Rick Falkvinge writes that on October 10th a committee within the European Parliament will vote on future copyright law in Europe. Former MEP (2009-2014), Christian Engström, provided a description of how to provide feedback to the European Parliament. Polite, clear, to the point feedback from EU citizens and residents would be most useful.
In particular, there are two really bad proposals and three really good proposals that warrant special attention, mixed in and buried in all the words. The good propoals are the mandatory freedom of panorama, the freedom to remix, and the freedom for anybody to datamine. The two bad proposals, quite dreadful actually, are to require sites to carry out mandatory upload filtering and a link tax which makes it impossible to link to articles in the legacy media.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @02:41PM (3 children)
Democracy mimics capitalism in every way. That's why it's so popular... It allows people to think they have power. Totally fictional, but totally effective. You just can't argue with that. Except that we are approaching its logical conclusion
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @03:25PM (2 children)
Capitalism is voluntary interaction.
Democracy is one group dictating to another group.
Try again?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @04:50PM (1 child)
(Score: 3, Informative) by choose another one on Wednesday September 20 2017, @05:37PM
Competition and free markets are central to capitalism, there is always a choice. You interact voluntarily with the doctor or food seller _of your choice_, and if you don't like them you have the right to find another.
In contrast under socialism or communism or dictatorships you may be told which doctor or food seller you may interact with, or you may be told to get sicker or starve.