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alternative_right shares a report from 404 Media: Critics of YouTuber Ethan Klein are pushing back on subpoenas that would reveal their identities as part of an ongoing legal fight between Klein and his detractors. Klein is a popular content creator whose YouTube channel has more than 2 million subscribers. He's also involved in a labyrinthine personal and legal beef with three other content creators and the moderators of a subreddit that criticizes his work. Klein filed a legal motion to compel Discord and Reddit to reveal the identities of those moderators, a move their lawyers say would put them in harm's way and stifle free speech on the internet forever. [...] On July 31, a judge allowed Klein's lawyers to file a subpoena with Reddit and Discord that would reveal the identities of the people running r/h3snark and an associated Discord server. On September 22, lawyers for the defendants filed a motion to quash the subpoenas. "On its face, the Action is about copyright infringement," the latest filing said. "At its heart, however, the Action is about stifling criticism and seeking retribution by unmasking individuals for perceived reputational harms TEI [Klein's production company] attributes to [John Doe moderators] unrelated to TEI's intellectual property rights." [...] The anonymity of places like Reddit and Discord grant a layer of protection to people seeking to critique power. This case could set a dangerous precedent, the lawyers believe. "If the court allows TEI's Subpoenas, it would enable TEI to impose a considerable price on Does' use of the vehicle of anonymous speech -- including public exposure, real risks of retaliation and actual harm, and the financial and other burdens of defending the Action," the filing said. The filing added: "Very few would-be commentators are prepared to bear costs of this magnitude. So, when word gets out that the price tag of criticizing Ethan is this high -- that speech will disappear. But that is precisely what Ethan Klein wants."

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Hartnett had been returning home after production on a Netflix series that has not been assigned a title publicly.

Some fans think it's far too soon!

Pirate sports streaming site Streameast has quietly reclaimed the Streameast.xyz domain after U.S. authorities allowed it to expire, despite having seized it under a federal warrant in 2024. TorrentFreak reports: While researching both old and newly-seized Streameast domains recently, we noticed that Streameast.xyz expired earlier this year. Apparently, it was not renewed by those who controlled it, as the seizure banner was gone. Instead, the domain appeared to have been reclaimed by the original Streameast team. While it is not listed as an official mirror site, Streameast.xyz points to content from the original site once again. And indeed, the original Streameast team confirms that the domain is theirs. It is not clear why the U.S. authorities lost control of the domain or whether it was intentional. Other domain names covered by the same seizure warrant were renewed recently, including Streameast.io. The Streameast team might view this as a significant symbolic victory. After all, they effectively reclaimed a federally seized domain name without having to mount a legal challenge. In the grander scheme, one domain name is not going to make a massive difference. However, the U.S. government went through the trouble to obtain a federal warrant, so it's ironic to see it controlled by pirates once again.

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Chief Inspector of Prisons Charlie Taylor placed HMP Pentonville in London under special measures in July due to a series of 'comprehensive failures'.

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have split after a 19-year marriage and two children, the Daily Mail can confirm.

In a savage launch night twist, viewers saw Emily bid farewell to the show hours after arriving, after she and housemates Sam and Caroline were forced to choose between them who would be sent home.

It has some availability for people to stay there in October!

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's split after almost two decades of marriage has sent shockwaves through the showbiz world. 

Paige Kelly, 27, from Leigh, Manchester was reported missing to police after she left her home on Tuesday and never returned.

Mark and Louise O'Connor and their son Evan (pictured) were brutally attacked in their stone cottage near the village of Tallanstown in County Louth, Ireland, on Monday morning.

The normally unflappable Charlotte Vincent, 46, was left in a stir when she was contacted out of the blue on Facebook by her father - who she thought had died 40 years before.

OpenAI unveiled Instant Checkout, a new ChatGPT feature that lets users buy stuff directly through its chatbot. Currently, the feature supports single-item purchases directly from Etsy sellers, but support for more than one million Shopify merchants is coming soon. It's also only available to U.S. ChatGPT Plus, Pro and Free users at this time. CNBC reports: OpenAI will take a fee from transactions that are completed through ChatGPT, which means Instant Checkout could become an important new revenue stream for the startup. OpenAI is not yet profitable, and is burning through cash as it works to scale up its computing infrastructure. The company declined to share specific details about how large the fees are since they are determined through confidential contracts with Etsy and Shopify. Instant Checkout is free to users and will not affect their prices, OpenAI said. "Our vision for ChatGPT -- and a lot of the technology we create, but especially ChatGPT -- is that it's not just providing you information, it is also helping you get things done in the real world," Michelle Fradin, OpenAI's product lead for ChatGPT commerce, told CNBC in an interview. The company plans to introduce multi-item carts and expand the regional availability of Instant Checkout moving forward. [...] Instant Checkout is powered by OpenAI's Agentic Commerce Protocol, which is the underlying technology that allows users to complete a transaction directly with a merchant through ChatGPT. OpenAI built the framework in partnership with the fintech company Stripe, which powers ChatGPT subscriptions. OpenAI initially decided to use Agentic Commerce Protocol for e-commerce, but Fradin said the company thinks it could be used to facilitate other types of purchases or payments as well. OpenAI is open-sourcing the framework to help merchants build integrations more quickly, and so that developers can explore different use cases, she said.

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Caring Mormon churchgoers thought Thomas Jacob Sanford, the man who opened fire at a church in Grand Blanc, Michigan, was a car crash victim, according to a survivor.

Pete Bennett was crowned winner of the legendary reality show back in 2006, in a series that also featured the late Nikki Grahame, Imogen Thomas and Grace Adams-Short as housemates.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's son, Yair, came out to defend his father against attacks levied at him by Tucker Carlson over the weekend in an expletive-laden rant.

Shocking footage captured in the newly opened Club 3000 in Leeds shows women yanking each others hair and a man seemingly attempting to punch a female in the face during the mass brawl.

Ozzy Osbourne 's producer Andrew Watt recalled their final moments together as he admitted the Black Sabbath star's sudden death still shocks him.

On December 29, 2022, I got a text. 'Hi mum I'm texting you off a friends phone I've smashed mine, can you WhatsApp my new number x.' But I wasn't a mother. Not yet.

Raise legitimate concerns about mass immigration and you're racist. This has been the mantra of the political establishment in this country for decades.