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It's election season in the UK, and the Green Party's policy document has been coming under scrutiny recently. In it is a desire to reduce copyright term to 14 years (not life + 14 years, but 14 years from publication).
Unsurprisingly, this has received a bit of a backlash from various parties.
There's no chance the Green Party will form the next government, so this is all academic, but is this a sensible idea? Are people overreacting?
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UK Green Party Proposes 14-year Copyright Term - Artists are not Amused
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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 5, Interesting) by geb on Friday April 24 2015, @02:30PM
In my constituency, the local MP candidate for the Green party is far too green for my tastes. That's green, as in inexperienced.
I like a lot of the ideas that the central party are proposing, but I couldn't bring myself to vote for a 20 year old whose blog is entirely filled with shouty slogan-type messages pointing out what others have done wrong.
I half wish that I could vote "Green, but not this guy"
(Score: 5, Interesting) by TheRaven on Friday April 24 2015, @02:37PM
sudo mod me up
(Score: 5, Insightful) by lhsi on Friday April 24 2015, @02:48PM
if they get a reasonable number of votes, then it encourages someone more experienced to stand next time.
Also, if they get enough votes for the other parties to notice, they might consider changing their stance on some issues in order to attempt to gain back lost votes.
(Score: 2) by geb on Friday April 24 2015, @05:08PM
There's not the slightest chance that the Green candidate will be elected here. To make matters worse, this is one constituency where both Labour or Conservative have a chance of getting in. A protest vote for a minor party really could help their opposition. I'm not going to do the "lesser of two evils" kind of tactical voting, but it's all too easy to imagine a close run where I'd regret the outcome.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anal Pumpernickel on Friday April 24 2015, @06:06PM
That's short-term thinking. If you only think about the very next election, the candidates will only continue to get more and more evil.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Friday April 24 2015, @06:11PM
Seems to me, that short term voting is exactly what is needed to remove evil elected officials.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2015, @09:23PM
My local Green would-be MP is a Holocaust denier according to some people who heard him speak :-( I really, really want to vote Green, but I can't vote for such a person. And I can't understand why the party hasn't thrown him out :-( I don't want him to think that he's got away with it. Oh well, it looks like I'll be voting Labour in this safe Tory seat.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 24 2015, @07:58PM
I'm not sure I should really say this, but here goes nothing.... I joined the Green Party because I'm very upset about the lurch to the right that British politics has taken over the last couple of decades. I don't agree with all of their policies (energy and defence) but people are poor, sick, starving and homeless... Anyway I heard first hand from a witness that the local candidate thinks that the Holocaust didn't really happen and that people who serve in the armed forces are basically murderers. It's hard to believe that a mature man with an education in a progressive political party would believe such crap let alone say it in public in front of a bunch of school kids. I can't bring myself to vote for the guy, not that my lone vote will make much difference but I did pony up for membership with a small donation on top. I don't want to name the guy for fear of getting done for slander, libel, defamation or whatever.... But he did say it there were many witnesses (students and teachers) and they were told not to speak to the press, Posting AC for obvious reasons. I can not vote for a Holocaust denier. That's what you'd expect from the lunatic fringe of UKIP or the mainstream BNP! :-(
(Score: 3, Insightful) by moondrake on Friday April 24 2015, @10:28PM
People vote too much on a candidate though, instead of strategically. Your vote does not even matter. And on the far off chance that he would actually make it, he could not possibly be worse than some of the other candidates. Think of it as an experiment. And if the greens do get more than the usual amount of votes, it just might bring some change (because the bigger parties will start worrying).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2015, @05:01AM
People vote too much on a candidate though
Are you sure? Most people mindlessly vote for a party from what I see.