A judge. A FEDERAL JUDGE. How many other times has he done this? for how long?

This could be the tip of the iceberg of a major problem in our judicial system.

That's JUDGE Hands to you, mister.

Well... that's 2 more reasons why I'll never be a federal judge.

Wait, wait.

MOST OVERTURNED COURT IN THE LAND.

ACTIVIST LIBERAL JUDGES.

ANTI CONSTITUTIONAL LAW STUFF.

HOMOSEXUAL FARM ANIMAL AGENDA.

SECRET MUSLIM FASCIST SOCIO-HOMO REGIME.

And that's just the warm-up.

It only took them 7 years to admonish him.

Sounds like he might be a fun judge.

The judge also said he never considered his site public and thought he had blocked access to the subcategory file in question, which was labeled "stuff."

Ah yes, another moron who can't grasp the concept of folder permissions. At least the folder wasn't titled "shemale vids".

If you read up a little more on this the man "cavorting with a farm animal" is a clip for the man show with some guy getting chased around by a donkey with a 3 foot long erection. also the "personal web site" was a file server for his home network that was not set up right.

From what I read, he basically had a web site set up with a bunch of funny-yet-tasteless pictures on a web site, much the same as any Farker worth her/his salt, which he and his friends would share. The mistake he made was not setting the web server to no-index, so that people could browse all the pictures. Somebody who was pissed at Kozinski became aware of the site, realized they could make a big deal out of it and sent the link to the media.

So basically, he made a naive tech mistake any number of people could have made, but since he's a federal judge it turned into a big stupid brouhaha.

/doesn't know Kozinski's politics
//doesn't care
///thinks the whole thing is ridiculous

I'm not against censorship, Jezzus H. Christ on a pogo sick somethings are just against nature. Shaving her pubic Hair! I'm farking appalled.

Anhydrous Dihydrogen Monoxide: So basically, he made a naive tech mistake any number of people could have made, but since he's a federal judge it turned into a big stupid brouhaha.

Yep. That's one of the drawbacks of being a public figure. Don't like it, go back to private practice.

I'm not ready for President Comacho style antics to be widely accepted by the public.

Pocket Ninja: Wait, wait.

MOST OVERTURNED COURT IN THE LAND.

ACTIVIST LIBERAL JUDGES.

ANTI CONSTITUTIONAL LAW STUFF.

HOMOSEXUAL FARM ANIMAL AGENDA.

SECRET MUSLIM FASCIST SOCIO-HOMO REGIME.

And that's just the warm-up.

Your troll-fu is funny!
I raise my glass to you!

dahmers love zombie: The judge also said he never considered his site public and thought he had blocked access to the subcategory file in question, which was labeled "stuff."

Ah yes, another moron who can't grasp the concept of folder permissions. At least the folder wasn't titled "shemale vids".

Ah yes, the Great Shemale Screenshot Incident. That was a glorious day, we need another event of that magnitude. Wasn't that guy driven completely off the internet after the screenshot was done making its rounds?

found the bestiality video (new window) in question could be NSFW due to harry old man ass and big floppy donkey dick

Clarence Thomas?

/Didn't rtfa

cardex: found the bestiality video (new window) in question could be NSFW due to harry old man ass and big floppy donkey dick



Yeah, yeah, how exciting - where's the clip to the shaving babe?

You gave up your right to a normal human life when you ascended to judgehood, buddy.

So is there, you know, a link? Strictly for news-gathering purposes, mind you.

Judge Soto-Eeyore

None of the content was particularly interesting. It's all the same crap my dad emails me with subject lines like Fw:Fw:Fw:Fw:Fw:SO FUNNY!!!!!

This was just an older guy (ineffectively) dicking around with his computer.

Where are the links/pics of the cow painted women?!

Reagan appointee. Figures.

dahmers love zombie: At least the folder wasn't titled "shemale vids".



/BAHAHAHAHA!!!1!

dahmers love zombie: The judge also said he never considered his site public and thought he had blocked access to the subcategory file in question, which was labeled "stuff."

Ah yes, another moron who can't grasp the concept of folder permissions. At least the folder wasn't titled "shemale vids".

Damn, my pron folder is named "stuff" too. Maybe I should put more thought into this.

TorqueToad: Where are the links/pics of the cow painted women?!

Stileproject? Or is that all gross-out stuff now?

cardex: found the bestiality video (new window) in question could be NSFW due to harry old man ass and big floppy donkey dick

That is hilarious, I am so putting that in my pubic access folder!

Donald_McRonald: TorqueToad: Where are the links/pics of the cow painted women?!

Stileproject? Or is that all gross-out stuff now?

I stopped going after I saw pics of people pooping on each other. And that was years ago.

Let me guess... the "woman shaving her pubic hair" is probably the one where the girl's got a tattoo of a stick figure with a lawn mower at the corner of her bush.

If you've been on the internet for more than a week, you know what I'm talkin' about.

I can't believe I did that! A true Freudian typo!

Pmoon: I can't believe I did that! A true Freudian typo!

Don't we all wish we had a little pubic access though

Actually Judge Kozinski is one of the better federal judges. Not as good as he used to be even 10 year ago, but he is more likely to pen a decision in favor of privacy rights than most other federal judges.

I don't know which specific video they are talking about but if I cannot imagine it being worse than the one scene in the Tom Greene movie, Freddy Got Fingered, in which he basically jacks off a horse (which is the point I stopped watching). It not for me, but if the Tom Greene's movie was acceptable (not illegal) material to be shown in theaters across the country than it really shouldn't matter that a judge has it on his computer, or what he thought was a secure portion of his personal website.

The key factor should be whether the content was illegal, not simply in bad taste or offensive to some.

For those who don't remember from last June, here is his wife's email about it :

Link

Highlights are:

Obviously, Glover's use of the word "website" was intended to convey a false image of a carefully designed and maintained graphical interface, with text, pictures, sound and hyperlinks, such as businesses maintain or that individuals can set up on Facebook, rather than a bunch of random files located in one of many folders stored on our family's file server. The "server" is actually just another home computer that sits next to my desk in our home office, and that we use to store files, perform back-ups, and route the Internet to the family network. It has no graphical interface, but if you know the precise location of a file, you can access it either from one of the home computers or remotely.

One especially egregious misrepresentation is that there was a "video of a half-dressed man cavorting with a sexually aroused farm animal." In subsequent articles, including one in the S.F. Chronicle, this has been described as a "bestiality" video. In fact, as you reveal on your Blog, it is a widely available video of a man trying to relieve himself a field when he is attacked by a donkey he fights off with one hand while trying to hold up his pants with the other. I would note that there is a version of this video on YouTube that apparently aired on the Fox channel. Crude and juvenile, for sure, but not by any stretch of the imagination is it bestiality.

JeffreyScott: Actually Judge Kozinski is one of the better federal judges. Not as good as he used to be even 10 year ago, but he is more likely to pen a decision in favor of privacy rights than most other federal judges.

I don't know which specific video they are talking about but if I cannot imagine it being worse than the one scene in the Tom Greene movie, Freddy Got Fingered, in which he basically jacks off a horse (which is the point I stopped watching). It not for me, but if the Tom Greene's movie was acceptable (not illegal) material to be shown in theaters across the country than it really shouldn't matter that a judge has it on his computer, or what he thought was a secure portion of his personal website.

The key factor should be whether the content was illegal, not simply in bad taste or offensive to some.

Jeffrey would you like some sausage?

Anhydrous Dihydrogen Monoxide: /doesn't know Kozinski's politics

Appointed by Reagan - just in case you cared. Not that that means anything - just wanted to let those know who may have taken some small pleasure had he been seated by a Dem.

JohnBigBootay: Anhydrous Dihydrogen Monoxide: /doesn't know Kozinski's politics

Appointed by Reagan - just in case you cared. Not that that means anything - just wanted to let those know who may have taken some small pleasure had he been seated by a Dem.


Sure, because everyone knows only Dems like farm porn.

Seems normal to me *shrug*

holiday_inn_in_cambodia: Jeffrey would you like some sausage?




People like you piss me off so much...

I'll give you some sausage.

This is such poor and irresponsible journalism. They purposefully tried to make that donkey video sound like bestiality porn, when in fact the guy was attempting to escape from the donkey, not boink it. It's like saying someone 'was in a close physical relationship with someone who was not his wife" based on seeing a man hug his daughter, or saying a kid who was sitting under a tree with a portable video game was "playing with himself in public." Totally inaccurate, biased, and intended to unfairly sway public opinion.

Maybe the journalist in question just happens to enjoy "writing titillating descriptions of men engaged in unseemly acts with animals."

Wow...this is journalistic misrepresentation at it's worst. Conflating a comedic Youtube video with bestiality is sick, and the journalist is essentially trying to ruin one man's reputation over something that my grandparents could see and not be offended by.

/Argh!

God forbid I ever drop dead and someone has to see what's on my computer:

Simple case of I heard this is a video of beastiality so I'm not going to watch I'll just let the rumors spread like wildfire.

S.A.S.Q.U.A.T.C.H.: God forbid I ever drop dead and someone has to see what's on my computer:

Is that last one Walter Matthau?

Meanwhile at a protest in support of the judge...

His only crime was linking to fark.com

Godscrack: A judge. A FEDERAL JUDGE. How many other times has he done this? for how long?

This could be the tip of the iceberg of a major problem in our judicial system.


Yeah, he could be on the verge of opening his own version of the DAILY MOTION website or a version of MILK & COOKIES website.

He sounds at worst like an average FARKER who compulsively saves all amusing image files to come up in a commentary thread.

Eddie Adams from Torrance: Well... that's 2 more reasons why I'll never be a federal judge.

Because you have such videos, or because you don't?

I used to clerk for another chief judge of the Ninth Circuit when Alex was a young judge, so I am really getting a kick out of . . .

Seriously, this was a screwy situation and Alex seems to be capable of extreme carelessness. But Fark is the last place he should be criticized. I don't know if he is a Farker, but if he isn't, he should be.

everyone loves to talk about the ninth circuit being the most overturned by the Supreme Court. However, the Supreme Court usually takes cases to reverse them -- and the Ninth Circuit is by far the biggests of the Courts of Appeal. So, it gets overturned more because it has more cases. Ta Da!!

The ninth circuit is also critized by conservatives for being liberal. The fact is that it has, and has had for decades, extemes. Some very liberal judges, but also many very conservative ones. Kozinski was from the conservative wing, although admittedly he has a strong libertarian streak and is in favor of first amendment rights and has a variety of other views that the so-called conservative movement does not share.

That is all. Rock on, Judge Alex, you crazy coot!!

I don't get it, why would you ever intentionally save anything on your personal deck?

Let someone else save it, that's what the internet means to me...

"His parents were Holocaust survivors."

Thats a get out of jail card right there

Federal judges are appointed for life and can practically get away with murder. From what I understand they have to actually be impeached by Congress. They don't have to worry about being reelected, so they can do just about anything, as long as it is not heinous, or illegal.

GriffXX: For those who don't remember from last June, here is his wife's email about it : Link (new window)

Thank you GriffXX. I was going nuts because I half-remembered that and couldn't find it.

And for those following at home, this all came up because one litigatious asshat who had a personal vendetta against Judge Kozinski. Seriously, from everything I've read and heard about this judge, he's one of the good guys who's being smeared by a pretentious and self-important twat-waffle.

Link (new window)

cardex: If you read up a little more on this the man "cavorting with a farm animal" is a clip for the man show with some guy getting chased around by a donkey with a 3 foot long erection. also the "personal web site" was a file server for his home network that was not set up right.

Yeah. This was a collection of *HUMOR*, some of which was sexually explicit. As far as I'm concerned his only offense is not knowing how to set up security.

I'm really disappointed that CNN chose to pick this story up and place it in their CRIME section considering that it should be a crime to run stories like this without even bothering to fact check and use a little bit of common sense.

Wasn't this really really old? Or did it happen again?

NON ISSUE!!

The judicial panel's report criticized the media for sensationalizing the story and exageratating the amount and nature of the sexual material on the Web site. Oddly, most of the media haven't reported that. In fact, the LA Times which was the main offender just reported that Kozinski was admonished by the panel for a lapse of judgement and never mentioned that they specifically cleared him of aby illegal activity or judicial misconduct.

He was from the 9th Circuit, right? Isn't this pretty tame for those freaks?