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Re: European Parliament approves copyright reform

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Post by stale2002 »

andy_ppp wrote: post #187
nabla9 wrote: post #174

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Climate change denial is large problem only in Anglosphere. Germany did more than any other country to realize the modern renewable-energy industry and it's failed its climate goals. The lesson should be that you have to try every tool in the toolbox, including nuclear energy. Fukushima accident revealed the irrationality of the public. Fukushima-scale accident every decade somewhere in the world would be low cost to…

I think the problem of nuclear proliferation shouldn't be underestimated in this grand idea to replace fossil fuels. A few extra nuclear bombs going off per year in cities would soon change the desire for this I suspect.

I think that you underestimate how many people coal kills.

According to the world health organization, the number of premature deaths caused by coal and Particulate Matter is on the order of literally millions per year.

https://www.who.int/en/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ambient-...

This means that if we switch to nuclear and this caused us to have a chernobyl scale disaster every single year, that it would still be massively safer than coal.

And even if we use your ridiculous example of a nuke going off in a city every year, guess what, that's still safer than coal. (This is, of course, not how nuclear works)

So yes. Give me the bomb going off in a city every single single year. It would still kill less people than coal, according to the World Health Organization.

Yes, really. This is not an exaggeration.

Re: European Parliament approves copyright reform

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Post by gpvos »

throwaway357H wrote: post #462
gpvos wrote: post #265

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Sorry, I voted for the Pirate Party the last three times, and they still didn't get enough votes for even half a seat the last time. There's a limit to how often I'm throwing my vote away. Luckily there are a few other parties with sensible policies.

I‘ve heard the same reasoning from someone who voted for „one of the big parties“ so his vote wouldn‘t be thrown away, the same person is ow complaining about the politics of the party he voted for. If you don’t give your vote to a party, just because it could be lost, you will ultimately end up with only 1 party to vote for.

Unlikely in Dutch parliament; we currently have 13 parties in its 150 seats. And the PP isn't my perfect party, and also not the only one with good internet and privacy (and social, and environmental, etc.) policies. I just would have liked them to get at least one seat, to get a voice in parliament, which can be quite effective, see e.g. the successes of the Party for the Animals (PvdD), who started similarly. I tend to vote for small parties anyway.

Re: European Parliament approves copyright reform

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Post by majewsky »

TomMarius wrote: post #733
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Very interesting. If the dark web becomes popular though, won't the same people try to regulate it? They could make .onion link illegal for ISPs to load and kill it overnight.

Isn't one of the main points of Tor that other than by knowing that an IP is an exit node, no one is able to tell you're using it? And .onion resolution is entirely client side, no?

The ISP can see your traffic going towards entry nodes if I'm not mistaken.

Re: European Parliament approves copyright reform

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Post by fock »

mcv wrote: post #535
fock wrote: post #472

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If it's your own blog, you are basically responsible for your own stuff. If you document where you got your assets from, I think every court will give you a pass, if someone wants to get you with the laws resulting from this directive (though the existing copyright-laws still apply to you). Youtube is the target of this law and as they earn money with your video, they have to comply with European law, if they want to…

True, but people posting comments could post copyright-infringing material. Then again, they don't get money from that (unless it's spam, I suppose).

You should look at European laws (as should all the European citizens rightfully protesting stupid politicians)... For private blogs, the current process still will apply. I'm not even sure, if it does today include the provider privilege (which basically favors commercial platforms today), thus already enforcing moderation (or selling out discussion to disqus, etc). Also, people today could run around posting extremist propaganda in comments, which makes moderation necessary. As the result of this, most private (german) blogs I know are already implementing human content filters, e.g. post by email.

Re: European Parliament approves copyright reform

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Post by tremon »

eurg wrote: post #455
tremon wrote: post #319

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I will vote not only on national-party basis, but on the voting behaviour of the international bloc they are part of. For example, all members of (Dutch) D66 voted against this directive, but of their faction (ALDE), 60% voted for. I will not lend my vote to such a faction, so sadly D66 will not get my vote either in the upcoming May elections.

this this mean you won't vote at all? there was no pure anti-13 block iirc. not casting a valid vote is my generation's way of causing outcomes like the current one.

No, I will vote Green. They voted 38 out of 42 against. The four votes in favour were all from France (surprise, surprise).

Re: European Parliament approves copyright reform

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Post by Juliate »

nkkollaw wrote: post #796
phillnom wrote: post #630

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Being against Trump doesn't make them leftists.

Yes I think it kind of does. And a few other things.

Then you didn't understand Trump. Neither your own politics.

He's using one camp against an other to distract everyone from his own business. He always did it this way.

Re: European Parliament approves copyright reform

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Post by Juliate »

nkkollaw wrote: post #805
selimthegrim wrote: post #601

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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?

> I’m not saying it’s normal 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'…

People don't vote for someone just because "he's one of us". There are plenty of other good valid reasons for that.

And no. Most politicians don't get attacked for their personal, private life. Those who are make the headlines, sure.

But most politicians are decent and focused enough on their life and work not to bother each other with unrelated, petty matters.

Re: European Parliament approves copyright reform

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Post by mirimir »

cgtzczykldpq wrote: post #757
mirimir wrote: post #660

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It's a ~20 year old P2P network that relies on traffic obfuscation for plausible deniability. But peers see each other's IP addresses. There's lots of child porn on it. In recent years, investigators have been using customized clients to serve child porn, and track which peers receive it from them. For IPs in their jurisdiction, they get and execute search warrants. Although there is arguably plausible deniability, m…

> It's a ~20 year old P2P network that relies on traffic obfuscation for plausible deniability. But peers see each other's IP addresses. Traffic is not just obfuscated, it is encrypted. Sure, you see the IP of a peer which transfers stuff across your client - but you do not know what the stuff is as it is encrypted. So the IP address is worthless unless you figure out a way to guess what the stuff is, and who request…

Sure, but some criminal investigators have figured out how to know "what the stuff is". They serve it themselves, and have hashes for the encrypted chunks.

As far as "who requested" the stuff, as you say in your other reply, they have some statistical arguments. I agree with the Freenet Project that they're very likely bullshit.

However, if you're facing criminal charges, you'd better have resources for expert testimony to discredit their arguments. And if you don't, accepting a plea bargain may be the best option. Even if you are truly innocent.

Re: European Parliament approves copyright reform

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Post by detaro »

nkkollaw wrote: post #575
selimthegrim wrote: post #432

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Can you spell out what about it worries you? As for Carlson: https://jezebel.com/tucker-carlson-seems-to-have-a-lot-of-fu...

> 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…

Generally, the French don't seem to care all that much about what their politicians do in their private lives.
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