Re:Illegal Memes? Weak Safe Harbor? Unpacking the Proposed E...
by closeparen on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @01:08PM
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A fundamental right to remuneration for your creative work that can’t be signed away is in exactly the same spirit as a fundamental right to privacy that can’t be signed away. In both cases you start with a legal protection that’s good and necessary in some cases, declare it a travesty that people are signing away that right en masse against the EU’s opinion of their best interests, and close the door to that sort of contract. In both cases this flies in the face of established internet customs, so you shrug and say “in a society there must be rules, you can’t escape the law just because you’re on the internet and have gotten used to doing it.”
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Re:Illegal Memes? Weak Safe Harbor? Unpacking the Proposed E...
by cesarb on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @02:13PM
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> fundamental right to privacy that can’t be signed away
If you're talking about the GDPR, from what I understand you can sign your privacy away. What can't be done, is to require you to sign your privacy away as a condition to use some service, unless there's no way to provide that service without using your personal data.
Re:Illegal Memes? Weak Safe Harbor? Unpacking the Proposed E...
by joejerryronnie on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @01:21PM
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And this is how power hungry people/organizations throughout history have implemented disastrous policies in the interest of the "greater good".
Re:Illegal Memes? Weak Safe Harbor? Unpacking the Proposed E...
by ben_w on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @01:41PM
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It’s also how and why pretty much every law in the history of humanity gets written, so singling out only the worst examples doesn’t really say if it is our worst tendency or our best.