Fukushima, Merkel's coalition, and the Greens' long-standing fear of nukes. Sometimes it doesn't take much to produce a political result.
The trouble the piracy movement faces is a distinct lack of popular support. 100,000 Germans turned out over the weekend for piracy, but that doesn't look at all impressive compared to the million Brits who turned out to stop Brexit.
A tech blog...so that means the articles are written by technologists about their technologies and what they're good for and that kinda stuff? I don't see that in the current article, just some speculation about politicians horse-trading about natural gas and digital piracy and some gnashing of teeth over YouTube's revenue stream.
The conspiracy angle pops up in this sentence: "However, some noted the "coincidence" in timing, that right after this, France also withdrew its objections to the pipeline which is very controversial in the EU (and the US, which is threatening sanctions)."
Germany is desperate for Russian gas because it has shut its nukes down. France doesn't care about gas because it has tons of super-cool nukes.
Who decided to shut down Germany's nukes? Why the Greens/Pirates, of course. So the Green/Pirate freakout over nukes not only increases GHG output, it throws a monkey wrench in the piracy machine.
Here he goes: "Social media is a reflection of reality and reality is hellishly messy. People are flawed to varying degrees, and a certain percentage are despicable, horrible people. I'd like to believe it's a small percentage, but they do exist. And we shouldn't blame the technology they use."
Umm, if despicable people were only a small percentage, it wouldn't be all that difficult for the platforms to cut them off. As we see from the re-uploads, there are actually quite a lot of them. So are UGC platforms a very bad idea from the get-go?
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943
[laughter] - reaction of AT&T execs to ARPANET crashing while Bob Metcalfe showed them a demonstration of its power, 1974
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977
"Almost all of the many predictions now being made about 1996 hinge on the Internet's continuing exponential growth. But I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse." - Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com, 1995
"5G will never replace cable because mobile 4G has data caps" - Karl Bode, 2018
Re: Re: As I expected, Masnick is carrying Silicon Valley's water
Yup, that's the Silicon Valley line on all points.
In reality, Google has seven lines of business with over a billion users each, and the largest ISP has 35 million customers. But that ISP is stronger than Google in TechDirt Land.
The five largest companies in the world by market caps are all Internet edge services, but some ISP is stronger than all of them. Yup.
Netflix has what, 100 million customers? 150 million? And produces more video content than anyone, but some cable company is going to bring it down without your protection.
Got it, just confirming the script. It's amazing to me that the Valley has been running this scam for 15 years and getting away with deflecting all criticism of its business practices onto the ISPs.
It's a monumental achievement in propaganda, and you play your part in it. Congrats!
As I expected, Masnick is carrying Silicon Valley's water
This is utterly hilarious: "So, sure, the privacy failings of Google and Facebook are worth pointing out and discussing. But they're child's play compared to the telcos."
On planet Earth, Google and Facebook make their profits by monetizing users' privacy, while ISPs make their money by selling subscriptions. This means Google and Facebook - the Internet's advertising duopoly - have the greater incentive to violate privacy.
Google and Facebook have also instrumented most of the web in order to gather information abut the sites we visit, how long we stay around, and which pages we read. ISPs have no capability to do this because most web traffic is encrypted. So Silicon Valley as the greater means to violate privacy.
Google and Facebook sell most of the Internet's ads, so they have the opportunity to violate privacy to a greater extent than other firms.
So we find that Silicon Valley has the means, motive, and opportunity to violate privacy to a greater extent than another other sector of the Internet economy.
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Article 13 passes
The legislation was adopted with 348 votes in favor and 274 against.
Silicon Valley is sad.
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"I eviscerated his arguments with undeniable proof"
I never cease to be amazed by unreasonable self-assessments.
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Re: Re: Lovely irony
Fukushima, Merkel's coalition, and the Greens' long-standing fear of nukes. Sometimes it doesn't take much to produce a political result.
The trouble the piracy movement faces is a distinct lack of popular support. 100,000 Germans turned out over the weekend for piracy, but that doesn't look at all impressive compared to the million Brits who turned out to stop Brexit.
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Re:
A tech blog...so that means the articles are written by technologists about their technologies and what they're good for and that kinda stuff? I don't see that in the current article, just some speculation about politicians horse-trading about natural gas and digital piracy and some gnashing of teeth over YouTube's revenue stream.
The conspiracy angle pops up in this sentence: "However, some noted the "coincidence" in timing, that right after this, France also withdrew its objections to the pipeline which is very controversial in the EU (and the US, which is threatening sanctions)."
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Re: Re: Lovely irony
Isn't this a conspiracy site?
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Lovely irony
Germany is desperate for Russian gas because it has shut its nukes down. France doesn't care about gas because it has tons of super-cool nukes.
Who decided to shut down Germany's nukes? Why the Greens/Pirates, of course. So the Green/Pirate freakout over nukes not only increases GHG output, it throws a monkey wrench in the piracy machine.
LOL.
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YouTube
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Re: Re: Cool conspiracy theory
The piracy lobby often uses fear of censorship to rally the suckers to support Silicon Valley-friendly regulations and policies.
Alex Jones uses conspiracy theories to win support for his battle against censorship.
Incidentally, why no link to the story in FAZ?
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Cool conspiracy theory
I can't wait for the follow-up on InfoWars.
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Masnick being Masnick
Here he goes: "Social media is a reflection of reality and reality is hellishly messy. People are flawed to varying degrees, and a certain percentage are despicable, horrible people. I'd like to believe it's a small percentage, but they do exist. And we shouldn't blame the technology they use."
Umm, if despicable people were only a small percentage, it wouldn't be all that difficult for the platforms to cut them off. As we see from the re-uploads, there are actually quite a lot of them. So are UGC platforms a very bad idea from the get-go?
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Oh, the irony!
Paywalled papers are obviously evil, so there's no way I'm reading this rubbish unless somebody posts a pirated copy.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Rhetorical hyperbole
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Rhetorical hyperbole
Music to your ears, right Masnick?
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Re: Re: Silly Bode
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Silly Bode
[laughter] - reaction of AT&T execs to ARPANET crashing while Bob Metcalfe showed them a demonstration of its power, 1974
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977
"Almost all of the many predictions now being made about 1996 hinge on the Internet's continuing exponential growth. But I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse." - Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com, 1995
"5G will never replace cable because mobile 4G has data caps" - Karl Bode, 2018
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Re: Re: As I expected, Masnick is carrying Silicon Valley's water
In reality, Google has seven lines of business with over a billion users each, and the largest ISP has 35 million customers. But that ISP is stronger than Google in TechDirt Land.
The five largest companies in the world by market caps are all Internet edge services, but some ISP is stronger than all of them. Yup.
Netflix has what, 100 million customers? 150 million? And produces more video content than anyone, but some cable company is going to bring it down without your protection.
Got it, just confirming the script. It's amazing to me that the Valley has been running this scam for 15 years and getting away with deflecting all criticism of its business practices onto the ISPs.
It's a monumental achievement in propaganda, and you play your part in it. Congrats!
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As I expected, Masnick is carrying Silicon Valley's water
On planet Earth, Google and Facebook make their profits by monetizing users' privacy, while ISPs make their money by selling subscriptions. This means Google and Facebook - the Internet's advertising duopoly - have the greater incentive to violate privacy.
Google and Facebook have also instrumented most of the web in order to gather information abut the sites we visit, how long we stay around, and which pages we read. ISPs have no capability to do this because most web traffic is encrypted. So Silicon Valley as the greater means to violate privacy.
Google and Facebook sell most of the Internet's ads, so they have the opportunity to violate privacy to a greater extent than other firms.
So we find that Silicon Valley has the means, motive, and opportunity to violate privacy to a greater extent than another other sector of the Internet economy.
Why is TechDirt covering up the facts?
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Re: Re: "Everybody does it."
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Re: "Every teenager in America"
Telecoms don't have a monopoly on misleading and deceptive marketing.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Bode's story is a complete disgrace.
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