Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better

Re:Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better by candiodari on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @09:27AM (#19085523)

This. People need to understand that the root cause of life being as terrible as it was under Soviet rule was not so much the atrocities that got reported (that, of course, had to do with it too, but it was not the direct cause of daily life being so unbearable).

But day to day, what really killed every initiative, every improvement, every little bit of relief that might have been is that bureaucrats controlling the platforms were forced to take a 0.00000001% chance of terrible personal consequences every time they said "yes you can do that".

The result was: no to EVERYTHING. Absolutely every, every, everything. This law works the same way. Youtube will be forced to do deny everything. So will facebook, reddit, ycombinator, ...

Copyright can only exist if ALL the rest of society is constantly on the lookout for violations. Sorry, but that's just not worth it.

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Re:Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better by yeahitslikethat on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @10:00AM (#19085808)

This is really about corporations flagrantly violating people's rights for their own profit.

We aren't sending anyone to the gulag. Just wanting them to fairly compensate those who produce the content they sell ads on and otherwise benefit from.

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