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As someone who grew up alongside the internet, I wonder if this is just part of the bigger picture of where the internet has always been heading... The bigger, more popular, and ubiquitous it became the more corporate and political powers were going to seek to rule it. Now were are at an age of internet giants with the GDP of small countries, and political elections being swayed by the bovine herds of Facebook and Tw…
As someone who grew up alongside the internet, I wonder if this is just part of the bigger picture of where the internet has always been heading... The bigger, more popular, and ubiquitous it became the more corporate and political powers were going to seek to rule it. Now were are at an age of internet giants with the GDP of small countries, and political elections being swayed by the bovine herds of Facebook and Tw…
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>with this new revelation, I'm forced to move abroad with my company. Can you elaborate why that is?
Right now, when one of my users uploads copyrighted material, I can take it down when I see it. Or when I get a complaint (DMCA takedown). We're taking about teenagers here, so it's not always clear to them that they cannot use ripped sprites from other games, or music, or whatever. Basically I can make the uploader responsible for what they upload. The secondary problem is that my biggest competitor also has a lot o…
This kind of behaviour is going to lead us to having two seperate internets.
> Not the biggest one anyway
True, but does it need to be the biggets to be valuable.
> not a single native English speaking country in there
Except there are native english speaking countries in there, and besides, europeans can very often (region dependent) read/write english anyway.
Also, do you just not want to support none english content? What about spanish speaking Americans?
I also think you'll lose many users in other eurasian countries that use an anonymising network and have exit nodes in the EU.
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> Can you spell out what about it worries you? Nothing worries me, really. I'm Italian and live in Poland, I care very little about France and what happens over there. I also care very little what other people do, and only comment on Macron because he's a public figure. I just think it's extremely creepy, and wonder how he managed to get elected despite that aspect of his personal life, and the fact that he's a banke…
I’m not saying it’s normal, but women having agency means a man can’t run a country all of a sudden? He’s somehow weak or compromised?
Right. That's why I said it's weird that French people didn't have a problem with it, since most politicians get attacked for what they do in their personal life.
> but women having agency means a man can’t run a country all of a sudden? He’s somehow weak or compromised?
I never said that..? He's a Rothschild banker who married his high school teacher who's 25 years older than him. As he's not the typical Frenchman, it's weird to me that French people voted for him because "he's one of us".
I think I explained my opinion pretty clearly. You don't have to agree with it, though :-)
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There is really no way for them to "spin" this into something positive for the people, because everyone can clearly see their ignorance and contempt for common people through legislation like this. It is fundamentally corrupt and should be abolished asap
> no way for them to "spin" this into something positive for the people I guess traditional content producers are not people, then. It's a complex world.
No, corporations aren’t people.
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> You have to host somewhere!!! Ever gotten an abuse email from the data center holding your physical hardware? No This law does nothing to change that in any case. Get a (US law) DMCA takedown, and ignore it, job done.
No, this law changes nothing. But also hosting your own changes nothing. You can ignore a DMCA takedown but maybe your host won't. And from my experience, hosts don't care that much -- they'd rather toss you than deal with legal issues.
Now that americans are realising that other countries exist, and make laws like the DMCA, maybe they'll stop doing it.
As someone who grew up alongside the internet, I wonder if this is just part of the bigger picture of where the internet has always been heading... The bigger, more popular, and ubiquitous it became the more corporate and political powers were going to seek to rule it. Now were are at an age of internet giants with the GDP of small countries, and political elections being swayed by the bovine herds of Facebook and Tw…
"I think many will stop seeing the darkweb as a place of CP and drug dealing, and more of an internet free from regulation." I think it's more likely that most people will forget that the internet was once wide open and will accept the locked down state as normal.
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Other than VPNs and Tor (which can be blocked), how would people circumvent the fact that the pipes are still owned by the same players? We can't physically lay out "another internet". Maybe there's potential in radio mesh networking, but the wires we have are the wires we get. As depressing as it feels right now, I think the only real option is to continue pushing in the democratic channels we have. Governments can…
Most content doesn't really need low-latency. If we can develop a good protocol/UI for 'hours-to-days' latency or 'offline' networking, we could just pass thumb drives between ourselves and probably accomplish all of our data transfer needs. Swapping hard drives with a buddy twice a month can be more bandwidth than most mobile contracts.
Sounds like the 21st century version of Samizdat :)
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At which point you mark this as a false flag on youtube and youtube tells you to go to court over it.
How many small-time Patreon-funded content creators have the time and money to take on a major media company in court? Just because you could doesn't mean it's feasible from a financial point of view.
So yes, its still an invalid flag, but if you want your video up again, you have to sue somebody who is probably in another country