Comments on: Fox settles with Dominion

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 21:16:29 +0000

as pointed out in earlier links there was a long string of assertions, not just by crackpots like stacey abrams, who are allowed to grift continuously and pretend she won in 2018

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 21:02:39 +0000

Martin
Agree.

By: Abraxas

Abraxas — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 21:01:36 +0000

Democrat politicians were saying years ago that Dominion machines could be hacked. The Fox hosts should have pointed out that this was just a possibility, and that it wasn’t a proven fact that the machines had been hacked in 2020. If they had done that, or if they had made it clear to Trump’s lawyers that they couldn’t present theories as facts, I think they would have been alright. Then again, it seems like the judge was so anti-Trump that any precautions Fox took would have been ignored or minimized.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 19:33:50 +0000

The problem is not whether or not a particular machine is secure it is whether people will believe the result. There was a big contingent of Democrats that blamed Diebold for Bush being elected. A lot of Republicans in 2020 wanted to blame Dominion. The problem is that the process is invisible and therefore suspect especially if you don’t believe the outcome. I think a major thing that would reduce distrust would be preprinted ballots voted and counted in smaller districts. It would make the necessary collusion to throw a race much larger scale and thus harder to believe.

By: Aggie

Aggie — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 19:21:22 +0000

If both sides embraced the same political beliefs and were aligned on principles, could this be called Money Laundering?

Hard to imagine such an exhorbitant number being arrived at by a contentious process via engagement of opposing, mutually-hostile sides – however well represented they are.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 19:16:33 +0000

I have not been able to find a conclusion which seems solid. Can Dominion machines be connected to other devices? If so, ipse dixit (no idea what that means but it just occurred to me) they are not secure and cannot be made secure, all the IT argle-bargle about systems and firewalls and any other vocabulary familiar to those who know about such things means…squat. Even if true, there’s no way to convince the even mildly conscious that it’s true now, will be true and never wasn’t true.

By: I Callahan

I Callahan — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 17:49:08 +0000

but Dominion servers secretly changing votes was (almost certainly) not one of them

This assertion has not been established as fact. And we’ll never know for sure because the settlement is secret.

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 17:48:33 +0000

likely from what raheem kassam released about the dominion whistleblower, actual evidence instead of opinions from people who had no such basis for criticism,

By: Frederick

Frederick — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 17:40:53 +0000

My guess is that they settled to avoid having their contempt for their Right-leaning audience made public in discovery.

Insurance and tax deductions offset the majority of the settlement.

By: Ray SoCa

Ray SoCa — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 17:33:08 +0000

The Murdoch family is anti Trump, especially the younger generation, and Fox even has Paul Ryan on the board.

The Judge was very anti fox and there was a risk of going to trial of more money and huge embarrassment, and discovery and depositions would have been horrible. A lawyer joked recently, “gargling with hot tar was preferable to being in a lawsuit”.

So Fox / Murdoch family and insurance took the easier path, which helped the Left and hurt Trump.

I wish they had fought tooth and nail, with appeals left and right up to Scotus. The decision actually hurts the US.

My gut feeling via the Dominion Machines are not secure. We need to go back to paper ballots that are harder to hack.