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MEP [Member of European Parliament] Julia Reda provides an update on the EU Copyright Directive which is in the final drafting stages. The whole text will be finalized January 21st but the infamous Article 13 is already set and Internet platforms will be made directly liable for any copyright infringements their users commit, should the final text be voted in.
What remains in the drafting stage in regards to Article 13 is to decide exactly which lengths will platforms need to go to and just how much they will need to restrict our ability to post and share content online in order to avoid or limit their liability.
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TOO BAD YOU CAN'T BUY a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin
real fast and freak everybody out.
-- Jack Handey, The New Mexican, 1988.
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Saturday January 12 2019, @01:28AM (3 children)
No, definitely not. I'm more suggesting a way to neuter the EU citizens if this passes, and from then on until/if they rein in their idiot masters.
But I am for protecting the web site owners. If you are a web site owner, why would you let some random citizen put you at risk?
Put the blame on the lawmakers (I'll put that on every page, if this comes to pass); put the onus for a fix on the people they are screwing out of free-ish speech. In at least nominally democratic countries, the citizens can apply pressure. And they should. And this will incline them to.
Don't think it can't happen here, either. Plenty of government repression of free speech already going on in the good 'ol 1st-amendment-having USA.
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Stupidity is actually a superpower. We learn this when
we repeatedly fail to defeat it with intelligence.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday January 12 2019, @02:22AM (2 children)
Put the blame on the lawmakers
Lawmakers don't care about people that don't vote for them. We have to go after the people that do. A bit more difficult maybe, but you have to go to the source.
There is no hope for internet freedom while we are dependent on registrars and ISPs. They are the defacto government enforcers. Our only hope is a long way off, but not impossible.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Saturday January 12 2019, @03:08PM (1 child)
The reality of a WAN — mesh or otherwise — is that you will always have dependencies, and these can always potentially turn, or be turned, into enforcers.
The common conception of a "right", as far as "freedom" goes, is confused. No philosophically-derived right to act actually exists in fact without power backing it up. The other side of that coin is that your rights and freedoms will always be at the mercy of any service required to implement them, and those who control those services.
So in the end, if the powers-that-be won't back up your right, then all you have is the philosophical concept of it, not the actuality of it — which has considerably less value.
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Hypocrisy is the Vaseline of political intercourse.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday January 14 2019, @10:19PM
No philosophically-derived right to act actually exists in fact without power backing it up.
I fully understand that *might makes right* in this context. We are on our own. Too bad people don't want to see that elephant...
But for connections to the network, there is also great safety in numbers (of connections), the more the merrier, and trust won't really have to be an issue, though some is always needed. Presently the ISP is your single point of failure, more powerful than a boat anchor. This is the damage the internet has to route around. And multicasting, gotta have multicasting.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..