Comment on Belgium Targets Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Sweeping Site Blocking Order
General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoI’d say that European nations have a different understanding of press freedom. Mind that the individual nations have different attitudes toward this.
In Germany, press means mainly newspapers. The publishers owning these papers are very keen on copyright enforcement. Copyright does conflict with freedom of information but, I think, most would not see a conflict with press freedom.
The EU is determined to regulate who is allowed to use data for what purpose and to create the legal tools to enforce that. That’s not limited to copyright. I’m very worried about that trend on many levels.
But I don’t think Yuri creators will face problems in most EU countries in the foreseeable future.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 3 weeks ago
But blocking Anna’s Archive, Libgen, OceanofPDF, Z-Library, and the Internet Archive’s Open Library. is such a terrible way to express that you hate press.
Science and academics should be freely pressed, without the authoritarianism of copyright. If my yuri koma was discuss prion synthesis, you shouldn’t deter me for referencing the journal.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes. It is a big problem for Europe. I don’t expect that it will be fixed in the foreseeable future. In fact, it is being made worse in many ways.
You may reference and quote journal articles. That’s something I expect will stay allowed.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 3 weeks ago
So you’re saying not even Norway will free press😭
possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Norway killed a walrus bc it was sinking boats by sitting on them :(
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
You can see how trully Freedom-loving mainstream Liberal parties are, even in Europe, by looking at the domains were Freedom Of Ideas clashes with Ideas As Property such as science publishing: almost all of those “Liberal” mainstream parties side with the Owner Class in expanding and increasing enforcement of the “though shall not share without paying” Intellectual Property laws that let some make money of something they are only able to own due to such laws (those laws are literally anti-natura in that ideas are naturally shared), rather than with the natural freedom of sharing.
The way States support and impose Intellectual Property is really just a facet of the broader societal problem of politics in Capitalist nations (even those disguised as “Democracy”) not really working for the many.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Bludgeoned heads are pro-natura, but not very good.
In Democratic Kampuchea, on the other hand, there was no intellectual property. Everything intellectual was forbidden and punishable by death, in fact, even eyeglasses, even knowing how to read and write (except if you were an official, or a railway worker, or an ambassador, or someone similarly necessary).
All you had to do was work, and your Khmer blood would lead you on, all Blut und Boden.
Sorry, just watched The Killing Fields yesterday and remembered of … that.
Your arguments could be more persuasive if you’d drop that “capitalist vs socialist” stuff, outside of golden billion countries it doesn’t work very well.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Wow, your entire “argument” is literally nothing more than a collection of Strawmen, False Dichotomy Falacies and McCarthist-style slogans (yeah, sure mate, any critique of anything at all in modern Capitalism must be “Socialism”).
Five paragraphs of tribalist muppet kneejerk slogans deployed in defense of the notion that Ideas should be Property, no less.
Only Socialists would want to have published Scientific Papers freely available to all and for there to be archives of published digital works in the day and age of zero cost publishing and distribution on the Internet: the evils of Socialism can only be avoid if for absolutelly everything, somebody somewhere is getting paid.