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>> you will find (page 93) that the Council inserted a specific exemption for wikipedia and open source code. Funny because EFF never once mentions Wikipedia i
by syshum 8y ago
>> you will find (page 93) that the Council inserted a specific exemption for wikipedia and open source code.
Funny because EFF never once mentions Wikipedia in their statement on the problems with this law. So I am not sure why you believe they are "overstating their case" when their case has nothing to do with wikipedia nor open source code.
>>there is no way around some ambiguity in the text. Closing that gap is the fundamental task of judges, and they actually have a pretty good track record of finding equatable outcomes.
I have a feeling we will have massive disagreements on the track record of judges finding equatable outcomes. I could not disagree more this statement
>It's also worth to consider the problem the EU is trying to solve: journalism has seen its revenue crash by 50% to 75%,
It is not the proper role or function of government to protect the profits of any industry, and it is often very dangerous to society when they do.
>Not having some professionals who show up at the 8am city council planning session every week means citizen will be effectively cut off from accurate information about politics.
And this law will do nothing about that. Local News reporting has been on a downward spiral LONG before the internet, in fact one of the reasons people have turned to the internet for their news is because most local outlets are garbage. They love to blame everything but their own incompetence for this but at the end of the day they only have themselves to blame not google, reddit, or any other internet site.
>One idea I've been bouncing around for far too many years is an ad blocker that is smart enough to block only ads that are annoying or dangerous.
Annoying is far too subjective to ever be codified into blocking software. The task of blocking on "dangerous" ads while allowing "good" ads is an unsolvable problem, akin to having a computer only run "good code" while blocking "dangerous code"