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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by shados on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @11:50AM (#17347770)
Yeah, things like this will have similar effects as certain highly regulated sectors in the US, where software is 20 years behind the time and built for billions of dollars by huge contracting firms because it's so difficult/expensive to make anything compliant with the rules.

No one can build filters that are good enough beyond the big tech cos. They can build these libraries and hopefully open source them for everyone to use...but if they don't...

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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by vetinari on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @12:28PM (#17348087)
> No one can build filters that are good enough beyond the big tech cos. They can build these libraries and hopefully open source them for everyone to use...but if they don't...

It is backwards: nothing but whatever can be build by big tech companies is good enough, because their lobbying and interests define what's good enough. It's also obvious, why it wouldn't get open-sourced then. Kicking the ladder and so on.

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