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Would Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com https://news.ycombinator.com) suffer directly since it exists out of content generated by users (Article 13) ? A
by nopacience 8y ago
Would Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com https://news.ycombinator.com) suffer directly since it exists out of content generated by users (Article 13) ? And it links to other websites. (Article 11) ?
Who is behind the recent changes on the internet ?
Months ago Agit Pai(FCC) ended net neutrality.
Month ago, may 25th, GDPR initiated (except this benefits the individual).
Now there is a push for laws that defeat the basics of the internet, the hyperlink:
Article 11: requires online platforms to pay publishers a fee if they link to their news content.
Article 13: requiring websites to enforce copyright, even on content uploaded by users.
There is a bigger force behind those recent major changes that can break the internet as we know. But who ?
- beagle3 8y agoGDPR is for the people, was passed over a year ago. Don’t put all these things together.
- jstarfish 8y ago> There is a bigger force behind those recent major changes that can break the internet as we know. But who ? You're framing it as a conspiracy theory, but the answer is simple: business interests. The internet is no longer about personal stuff-- your Geocities page, sharing 128kb MP3s with your friends, and blogging on LiveJournal. It's a platform to influence people and sell shit, and everybody who likes money wants to get in on that action. And yes, these disparate interests are totally content to exploit it by lobbying for changes in their favor until it's too fragmented, restrictive and worthless to be useful to anybody, yet like cable television we'll treat it as something essential to life and pay the monthly bill through retirement just the same.