting into it, because it would just bore you.
Re: Conspiracy theories? (Score:4, Interesting)
And the God that these believers claim to love completely is the very God who, according to them, created this place and threatens them with it. And the rest of us, too.
An "arsonist fireman" is one who creates danger so he can later be cheered for saving people from it. Of course, the people stop cheering the moment they know he created the danger in the first place. Why do fundamentalists continue to profess love for the very being that threatens them, their children, and everyone they love with agonizing torture?
Because they are afraid that if they do not, they too will be burned. That's how abusers operate. They threaten their victims with punishment if they don't receive enough placation.
These fundamentalists worship an evil God. And, incidentally, one who is very far removed from the inferences one might make from the scriptures, when studied honestly.
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The USian koolaid and cheerleading, on both sides, is going to set back humanity.
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is going to set back humanity
I admire, but do not share, your optimism.
I believe it already has.
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My fear is that the ideology is breeding faster than the Yanks do.
If Trump's election stunt isn't at least part of what made the Myanmar military so bold, I'll eat my hat.
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Perhaps they were emboldened by a bunch of liberal states encouraging dissension and lawlessness all during Trump's presidency?
The USA is a fucking joke. A sick, tasteless joke.
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Try some salt and vinegar with it.
I will if I need to, but so far I've seen nothing that would indicate otherwise.
And if you think the Burmese care half a whit about the internal politicking between the states and the feds, you're sadly mistaken. That sort of intra-national drama doesn't make the news outside the States. But you'd better believe the "leader of the free world" accusing his own appointees of colluding with his political enemies does.
The USA is a fucking joke. A sick, tasteless joke.
And Trump truly is the current punchline.
I love this country, but it frightens me to see it te
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no rebellion, mutiny, government overthrow, uprising, etc, has ever been launched by the second in command
Did I miss something? What did Pence do?
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What conspiracy theories are they sharing? I would like to know. *Streisand-effect obviously implied thanks to the real pandemic otherwise known as anosognosia.
So far - none. They haven't launched yet. The CEO in question is peddling conspiracy theories about the election, though - and his inability to do that is why he's looking at starting his own AR network.
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Biden re-opened detention centers for children
Oh? How many did Trump close?
Re:Conspiracy theories? (Score:4, Insightful)
LOL sure you have it all figured out, haven't you?
Biden's been in office what, 50 days now? I bet Lord Trump could have sorted it in 30! 20! Better than anyone else could have, ever!
Wait, though... didn't Trump put those children into the cages without their parents in the first place? And managed not to fix it in four years?
What was that from the Bible, something about the speck in your brother's eye and the plank in your own?
Re:Facts are (Score:4, Informative)
The fact is, over the last 50 days alone the Biden administration has managed TRIPLE the number of kids in ICE custody.
That is not a fact, that's a compacted-turd-shaped lie that you have ungracefully pulled, no, yanked out of your ass. Stop it.
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Not at all, I never said anything was okay.
Your logic seems to be:
If I murder someone, we should pretend that you did it.
Pretending that the wolf is a sheep doesn't make them a sheep. It only makes you willfully foolish.
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I think we're talking at cross-purposes here.
I'm not saying that Biden is a saint. Or even that he's good. I don't particularly care for the man.
But wolf or not, my point is that he isn't as bad as trump.
You can talk about the Obama administration all you want, but Obama never separated two-year-olds from their parents and put them in chain-link cages. And comparing Obama to trump, how can you say with a straight face that the person who pulled the trigger is the same as the one who built the gun? 'Oh, it's
Re:Facts are (Score:5, Insightful)
He wanted walls
Trump wanted a monument to Trump. Trump only ever wanted anything for its ability to shed light on Trump. Trump didn't and doesn't give a fuck about anyone but Trump, and never lifted a finger in service of anything but the aggrandizement and ego fulfillment of Trump. It's how narcissists are - they live in a world of one, and are constantly in search of narcissistic supply.
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Show me any evidence where any previous administration separated toddlers and primary school-aged children from their parents in detention centres on a mass scale.
I'll wait.
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Re: Conspiracy theories? (Score:5, Insightful)
No, that is NOT AT ALL what we're talking about here. [nytimes.com]
We're talking about children WHO WERE SEPARATED FROM THEIR ACTUAL, REAL PARENTS by DHS under trump's direction. More than five thousand families.
Get your facts straight before you muddy the waters. Then you can join the adults' conversation.
Re:Conspiracy theories? (Score:4, Informative)
Got to admire the partisan politics, where blaming 'the other guy' is more important than being completely honest.
"A first look inside holding facilities for immigrant children" who arrived in the US without their parents
"Obama 'Don't send your children'" unaccompanied [to the US]
"Obama to Use Executive Action to Secure Southern US Border" because republicans in the house of representatives blocked a vote on an immigration reform bill.
The whole situation is fucked up, but (badly) playing the blame game isn't being constructive, and it's certainly not going to help arrive at a 'least worst' solution that all sides can get behind.
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Good idea, it would be a bit of a ride, but I think there's room at Mar-a-Lago ... :-)
Re:Conspiracy theories? (Score:4, Informative)
The objective is to reunite them with their parents. Unfortunately, under Trump's leadership, they seem to have lost track of who's kid is who's and in some cases deported the parents and forgot all about the kids. It's a big mess now and it won't be possible to clean it up overnight.
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It is *super* tiring seeing Trump's worshipers justifying his almost non-stop assault on American institutions, international relations, domestic stability, and reality itself by claiming some variation on "well a Democrat did it too!". Even in the roughly 1% of cases where these arguments have some relationship with the truth, the necessary implication is that something must be OK if a Democratic politician does it. I really miss the days when the GOP sought to do *b
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Want to hear conspiracies about flat earth, big foot, aliens... no problem.
Want to hear anyone question mail in voting, the fact that Biden re-opened detention centers for children, or bombing Syrians... GTFO.
Actually, GTFO on all accounts. GTFO with all dumb conspiracy theories.
But with that said, some are amusing and harmless while others (anti-vaxxing, COVID-denialism or 'stop the steal') get people killed. To put them all on equal footing, that's just wronger than wrong as Asimov once put it.
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Want to hear conspiracies about flat earth, big foot, aliens... no problem.
Yeah, remember when the flat earthers invaded and tried to murder the vice president?
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So... what, NOW you stand apart from them? Heh.
Re:It is confusing they both start with V and (Score:5, Interesting)
Or they're phonetic equivalents [uspto.gov] where Lindell would be refused registration precisely because there's a likelihood of confusion, Lindell's lawyers informed him of this, and he's decided to change the name so quickly because of that fact.
You'll be a perfect consumer for whatever service Lindell comes out with, however, that much is clear.
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Hi conservative mods! The actual legal basis for Lindell changing his mind cannot possibly be a troll. And I can post this more times than you have points, so let's play.
Or they're phonetic equivalents [uspto.gov] where Lindell would be refused registration precisely because there's a likelihood of confusion, Lindell's lawyers informed him of this, and he's decided to change the name so quickly because of that fact.
You'll be a perfect consumer fo
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You were outvoted, so I think I'll keep on keepin' on.
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Yeah that's it. Just starting with V. Tell you what, why not start a computer company called Appl and then come crying back whimpering about your freedom of speech after you get rightfully spanked by lawyers for your ignorance.
Common, what have you got to lose. At the very least it'll be entertaining for the rest of us.
It's time we stripped the mod points from moron who modded you insightful.
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Before the woke priests we couldn't see the racism in a box of Uncle Ben's Rice or Land-o-Lakes Butter.
It occurs to me... you still think the Emperor is wearing clothes.
Fascinating.
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You seem to have a quite a lot to say about trans people in a thread that has no mention of trans anything anywhere else.
Perhaps this fixation of yours is something you should explore?
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Couldn't have been that huge, this being the first and last I've heard about it.
Perhaps it wasn't as big a deal to everyone else as it is to you? And again, that seems to point to a rather unhealthy fixation with something that, before this, I would have thought had nothing whatsoever to do with you.
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Why don't you make a specific complaint and back it up rather than dropping a baseless conclusion and running away.
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So you're implicitly saying, "no, I can't make a specific complaint that I can back up". Ad homs are indicative of shitty debate skills.
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It's less biased than Vocl was going to be!
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Re: And call them whatever I want too?? (Score:3)
I think he will bring back the TimeCube
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it's good for business.
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I am tired of being "protected" by elitists that think they know more than we do, and what is "right" and "wrong." We need sites that are user-moderated, where the users choose what they want to suppress for themselves ONLY. It won't be easy, but it can be done.
It is actually quite easy. But historically, it hasn't worked out all that well. How long did it take slaves to get their freedoms? How long before they got the same rights as white men? How long did it take women to get the right to vote?
Mob rule is what you end up with in a free for all. Just look at defenders of Microsoft or bashers of Linux/FreeBSD in the early days of /. It isn't pretty. Eventually, charismatic & narcissistic leaders end up on top.
Also, your second point of self-filtering is
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>"Mob rule is what you end up with in a free for all."
So if everyone is allowed to speak and listen, we always end up in mob rule? I don't think so. I believe the "silent majority" is more moderate and receptive than most believe.
>"Also, your second point of self-filtering is a horrible idea. People are generally opposed to opening up to conflicting ideologies. You are empowering people to think that different views from their own don't even exist."
They will never know different views exist when the
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Is the government silencing his speech?
No?
Then the First Amendment is not applicable.
Also, if you're taking him the least bit seriously, well...
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So, based upon your rather cryptic context, I'm going to guess that your three words are "Sadistic Nipple Eaters". Utterly horrifying, if true, and something must be done. I gather that the dastardly SNEs are space aliens who have come to Earth to feast on our precious nipples. I suppose this explains cattle mutilatio
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I' guessing the only Absolute Proof Mike's familiar with is either 80 or 100 -- ironically, also spelled [absolut.com] missing a vowel -- and his "Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind" are probably more like the 750ml variety. From this [wikipedia.org] ...
During the 1980s and 1990s, he was addicted to cocaine, crack cocaine, and alcohol, leading to the foreclosure of his house, and his wife filing for divorce. Lindell stated that he achieved sobriety through prayer in 2009 and has been clean since then.
If the 2020 election should have taught him anything, it's that prayer doesn't work for everything...
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There, I fixed it.
Or "Vodka". I think he's pretty familiar with that [wikipedia.org] ...
During the 1980s and 1990s, he was addicted to cocaine, crack cocaine, and alcohol, leading to the foreclosure of his house, and his wife filing for divorce. Lindell stated that he achieved sobriety through prayer in 2009 and has been clean since then.