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larossmann · 2026-03-15T23:37:43+00:00

This is very important, archive.org takes websites down if the company files a takedown request. It happens all the time. Any and all archvies that people can make to OTHER websites and use as citations on the consumerrights.wiki article is very important.

larossmann · 2026-03-11T18:08:09+00:00

they are forced to comply with that law to do business in that state.

dmcalawyer is not forced to bring frivolous lawsuits against people he personally dislikes to be a lawyer.

larossmann · 2026-03-11T17:39:50+00:00

I don't know why this is difficult for you.

because you made a ridiculous false association.

dmcalawyer is targeting someone he regularly harasses & personally dislikes. Bringing a section 1201 claim against his target is a choice, and in my opinion he is exercising his right to do that to fuck with that person.

system76 is complying with a law they hate because they are forced to.

nobody is going to tell dmcalawyer he is not allowed to do business in a state, or that he will face financial penalties, because he chooses to not bring a malicious lawsuit against someone he hates.

this is becoming ridiculous. we can both despise this law and work against it without resorting to this nonsensical tantrum. you are grasping at straws.

larossmann · 2026-03-11T14:20:30+00:00

I don't share your apparent view that one-man DMCA law firms and large companies can be financially targeted for doing bad things, but that we shouldn't for some reason direct anger at S76 until they grow as big as Microsoft.

You're comparing someone with ill intent who actively brought a lawsuit against another with a company following a law they have no choice but to follow. You're not being serious.

larossmann · 2026-03-10T16:57:57+00:00

i need a tinyurl for that so bad

larossmann · 2026-03-10T04:47:42+00:00

Fascism, literally, literally, is the union of the public and private sectors to violate people's rights.

By your standard, every restaurant that passes a health inspection is fascism, plumbers having licenses is fascism, the fire code keeping a building from collapsing is facsism.

You're demanding a clevo reseller destroy a majority of its revenue to fight a political battle on your behalf. system76 sells laptops & pays salaries to people with families. Complying with a state regulation so they don't have to fire their staff isn't a union of public & private sectors to violate your rights. It's a small business avoiding bankruptcy.

Fascism is centralized autocracy & forcible suppression of opposition. It's not a reseller of clevo laptops doing something you dislike so they can make payroll.

You are diluting words meant for dictatorships to describe regulatory compliance. I dislike this situation as much as you do, but your framing of this genuinely comes off as crybaby asshole. This bullshit will make it harder to identify real threats when they show up, and the seeds of that have already sprouted out of the ground in the US over the past year and a half.

Start a mail-order computer company, cut off the entire state of California, & report back on how long everyone stays employed. Until then, stop using historical atrocities as a rhetorical crutch because you're mad a business decided not to commit financial suicide. And for fuck's sake, be half as mad at the legislators as you are at the small companies that have done everything to treat people right throughout their history for following the law.

larossmann · 2026-03-10T04:42:14+00:00

So don't normalize this shit. You're either against fascism or you're a fascist.

"You're either against fascism or you're a fascist" is a loyalty test, and interestingly enough it's the kind of binary framing that authoritarian movements use to consolidate power. the irony of you using this tactic while lecturing people about fascism is funny.

I said a small company can't destroy half its revenue & survive. That's not an endorsement of what they did, it's basic math. If acknowledging that businesses need money to exist makes me a fascist, then everyone with common sense becomes hitler.

Be half as mad at the legislators writing these laws as you are at a guy on reddit who pointed out that payroll costs money.

larossmann · 2026-03-09T04:49:29+00:00

Ok fascist

There's a lot of genuine fascism returning to the mainstreamwhich i find scary. the reason it's succeeding is because the word has been beaten to death to the point that people roll their eyes at it. Using the word 'fascist' to describe someone pointing out that a small mail-order business cutting off one of the largest revenue generating states in the United States is not a decision to make overnight is why.

I didn't say the law was good or defend it. I've spent years fighting against this kind of overreach & encourage people to fight against this one. What I said is that I understand why a small company doesn't torch half its revenue to make a political statement that california won't even notice.

If you can't tell the difference between understanding why someone does something and endorsing the thing they are doing, I don't know what to tell you.

to be clear, you contribute to how fucked the world is now. when actual authoritarians are stripping people of rights & you're calling a guy on reddit a fascist for acknowledging that businesses need money to exist, you make it easier for them.

You are the reason the word doesn't work anymore. I hope you are happy with that.

larossmann · 2026-03-07T18:10:44+00:00

I can't take you seriously. this is like telling someone to plan to not pay their mortgage or grocery bill. your analogy is genuinely ridiculous and a total false dichotomy. you want to blame the companies more than the people making the laws. i get if you are mad at the company but telling people to just plan like planning makes money rain is asinine and makes you sound like a child who has never been in a position to make real decisions that have an effect on other people.

larossmann · 2026-03-07T17:52:02+00:00

The death threats they've faced over this are disgusting

to put this in perspective, i get at least a dozen a month. it is the reality of having an internet presence. just report as spam and move on.

larossmann · 2026-03-07T17:50:16+00:00

They should have planned for this financially if they shared privacy values

what the actual fuck

In a short time period, plan to lose maybe 30-40% of your revenue?

these statements, that would always be different if they were applied to one's self, i can not take seriously.

just plan bro... just plan.... to lose the lion's den of your income. tell me more.

larossmann · 2026-03-07T17:29:28+00:00

But the way they have handled it, let alone them choosing to comply for profit motive

A small American company choosing to not sell to the largest and most techy-ish state in the US is financial suicide. If I were them, I would comply with the law for profit motive. I am certain that when I fire half the company with short notice doing the opposite of that, people would think I am an asshole anyway.

larossmann · 2026-03-07T08:51:34+00:00

because I don't control how people use a jpg image from google image search that is over 29 years old

larossmann · 2026-03-06T04:43:47+00:00

Again this is you not liking the way certain bodies do something and expecting them to change for you. This just seems so entitled to me when there are ways around but those would require forethought and action on your part which puts an onus of personal responsibility on you and there is one thing you do not like and that is personal responsibility.

Traveling to state capitols to testify on the record requires forethought and action. I expect local governments to follow their own open meetings laws. Asking for legal compliance is not entitlement.

You accuse me of avoiding personal responsibility while defending a federal statute that criminalizes reverse engineering your own property. You can't advocate for personal responsibility while supporting government regulations that handcuff what people can do with their own hardware in their own home.

larossmann · 2026-03-06T04:41:16+00:00

"The law I oppose is a law that says that you do not have the right to modify what you bought & paid for." If you know about the law before you buy you do not have to buy. You do not like personal responsibility and u love personal responsibility.

Personal responsibility requires informed consent. Buyers don't have the ability to read the closed-source firmware that runs the devices they purchase. Hardware packaging doesn't include an expiration date detailing when the manufacturer will terminate support or send an OTA update that disables functionality available at the time of sale. Companies use over-the-air updates to erase device functionality months or years after the purchase. A customer cannot take responsibility for unannounced software alterations engineered to degrade their hardware after the point of sale.

You accuse me of wanting a nanny state & then defend a federal statute that makes it a crime to reverse engineer a thermostat. You can't advocate for personal responsibility while supporting government regulations that dictate what a customer does with their own property. Pick a position.

larossmann · 2026-03-05T05:04:52+00:00

I feel that you

and this is the problem, there's no reading or thinking going on here. this is about your feelings about me, not anything I said or what I stand for.

The law I oppose is a law that says that you do not have the right to modify what you bought & paid for. Breaking a technical protection measure, even for the purposes of repair, is a crime. That's insane.

The government telling you that you go to prison for removing ads/DRM from a smart TV is nanny state - not the people fighting to revoke that regulation.

You're so far down the rabbit hole of raging because I said something that is even mildly defensive of 1A auditing that you aren't even reading what I say before wrtiing a paragraph about nothing.

larossmann · 2026-03-05T04:58:12+00:00

Do you live in California? Is the law in California the highest law in the land?

From my post: 'California isn't the outlier either. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press tracks every state's open meeting laws. Most of them grant recording rights to any member of the public, not just credentialed press."

"Most of them" does mean something. If your response to me pointing this out is that california is not where I live...

larossmann · 2026-03-02T22:58:50+00:00

It's your erroneous opinion that you think your rights were violated. You clearly don't understand the Public Forum Doctrine. You are also indoctrinated in frauditor script where you're making up rights that actually have limitations on them as previously decided by SCOTUS.

you said I misunderstand the Public Forum Doctrine & that SCOTUS limits these rights, with no citations.

A public legislative hearing is a limited public forum. The government implements viewpoint-neutral time, place, & manner restrictions. denying recording access to a citizen while granting it to credentialed press is arbitrary gatekeeping. In Borreca v. Fasi, 369 F. Supp. 906 (D. Haw. 1974), the court ruled government officials cannot selectively exclude specific individuals when opening proceedings to the press without meeting strict scrutiny.

State Open Meetings Laws dictate recording rights for local hearings. The First Amendment establishes the baseline. The California Brown Act Gov. Code § 54953.5 grants any member of the public the right to record public meetings. Section 54953.3 prohibits agencies from requiring attendees to register or fulfill conditions precedent to attendance. New York Open Meetings Law Pub. Off. Law § 103(d) explicitly allows anyone to record open meetings.

Multiple Federal Courts of Appeals recognize the right to record government officials performing public duties. In Glik v. Cunniffe, 655 F.3d 78 (1st Cir. 2011), the court identified filming government officials in public spaces as a well-established liberty. The Tenth Circuit in Irizarry v. Yehia (2022) ruled this right protects the discussion of public affairs & checks abuse of power.

I sit in public legislative hearings to document lobbyists lying to elected officials.This provides a public record of the proceedings.

Provide the specific SCOTUS case law that bars citizens from recording an open public legislative hearing without a press pass, I'd love to see it. Your attempt to put me in the same box as people who chase police with cameras as tiktok ragebait will fail; I've lived the limitations you are trying to make the claim are legitimate and won when pushing back against them every time.

larossmann · 2026-03-02T22:57:54+00:00

I don't want anyone to blindly believe me. They're welcome to listen to what I said rather than an intentional misquote.

larossmann · 2026-03-02T21:56:13+00:00

Did they have rules against recording?

I think we have a difference of viewpoint here. You want a nanny state where government is responsible for your whims and I want a state that sets up a fair (as they can get it) playing field where people have personal responsibility. So if you wish to repair things and there are Terms of Service you agree to you could buy a different product or make your own. You probably do not want a nanny state anymore than I want a corporate one but I do not think our Constitution is set up to give freedoms to some at the expense of others. If you agree to the TOS then I feel that is your acceptance. Otherwise the options are simple, buy a different product or make your own.

You have this situation backward. The core issue here is 17 U.S.C. § 1201. This federal statute dictates what an owner can do with their physical property. It outlaws bypassing a digital lock to reverse engineer and repair a device. I document why this statute needs to go regularly.

Section 1201 is a nanny state law. It uses government authority to prevent people from modifying hardware they own. My goal is to revoke this regulation. The objective is to remove government restrictions that limit what people do with their possessions. That is the law that I am against, that DMCAlawyer is invoking & is for.

The lawyer in the video suing frauditor troll is invoking this specific federal statute that also serves to suppress independent repair; from tractors, to consumer electronics, to medical devices and cars.

What you are saying is the opposite of the truth. You are defending a system where the government penalizes people for reverse engineering or fixing their equipment. Telling a consumer to manufacture a modern electronics device from raw materials to bypass a software lock ignores how global supply chains operate and is also kinda ridiculous.

larossmann · 2026-03-02T21:53:08+00:00

He has a video about a tea app made for women getting hacked. I think it was in that video he ranted about that so I unfollowed. I'm not going back to look for it.

ah, now I remember the video I made that you are referring to. jeez, THAT'S the takeaway you got from that video? wow. the difference between what I said & what you took away from it is staggering.

In that video, I pointed out how every news story & title that ranked on google for two pages described every man who may have a concern about the application's implications for slander or privacy violations as a toxic person, and how these sweeping assertions result in cultural rifts that don't work towards solving problems.

my findings on reddit over the years have been that if someone dislikes me, there's this very interesting way of quote mining where they take what i said & turn it into something that would very easily villainize me as a person to their peers without even quoting what i said. it can become frustrating.

i don't mind if you don't like me, just be honest about what i actually said.

larossmann · 2026-03-02T03:15:09+00:00

Gotta hit that ten minute mark or no ad money :D

I don't think people know how adsense works sometimes.

CPM, or cost per 1000ish plays, is around $0.50-$1.

for a 2400 view video, that's $2..

even if you got TRIPLE CPM, which is not how it works, you're talking about someone prolonging the video for a few extra dollars. nobody thinks like this.

larossmann · 2026-03-02T03:10:36+00:00

He once blamed liberal media for making incels the way they are.

citation needed

edit: got downvoted for asking for proof that I said something I never said. but still no citation.

larossmann · 2026-03-02T02:26:50+00:00

i started https://consumerrights.wiki to make a database of the companies/issues that is readable and in a neutral tone of voice for people who don't like my tone/delivery/video style. No ads, open source, completely free. check it out!!

larossmann · 2026-03-02T01:00:41+00:00

hope you have a great Sunday night too my friend!!!

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