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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Because it wouldn't literally kill the internet like a lot of people were saying. There were a lot of restrictions, something about letting companies do "premium services" that would choke out smaller media outlets unable to pay, etc. I think there was a worry that copyright was involved in such a way as to make it illegal to make fanworks, which I very much doubt would have ever happened. There's no money in prosecuting AO 3 and the like since no one makes money off of that shit. Youtube is where all the stupid copyright stuff happens because people are trying to make money there.
But it wouldn't literally destroy the internet, and people just jumped to the most extreme end and thus hyperbole.
Technically, fanworks which are derivative works are already a form of copyright infringement. It's just that prosecution is rare because while lawmakers cannot think these aspects through (apparently) companies can. Part of the concern with SOPA/PIPA and the latest trade agreements is that it would encourage these (bogus) prosecutions. Especially given the widespread (and likely correct) perception that copyright law is stretched far too wide.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanMind you, that's only if the copyright holders are the sole people who can prosecute. If you give that privilege to others bogus prosecutions will go up.
And don't ever bet on "nobody will enforce this bad law", folks. Very frequently, it does happen, often from people who have malicious or dubious ulterior motives.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanNet neutrality is the reason there's such a tremendously wide spectrum of views; beliefs, and ideologies represented online.
Were media companies able to arbitrarily restrict access to websites, that would quickly die out, and you'd see the Internet become much like television where the range of acceptable discourse becomes limited to what the major media conglomerates deem acceptable content.
The TPP doesn't go that far, and neither did SOPA, but you can bet your ass that the economic and political elite of the world would very much like to see the Internet brought to heel in same the way old media eventually was.
Net neutrality wouldn't be about oppressing viewpoints at the end of the day, that would be too hard and would probably only happen in a few edge cases (like if Comcast got a poor Consumer Reports score and decided that they'd connect their users to Consumer Reports only 20% of the time and only at speeds to get a plain-text version of the site), the key issue revolved around streaming content for the most part.
Ogodei: That rather depends on how far this gets taken. There's certainly people who would benefit tremendously (economically) from the Intetnet being reduced to a walled garden environment like television, and that sort of system provides tremendous opportunities to suppress opposing viewpoints.
Moreover, there's an uncomfortable amount of collusion between the United States' government and big business; to his credit things haven't gotten worse under Obama in that regard, but the overall trend hasn't reversed itself. At best the same will be true of Clinton's now inevitable presidency.
edited 1st May '16 8:03:21 PM by CaptainCapsase
Anyone who didn't know Trump was going to be in this race for a long time after he got away with being openly racist toward Mexicans and Muslims....
LOL.
Let's keep it real: The Mainstream Media didn't "create" Trump (absolutely fucking absurd that this keeps getting brought up). You wanna know what created Donald Trump? A good plurality of the GOP base being racist assholes. He was on TV for months being a bigoted demagogue and that only *improved* his numbers. Did they take advantage of it for profit? You're goddamn right they did, but let's not blame them when the rise of Trump is a direct culmination of the chickens coming to roost of the GOP elite stroking the Southern Strategy and using Dog whistles for an entire generation.
edited 2nd May '16 12:28:07 AM by TacticalFox88
New Survey coming this weekend!I don't know, the fact that it is looking to be Trump over a less funny and absurd racist like Cruz or Rubio may well be down to the media, the Republican Party being baths it racist is down to its own actions, but Trump specifically being so popular may well have a lot to do with the press liking him.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranNone of them had the balls to do what Trump did because they assumed that being open about their bigotry and racial bias would kill their numbers. Which it would have.
The reason Trump can get away with it is because he's an outsider. An other. The GOP has lied to their base for forty years, conned them using dog whistles to turn against social programs they supported en-masse decades before.
They loved socialism until minorities started to get a hand in the pie.
I don't think it would have blown their numbers, it would have skyrocketed them, thing is they cared about the general, which Trump either doesn't care about or is to stupid to realise what he needs to do for a chance at it.
Plus many of them were pretty open about their racism and bigotry, I don't think anyone could call Cruz stealthy.
edited 2nd May '16 1:12:24 AM by Silasw
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranIt doesn't matter how well your rhetoric lines up with the desires of your constituency if you can't get your message out, and Trump's candidacy was provided the equivalent of hundreds of millions of dollars of free airtime on every major network. You can't ignore that. To be sure, the GOP's racist asshole base has been champing at the bit for a demagogue like Trump to come along, but the main reason it is him, specifically, is the press.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Well, Cruz also thinks Hispanics should go away, but he hasn't made quite as big a deal of it as Trump, so that makes him the "non-racist" candidate in much the same way that a 300-watt halogen bulb drowns out a 100-watt incandescent bulb.
edited 2nd May '16 7:54:12 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"One could only hope. More seriously, there is a minority of Hispanic voters who believe that illegal immigration should be stopped because it trivializes the effort they put in to get here and succeed legally.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

Edit: Stupid pagetopper.
edited 30th Apr '16 10:15:33 PM by LSBK