Yeah, people who thought Google wasn’t openly strangling the free (as in libre) stuff because they weren’t that evil - these people just have bad memory. In year 2012 it clearly felt that corps, Google and Facebook and MS and Apple and everyone, are on the move to capture it all without a way out. They kinda made the illusion of being softer later.
So the question is - how do we even advertise legal but unpleasant for them things, avoiding their censorship.
The devices are sold together with the operating system (often unchangeable) and packaged applications and means of installing software, right from the markets.
I mean, I have a solution. It’s counterintuitive and seems unconnected, and too direct, but I guarantee you it’ll work.
Forbidding companies to do moderation or refuse to accept content without technical problems, or banned content (CP and such), and similar good justifications. As in - if your service is up, and there’s user content served from it, it shouldn’t be removed without legal substantiation. It doesn’t matter it’s free, that doesn’t mean you can do all you like. You are not a media outlet, you are a platform for many media, that’s how you work in fact, so yes, your actions do constitute censorship if you do moderation. If you can’t afford to keep it free with such rules, then start charging money for hosting, as it normally should have been.
And, of course, this should include public offering status, the prices should be the same for all users.
I mean, if we had this from the beginning, we’d probably still have the Web like in year 2003.
MangoCats@feddit.it 2 days ago
In the 1970s/80s, the corporations just taxed blank media - because it was obviously used to pirate their warez.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 day ago
70s? My country every year still steals from everyone millions of euro “because that phone can be used to watch pirated content”
We pay 7 euro on each smartphone, 7.50 on each USB drive, up to 18 euro on each internal drive (sata or name, but under 160gb is free) and products are castrated with regional firmware because if it’s just a TV then it’s 4 euro tax, but if it allows recording it’s the 5% of MSRP
MangoCats@feddit.it 1 day ago
Ouch!
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It depends by the size (smaller is less taxed), but the law is old and it’s exempt only if under 1gb
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Pretty sure you also had to pay royalties fees for radio/Internet radio regardless of where or not you played their music.
MangoCats@feddit.it 2 days ago
And still do for live performance by cover bands.