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The comparison of sharing movies to hiding Jews from nazis is one of the most blatantly historical false equivalencies I’ve ever seen.
by edgyquant 3y ago
The comparison of sharing movies to hiding Jews from nazis is one of the most blatantly historical false equivalencies I’ve ever seen.
- fortyseven 3y agoTry looking at the theory instead of being distracted by the specific example: Laws on the books do not necessarily equate to morally.
- janalsncm 3y agoBurning the CO2 to watch the movie is probably more unethical than paying the $5.99. That CO2 isn’t coming down for 100 years.
- ndsipa_pomu 3y agoI didn't intend it to be an equivalence, just merely a couple of examples of blatantly immoral laws. Apologies if that caused any offence as I certainly didn't mean to directly compare them.
- ta1243 3y ago[flagged]
- hedora 3y agoDeleting the only available copies of movies (which might be the case for some of these works) starts to get close. After all, I doubt anyone here would defend the Nazi’s book burning campaigns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings Before you say the DMCA isn’t the same, here are some modern incidents where copyright was used to censor things by repressive regimes: https://www.ft.com/content/63cbf209-656f-4f99-9ee3-722755c228ed https://www.ft.com/content/63cbf209-656f-4f99-9ee3-722755c22... https://www.accessnow.org/dmca-takedown-demands-censor-activists/ https://www.accessnow.org/dmca-takedown-demands-censor-activ... And a roundup of how it is being misused in other ways: https://www.eff.org/wp/unintended-consequences-under-dmca https://www.eff.org/wp/unintended-consequences-under-dmca