A judge must avoid all impropriety and appearance of impropriety. This prohibition applies to both professional and personal conduct. A judge must expect to be the subject of constant public scrutiny and accept freely and willingly restrictions that might be viewed as burdensome by the ordinary citizen.
https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/code-conduct-united-states-judges
Not that SCOTUS is held to the same code of conduct that all other federal judges are held to, of course.
drove a balrog out of its natural habitat
Akshully, they tried to keep it there. Imprisoned because of its religious beliefs! Killed while attempting escape!
If social media apps exist to slurp up as much user info as possible, and they do, then it makes sense to be concerned about the government that they're subject to.
All these UBI experiments ever seem to demonstrate is the "BI" part.
But the part that needs to be demonstrated, IMHO, is the "U".
Good riddance.
The FBI recommends that everyone use an adblocker as part of their basic security toolkit.
If your browser vendor has a problem with that, switch to a different browser.
There was a vampire movie, I forget what it's called, but part of the lore was that vampires were only affected by religious symbols from their original society. So showing a cross to a Muslim vampire wouldn't work.
many advertising companies have argued it would undermine their industry.
Yes.
“Absent this data, smaller enterprises will lose a critical path to reach and attract new customers
They seemed to get along just fine for centuries without it.
"[...] and consumers overall will have less exposure to new products and services that may interest them,” a group of ad trade bodies wrote in a letter first reported by Adweek.
They say that like it's a bad thing.
I will be availing myself of this law just as soon as the website is up.
It doesn't matter whether they believed the election was stolen. It's not illegal to believe that, and that's not what they're accused of.
What actually matters is that they knew they were not the duly-appointed electors for their state. That's what makes it fraud. That's why they're criminals. And that's why they should spend a few decades confined to a small room where they can think about what they've done.
Anyone who defrauded these programs should receive the maximum sentence allowed plus restitution debt that follows them to the grave.
$200 million for past and future mental anguish and $1 billion in punitive damages
NB: Texas caps punitive damages to $750k.
He seems to be confusing "freeware", which is basically a license for copyrighted work, with "public domain", which is the absence of a copyright.