Freedom on the net and another ecie-pecie

A week ago, I invited to TOK FM. Jarosław Lipszyca to discuss an EU initiative which the alleged "freedom defenders on the Internet" call "new ACTA". Following my stereotypes, I automatically assumed that Lipszyc, who erstwhile protested ACTA, would now be against.

Well, he wasn't. In the conversation, we agreed so much that I felt a deficiency of satisfaction – like after a sleet that expired due to the deficiency of discrepancies.

I cover that bloggers have already heard any major objections to regulation. That is, social networks will be required to introduce systems automatically removing pirate content, and news aggregators will gotta pay media companies for their license.

Freedom defenders say it means "death of memes" (usually utilizing stolen graphics) and "the end of the net as we know it". Both of these slogans amuse me adequate to make a mocking blogger.

Every year we have “the end of the net as we know it”, due to the fact that the net is constantly changing. The net was completely different in 2006 erstwhile I started blogging. And yet another in the 1990s, erstwhile there was no talk of "blogging".

From my point of view, it was a constant change for the worse. I don't like the Internet. erstwhile I see him, I am reminded of the celebrated quote from Stanisław Lem: “The master of tityrite, die a monster due to the fact that you are ugly.”

If the EU regulations kill memes, I'll light a candle on Schuman's grave. This would be 1 of the best things the Union has given us.

I remember the net without memes. You can live. I'm not gonna cry for them.

Unfortunately, they're most likely not going to die at all, but their creators will gotta defender the license. Take pictures with Creative Commons, or with the watermark "Getty Images". They will be fine (my friend Lajdefak Szudadgiwedamn has already prepared tissues to cry over their dense fate).

I do not believe that net users want to defy these regulations on a larger scale. The past of universal net access is 2 decades of continuous consent to restrictions on freedom.

Whenever net users get a proposal like “we will take distant any freedom from you, but in return we will give you emojis with animated minions”, they shout in consequence “heart.gif”.

Our technological transfers of fresh years, from the aipoda to the spotifaja, from the email to the messaging machine, from local cloud backups, from Facebook blogs, from the open web to apps on the smartphone, were switches towards enslavement. I complained, grouched, warned, #momotic: in vain.

I'm not gonna despair about losing our freedom on the net right now. We lost her a long time ago, and we never truly had her. We have long been at the mercy and disfavor of the GAFA cartel (Google / Apple / Facebook / Amazon).

This time there will be no protests due to the fact that protests against ACTA were not a spontaneous revolt of netizens. It's a communicative that the media told themselves, and they believed in it, like the media.

Protests initiated US corporations (mainly Google), which defended their monopolistic position. You don't gotta take my word for it. Edward Lee. Lipszyc himself advertised it on Facebook (because there he performs).

Edward Lee portrayed these protests as a bottom-up movement (grassroots movement), but his own description shows that they began with a coordination gathering on November 9, 2011, which Google sponsored NGO organized close Google's headquarters, and that Google and another NGOs sponsored by Google were invited to meet.

In Poland, protests coincided with the failed war of the Tusk government with kibols who took the opportunity. That's why the protests had a stadium frame (“who does not jump”).

The current regulation is agreed with GAFA lobbyists, so there will be no "webstrategy". The current power lives well with the kibols, so they will not be curious this time either. So if there are any protests, they'll look like a memorial. demonstration Corvinists against taxes.

In “new free media on blockchain” I do not believe either. The problem is not in technology. We already had free media, but we moved to Facebook and jutuba ourselves. In a way, we inactive have them, but for any reason, there's no 1 there.

I wonder what? Thoughtful.gif.