[HN Gopher] Texas court blocks Samsung from tracking TV viewing,...
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Texas court blocks Samsung from tracking TV viewing, then vacates
order
Author : speckx
Score : 43 points
Date : 2026-01-08 20:50 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
| JadeNB wrote:
| You might want to find out why the order was immediately vacated,
| but you, or at least I, will not do so by reading the article:
|
| > One day after granting the TRO, the same judge ruled that it
| should not remain in effect and vacated the order.
|
| > "The Court finds, sua sponte, that the [TRO obtained by the
| State of Texas against Samsung] should be set aside," the judge
| wrote in the order.
|
| "ruled that it should not remain in effect" links to
| https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26462588-20260106-or...,
| but my desire to understand what's going on does not yet extend
| to reading the order.
| tadfisher wrote:
| "sua sponte" means "of the court's own volition", there is no
| reason given in the order to vacate.
| ronsor wrote:
| The obvious reason is that Samsung's check finally cleared.
| mindslight wrote:
| It's the routine fascist shakedown playbook at this point:
|
| 1. Make some big noise and token action about an issue that
| has been festering for decades, while their own party has
| been the primary opposition to any kind of substantive
| lasting reform (eg US GDPR)
|
| 2. Rally the useful idiots to rally around the cause of
| widely-desired reform, backfitting all the ideals behind
| the issue as if fascists have any appreciation for lofty
| ideals
|
| 3. Let the target company marinate and roast under the
| pressure until they capitulate and send a bribe and/or
| other tribute
|
| 4. Drop the token action after the attention spans of their
| useful idiots have expired and they've moved on to the next
| spectacle
|
| 5. If the issue comes to a head again, the useful idiots
| blame the "libuhruls" rather than having an ounce of self-
| awareness to realize their own leaders sandbagged and sold
| them out
| BLKNSLVR wrote:
| My suspicion is that Ken Paxton thought Samsung was
| Chinese, and soon after the court action was submitted
| found out they were actually South Korean (or at least 'not
| Chinese').
| SoftTalker wrote:
| In such cases, is it normal for there to be no reason or
| elaboration on why the order was vacated?
| treetalker wrote:
| Fairly typical in state courts, where trial-level judges
| are generally left to do what they please and often give
| little if any rationale. In federal courts, judges
| generally explain themselves (sometimes they are required
| to) en route to doing what they please.
| observationist wrote:
| It's likely that they set some conditions and said "if you meet
| these conditions, we'll vacate the order" - probably some sort
| of compliance with Texas regulations governing what can and
| can't and should and shouldn't be tracked, and Samsung
| technically complied?
|
| Hard to find the details.
| Cornbilly wrote:
| This looks like it was just political theater.
|
| Par for the course for Ken Paxton, one of the most blatantly
| corrupt politicians in the US.
| platevoltage wrote:
| It truly is unbelievable how out in the open corrupt he is, and
| last time I checked, the front runner for the US Senate in
| Texas.
| zaptheimpaler wrote:
| Seems like that temporary order was set to expire Jan 19th
| anyways, and there is a hearing for Samsung scheduled tomorrow.
| So there's still some hope..
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