Could you change the title to say "State of Washington"?
Ok.
State of Washington sues Facebook and Google over failure to disclose spending
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which, for those who like funny Wikipedia words, is a synecdoche .
Not to be confused with Schenectady. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche,_New_York
Also not to be confused with a synecdouche (somebody who constantly overuses synecdoche hoping to impress people).
Obligatory content-related content: If I were the Attorney General, I think a suit like this, whether successful or not, would undoubtedly be one of the high points of my career.
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#64Off-topic:
> Specifically, “documents and books of account” must be made available for public inspection during the campaign and for three years following; these must detail the candidate, name of advertiser, address, cost and method of payment and description services rendered.
Description services rendered? Did you mean description of services rendered?
Please, let me know if I'm missing something here. These seems like yet another grammatical error in Techcrunch.
Every time I click on a Techcrunch article it is full of grammatical errors and misspellings.
Are they full of factual errors, too? Makes me wonder. If a major online publication like this can't fix missing words, what are their stories worth?
When I read Techcrunch I assume it's no better than a grocery store tabloid.
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#65Could you change the title to say "State of Washington"?
Is anyone else getting tired of everyone playing editor on HN? In some cases its nice when clickbait headlines are reduced to their original content. However threads like this are drowning out the conversation about the subject matter.
I wouldn't bother clicking on this link if I knew it was the state. So no, I'm not tired of everyone playing editor because it benefits me in the end.
I also don't agree that such threads drown the conversation. Often they're buried. Sometimes they are a healthy part of the conversation itself. Sometimes there's a passive aggressive argument about whether or not the conversation is healthy and hey maybe even that's healthy!
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#66Could you change the title to say "State of Washington"?
Is anyone else getting tired of everyone playing editor on HN? In some cases its nice when clickbait headlines are reduced to their original content. However threads like this are drowning out the conversation about the subject matter.
No. Sometimes reading the headline is enough, if the headline is correct.
Those of use that really want to know more, will read the article on its own merit, because we’re interested, not because we’re being manipulated into a deeper curiosity than warranted.
Meanwhile, complaining about aggressive journalistic tactics is not forum sliding. Keep in mind, beyond linguistic syntax, semantics and other trivial technical matters, much of HN doesn’t qualify as experts on non-technology-oriented stories, and political tripe. Some articles aren’t colored up very much by HN peanut galleries and bike shedding. This is might be one such instance.
Anyway, when we notice deceptive practices we complain about them.
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Doesn't matter; every penny must be accounted for when it comes to political spending. Failure to account is literally the corruption which is rotting the foundation of our democracy. I'm personally applauding Washington for taking this bold move, as both Facebook and Google have Seattle-area offices which they will likely not want to close. Washington and Oregon tend to act alike, and both Facebook and Google have n…
Anonymous speech (for individuals) is also central to a functioning republic democracy.
But relatedly, money being treated as speech is antithetical to a functioning republic democracy.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anonymous speech (for individuals) is also central to a functioning republic democracy.
But relatedly, money being treated as speech is antithetical to a functioning republic democracy.
So how do you get your message out without spending money? Do you only consider it freedom of speech if no one has a chance of hearing you? Spending money is how people with novel ideas expose it to more people and can hope to compete against established ideas that don’t need to be marketed.
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#69How many of the funders breached federal or state mandated limits on spending? I ask, because in the "brexit" circumstances it becomes clear the "leave" campaign eggregiously breached the declared public advertising spending limits through use of indirect/third-party funding channels who did placement in social media.
What an awkward segue into complaining about brexit. FYI, Google and Facebook are extremely left-wing organizations.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
But relatedly, money being treated as speech is antithetical to a functioning republic democracy.
So how do you get your message out without spending money? Do you only consider it freedom of speech if no one has a chance of hearing you? Spending money is how people with novel ideas expose it to more people and can hope to compete against established ideas that don’t need to be marketed.
Stopping the treatment of money as speech doesn't ban money, it just means it has to be spent transparently.