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?
(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.
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