I feel this when someone for the left asks for licenses to have kids. Like you know, that swings the other way more often than not.
The problem with this is that if presumably the government had such power it wouldn’t just be used to silence hateful voices but also those who proclaim liberty and tolerance. The pendulum can only be given so much power when it swings both ways.
jasoman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
This is why we should just wholesale abandon the concept of intellectual property, which is simply an extension of the exploitative private property system.
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
How do artists get paid then?