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Through lobbying your representatives to change the law, same as always.
by rwmj 2y ago
Through lobbying your representatives to change the law, same as always.
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- jampekka 2y agoDisney is a lot more effective at lobbying your representatives than you.
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoLibrarians are notoriously good at organising. If the IA weren’t on a crusade, they would have coördinated with librarians.
- jampekka 2y agoYou mean something like this? https://www.battleforlibraries.com/ https://www.battleforlibraries.com/
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoYes. Except when they were designing their offering. Not as a bailout.
- modeless 2y agoNothing short of a generational movement or a revolution could make significant changes to IP law. It's incredibly entrenched. Many huge industries are built on it.
- jampekka 2y agoThere is the pirate party movement in Europe at least, although it seems to be dwindling and one-cause parties aren't usually very sustainable. They've had quite a few elected national and EU representatives but the copyright situation has gone (a lot) worse with e.g. the "Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market". Especially at EU level it doesn't matter much who sits in the parliament when it comes to business interests. Such matters are dictated by the lobbyists.
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoYour null hypothesis to people agreeing with you is the system is corrupt?
- jampekka 2y agoMy assesment is that the system is quite corrupt, or at least undemocratic, whether people agree with me on the issues or not. Business interests don't spend their lobbying billions for nothing.
- monkaiju 2y agoSame as always? Corporations are the only ones who lobbying is effective for. We'd need a revolution to bring about real change. For this, and many other more important changes, we need people in the streets to bring about change... Same as always.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Corporations are the only ones who lobbying is effective for. We'd need a revolution to bring about real change How many times have you called your elected? I’ve literally added language into state and federal law because I was the only one in my district who called on a niche issue. It was a battleground bill somewhere else. But not where I was.
- monkaiju 2y agoI mean im a trustee on my neighborhood council and regularly talk to my reps in person. That said I am under no illusion of being able to get them to alter anything of material importance because of my, or any number of citizens', input. They are careerists politicians because thats what this system optimizes for, literally no successful politician gives a shit about constituent input beyond when it helps them.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> I am under no illusion of being able to get them to alter anything of material importance Define material. If it’s contentious, of course not—no one party can nor should be able to dictate on something like that. But lobbyists don’t make headway on headline issues. They do so in the shadows. That’s also where private interest can have a material impact. Again, I’ve helped redraft legislation because my Congresswoman literally hadn’t read the bill, nobody—lobbyist or voter—had contacted her on it, it was a nothingburger in New York but a big deal to me. Lobbyists are mostly paid persistence. They don’t have superpowers, and the myth of campaign donations swinging electeds’ positions on major issues (versus new entrants) is mostly untrue. > no successful politician gives a shit about constituent input beyond when it helps them Of course. It would be naïve to expect otherwise. If you’re saying “I want x,” that’s N=1. Useless. If you make the case, however, that there is unseen donor or voter or turnout potential in an issue they’d ignored, you can generate a win win.