Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ...
by dang on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @06:45PM
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Please don't be uncivil in comments here.
Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ...
by dominotw on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @05:45PM
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> Where the hell did this ridiculous talking point come from? Do you actually know what "law" even is?
Calm the fuck down.
Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ...
by xoa on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @06:16PM
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That doesn't address things at all, as the top comment and subsequent ones immediately point out. The entire foundational point of a polity is precisely that it defines the law within its own jurisdiction. No country, not even the USA, is powerful enough to actually act as a world government right now, which means that it is completely legally fine and in some cases morally correct to blow off laws of other polities so long as one remains careful to remain out of their power. The EU can demand others do anything they like in the same way any random person on the street could but whether that actually means anything is purely a matter of power.
Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ...
by dang on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @06:46PM
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Please don't respond to incivility with worse.
Re:EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ ...
by xoa on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @08:22PM
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With respect (and to downvoters as well) I did not take dominotw’s reply as uncivil, and they has my upvote even if I disagree and wish they’d expanded with their own thoughts rather then merely linked a previous thread. It was not an adhom or personal attack of any kind, and expressing serious irritation over a very serious issue should not itself requiring flagging if it’s a real response.
I mean, this should be utterly obvious given that most Westerners are not complying either laws around the world constantly. We can and do criticize the leadership and governments of any and every country as is our right in ways that are absolutely illegal according to those countries, just for one simple example. The EU is free to get some help from China and make a Great Firewall of their own and censor the net, but if an American blows off something of theirs that is legal in the US and they come demanding the US enforce their law they will get told to pound sand. I mean, this isn't even just normal discretion, in some cases Congress has even flat out made it illegal for the US to honor foreign judgements, such as the 2010 SPEECH Act which rendered all foreign libel judgements unenforceable, unless it's a country that has a direct equivalent to the First Amendment of equal enforcement (I'm aware of zero countries in the world where this is the case) or the defendant would be liable if tried in the US, which in practice means basically any enforcement faces a near insurmountable bar.