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The "block and ask later" method seems valid for copyright owners. But for users it is essencially just "block". Not only because relevancy will be lower after
by tomaszs 7y ago
The "block and ask later" method seems valid for copyright owners. But for users it is essencially just "block". Not only because relevancy will be lower after some days pass. But mostly because algorythms will not show such content to people. Because it didn't receive any signals for several days makes it to be considered uninteresting.
For funny memes it is not a big deal, but for social and political discourse it is devaststing.
And it is already known copyright laws are used by media companies to control the narrative. For example when a politician says something people can find not right. Should a media company sympathasing with him, be able to wipe out the very existance of the situation?
Because this is actually what media companies will be to do. Wipe out parts of reality they dont like people to remember or know.
Actually it looks like politics made a deal with business. And it is something to oppose against.
- zabana 7y ago> For funny memes it is not a big deal, but for social and political discourse it is devaststing. I'm afraid that's the point. Western governments, while pointing fingers at china, russia or <insert brown country>, have been hard at work trying to find creative ways to implement soft censorship (ie: don't outright ban the content or shutdown the website, but considerably limit their potential reach on dubious grounds such as copyright infringement). Totalitarianism is slowly creeping up on us.
- raverbashing 7y ago> but for social and political discourse it is devaststing. Sounds good. Just copyright strike the content of the party proposing this
- hrktb 7y agoMost “serious” parties and companies want this. They want power, and that’s sheer power, as long as they get to control it. It’s like the poor guy encouraging tax cuts because one day he’ll be rich and don’t want to keep his money when he’ll finally make it out.
- raverbashing 7y agoI am aware of this, but the bigger parties also fail to realize how this can backfire on them. (Which is the opposite of the poor guy situation)