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House Republicans release watershed copyright reform paper
- DavidAdams 14y agoAlas, the blowback was swift, and the Republicans caved: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121117/16492521084/that-was-fast-hollywood-already-browbeat-republicans-into-retracting-report-copyright-reform.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121117/16492521084/that-w...
- hkmurakami 14y agoThis makes me really sad. I was so excited when I heard news of this report earlier in the day :(
- shmerl 14y agoWhy sad? It just proves the point - they probably weren't sincere to begin with.
- hkmurakami 14y agoI was hopeful that something actually might change. Call me naive if you will :(
- shmerl 14y agoEven if some within there would want it, others would sabotage any such attempt. Their dependence on lobbyist money is too strong.
- cageface 14y agoI actually have a lot of sympathy for the traditional "conservative" values of limited government, personal liberty and accountability, and fiscal conservatism. If the Republicans ever get tired of using race baiting, warmongering and decoy social wedge issues to elect self-serving plutocrats and starts actually doing something to promote these values it's possible I might even vote for one of them some day.
- MartinCron 14y agoYou need to be the change you want to see. Become a moderate Republican. That's what I did. Seriously.
- smokeyj 14y agoWhat exactly is a moderate republican? Sounds like a closet libertarian..
- MartinCron 14y agoLibertarians are, to me, more about rigid ideology.
- smokeyj 14y agoIsn't ideology rigid by definition? What's the alternative? Pseudo principles?
- mseebach2 14y agoIt's a set of guiding principles. But you can either be pragmatic, go for the good rather than the perfect and make continuous small steps in the direction of your goals. Or you can sit back and refuse to vote for anything that isn't a pure manifestation of your utopia. Neither approach, IMO, is inherently better that the other. The latter rarely get anything done, while for the former, I've seen some examples of securing small, rather than big steps in the wrong direction being touted as successes.
- MartinCron 14y agoPragmatism. The realization that taxes can be too low or too high, or that we cold be spending too much or not enough, or that the conflict isn't between too much or not enough regulation but between good and bad regulation.
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- gwright 14y agoAlready being discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4797036 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4797036
- ihaveadream 14y agoThe pulled report is still available here: http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/rsc_policy_brief_--_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_--_november_16_2012.pdf http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/rsc_policy_brief_--...