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Censorship Machines Are Coming: It’s Time for the Free Software Community to Use its Political Clout

posted by fyngyrz on Monday April 09 2018, @03:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the my-code-is-my-music dept.

canopic jug writes:

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

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @06:31AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @06:31AM (#664244)

    Capitalism is simply a property relationship.
    You work for you boss, and he keeps everything because he owns the capital.
    The media exists to hide capitalism's true nature, but make no mistake, CAPITAL OWNS YOUR ASS.

    The state (+ the police) exist purely to enforce this relationship. It is a regulatory regime to stop you from breaking away from this arrangement.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @07:37AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @07:37AM (#664276)

    You work for you boss, and he keeps everything because he owns the capital.
    The media exists to hide capitalism's true nature, but make no mistake, CAPITAL OWNS YOUR ASS.

    It's your reward for loading the sixteen tons... [wikipedia.org]

  • (Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Monday April 09 2018, @06:27PM

    by nitehawk214 (1304) on Monday April 09 2018, @06:27PM (#664585)

    When you can no longer tell the difference between anarchist and communist trolls...

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