Julia Reda (a Member of the European Parliament from Germany) writes in her bog about upcoming censorship legislation in the European Union and a call to action for those most affected, specifically the Free Software community.
The starting point for this legislation was a fight between big corporations, the music industry and YouTube, over money. The music industry complained that they receive less each time one of their music videos is played on a video platform like YouTube than they do when their tracks are listened to on subscription services like Spotify, calling the difference the "value gap". They started a successful lobbying effort: The upload filter law is primarily intended to give them a bargaining chip to demand more money from Google in negotiations. Meanwhile, all other platforms are caught in the middle of that fight, including code sharing communities.
The lobbying has engrained in many legislators' minds the false idea that platforms which host uploads for profit are necessarily exploiting creators.
The fight affects both sides of the Atlantic because once bad rules are enacted on either side, it is not uncommon for calls for "harmonization" to come from the other.
Earlier on SN:
Mulled EU Copyright Shakeup Will Turn Us Into Robo-Censors
EU Parliament's Copyright Rapporteur Has Learned Nothing from Year-long Copyright Debate
European Commission Hides Copyright Evidence Again
(Score: 5, Insightful) by c0lo on Monday April 09 2018, @04:49AM (6 children)
FTFY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by Captival on Monday April 09 2018, @05:32AM (2 children)
That's usually how it starts. The SJW cancer tends to infest itself into the bureaucracy of an already successful host and corrupt it from within.
(Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Monday April 09 2018, @05:50AM (1 child)
Yeeesss, the plague of starting a new open source project (or forking an existing one) under your own terms, this is how those SJW promote bureaucracy.
You know it absolutely makes sense!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday April 09 2018, @06:20PM
What get's lost in these whiny 'muh free speeches' rants is that freedom of speech doesn't outweigh freedom of association.
If I want to form a group with a specific purpose in mind that is my right. If someone is acting counter to that purpose it is absolutely within the groups' right to kick them out.
Simple as that.
Writing the rules down just makes it easier.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 09 2018, @06:03AM (2 children)
I actually meant them getting you fired, swatted, ostracized in your neighborhood, and anything else they can manage. Forking a project is no biggie.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @08:39AM (1 child)
Sorry about what happened to you, oh Buzzard of Moderate Worth, but you might consider being less of an asshole, at least in the work environment, so that there is less of a basis for your groundless paranoia. I know I would have dropped the anonymous note to HR, if I had to work with you, after what you said about my posterior! So, independent contractor, for the duration, I take it? Checks out.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 09 2018, @02:19PM
Since you asked, independent contractor since two minutes after my assistant manager (hired for his friendship with the manager rather than the tech skills which he utterly lacked) bitched me out for not working while I was actively in the process of setting up the software side of building a new server for the ISP I was admining for at the time. Untreated adult ADHD does not lend itself to patience with office bullshit, for which I am eternally thankful given the results of having to create a job for myself.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.