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Guys this is meant for platforms that continuously allow users to upload fully copyrighted stuff, offer no good takedown and just point to the users when asked.
by apexalpha 8y ago
Guys this is meant for platforms that continuously allow users to upload fully copyrighted stuff, offer no good takedown and just point to the users when asked. "We're a platform so the user is responsible".
Thousand, maybe millions, of Youtube videos by small channels are re-uploaded to FB everyday and essentially stolen.
Watch this, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7tA3NNKF0Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7tA3NNKF0Q
This law just says: ehm no Facebook, you ARE responsible for this, and you can't just say 'talk to the user / page who stole it'.
The way Reddit and others interpret it is just because they don't want to be legally beholden to laws that protect people smaller than they are. And they're calling it a 'ban on memes' to get people online to protest it like useful idiots.
No one read the texts but everyone is angry.
- pas 8y agoReddit allows image and video uploads nowadays by users. How is Reddit supposed to filter all of it?