I’ve acknowledged to a sibling that I rushed that comment out and it requires kind of a tortured argument to justify it as written. The part I got right is abou

I’ve acknowledged to a sibling that I rushed that comment out and it requires kind of a tortured argument to justify it as written. The part I got right is about preventing comments citing germane information from getting karma bombed. You’re correct that I botched the landing on that one. On your substantial point about garage bands needing to sometimes move fast with limited legal infrastructure but arbitrarily resourced actors being held to a higher standard we’re in violent agreement. The strongest argument (and it’s not one I’d like to have to defend) for law-breaking tech corporations netting out useful is probably Uber? The situation pre-Uber was a capture cartel nightmare where basic transportation was a non-starter in certain situations/municipalities. The (admittedly weak) case that they should still be involved in some, “civil disobedience”, is that the medallion people seem to have decided they’re just never going to give up. If anyone has a “less bad” example of a big powerful company serving the public good I’d be keen to be reminded of it, but this “fair use for me, copyright for thee” seems to go hand-in-glove with stuff that belongs in both civil and criminal court.