Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/02/scv-dmca.html
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Aren’t there sites dedicated to sharing documents for journalistic purposes? I don’t think Dropbox is the right place for these kinds of things
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I wonder if these white nationalists are familiar with one Barbara Streisand…
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Now, state officials are confirming to ABC11 that Stone is also a probation officer assigned to Chatham County.
“It’s just stunning,” said Mark Edwards, a Criminal Defense Attorney in Durham. Many of his clients are assigned probation officers in sentencing.
We showed Edwards the Sons of Confederate Veterans website where Stone is listed as a division commander and asked if Stone’s off-hour’s affiliation is something the state should be concerned with.
“Oh absolutely, absolutely,” Edwards said. “If nothing else, if he is the type of officer who supervises people in custody and comes into court and testifies. If I’m a criminal defense attorney and it’s someone of color he brought charges against, I’m going to start nailing him on his personal beliefs.”
Wizard!
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Don’t people have better things to do in their short lives than decide to be a fucking Nazi?
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This “Silent Sam” statue, was it a special custom Silent Sam? As I recall, most of the graveyard Silent Sams were mass produced by a (northern) manufacturer for North and South, with some kitbashing to make them fit.
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That a university could be run by the sort of people that view spreading white supremacist propaganda as a good use of funds is infuriating. Hopefully that gerrymandered state gets its shit together to create a representative government and a university board that gives a shit about education
Tangentially, UNC has a 5 billion dollar endowment. I’m all for siphoning some money out of it to invest in good causes. For instance a $2.5m seed fund to start a museum could educate a lot of people without making any dent in the endowment. e.g. a museum dedicated to acts of resistance by North Carolinians against white supremacist assholes would be great
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False DMCA claim is a major no-no, no? From Section 512 of the DMCA:
(f)Misrepresentations.—Any person who knowingly materially misrepresents under this section—
(1)that material or activity is infringing, or
(2)that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification,
shall be liable for any damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees, incurred by the alleged infringer, by any copyright owner or copyright owner’s authorized licensee, or by a service provider, who is injured by such misrepresentation, as the result of the service provider relying upon such misrepresentation in removing or disabling access to the material or activity claimed to be infringing, or in replacing the removed material or ceasing to disable access to it.
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As Beetham points out, the only difference between the two statues are the initials on the belt buckle: one reads “US,” while the other reads “CS.” Another replica of this same statue, as a Confederate soldier, was erected in Greensboro, NC, in 1888. A modified version in a different pose, also produced by the National Fine Art Foundry, appears in Forsyth Park in Savannah, Georgia (1879).
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Well, in theory. In reality? Has anyone, ever, actually suffered any penalties from making false DMCA claims? Even in egregious cases of DMCA misuse, I’m not aware of a single instance where there was any penalty.
It relies on the injured party going to court, where the outcome is uncertain, spending a bunch of money in the hopes of getting compensation for damages - which would be dwarfed by the costs of going to court. (I.e. it relies on the injured party risking suffering a huge financial loss in the hopes of winning little - if any - money.)
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Was there an option to equip him with a flamer, melta, or a plasma gun?
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There’s been at least one. Though in that case the damages were never collected.
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Apparently yes.
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The Minié ball projector was the only standard package option.
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New Southern Baptist Convention Policy Not Racist Enough for North Carolina Sons of Confederate Veterans
If R. Kevin Stone was on fire, I wouldn’t piss on him. I certainly wouldn’t give him $2.5m for a no-case legal threat. This looks like backdoor looting by the appointed board of governors.
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I now wonder if it would be a good idea to threaten to sue them for not putting up sufficient numbers of Harriet Tubman statues, and that they would pay for.
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While they would prefer that the money went to one of their favorite causes, perhaps the primary goal is to drain the university, a hotbed of leftwing socialist indoctrination, of its non-governmental funding?
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